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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Program code error
Subject:Re: why not "retire with honour" ?
Posted by: pokerguy - 20years 49days ago.
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sven3012 wrote:
HeadMMoid wrote:
SkunkGuru wrote:
HeadMMoid wrote:
SkunkGuru wrote:
Why I didn't get a "Retired with honour" ?

I had no guns !!!

http://www.youplay.it/play/bm_GameMove.asp?GameID=206830

--- Message edited by SkunkGuru


It looks like you didn't get "Honour" because:
1) Your observer still had a gun.
2) The Honour system simply doesn't take into account situations (like this) where it does make good sense to get out of the fight.



yes, but what could I do ?
no gun, no observer, I *must* retire...

and in a League, in this case I lose a lot of points...
I don't think that's correct


Well, what is correct and how things work are, as here, often quite different. I would argue that it isn't "correct" that someone can win a game if they died in the fight. I just lost a game by shooting down my last opponent. Unfortunately, for me, he had more points at the end. In the real world, the one who came home ... won.

I agree with you, that there was nothing else you could reasonably do. Flying around waiting to be shot down would be stupid. But the rules are set up to penalize that sort of behavior.

Personally, I think too much emphasis is placed on individual action (i.e., shooting the enemy), and not enough on scenario outcomes and in-game death.


Maybe the system could issue 25 "bonus points" for anyone left alive at the end. Staying alive wouldn't count as an extra kill, but would give the same points, encouraging team work, discouraging early exits and making it more likely that the survivor wins (as in real combat ).
Sadly you'd probably get the odd pilot who wants to fly around the edge avoiding the fight just to get the survival bonus


Plus that would heavily favor the planes with the most fuel.

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