1st time you do it, you get a 5 min or so timer before you can spawn plane again. 2nd time you do it, you cannot spawn that plane for the rest of the match. Simple. Done.
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okay so how do you know if someone suicide bombed intentionally instead of just messing up their dive and crashing?
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I’d change it a bit. To give players a bit more room for mistakes.
1st time - nothing, 2nd and 3rd as you sugested. Maybe even 2nd one should be nothing.
i think the reason that most people suicide bomb (the ones that do it intentionally) is because its just not worth it to go for a second run most of the time. after you pop the annoying tank in the greyzone, it is more profitable xp wise to go back to infantry. atleast in my experience
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first time should 100% be a warning not to suicide bomb but to give new players some leeway they could make it so if the game detects that you made the attempt to pull up then no warning/punishment; let’s say the cut off mark for that is 80-100 meters off of the ground
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A 5min timer or complete inability to use planes is too much !! maybe a 2 to 3 min spawn delay in case of suicide bombing ,as if a complete squad is made unusable then free to play players will only have 3 squads left among 4 which is already low and also a fact that many pilots during ww2 did suicide bombing (mainly the Japanese as kamikaze bombers ) . So if you are getting too much kamikaze-ed try using the same tactic against their tanks or watch the air and try to evade the attacks since if the bombs land a few feet away the tanks will be unaffected or try to get in a building or anticipate them by watching the location of planes when using infantry.
I mean giving a massive penalty like this would make suicide bombing very rare, because people would lose this habit
I hardly ever see someone bombing and actually trying to pull up and get out of the dive. Most just dive down and have no intention of pulling up. There needs to be a harsh penalty. Because right now we have the…….
Tank player gets mad because he lost a fight against another tank. Player spawns plane and suicide bombs into that tank. Rinse and repeat. There needs to be harsh penalty.
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The only question is if we want suicide bombing in the game. If we don’t, I see no problem. In a game where grenades won’t kill allies, crashing planes may well not kill anybody. If it won’t be profitable tactics it will disappear.
And it is about time for it to disappear.
Even dough i kill that tank or are too lazy too go restock i will always pull up. No exceptions. Suicide bombing is for the most brainless people.
Then if you dont want to rearm just jump out and open your parachute, help your teammates win
my suggestion for punishment(probaly ignoring your first suicide bomb as a warning):
5 min and 5 squad wipes before you can fly again, with -80% xp(maybe more) from that life
also add +1 of each for each next suicide bombing
Going for one drop and jumping out of the plane/suicide via the menu, is almost the exact same as suicide bombing
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Thank god that you’re not fixing sht
i would define sucide bombing as:
killing self(crash or suicide, maybe add jumping out) before sustaining any notable damage(more than just damage to panels, with an added total damage threshold)
edit:after dropping your payload
It is not. I am not using my plane as a damn ramming log to make sure i get the bombs on the target. It still requires skill to pull off
so you have a issue with people crashing the plane. not suiciding after one drop
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Exactly
oh alright. i can see where you are coming from
if thats what you think then i cant really argue against that
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Okay but how do you differentiate between someone who crashed on accident and who purposefully crashed into the ground to suicide bomb? I have hundreds of hours in Enlisted and I still accidentally mess up a dive and crash full speed into the ground all the time.
Suicide bombing is an issue and has been since the game came out, but solutions like this are just crude and end up punishing players who are learning
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This sounds exactly like warthunder, lmao