Pilot points

[Tomb]

Pilot points

Might be worth a review

Basically, currently a carrot and stick system as it stands a big stick and little or no carrot

No problems with the major stuff, stalls, negative G, over speed and other aircraft limit stuff that can get you and you passengers killed.

However the stuff that you can toggle off such as lights and altimeter settings and so on which is basically procedural has a
disproportional high penalty for no reward

I feel it would be better if you turn it off you get no penalty as you do now but if you turn it on and risk the penalty you should get the reward
such as “followed correct procedures + 50 pts or such like.

This mean some aircraft you will need to turn it off because they lack the obstruction light or its tied in with another light on some models
and you will get no reward or penalty.

Also no pilot should ever be below 0 points, I have one called Test pilot who has about -6000pts, he will never get promoted..At least in
his lifetime and I use him to fly new planes to see what the penalties, and what functions don’t work on new aircraft models.

This means if a virtual airline uses FSP has a new pilot and he screws up just a couple times he is very unlikely to be promoted ever.
Better to have him no lower than zero and as he reaches the standard he will get promoted or demoted…but never less than zero
otherwise promotion will be always out of reach

It’s a thought

[AndrePaul]

nice thought, if Dan agree's and is able to do it, who knows it might come in a later update

[Pierino]

I like your idea too!

Pierino

[Jetflyer]

Yeah but if he's that rubbish a pilot, then maybe...he should practice more??

Sorry but I don't agree. The whole point in the program is to refine your flying skills and put some purpose into the program.

[DanSteph]

About virtual airline I agree with you, but it's the responsability of the administrator to give perhaps
a temporary profile to newbies so they can train, also you can train many time off-line before
exporting your flights and last you can choose what flight you want to export so you may even cheat.

Unfortunately about others concern I don't have the same view...FsP propose a challenge.
In reality the carrot is also small and the penalty really big (you can even loose your life)
making even minor error when you carry passengers are not allowed at all.

Many people were able to get high rank in FsP, they simply do a well and regular job as real pilots
and they are rewarded for they excellent work. Now would those reward worth the same if anyone
that make bad flight and forget things every two or three flights can be promoted also ?

forbiden points to go below zero would mean that a guy can crash many aircrafts, kill several peoples,
make nasty flight , get -16000 points because he is the worse pilot on earth and three flight after
get promoted because he miraculously got some excellent flights as he started form zero points instead of negative.
In reality such pilot would be dismissed and not allowed to fly anymore.
In FsP such pilot have either to proove that he can get the points back while being regular and make a lot of perfect flight.
either simply restart another pilot because he feel that now he's okay.

Light may seem a minor glitch but what if a ground crew get sucked by your engine because
you forgot the beacon before starting your engine ? what about in-flight collision because
the guy forgot the light and remained unseen ? In real world even minor errors can lead to
hundred death.

Wrong altimeter setting was a major cause of controlled flight into terrain, a wrong altimeter setting
is a major fault. FsP simply can't forgive people that set an altimeter that show 400 ft difference with the ground.
in weather condition this can be the difference beetween a nice landing and a crash with several death.

Before designing FsP point system I have read a lot of book on aircraft security and crash report
many time the root cause of the crash were minor things.

If I reward the pilots with point for every things they have done right ("cool you didn't forgot the gear before landing +50" )
the errors will not have the same weight anymore and pilots would take less care, mean that FsP may now
reward very bad pilot that may forget things at every flight and would be dangerous in reality.

FsP is inttended to give you the feel of the reponsability of people's live, FsP is still a game
so the only way to give you this feeling was to give a small carrot because it's simply your daily job
to make perfect flight.

Win without challenge don't give the same feeling at all and can even give a false tought
on your real pilot abilities.

And last you can disable altimeter and light penalty, you have now what I call "the easy mode".

Hope it explain ?

Dan



Post Edited ( 09-15-05 20:34 )