30 on 5 -The Horde Mentality

[mold]

Originally posted by anton
It didnt take but maybe an hour for the whole map to turn into nothing but Mass numbered hordes on milk runs.

LOL, I know.  Twas a litle wierd, as the night wore on basically on the whole map each base had a bunch of enemy dots over it.  I happened to come across one of these milk runs, in a slightly-less-than-Co-E merge in a G10.  I thought "here's my chance!" because I so rarely meet such a horde in a non-vulch situation.  So I head in and things are looking good...the first few ponies do the split-s on merge thing trying for a HO, which is generally not good against a 109.  So I'm past them but I keep heading in...finally I see a spit spli-essing on me hard, and the rest of the incomings are a ways off in front of me so I go for it.  Pull up hard for the zoom knowing the Spit is mine, presenting a nice easy shot for the ponies behind me, whom I had not checked on well enough.  Doh!  An inglorious ending.

On a related note, it's amazing how many people will go for the HO even when they have the alt advantage or numbers advantage.  Especially a split-s HO, throwing away the advantage.

[anton]

lol skull dont mess with me-

You are not even stable enuff to admit what your original handle was, I suspect that is because you are embarrased by some action you did under that name.


So don't think that just because you change your name & TRY to become a respected pilot in the game, you will sway me into thinking you are significant.  

As for the game &  the what it has turned into-  I will have to say last nite was pretty dis-enchanting for me. I will need to find out if I can close my paid account, & keep my name for H2H use.  Hopefully when HTC gets TOD  up & running people will actualy choose to fight again & I can return either to TOD or classic.

Anton:cool:

[WldThing]

Originally posted by anton
lol skull dont mess with me-

You are not even stable enuff to admit what your original handle was, I suspect that is because you are embarrased by some action you did under that name.


So don't think that just because you change your name & TRY to become a respected pilot in the game, you will sway me into thinking you are significant.  

If your thinking Skull is Dlambba?  Not sure you are,  but if you are,  i have to say your wrong,  heard Skull on vox and doesnt sound even close to Dlambba

[killnu]

AW couldn't handle it's success and became history, but it had a lot of good things going for it that might be usefull to us here and now. It doesn't make sense to close our eyes to the good things because of the mistakes they made.

Good point grizzly, IMO.  i really enjoyed playing AW as i do playing AH now.  sure it had its flaws and i believe AH is a better game, but it did have a few good things going for it that i dont see here, maybe HT didnt think the "good things" we seen were so good. my 2 cents.

[anton]

No I dont think its Dmouth, im not sure what name he used to be, & dlame wasnt the only unpopular personality to change names for fear of recognition. Really I couldnt care less about the guy, but he poked his head in on my thread.

Anton

[anton]

I had fun in MA tonite! Was not so many hordes. I noticed more smaller attacks that were in fact effective in producing captures. Also  the smaller attacks provided for some actual air to air combat.

I may have spoke to soon about canceling the account- but I still need to find out about keeping name for H2H if I close account. Does anyone happen to know from previous experience?

Anton

[beet1e]

Originally posted by anton
You are not even stable enuff to admit what your original handle was, I suspect that is because you are embarrased by some action you did under that name.

LOL!  What cracks me up is that there IS a guy on this BBS called banana.  He's OK though.

I had fun in MA tonite! Was not so many hordes.

Well done, Anton. Pleased to hear it. I'm also fascinated (delighted, actually) to see that you had fun because there were not so many hordes.

I still think HTC should think about turning off bardar. In the old days, it helped people to find a fight. Nowadays, the red bar is the tool people use to avoid a fight, and the green bar is the tool they use to find a vulch. And that pretty much sums up AH gameplay these days. On the small maps with the fields too close at least.

[mold]

Originally posted by beet1e
I still think HTC should think about turning off bardar. In the old days, it helped people to find a fight. Nowadays, the red bar is the tool people use to avoid a fight, and the green bar is the tool they use to find a vulch.

Yes.  Honor is a scarce commodity, unfortunately.  Chute shooting, vulching, gangbanging, spawn camping, ditch shooting, filling flaming wreckage with lead in hopes of getting the "kill", turning on gunners on a tailless flaming bomber just out of spite.  Are we humans or animals?  No...I shouldn't insult animals after all.  This isn't a real war, but even in real war when life was on the line the behavior could be more humane.  Like I've heard that interceptors would leave a bomber alone when he put his gear down (signifying that he was ditching).

Not sure if your solution would work though.  Some of us still actually use darbar to find even fights.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by mold
Are we humans or animals?

Dude, it's a computer game.  Those are pixels you're "shooting," and as an extra-added bonus, the geek who was controlling them might get upset enough to post about the inhumanity of it all.

Guys like me vulch, gangbang, shoot your flaming corpse, spawn camp, you name it just to see guys like you squirm and whine about the lack of honor.  The more you whine, the more it makes me want to stick it to you.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[mold]

That's right, it's a computer game.  As such, there is no excuse for animalistic behavior.  Whether it's a game or not, your behaviour is a reflection of your humanity.

Your subconcious shame makes you spring to the automatic defense and call me a "whiner".  But that is not the case.  What the hell, it's just a game to me.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by mold
That's right, it's a computer game.  As such, there is no excuse for animalistic behavior.  Whether it's a game or not, your behaviour is a reflection of your humanity.

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LOL!  Yes, I'm inhumane because I enjoy making pinheads like you squirm in your seats over questions of honor in a computer game.  I'm such a psychopath.  

Your subconcious shame makes you spring to the automatic defense and call me a "whiner".  But that is not the case.  What the hell, it's just a game to me.

Obviously it's more than a game to you if you're bringing questions of "honor" and humanity into it.  If it was just a game to you, you'd realize that it's just a bunch of geeks pushing pixels around a computer screen.  We have nothing to truly gain or lose from the game (other than $14.95/month), so we all do what we consider fun to fill the time.  Honor and humanity?  Riiiiight.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[mars01]

On a related note, it's amazing how many people will go for the HO even when they have the alt advantage or numbers advantage. Especially a split-s HO, throwing away the advantage.

Yeah, but if a guy is going to recklessly fly in front of you scissoring away why wouldn't you take the shot.  Is it wrong to kill they guy if he flys in front of you?  Unless you mean HOs on a merge.  Then you are correct.

[mold]

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
We have nothing to truly gain or lose from the game (other than $14.95/month), so we all do what we consider fun to fill the time.  Honor and humanity?  Riiiiight.

It's only a game to me as well.  But I try to behave with dignity whatever I am doing.  You betrayed yourself in your post above: "The more you whine, the more it makes me want to stick it to you."  Why are you so angered if this is only a game for you?  The reason for your anger is that you do not like the way you behave--the cause of all insecurity and defensiveness.

[mold]

Originally posted by mars01
Yeah, but if a guy is going to recklessly fly in front of you scissoring away why wouldn't you take the shot.  Is it wrong to kill they guy if he flys in front of you?  Unless you mean HOs on a merge.  Then you are correct.

Yes, I am referring to the merge.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by mold
It's only a game to me as well.  But I try to behave with dignity whatever I am doing.  You betrayed yourself in your post above: "The more you whine, the more it makes me want to stick it to you."  Why are you so angered if this is only a game for you?  The reason for your anger is that you do not like the way you behave--the cause of all insecurity and defensiveness.

Spare me the third grade psych analysis.

I don't feel anger toward you for whining about unfairness.  I want to stick it to you because I enjoy watching you and others like you whine up a storm about the unfairness of it all.  What you don't get is that while you're off stewing over the fact that I may have cherry picked you or vulched you or beaten you straight up in a 1v1, I've moved on to the next target and forgotten all about you.  Well, unless you go and whine about it on Channel 1 or the forums, in which case I get to laugh at you.

-- Todd/Leviathn