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Offline Arlo

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« Reply #285 on: September 07, 2004, 07:30:03 PM »
I'll stand by to catch them before any possible forum rules violation eats them. Pics is good.:cool:

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« Reply #286 on: September 07, 2004, 07:38:06 PM »
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Yeah, where at?


On the Mighty Mississippi  :)   It was a beautiful day for boating.  plenty of bikini babes around.    

Back to this Thread...

Here I am challanged to Think big Picture and I come up with a Win, Win situation and I dont even get a ataboy!    

Well,  I aint sharing any good Wisconsin beer then.   ;)

Change your squadnight.  

Still Fly for your favorite country
Help balance the numbers
Have a small chance of being unable to fly your favorite ride.  

OK,  Where is my cookie  ;)

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« Reply #287 on: September 07, 2004, 07:40:02 PM »
I gotta say ... ATTABOY, GRIMM!

(GOOD Wisconsin beer, you say?) :D

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« Reply #288 on: September 07, 2004, 07:44:58 PM »
OK,  Arlo you can have some.

Try some Leinenkugel's brewed in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin (by 73 people that care)  

or  Maybe some City Lager brewed in LaCrossse WI by City brewery  (formerly G. Heilemen Brewery)

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« Reply #289 on: September 07, 2004, 07:48:05 PM »
Imported beer! Cool!

(Geez ... I thought you was actually gonna give me a beer, dammit! Not just give me some recommendations!)

Heh

:D

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« Reply #290 on: September 07, 2004, 08:20:23 PM »
Schedule of perk costs for each and every plane with an eny of less the 30 as well as giving each account free 300 perks and allowing noobies a free ride in perkies for say 3 to 6 months

This then makes it cost to fly good planes and even things out a little, maybe

Now other point,  The whining.. well lets not diminish the fact the rook horde are like roaches in a wet cabinet full of food, J but that is a given and in keeping with Chi’s law … Don’t get made GET EVEN which means the Knight should go an massive HQ pork raids and Area porking of troops, vh’s DAR and the like.  That can be done even if out numbered 3 to1… the point is, take the fight to the enemy.  It can be done..


Also,  a point to zazen.. your augments are lame… it’s not your game… its HT’s  game and he runs it as he see’s fit.  Now if you like how he runs the show, then pay the man his dough, but if you don’t like what he’s is doing,  well, we live in America, and one of the ways you reward a bad product is voting with you wallet.   There are two other Online combat Flight sims I know of and we all know were they are and what we can do if we don’t like HT’s Aces High world..

Now, if HT is smart he will make attempts to answer questions and try to keep happy most of the patrons of his game and keep their business at HT’s flight sim shop

Now for me I’m basically happy with the way things are.  I think HT could do better to change the perk system a little in order to impose some virtual cost to some of the late war top end planes and to refine the Flight model and other improvements.   But as the game stands it would seem to me he’s doing OK.

Now to my last point and basically a pet peeve with HT and bear it in mind I know HT don’t have to listen to me or ever care what I say but this is a discussion forum and this thought been on my mind and bugging me for awhile so I throw it out.  It’s the issue of cheating.  I fully understand that HT is trying to protect the integrity of the game and I appreciate it .  But don’t insult the intelligences of people, many of whom the play the game work in the computer industry, ( I my self am a MS system admin) and the blanket statement that “there is no cheating.” It is not true.  There is cheating, not very much of it but there is some and I have played this combat flight sim long enough (AH for about year now) to have seen evidence of it from time to time.  Any game can be hacked, and to deny it can’t be done when it can be done is insulting (to HT… I can email you privately with an overview of how it can be done. Bear in mind, though I’m not a coder and the execution of the concept would take a little work but the concept is simple enough and given the stakes and emotions tied up in the game sometimes I know can be done ).  Now my point is not to bash HT.  On the contrary, I think, for the most part, this game gives me a great deal of pleasure and bang for the buck, and I salute and compliment HT for his vision.  But I only bring this up as it would help my sense of right and wrong if HT would publish a black list of cheaters that have been caught.  This would do two things, one, it will show HT is really watching for cheaters and punishing these low life slugs as it is appropriate.  And second it would show more respect for the community at large that he is truly protecting the integrity of the game.
Some much for my ramblings and my 2 cents in the game

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« Reply #291 on: September 07, 2004, 10:04:16 PM »
Man a good thread shot to He** stand-by mother of all locks to hit this one real soon!:eek:
You dragged the dead horse into the yard and handed out the bats, sir.

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« Reply #292 on: September 07, 2004, 10:08:08 PM »
In HT's good time, I'm sure. Hell, it's gone 6 pages while other threads got arrested in 6 postings.

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« Reply #293 on: September 07, 2004, 10:24:44 PM »
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Lets see.....eny limiter is suppose to force me to either switch sides or log off in frustration. Hmmm since I'm not going to do either, apparently it isnt working.



The ENY limiter isnt there to *force* you into doing anything. It's there to help maintain game balance. Players won't even the sides, so HiTech had to do something.

Changing sides is really no big deal, I have flown for all 3 countries in AH now. There are good people on all 3 teams. The first time I changed countries was from Bishop to Rook when Rookland ALWAYS had the least numbers. Shortly after I changed sides many others did too. I waited for a time before changing again to see if some of the others who had changed also would change back. That didnt happen so I changed again.

Just a thought.....if more people were concerned with keeping the numbers even HiTech wouldnt have had to implement the ENY limter.
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #294 on: September 07, 2004, 10:32:24 PM »
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Try thinking harder Zazen -

I know our squad and the AKs just to name a few, switched, then left AFTER the numbers swung the other way. So that makes at least 4 now, doesnt it, and I know theres more out there.
So please give some credit where credit is due, enough of this superior organization self ego stroking, without help you may well would still be in the bucket.

Any other squads who switched care to chime in here?

Re-read your post about your squad going from Bish to Rook Goobman. What was wrong with Knits?
Instead of helping the problem, you became part of the problem.


Armageddon moved to Rooks, but has since moved to Knights and merged with the +Nomads+
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #295 on: September 07, 2004, 10:59:45 PM »
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There's no need to 'hard-code' solutions to gameplay player balance issues. Players balance themselves over time. The economics of finding good fights and human nature will alone achieve balance if left unmolested. When you start monkey'ing with individual freedom of choice and emotional attachements between friends you're playing with fire. HTC has the good fortune of being able to look back at a rich history of massively multi-player WW2  Combat Flight simulation's trials and tribulations when making game design decisions. HTC knows full well Airwarrior existed 3 times as long as AH has with the same population demographic just on a larger scale and was balanced perfectly for that entire duration by simply allowing complete and total individual freedom of choice. It works, it's been proven, why HTC chose to mess with something as fundamental as this when it works fine on its own if you are patient and allow it to naturally unfold is unfathomable.

Zazen



I played AirWarrior for a long long time. I played in every arena and for every team at one point or another. Every single arena had a team that consistentely had more numbers than the other 2....withhout exception.

I also recall people asking Gamestorm to do *something* about the numbers imbalance repeatedly. GS  choose to do nothing.
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #296 on: September 07, 2004, 11:44:53 PM »
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Originally posted by Vad
Don't like 9/11?

Solution: switch sides.


That was a completely inappropriate post imo, over 3000 INNOCENT people died that day.
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #297 on: September 08, 2004, 03:19:39 AM »
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Man a good thread shot to He** stand-by mother of all locks to hit this one real soon!:eek:


I think Chi posted that message just to lock the thread.  Glad his plan hasn't worked, so far.  :)

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« Reply #298 on: September 08, 2004, 06:33:22 AM »
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Wow, and while all this was going on I was surrounded by hot chics at the river.
 


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« Reply #299 on: September 08, 2004, 08:57:22 AM »
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