Suicidal bombing in aircraft

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Although this is not (at least to my knowledge) as widespread it should be resolved as soon as possible. And I unfortunately already used my question for Q&A so this will have to do.

I as a player, who also plays with planes, know that you can crash while trying to attack ground targets . And this post is not about blaming pilots that just misjudge the situation and crash (I sometimes do that too). The topic I am concerned about is when player/s pick a plane, aim for spawn/objective, use their rockets/bombs and then just crash without any attempt to pull up. I find this disgraceful and unfair to players on the ground who can´t do anything and pilots who try to counter them but can´t since there isn´t enough time to spot, engage and shoot down enemy aircraft unless you literally spawn camp them, which makes you a wasted plane spawn because since you don´t support the team where it is needed the most and with the way the plane´s armament and air spawns work it won´t change the outcome.

How to fix this issue/abusement?

The easiest way to resolve this but not the best ones are:

  1. Move air spawns 2-3 km behind resuply point.
  2. Limit the spawn ratio of aircraft to for example 1 aircraft/3minutes.
  3. Limit the number of spawns in aircraft per player.
  4. If you crash (meaning the kill feed displays: XY killed himself) e. g. 2 times, you won´t by able spawn in an aircraft for rest of the match. This off course will hurt badly those who misjudge the situation, but it could teach them (and me).

The (in my opinion) more complicated but better solutions are:

  1. If you crash (meaning the kill feed displays: XY killed himself) in less then 80 seconds two times you won´t be able to spawn again in an aircraft.
  2. Limit the number of planes to spawn, for example: Each team can only spawn 4 planes, then they have to wait 5 minutes for a 1 plane spawn.

Your thoughts?

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Good to think about this - but limiting number for team woin’t affect players who don’t think about the team in the first instance - it will limit hte number of air, but not the behaviour.

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1)The plane are bad implementend
the map are to small for doing bombing run “exp on spwan”
2)The damage are bad rapresented “same with tanks”
3)Refuelling point are un air yes if you dont know kn elisted plane are refuellkng in “air”
4)The impossibility of cordination with other player made that little air support you able to make usless
And many other thing

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in my opinion planes should have both a fuel gauge and should have to land on carriers to re-arm/re-fuel/repair and yes each team should be given a global aircraft/tank limit like 20 Aircraft’s and 25 Tanks and once the number hits 0 they’re gone and no more will be provided

Expect Some Losses… :neutral_face:

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Honestly I do this sometimes purely because the plane ammo resupply is a long distance away and often a time waste vs just picking another squad and being useful.

Also, If no one is pinging anything then the rockets are often useless and you spend 5 mins just flying around waiting for something fun to happen or for someone to ping something for once.

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Planes work fine, player behaviors are the problem.
Im a really good pilot and when i pick a C-7 or G-2 i fly at least 8-12 minutes and make a couple of tank and plane kills. (By the way plane kills must be more rewarding.)
And when i play with my m8’s i allways get coordinates of hostile tanks or infantry rushes.
To less people use command wheel and spoting. To much people suicide with planes.
Can Imagin when 80% of Players would spot correctly that the planes never would suicide because they would want more and more time in plane.

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