I think what you are asking for is better understood as a "Bail-out" option, which we have when the plane is going down. It doesn't make sense to bail out of the perfectly good plane - unless to tank.

If I had my wish, tanks would be limited - not privileged any more than they are. Hate Tanks.

...........Except when I can shoot at them.

For a short time recently we had a boot on the play screen. It would drop you right out of the plane without getting shot down. Dont know if it was a kill or against you or not. Not sure why it was there or why it went away. About 2 updates back.

I'm pretty sure that I saw Zup mention that this would be in the next update. It was presented as a way of getting rid of campers though, so I'm not sure if you'd be able to bail once you got off your runway.

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Wumper wrote: TR: what do you think about my suggestion? Ridiculous or worth considering.

My suggestion over a year ago, to give players the ability to clear the screen, (because the writing was blocking the activity), which prevented us from seeing the enemy, and then press button again to bring back the writing on the screen, so you can see the action again. That was my suggestion. They used to call it the Wumper Button.

I saw the boot. But no one told me the purpose. But if it just booted you back to your base, why..would you use that.

But if I knew you were taking off from your base, and I knew you always shot my backside down, I might jump to a tank, just before a slope, and wait...and wait for you to come over the hill. Now, knowing you, you would know, on the screen, I was on the other side, but you might take a chance and come over the hill, but you would be a dead duck, but you might also just go off to the side, permitting my team to avoid getting shot down by you and they could go directly at your base. It might not work, but is has worked many times when I get shot down now near a foreign base.
Again just a suggestion.

Im not sure i follow you wump. What does autodes 2 do? Right now autodes is either quit or respawn right? What would autodes 2 be.
And the boot didnt send you back to base it allowed you to bail out before getting shot down so maybe you could tank. Like if you were approaching the area too close to tank and knew that you were never going to get through to bomb, so you bail and get to tank.

It does and it is simliar to what the boot button gave you an option to do. So we need the boot button back.

I dont remember now if it did. I tried it to see what it did and i did not want out of my plane at the time and so i was po'd about it.then i hit auto des to go back to base and get my plane.

The boot allowed you to jump out of your plane into your chute, and then you could jump into a tank.

Also, for a new feature, can we get a button of a big P so that when Pluribus is sitting and whining in a game we can push it and bump him out of the game?

E*A*G*L*E wrote: Also, for a new feature, can we get a button of a big P so that when Pluribus is sitting and whining in a game we can push it and bump him out of the game?

Dont mess with Pluribus, Eagle... Just a warning...

Couple more ideas:
If the planes spawn in an empty hanger, instead of the same place on the runway, then they taxi out first, it would stop the two plane starting crashes we get occasionally, and give indefinite initial protection (instead of the 30sec immunity) reducing the temptation to hover around waiting to spawn kill.

You loose points if you shoot your own team. You should also loose points if you get yourself shot down. After all, you have just LOST a valuable asset to your side.
This would make the suicide head on style of play less attractive, encouraging better tactical play.