Pilot as an unlock idea

[Liquid_Cow]

I hear a lot of people complaining about noob pilots getting them killed and wasting a team's assets (same could be said of armor).

What if we could make the pilot kit an unlock or an award? In vBF2 you need to gain so much experience before you're allowed to unlock a new weapons kit, and you need to perform certain feats to win awards. It sounds to me like we just need to figure out how to exploit this currently unused feature of the BF2 engine and we can institute a training requirement for pilots. For instance, your first unlock would be a newly modeled training BH only found on training maps. Once you get a minimum amount of time and points you get an unlock and an award which would allow you to advance to say the little bird class on all maps. After so much time you'd unlock the transport, then the attack class choppers. There could be a requirement that you obtain "x" kills and no negative points as pilot of the attack chopper on training maps before getting unlocked for regular maps.

This system could be extended to a lot of the kits, armor, sniper, medic (for instance, you put a base min score/time in game to play medic, just so completely noob players are not getting those kits). IRL you start out as a rifleman, once you have 30 hours in game you then get access to other kits.

Of course this would require a central score server, which is something PR did away with right away and never looked back, or it could be local server based, or utilize a 3rd party ranking such as ABR.

I dug around the forums and back like 3 years ago this was suggested, at the time we didn't have kit limited vehicles so it was dismissed, but I think now may be the time

There's lots of time to discuss what the min time for an award is, so lets not get lost in an argument of "oh 30 hours is one weekened for me/30 hours is 2 months for me" rather, can it work, and is it worth looking into?

[arjan]

This is suggested before, like 4 weeks ago their was a last one, but yeah i agree

[SkaterCrush]

Massive resuggestion, and not much is going to be done about this at least until 1.0 or something, or it was hardcoded of some sort.

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... ining.html
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... ab-pr.html
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... ation.html
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... ilter.html
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... wards.html
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... e-kit.html

You've obviously been here for a while so you should know how to use the *** thread and the search function properly

Edit: Sorta ninja'ed

[CodeRedFox]

Joking, but locked