Lately,  right after I load my game I lose glory points.  It hasn't always been like this,  just the past 2 weeks or so.  Today I lost "a good amount of glory points" and I didn't even crash my plane or get shot down,  all I did was load my game.  This happens if I'm connected to Live or not.  Anyone else have this problem?  I don't think there are any patches for Over G that could've downloaded and messed something up,  but I got the game the day it was released and it's been fine 'till now....I just don't know.

It does that for some reason....bug i guess....just make a copy of your save to another slot and you should be set

It's not a bug.  The game checks to see if you have recent flight time.  If you have not flown in 2 days, you will lose glory points.

Making a copy of your save doesn't protect anything.  Whichever profile you load, if it's been too long since you've been up in the air, you're going to take a hit.

The only way to prevent this is to load every profile you want to maintain, and get some flight time/experience, to stay in shape.

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Hmm that does sound plausible. But I actually lose points whenever I relocate my xbox (as in unplug it and plug it back in about half an hour later )

Ah,  I see now.  That's something I hadn't noticed,  thanks.  So it seems like a good way to keep yourself in shape - if you care at all about your ranking.

That blows!  I can see telling my wife," Sorry hun, I gotta at least get airborn or I will lose points". Sure she will buy that.  I mean it makes since if they really want to take this sim to the next level but it is still just a game and you should not be penalized if you are unable to play for two days.  Sorry for the rant. lol

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 FeralKitty wrote:

It's not a bug.  The game checks to see if you have recent flight time.  If you have not flown in 2 days, you will lose glory points.

Making a copy of your save doesn't protect anything.  Whichever profile you load, if it's been too long since you've been up in the air, you're going to take a hit.

The only way to prevent this is to load every profile you want to maintain, and get some flight time/experience, to stay in shape.

hey kitty that seems like its plausible but are you shure its 2 days? i mean i was gone for a week and when i came back none of my profiles lost any glorypoints (unless maybe they did and just never gave me the message)

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It has to do with your Ranking, and your average time played I believe.

When I was at Predator I was losing points if I took more than 12 hours away from the game.

I think the game actually measures it by your skill level.  It takes more flight time to maintain a higher skill level than it does to maintain a lower one.

This would explain why it lowers mine if I don't log in for half a day, yet it takes some people two days, and some people up to a week.

Arggggggggggggggggggggg

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The night before last me and a friend were flying in the arena, taking out Symbol Towers, I eventually got Best Guy and thought "it's 1am, I'll just save here and go into SP challenge mode tomorrow". I backed up my save 5 times on my HDD and 5 times on my MU and went to bed.

 

The next day I loaded and it said I'd lost more glory points than I can possibly imagine. Now I can imagine a $hitload of glory points so it must have been a lot!! Every backup save did exactly the same and I felt totally screwed. I got back to best guy, then predator and then got PR6 all in two hours but it's the principle, how in this day and age can suck a monumental programming glitch sneak through??

 

Doesn't change the fact I love this game but it grates.

 

One other thing, I've heard loads of people complain about how hard the 305th Sqdn F-15 is in Big Boss mode, mine was easy (24secs), maybe the game was giving me a break!

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 Alex Star wrote:

It has to do with your Ranking, and your average time played I believe.

When I was at Predator I was losing points if I took more than 12 hours away from the game.

I think the game actually measures it by your skill level.  It takes more flight time to maintain a higher skill level than it does to maintain a lower one.

This would explain why it lowers mine if I don't log in for half a day, yet it takes some people two days, and some people up to a week.

Ah, that makes sense, and would account for the varied time.  Good conclusion!

 Private Custard wrote:

I got back to best guy, then predator and then got PR6 all in two hours but it's the principle, how in this day and age can suck a monumental programming glitch sneak through??

It's not a glitch, it's intentional realism of needing to log so many flight hours, if you will.  But I do agree it's a pain to have to redo it!

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