The Life & Death of your Pilots.

[Weta43]

Does anyone else think it’s a pain that if you create a pilot & start a career for them, then they die, that’s the end of them? - Unless you go to the .xml file & edit them back to life.

If you do you have no record of kills to deaths.

I wanted to make something that – after a death – I could run & it would open the .xml file, find the pilots that are dead, raise then from the dead, edit their name to give an indication of how many kills they’ve made & how often they’ve died, then save the file again.

E.G. for a pilot with a name of WETA43 that has never died & has 3 kills the name would be WETA43. Now say he makes another kill but dies doing it. I can’t use that pilot anymore ‘cause he’s dead so I wanted to be able to ALT + TAB out, run the app & have the app change the name to WETA43_(1:4) and change the status back to alive then save the file. Then I can go back & reselect that pilot & fly till I die again – say I make 3 more kills & die, run the app & get a name of WETA43_(2:7).

I tried doing it with VB in Excel – the nearest thing to programming I know – but though the editing part is possible, the problem is that when excel saves as .xml it include all the guff to display it as a spreadsheet – which furkes it up.

Is anybody out there who thinks this a good idea, knows a REAL language & is interested / keen enough to make a little app to do this?

[bSr.LCsta]

more stats would be very nice!

 

I currently just have 2 backup folders in my pilots logbook folder. 1 is the pilots.xml backup and the other is my pilots (pilot56.xml) backup folder.

After completing a mission, you save the original pilots.xml and pilot56.xml in the backup folders. If you die, you copy and paste the backup files back into the main logbook folder, thus overwritting the dead ones.

 

problems with this are:

1.Pain in the ass.

2.If you fail a mission and reset, you will not get credit for any of the flight time or stats for that mission. (this can be a big problem if your a pilot that never makes it back to base on the 1st shot)

3. Does not keep track of how many times the pilot has died.

 

On the flip side though, IRL a pilot will only die once so this makes the stat page look better. Also helps create a discipline of trying to complete missions from take-off to landing successfully as real pilots do!

 

Please ED, make a better stat tracker!

 

heres mine (probably had to edit this one about 10 times)

[ARM505]

I find all of that such a pain that it's just not worth it. IMHO the pilots screen is a total waste of effort. As it stands now, I would almost say they needn't have bothered programming it in at all. It's a pity, because I wouldn't have thought it would involve a great deal of work to get it right. But I'm not a programmer unfortunately....

[SUBS17]

My lockon logbook is blank as I gave up on it after 2 characters got wasted. My AF logbook is 100hours 18 deaths and heaps of A/G and A/A kills. Good thing is other people in the lobby can view your logbook:icon_supe .

[AJ.eightFive]

Don't die?

[Weta43]

Now there's some good advice.

I wish I'd thought of that before I started the thread.

[S77th-GOYA]

Pain in the ass.

 

+1

[SUBS17]

Don't die?

 

 

Everyone dies:cool:

[DPS]

I usually create pilot names to keep track of stats when I'm campaign building. Some endure for weeks and weeks; others don't last too long. This guy got taken out by his wingman.

 

[S77th-konkussion]

Oh it gets better. If the game were to crash- even on exit- you'd get nothing logged. But yes- losing the "deaths" stat would be great. Call it "losses" or what have you, but stop it from ending the log.