Burnt Out

[Darkish]

I know a few of you guys have been here - but have you come back.

The game is no longer the one you used to play, now full of kids fighting on 200 rather than in the sky.  The air full of cowards hoarding away boasting their apptitude and insulting anyone who dares give them a fight.

Is there a way back or have I lost this wonderfull game forever?
I guess I mean, have you had that moment sat infront of your PC and said to yourself, "Mate .... wtf are you doing!"


(Long time player, 1st time whiner)

[hubsonfire]

Yep.

[humble]

Your right, it's not the same game...or even an alternative thats half as good. But truthfuly its really all thats out there. If you go looking for the "good old days" your toast....even if you go looking for the soso present your toast.

If you simply go and take what you find you'll do OK. Simply lower your expectations to rock bottom and you'll be fine. Then when you run into those rare moments you'll enjoy them for what they are....rare moments.

[Alky]

I've only been around AH for a couple of months, played Air Warrior since the DOS version, up till the AOL experience.  I'm an old phart and maybe my memory isn't as sharp as it used to be, but I don't remember there being the amount of imature trash in the text bufferas there is in AH. There was a lot of bragging in text macros but not trash talk.
I tend to squelch a lot of the channel 200 warriors and a lot of the time turn 200 off altogether.  The most irritating thing for me is the huge amount of HO's and the continuous  vultching

[jaxxo]

The sad part is the game is fantastic..its the players that make it the way it is. Thank goodness im in a squad where 3 to one odds dont really mean much...keeps me interested.

[FiLtH]

Im not a fan of the MA. I endure the MA. I enjoy events. I ignore the idiots. Get off 200. Its either little boys trying to be men, or its men acting like little boys most of the time.

[GunnerCAF]

I have never tuned 200, and I used to squelch 1 when I couldn't ignore it.  That alone adds to my enjoyment of the game.  I have nights that I don't enjoy AH, I log and do something else.  

There are no good-ol-days.  There are days that are fun, others that are not.  Change is constant.  I believe it is what you make it.

Take a break, come back when your ready.


Gunner

[Nomak]

I certianly know the feeling.

I take breaks for 2-3 months at a time.  Then I come back all charged up and really enjoy the game.......... for about a week.  

I have no Idea what the answer is.  

IL2 is a great game...... However the action is slower paced and I can only tolerate it for so long.

I tried EQ and EQ2...........  No comment.

I am into Silent Hunter3 right now, just picked it up last night.  Time will tell how long that lasts.

The truth is that AH is buy far the best online sim available.  However I believe that once the fire is lost it can never be re-kindled.

Good Luck.... Mak

[doobs]

Originally posted by Darkish
I know a few of you guys have been here - but have you come back.

The game is no longer the one you used to play, now full of kids fighting on 200 rather than in the sky.  

(Long time player, 1st time whiner)

Don't worry school starts in 2 weeks, kids gone, happens every year.

[Kermit de frog]

Originally posted by jaxxo
The sad part is the game is fantastic..its the players that make it the way it is. Thank goodness im in a squad where 3 to one odds dont really mean much...keeps me interested.

 
You are easy to kill when you are outnumberd 2v1.

[Easyscor]

Most of the time in the MA I feel the same way but then, once in a blue moon it happens again.

I was in Filths' bomber mission Saturday night.  In a latter sortie, some of us took 109g10s for escort and a surprising thing happened.

Out over the water I find a couple of Rooks and there is only one other friendly around, one of the Rooks is in a 109, another g10 as it turned out.

It started slowly as I tested him out.  I had E on him but had no idea if I was meeting a noob or an old pro.  The friendly and the his Rook opponent soon disappeared leaving only the two of us locked in our dance.  It seemed like we fought for an hour but I never ran out of wep so 5 minutes is probably a more reasonable mark.  Neither one of us could get a guns solution and as we pushed hard, we traded advantage over and over again with long curving climbs and numerous vertical engagements.  Both of us knew better then to waste ammunition, you didn't see the usual spray of tracers from the desperate noobs, this guy was being patient and mistakes were going to be costly.  As the fight kept on, I was grinning around clenched teeth and thinking how it was the best one v one I'd had in the MA for at least a year.  I knew no mater how it ended, this was a fight that would be hard to match anytime soon.

In the end, another Rook came in and popped me.  It was a shame to because I'd made a mistake that had my opponent closing and possibly able to finally get a guns solution if I couldn't  put some distance between us.

Afterward I tuned channel 200 and exchanged thanks with the other 109 pilot, a gentleman named  chris something I think, sorry I can't remember his whole ID but I'm bad with that type of thing.  It was a great fight fought by a gentleman, not one of these kids you hear about so much.

Well done chris, and Thanks again if you're out there.

[LYNX]

Darkish mate... You gotta find, make, invent your own war now.  Sure enough the kids will be back in school soon but we're all kids at heart playing this.  

 Firstly detune 200 or only tune it in when "YOU" want to say somethink.  I call it the "bollocks" channel because 99% of tuners talk bollocks.  The only time your ever gonna get an adult conversation is when a Beta thing is on test.  If you wanna chat with a foe go private... simple, clean cut and no worries about reading "bollocks".

 As for game play "Eee lad them wut days".  Guys actually using the game as it was supposed to be used.  A simulation of a fighter pilots experience.  We all know the score and that score is increasingly "Arcade mentality" but hey... make your own rules your own war.

 I'de steer clear of the hoards because there lies madness.  Your just gonna get mad flying into 5 on 1 HOing skill-less spraying hoard monkies that don't even have the ability let alone the inclination to think " How the F*** did he do that".  Load up maxed fuel and go a hunting.....good luck chappy

Or you could go and take the piss in a spit 1

[save]

Best way to get rid of the #¤¤% crowd is to increase realism within the sim, and to
report misuse of the public radio channels.

It is very easy to do and enforce.

[Wilbus]

No the community is not the same

As for the MA, look at it the way I do. the MA is infact nothing but a TA but without ROE. TOD is what will matter once it is done (and soon I hope).

I've been there Darkish and I've come back. Only time I canceled account I stayed away for about a month and then came back. A month was enough to enjoy it again.

I also had a way too long 10 month break right after AH2 came out due to studies, didn't fly at all during that time and came back early June this year. Enjoyed it far more once I got back into it.

Keep account open, take a break, then come back in, squelch every loud mouth on channel 200 or just keep 200 turned off.
Find a good group to fly with.

I've been flying with the squadies alot lately, and it takes you to a whole new dimension, of course, flying in a group of 3-6 wingmen will always make some whiners on channel 200 scream out gangbangers and gangtards (they aren't smart enough to undertsand not to engage those odds without alt) but it is great fun, try it! Just squelch the whiners!

As for numbers... not sure where they went, used to be 700+ on prime time/weekends.

[weasel4]

Member now for 3 mos.  Had Enough.  Tired of dyeing.
Don't plan on renewing, but who knows.