Zigrat, the buffs may not have been attached to your mission. They may have been freelancing; they were trailing the pack. It was, however, during one of your missions. I don't view it as a "big deal", however. I think all this "honor" stuff about how one plays the game is just going to leave people frustrated.
People play the way they want to play. Pretty simple really and you can't change human nature.
Whels, if you were the Spit that I think Wpn shot down while we were still a long way from the target...you LOOKED much higher than the buff in front of me that was being attacked. You also LOOKED much higher than I was and I was 28K at that time.
Perhaps there's something in the display that makes everyone look higher. I don't know what your altimeter read, but I ABSOLUTELY know what mine read. Max inbound to drop was 30.5K. RTB, I climbed to 32K.
TAC, so experiments are OK then?
Well, figure that this was my one "Experiment" for this tour.
I don't do buffs, rarely do ground vehicles.
Santa, I find
ALL buffing deep in the boredom zone. But I'm not going to start a flame war with my views on buffing, ground vehicles, ships, and whatever else is coming vis-a-vis a Fighter Air Combat Simulation.
It's a game. It's a pretty good game. I enjoy it. I don't lose sleep over any of it.
Disagreements do arise when some people expect other people to play a certain way or style.
Without condemning or condoning any of the various behaviors that seem to cause some people heartburn, I'll just observe that people are going to use what is in the game. Whether or not someone approves of the "style".
Bishland is a prime example. I do think the different countries attract different styles of player. Bishland is full of a bunch of independent cusses that "just came for the beer".
It's real tough to get anything organized in Bishland. Independence is the watchword and loyalty to anything larger than your squad is unusual. Real Estate? Capturing/losing fields in Bishland pretty much draws a "ho-hum" from most. The individual fight is the thing...not some grand strategic concept. If there were a "reset" historical record, I'd wager the Bish are last in winning a reset.
Nightly there are cries for unity, organization and scathing critiques from some who would have us be something we are not. I'm somewhat sympathetic to their pleas...but face facts: BISH are just not good at that.
There's too much of the "freelancer" in our makeup.
Knightland otoh seems real focused. Does it draw that kind of player? Does it draw people that need that experience, that feeling of belonging to a big organzied unit?
I don't know; don't really thing about it.
I just know I'm happy where I am right now and enjoying the game. One reason I enjoy it is that I rarely buff or tank.
YMMV
[This message has been edited by Toad (edited 08-15-2000).]
