HiTech: PLEASE change the total BS 5" puffy rubbish

[Stang]

Do you ever sleep Bat?

I think he is a troll programmed by HTC to talk bad about AH and fly dweebfires into hordes

[mechanic]

i sleep alot but generally for too long at the wrong times.

[Suave]

Don't fly around enemy ships, they have radar and guns that will shoot at you.

[Morpheus]

I think its a bit ironic that we're paying to be killed by a computer when it could be done just as easily off line.

With that being said, 88AI ack SHOULD be made so that it is only fireing when it is manned.

Again, if i wanted to be killed by a computer, i'd play off line and play in the ack.

The fact that its a computer that's killing us... Just doesnt seem right.

my 2cents.

Edit: and I dont play inside CV ack. I'm talking in regards to that 88mm puff ack that will follow you more than a half a sector away from an nme base and then zero in and lay a nice can of HE in your skull.

[Edbert1]

Thats the key for me Morph, the amazing range of the otto-puffy. While the range may be historically and ballistically accurate, I think it is completely unrealistic to have multiple batteries of 88mm following a lone fighter that is not even approaching the target. If we want to be historical they should fire a wall of burts ahead of and above your flight path, like they did against the buff streams.

I don't mind having otto, it keeps the milkrunning to a dull roar. But like you said once the puffy stuff starts shooting at you it will follow you for 10 miles, while closer contact are readilly available to it. I've been egressing at 4K and had it follow me while buffs are approaching unmolested. Dip below 3K to make it stop and fly another 5 miles away, then climb to 3500 feet and it starts wailing away at you again, ignoring folks who are actually attacking the target it is supposed to defend. Don't even think about how it can fire and track you through the terrain (gullies and mountains).

[Morpheus]

Oh you have a sparkly Avatard! ima gonna steal that chit!

[Jackal1]

Hee. Take a closer look Morph ya chigger flicker.

[Morpheus]

i dont have sparkle effect wtf

[Edbert1]

Originally posted by Morpheus
i dont have sparkle effect wtf

You didn't get the memo? Rut roh raggy!





I can't remember who I stole the avatard from, I think it might have been Icer or Slapshot, they were posting in the convention thread. I don't know why it aint working for you mate.

[Morpheus]

Just you wait!

Im gonna have the most sparklyestest  avadard BLING BLING chigga evar!:mad:

[Schutt]

Then please have cvs at least 6 miles off shore.
Being shot off your own runway from an enemy cv is a joke.

[dedalos]

Originally posted by hubsonfire
You were flying a light fighter over the same fleet under attack by your squaddies. When someone took off to intercept those attackers, you would engage the would-be interceptors. Is that not escorting or running interference?

The problem isn't how the ack is modelled, or how its put to use.
The problem is that you keep flying into it, and its shoots you down. That is, as far as I know, exactly how it's supposed to work.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but the easiest way to avoid the 5" fire is to stay away from it. Flying within 4k of a cv group with all defensive guns manned, you will eventually get snuffed.

Sorry if my post was abrasive, but I was in a fairly bad mood, and having seen all the ack whines, then seeing you flying 3.5-4k out from a CV with all guns blazing, I thought I'd call BS as well.

I don't remember engaging you, so I don;t understand how you saw me.  But in anycase.  If I was flying cover for the buffs, I would tell you, and I would not be complaining.  I think I saw our buffs once and they were 3K above me.  When the CV is withing 8K - 10K from a base, the only way to stay out of dweeb range is to fly over my field and hide in the ack.  Or maybe just sit on the runway so your squad can rack up kills like they usually do right?

[hubsonfire]

I was in a 5" manned gun, saw a low P40. "I think that's dedalos guys". call comes back on squad vox " it is, he just got me".

Again, the story and the reality don't match. the cv in question was adjacent to our base, 25mi as the crow flies to the nearest knit base, (think we had 200 and were defending the cv. i'd have to check the map to be 100% sure). anyway, we weren't attacking anything, we were defending against USgrim, USHwk1, and Airbat who tried repeatedly to sink the cv with b26s, p47s, ju88s, a typhoon and a p38 or 2. You prolly couldn't see them due to the thick black smoke caused by the barrage of ack being thrown your way.

don't drag the rest of my squad into this. every post that contains the words 'ack' or 'cv' seems to turn into a heartwrenching tale of how you were stricken down doing something stupid, but its invariably never your fault. its super ack bs, or skillless dweebs, or it hit you well out of icon range, etc etc. there is zero point even discussing this with you.

Fk this, I'm done with this thread.

[x0847Marine]

Originally posted by dedalos
This time I have a film of the guy hitting me beyond icon range.  He is actually laughing in 200 about it.

Hey Mechanic, 1$ says someone will call BS on you.

Levi, its not about being worked up.  Its about the action being BS.  I for one cannot really see a CV when 6K out.  It would sound more 'historically accurate' if damage was inflicted to friendly also.  

'historically accurate'?, this is the fiction arena where P47s et al fight eachother... realism?

[Howitzer]

Or maybe just sit on the runway so your squad can rack up kills like they usually do right?

Ahem.....  I think an apology is in order dedalos!!!!


That last dude had his wheels up thank you very much!