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Originally Posted by Feathered_IV
It is a little odd that people would be so against a 1 in 500 chance of an AI aircraft shooting a another AI or player in their parachute. Especially so, when for almost ten years now they have been playing a sim where ground defences and ships routinely (and improbably) slaughter every parachutist within range.  |
If it was 1:5,000, I still wouldn't like it much but I could accept it, however the reason I don't want it at all is that if it's in, it will be in with a 1:50 or less chance of occurring, other wise the code wouldn't be used enough to be worth the cost of coding and debugging it. Marketting would insist that every player saw it, which would again mean 1:50 or less. If it was in, it would probably be any flyer in the single player game who was a potential target, including the player, and that would be hugely frustrating, enough to put me off buying a game that threatened to do that to me. I have put in enough hours on IL*2 that at if it had been 1:5,000 I'd have seen it dozens of times by now, and that would make it boring, let alone the hundreds of times I'd have seen it when it turned up at 1:50.
I agree that the ground guns shouldn't do it, but it's a bug that I've come to accept as part of IL*2, despite it's tendancy to break immersion.