15.05.2009, 21:58
Not sure if I'm getting into dangerous territory with the following, but if I am, mods - please feel free to edit it out.
Personally I can understand the motive behind outright suicidal rams being against the rules, but when it's carefully conducted as opposed to just an unskilled pilot looking for a cheap kill, I think there should be no case to answer. I recall the good old days of EAW, flying about with my ancient Logitech feedbackless joystick which must've had all of about five buttons including the POV and trigger... I must've been all of eleven years old... I'd seen several examples of aircraft colliding without the pilot being killed, and so on the odd occasion if I ran out of ammo I'd use my prop to chew my enemy's tail off. Quite often it worked, leaving me with little more damage than a dead engine and smashed prop... I belly-landed safely while the enemy plane went down. Things like that are definitely possible in Il-2 with some careful flying and if a pilot is out of ammo or is for some other reason incapable of gunning down his opponent, why shouldn't be be allowed a shot at using his plane as a weapon? Surely if there are enough admins to enforce the no ramming at all rule, they can judge whether a ram is legit or not, and open up a new terror for pilots to face online? It may seem odd, but one of my favourite things to do in any flight sim is to try and nurse a badly-damaged plane home. I'd welcome the challenge of trying to RTB with half my tail gone and some 109's prop embedded in my backside. :lol:
Moving away from the matter of online play, I can't wait for the special 109 to be ready... I hope someone who understands the FMB (definitely not me, heh) gives us some interesting missions on both sides of this.
Personally I can understand the motive behind outright suicidal rams being against the rules, but when it's carefully conducted as opposed to just an unskilled pilot looking for a cheap kill, I think there should be no case to answer. I recall the good old days of EAW, flying about with my ancient Logitech feedbackless joystick which must've had all of about five buttons including the POV and trigger... I must've been all of eleven years old... I'd seen several examples of aircraft colliding without the pilot being killed, and so on the odd occasion if I ran out of ammo I'd use my prop to chew my enemy's tail off. Quite often it worked, leaving me with little more damage than a dead engine and smashed prop... I belly-landed safely while the enemy plane went down. Things like that are definitely possible in Il-2 with some careful flying and if a pilot is out of ammo or is for some other reason incapable of gunning down his opponent, why shouldn't be be allowed a shot at using his plane as a weapon? Surely if there are enough admins to enforce the no ramming at all rule, they can judge whether a ram is legit or not, and open up a new terror for pilots to face online? It may seem odd, but one of my favourite things to do in any flight sim is to try and nurse a badly-damaged plane home. I'd welcome the challenge of trying to RTB with half my tail gone and some 109's prop embedded in my backside. :lol:
Moving away from the matter of online play, I can't wait for the special 109 to be ready... I hope someone who understands the FMB (definitely not me, heh) gives us some interesting missions on both sides of this.