TXWard wrote:
saltylog wrote:
The following is from the "How to play" link under Blue Max on this site:
Retiring with Honor
In some cases, retiring is not a dishonorable decision, expecially after a tough fight. If your plane is in one of the following condition, and you exit the map from the correct side, you'll be considered honorable:
� Almost without fuel, with less than 3 fuel left in your tank,
� Without engine, i.e. engine completely destroied
� Having all your guns destroyed.
He did not meet these criteria yet the site awarded him a honorable retirement. I have played a lot of games here and the instance of someone retiring without honor is very rare. Also TX, 6 feul (how much feul he had before his last move), sitting on your map edge, in a Dr.1 is a lot of feul - it is a very maneuverable plane.
Perhaps you should report it as a bug then. I've always thought the honorable fuel level was 3 or less, not less than 3, which is the way I've seen it done on the site.
At best, he would have had 4 fuel left while turning away from his lines into your stream of bullets. Why should he have done that instead of retiring with honor to his aerodrome? It is really a completely irrelevant example for this thread which was originated as a complaint/criticism of dishonorable exits from the neutral edges of the map.
Actually TX I feel as though it is very relevant as it
is a dishonorable exit per the rules.
Salty, this site enforces the rules, and in your game the escaping pilot retired with honor. The options are either (a) the quoted section of the rules has a typo and the number is "3 or less" rather than "less than 3"; or (b) there is a bug in the programming that is allowing such exits to be termed honorable. You've assumed it is (b), but haven't reported the bug. Why not?
I'm pretty sure it is (a), and I think others have either figured that as well or noticed the bug and played to it.
Considering the debate of this thread is the escaping from the neutral sides of the map, not what constitutes an honorable exit, your example is at best tangentially relevant.
What I would like to know is why the league rules can't be changed so that a dishonorable exit - regardless if by choice or by force - counts as a -1 to the pilot's score. I believe it counts as a kill for determining victory type, but why not on the score as well? Again, the other pilot(s) would not get a +1 and credit for a kill, but the escaping pilot would be penalized the point. Perhaps, if possible, it would count as the escaping pilot killed in the stats - the only stat that isn't currently affected by the tactic. It will likely not have a great impact on the number of occurrences, but it would hopefully reduce the gripe threads a little bit.
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