Fix bonus honor for Hydra fire kills

[Cyrus]

No, this is not asking for the Hydra to be credited for all his kills, I know that thread was already made long ago.

What I would like to see instead is that that bonus honor per kill is figured from the total kills in a mission, not the individual kills for each templar.

To give a typical example:

First mission on Moon of Uchot-something has a victory condition of 25 kills. When using a Hydra, my typical kills after reaching the 25 might be:
Captain: 4, Scout A: 2, Scout B: 3, Hydra: 1. That's 10 kills, the remaining 15+ are by the plasma fire. 

The victory condition kicks in and I get 200 honor for the mission, plus bonus honor for 10 kills. If I had taken another templar and personally shot all of them, I'd have gotten honor for 25+ kills. On typical missions I run with one Hydra on the team, 50-80% of the total kills are fire kills. That's been seriously stunting my earned honor.

The total number of kills is figured correctly, so can you use that for the bonus honor?

[slayernz]

Take a Neptune instead. Real kills = real points ... none of this namby pamby fire stuff.

[Cyrus]

Heh, I was waiting for that.

If only Neptunes had a bit more mobility, I'd definitely get one to replace... a scout. Should I make another wish-list post to ask for "Mobility Scooter" wargear?

[slayernz]

I already had that pic of the mobility scooter for the Hydra remember? ... see, you play with Fire too much your brain has been addled.

Nothing like a very very large caliber cannon to help wake you up from your daze.

[slayernz]

I think I know which one of these two units I'd have on the field ....
... or ...

[Cyrus]

Well, that's apples and oranges. The second one can't be a Neptune, since it looks like he's actually moving.

[slayernz]

Nah, he had to put down some blu-tack (or maybe silly putty) to help him stabilize his shots

[slayernz]

Wheelchair with decent firepower ...

... nobody would be stupid enough to mount a flame thrower on a wheel chair would they - oh wait ...

(Note rear-facing flames because you don't want to roll INTO fire)

[Cyrus]

Blu-tack?

More likely that's just dropped from the excrement-disposal system all Neptunes need to have in their armor, in case they're spooked by sudden movement or any non-gunfire noises.

[Cyrus]

Well, I'll take that "Chariot of Fire" any day over your "Chariot of I-fell-over-because-of-recoil-and-now-I'm-helpless-like-a-baby".

[contributor]

I'd like to second the OP. I just started paying attention and my Hydra is getting for than half of the kills. Its taking me a long time to get my squad all kitted out.

[johndramey]

Here, here! I like this idea, I realize that tracking kills for the Hydra is probably out for the time being but it would be nice if us Hydra users don't get any honor disadvantage.

[slayernz]

It'd be pretty straight forward to track ... Take the total kills of the battle, and subtract all of the deaths made by other units. Oh ... what happens if you have 2 hydras going at the same time? Do they split the deaths down the middle 50:50?

It would be awesome having an "Assist" count as well ... your knight assisted in 7 kills and killed an additional 12, but that's a different topic

[fallen]

Yep, we are working on this to be fixed in the next release. It will have a big impact on getting Prestige right.

[slayernz]

Prestige?!?