Beef.
As you can tell lots of people get frustrated about AH at times.
I sure did. What helped me was to play the game so I could enjoy it, but not expect others to play the same way. I was selected as a trainer and that made me quite happy at first, but the part about it that I didnt like was that I was playing for free. This made me feel obligated to fly when I was not enjoying flying. I dreaded starting up AH and seeing how the gangbang was going. There is no way you are going to enjoy yourself with that kind of bent and I sure wasnt.
So I withdrew from the training cadre and mostly stoped playing for about 2 weeks. Read some books and built some models.
Stopped looking at my score.
It helped me alot to get back to how I enjoyed the game befor.
This is just to point out that you have to look at the reasons that you are spoiling the game for yourself, you cant change others and in all likly hood it is something about yourself that is causing you to enjoy the game less then you should.
As to people hating you. I have had some real fire fights and insult broadsides with lots of the primadonas in the game.(birds of a feather)
Almost without exception the mutual anger has not withstood a private channel chat or email, some of the ones I had the most trouble with at one time or another are people I like the most in the game. The people that are bothering you are in all likly hood smart, kind, articulate people that share your interest in Aircraft and your love of talking about them. Try to find a group on your block at home that you share so much in common with. They have alot to teach you about WW2 aircraft and being successful in the game. But you have to learn it on their terms not yours.
They also probably dont like being told what to do in the game. It should be obvios to you now that you are flying aginainst the bishops, since it apperantly wasnt when you where flying with them, that they know how to play the game and win. It should also be apperant that if you run from problems they tend to follow you.
What I did when I was learning the game was ignore the map, find the best pilots that you can, and try to contribute to what "THEY" are doing. Just accept that the overall county situation will handle itself if you just have fun. There is nothing more satisfying then clearing someones tail in AH. But you have to get on the team...and the best way to do that is to accept the goals that the team has set and contribute as much as possible.
On the rook side Sn1p3r and JadgNine and the rest of the mouskiteers are a great squad to help out and learn teamwork from. But you must accept their goals and show you can work to accomplish them, make the goal and your teammates survival the most important thing you fly for..the rest of this will take care of itself then. If channel 1 is causing you trouble then squelch it and stay off of it yourself. Map it to the team strike channel and forget about it..it is optional.
Good luck. Hope to see you in the game some time.
[This message has been edited by Pongo (edited 05-05-2000).]
