Vehicles have, just like infantry, limited ammunition reserves. But opposed to infantry, which can resupply from at elast one infantry terminal per base or ammunition packages, vehicles have to search ammo towers and landing platform Most, but not all bases have ammo towers for tanks. Aircrafts have to fly a far distance for a save landing pad. Every shot you fire, reduces the time until the driver or pilot has to leave the fight for restocking on ammo. Now, it is good when you shoot. It is very good. At least when you shoot at enemies. If you just shoot the air "because you can" style, you are wasting ammo. Now, I don't like when people waste my precious ammo. I actually like to be in a fight, rather than driving or flying over a continent on the way to the next ammunition restocking possibility. Gunners shooting the air are useless for me. What I do with useless gunners, is simply kicking them out of my vehicle. We are in the middle of nowhere when I kick you out of my tank? Bad for you, not for me. You get kicked out of my aircraft in 600 meters height? Well, that's your own fault and not my problem. Avoiding being kicked out of a vehicle is easy: shoot enemies but not the air I win because I can stay in combat longer, you win because you can gun a tank or aircraft when you don't have your own certed. Win-win situations are awesome, aren't they?
I'll never understand the tendency for some people to shoot in the air - I see lone ESFs flying around getting out of the warp gate, and they have to shoot at empty air, wasting their own ammo. Seriously - why do people do this?
Maybe they're trying their weapon for some reason, graphics, drop, spread etc... I have 1490 bullets for my needler. If i get to 0 it means I had a really long long run and killed a lot of people. I usually die or get to the pad (to rethink where I'm going) before running out of bullets. Now for people who use rotaries it's worse. Why have you stopped replying to your previous thread aka "I don't know how to land ESF"? You made some silly noob claims as in "ESF always blows up when landing / it's a bug / SOE pls fix" and then left when people talked back to you. That was really bad.
learning to aim with a dalton takes time a little bit if you play, so today a gunner hit 2 vanu planes in one shoot some are very good, i would not be your gunner. if you droped me out into the air from your lib you would had to fill a complaint for harassment, "I don't know how to land ESF" i leave this as prove...
Tired of people claiming I am a bad player after others confirmed issues various times allready. Maybe I will send reports exclusively to the support.
No one confirmed issues with landing. When you wrote how you're 100% sure it damages ESF when descending into the ground, you wrote a total BS. Other thread you wrote that you're being 9/10 instakilled. Another bs. You have problems understanding how video would be vital to your issues and because of the bad manners you have, no one will believe you now. Yes, game has its bug, but not to the extent you're describing. I bet you're BSing people in real life too. Go write to support, they will put you to ignore list most probably. TO THIS THREAD: I don't even believe you kick people out of your vehicle for good reasons.
And how would you want to know that? Well, obviously you don't know it, otherwhise you would be aware that I actually quite often do so.
Sorry, don't agree. I've got hundreds of hours piloting Prowlers and Liberators. I have no problem with a gunner (whether it be pubbie or one of my usuals) take a free shot or two to get their bearings straight on: - Velocity - Refire rate - Reload speed I'd much rather they get their bearings before we get into a fight than waste their first few shots because they didn't have their velocities on-point. Each weapon, be it Halberd, Bulldog (ground), Bulldog (air), Dalton, Zepher, and all the rest, have their own unique velocities. I run AP on my Prowler 95% of the time, so I don't need to adjust to a thing, but I won't assume the same is true of gunners who have almost a dozen weapons they need to learn.
Few shots is not considered wasting ammo. "Shooting the air" means spending bigger ammounts of ammo for nothing. Few shots fine, over 10 shots bye bye.
