Rooks Win Reset Despite ENY

[Thorns]

I work hard each day dealing with customers.  I am a Regional manager for a customer satisfaction department, within a large global manufacturer.  I'm not young, and spend way too many nights on the road, attending too many boring meetings, and have to be coach, priest, brother to 8 people I control.  My love for flying has always one of my top priorites.  I have a SEL license with about 250 hours, and I have owned UltraLights, taildraggers and rented all kinds of aircraft.  Due to the restraints of my job, I don't have a lot of time for many hobbies, my second love is golf which I never get to play anymore.  The one thing I could always depend on was logging on to AH, and taking a spin in my favorite airplane, the P-51D.  My father fought in WWII, and this is what I like flying.  I've been a part of this community since beta.  I've always been a Rook, even when being a Rook wasn't cool.  I've see good people who are Rooks, and have always been proud to tell people I'm a Rook.  Rooks get free beer!  I enjoy the people I fly with.  A bunch of good guys.  Now, when I get some free time, or I'm lucky enough to be home, I want to log in to AH, fly, and escape all the issues that cause my blood pressure to rise.  Lately, I log on, and I am denied from flying my favorite ride.  It is getting down right depressing.  I don't know what to do.  I think HTC is a great simulation company which provides a release for all kinds of people.  HTC has one of the best support departments ever.  (Skuzzy is a real person who will give you a couple of minutes of his busy schedule to help you).   I understand this is a strategic game, but some of us really don't care if a reset happens or not.  We logon for some entertainment while talking to our friends, we are willing to pay for it, and expect to fly what we want to fly even if it is perked.   Thanks for allowing me to voice my view.

Thorns

[Arlo]

"I was a Rook when Rook wasn't cool" was the best part.

I'm seeing a pattern here and though part of me finds in mildly revolting .... the other part finds it slightly amusing. Being a fair and open-minded individual I'll once again offer up the following olive branch of compromise to all parties involved:

Why not turn it off for a couple of weeks ... or even a month, for Peter's sake? Let's see what that old pendulum does and who applies what force to stop or start it. Let's see if everyone gets to play and enjoy the game without a minimum of a hundred posts in the forums over that month-long period that are related to how much the game sucks because of number disparity (to be fair ... I will continue to not care). Let's see if customers stay or go or flock or flee.

Of course ... if the worst happens .. who can blame HT for doing damage control and ending the experiment early? Either one.

All in favor?

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Redd

More and more people are starting to fly like this - it's the "Zazen Factor".

Scores/stats will always cause this as a byproduct  - it's a shame the game needs them to keep a large chunk of the player base happy. The most fun times/fights have always been during beta periods , when people aren't caring about their score.




Just my 2 bob

I flew the EXACT same way I do now and have always flown during beta. It's not about the scores, it's about role-playing for its own sake....

Zazen

[Arlo]

I don't knock role-play. Some guys like being paladins ..... some like to put on their robe and their wizard hat.

[Urchin]

LOL, that was the funnieset damn thread ever.  I loved that thread.

Some people like to role-play bad guys.. I think I might be a closet bad-guy.. I like the Luftwaffe...  and when Star Wars battlefront comes out..  I'm gonna be a stormtrooper baby!  Or maybe a Tie fighter pilot... those were always so much cooler than the Xwings...

[Arlo]

I'll be the fat x-wing guy eatin' a BBQ chickenwing right before he he fails to check his six for the tie-fighter in the deathstar trench. But ... I will be wearing my robe and wizard hat.

[Redd]

Originally posted by Zazen13
I flew the EXACT same way I do now and have always flown during beta. It's not about the scores, it's about role-playing for its own sake....

Zazen

OK it's not about score , my bad. You probably don't do it for score , but more for stats. I think from what I have read , you certainly are a stats man, and you have a  personal aversity to dying   that's cool.

I'm not telling you how to fly, your money, you play it the way you want to - I don't have a problem with that.

The point I'm making is that more people seem to be heading in your direction lately , the arena seems to be a fest of fast late war planes, not engaging wthout all advantages , numbers, alt , plane type etc etc.

I have noticed this in PAC time , and it wasn't always like this.

If everyone flys the same way , particularly , that way , the arena's would be very very boring. The arena needs a mix of player types and planes to keep it interesting . imo.

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Redd
OK it's not about score , my bad. You probably don't do it for score , but more for stats. I think from what I have read , you certainly are a stats man, and you have a  personal aversity to dying   that's cool.

I would fly to survive whether any data was kept whatsoever. It's a role-playing/immersive feel thing, it has nothing to do with numbers of any kind. The numbers are just a concrete way to assess, after the fact, how successfull at 'role-playing' you were without having to guess....


Zazen

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Redd
The arena needs a mix of player types and planes to keep it interesting . imo.

I still say there's room for more arenas in Aces High. Yeah .... the common retort is that it'll "fragment the community more" and yadda.

But wait! The community is already fragged! We gots peoples tellin us here that they's gots ta be rooks 24/7 for the rest of their life or the world will end. We gots peoples tellin us here that they's GOTS to drive the pony or the world will end! We gots peoples here sayin' that they GOTS ta fly in the main arena or the world will end! We gots peoples tellin' us that theys GOTS ta pork or the world will end! They's GOTS ta milk of the world will end! They's GOTS ta just furball `tween two bases that are 30 seconds apart from each other or the world will end!

It will end because they'll quit!

Sounds kinda fragged already.

Pacific pilots could use their own Aces High playground 24/7.

I'm serious.

The world may end.

Screw da rest.

Heh .... just kiddin' Don't screw da rest.

But build the Pacific Combat 24/7 theater when the Ki-84 comes out, ok?

Did I say the world may end?

[Redd]

Originally posted by Zazen13
I would fly to survive whether any data was kept whatsoever. It's a role-playing/immersive feel thing, it has nothing to do with numbers of any kind. The numbers are just a concrete way to assess, after the fact, how successfull at 'role-playing' you were without having to guess....


Zazen

Ok I accept that , not for me to dispute/discuss your motive , that's your business,

But that wasn't the point I was making anway.

The arenas seem to have a lot more late-war/ fast/high / role-playing/ survivalist/only engage with massive adv/  types of pilots than they used to.

[TBolt A-10]

Originally posted by Arlo
I've been to the P.I. ..... it takes alot to impress or shock me.

Alright, I'll nibble.  The P.I.?

[Redd]

Originally posted by Arlo
I still say there's room for more arenas in Aces High. Yeah .... the common retort is that it'll "fragment the community more" and yadda.

But wait! The community is already fragged! We gots peoples tellin us here that they's gots ta be rooks 24/7 for the rest of their life or the world will end. We gots peoples tellin us here that they's GOTS to drive the pony or the world will end! We gots peoples here sayin' that they GOTS ta fly in the main arena or the world will end! We gots peoples tellin' us that theys GOTS ta pork or the world will end! They's GOTS ta milk of the world will end! They's GOTS ta just furball `tween two bases that are 30 seconds apart from each other or the world will end!

It will end because they'll quit!

Sounds kinda fragged already.

Pacific pilots could use their own Aces High playground 24/7.

I'm serious.

The world may end.

Screw da rest.

Heh .... just kiddin' Don't screw da rest.

But build the Pacific Combat 24/7 theater when the Ki-84 comes out, ok?

Did I say the world may end?

Well i'm trying to do my bit for diversity Arlo

Bit of MA , bit of CT , bit of DA , if you get your PA , I'll  try that as well.

I fly a bit of TnB , bit of E-fighting , fly to survive one day , furball like crazy the next

When the f6-f's ENY'ed out of the main , Iv'e flown P40's spits , 109's it's all good.

[Arlo]

Once you've seen a donkey show while soused to the gills on mojo in one of the Barrio Barreto district bars, it takes alot to revolt, impress or entertain you. P.I. = Phillipine Islands.

"It'll ruin you for life, sailor ... are you ready for that?"

"Hell yeah, chief!"

"Just what I wanted to hear!"

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Redd
Ok I accept that , not for me to dispute/discuss your motive , that's your business,

But that wasn't the point I was making anway.

The arenas seem to have a lot more late-war/ fast/high / role-playing/ survivalist/only engage with massive adv/  types of pilots than they used to.

I'll take your word for it, although my personal experience tells me otherwise. The first ones to die by my hand are always the ones that fly the most 'un-realistically' (ie: they get low and slow in whatever plane in my prescence). The last, least likely ones to die by my hand are those that are also flying to survive, that are flying smart, like Lazerus in his Ta-152 last night for example . I am more successfull as a survivalist pilot today than I was 6 months ago, or a year ago. That tells me there is little difference whatsoever in the breakdown of fighter pilot's styles over time, either that or I'm getting alot better at it in relatively short periods of time, which I find highly unlikely as long as I have been playing WW2 Combat Flight Sims.

Zazen

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Redd
Well i'm trying to do my bit for diversity Arlo

Bit of MA , bit of CT , bit of DA , if you get your PA , I'll  try that as well.

I fly a bit of TnB , bit of E-fighting , fly to survive one day , furball like crazy the next

When the f6-f's ENY'ed out of the main , Iv'e flown P40's spits , 109's it's all good.

Dammit, Redd ... you're a good man! Don't let anyone tell ya otherwise. Even John Wayne. Course he's dead ... and I doubt he'd tell ya that anyway.

I'll wing with you anyday, Maverick.

Don't ask me if I've been drinking cause here I'm a virtual officer and a virtual gentleman.