Ejection pods
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Zor Prime
That guy.
Originally posted by CamW
Ejection pods are sooooo uncool. The best way of ejection: in your flight suit.
The WC1 and WC2 (?) means of escape were much more fun than modern WC ejection pods.
There's my 2 cents.
Im not so sure. It seems just a bit unpractical to me. I mean, you were weraring blue jeans..........
In answer to all this talk about ejecting, the way I see it, you should pack some grenades. If you need to eject do so. If the bad guys pick you up you can always detonate the grenades and take a few more of them with you
If the good guys pick you up you'd better stash the grenades somewhere, where the marine you stole 'em off won't see 
I know the AI's not perfect but I strongly doubt that 3 Jalkehis could miss a fighter flying at 52kps.
penspinner
Spaceman
Shoot the pods? bleh .... I run them over 
You get this crazy shield popping sound when you run over a pod in wc4 .....
I'd really like to get a pair of those airtight jeans too ...
-pen
You get this crazy shield popping sound when you run over a pod in wc4 .....I'd really like to get a pair of those airtight jeans too ...
-pen
Battler Hawke
Spaceman
Re: Ejecting...
It's legal money making. two for one.Originally posted by Col.Dom
... a fate worse than death.
'nuff said
Zor Prime
That guy.
Who cares about honor when your outnumbered 10 to 1 and you are losing a war that will decide the fate of humanity. By shooting the ejection pod, or running it over whichever you chose, (both are fun) You are preserving the life that you hold so sacred. The life of 50 billion of your fellow citezens. If the Kilrathi had won, there would be no more life to to hold sacred and protect.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
This is the same dillema Tolwyn faced, and you've chosen the same thing he did. Is survival of humanity proper worth the loss of humanity itself?
Originally posted by Skyfire
I think one of the main reasons I wouldn't eject, doesn't come from being in ConFleet-but from me being a Privateer. I tell ya, I held no qualms about picking up some damn merc I killed, and selling him into bondage.
That always bugged me. If you just happened to pick someone up, Confed automatically assumed you were a slaver. I never traded in slaves, I find the idea repugnant. I always considered any money I made from people I picked up as reward money paid by the government for the criminals.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Ehh, leave the ejected pilots for the authorities -- you wouldn't go around gathering up wounded people after a bank robbery and taking them home with you <G>
(Generally, though, if you come across an ejected pilot it means you've been trying to kill humans, which is probably illegal anyway).
(Generally, though, if you come across an ejected pilot it means you've been trying to kill humans, which is probably illegal anyway
).Modern day, perhaps we do.
In WW2, however, that wasn't the case.
Nations started off with their pilots who had the full allotment of flight training during peacetime. Those who were good survived for a time, but everyone's number comes up eventually. If the war lasts for a long period of time, then before long, one side or the other (if not both) ends up fielding raw recruits with just enough flight training to get the plane up in the air and (maybe) be able to land it again, as well.
So at the start of the war, the equipment is more useful than the personnel, but as the war continues, the balance shifts the other way.
It also helps if your flight schools are in safe territory (a major problem for Germany as the war went on).