Author Topic: Loose Cannons - and the future of Aces High (Read 28635 times)

Zazen13 · « **Reply #300 on:** April 04, 2006, 06:46:22 PM »

HiTech himself was an Air Warrior. So, tread carefully...

Zazen

yayyyy · « **Reply #301 on:** April 04, 2006, 06:50:58 PM »

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #302 on:** April 04, 2006, 06:56:14 PM »

Not PC at all. Any product can fail for a wide range of reasons. You make the blanket statement that since AW is no longer running it sucked, and that if it were running today it'd suck (I'm paraphrasing here). Well, maybe. But a lot of great products fail through no fault of the product or the people who built it or used it.

If AW was running today under the Iron First of EA ... it'd suck donkey balls through a twisty straw. What wouldn't? But if some one else had bought it years ago and given that team the freedom and funding to do the things they wanted, it'd give AH some real competition. Whether there's enough player base to accomodate two such games is yet another side of the discussion.

-DoK

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #303 on:** April 04, 2006, 06:57:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Zazen13
HiTech himself was an Air Warrior. So, tread carefully...

Pyro too.

And it actually goes deeper than that they just played the game.

Hoarach · « **Reply #304 on:** April 04, 2006, 08:38:34 PM »

Starting to lose the topic of this thread.

In AW people were much more into the furball mood and buffs were not as common or make such nuisance when playing it. Now buffs can march in at 25k unopposed and just wipe out a base and destroy furballs. Especially those that hunt out the furballs.

Just for notice, you LCA notice how many squads are leaving rooks just to hunt you? From what Im gathering is that many rooks do not like and are leaving rooks just to hunt you. You people wont last long now in the virtual skies with all these squads leaving just to hunt you and by hunt we mean hunt. We have people on knights just looking at the slightest sight of a single LCA member and we all migrate to the surrounding bases just to kill you. Shows how much wubbing their is for this squad now.

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #305 on:** April 04, 2006, 08:59:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Hoarach
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Just for notice, you LCA notice how many squads are leaving rooks just to hunt you? From what Im gathering is that many rooks do not like and are leaving rooks just to hunt you. You people wont last long now in the virtual skies with all these squads leaving just to hunt you and by hunt we mean hunt. We have people on knights just looking at the slightest sight of a single LCA member and we all migrate to the surrounding bases just to kill you. Shows how much wubbing their is for this squad now.

Yeah ... and I can't wait to see you jerkwads turn on each other when Knit-land becomes a Horde. Who will become "you people" next?

After all the whining about greifers and "ruining the game," what's your response - to set up an organized campaign to ruin the game for a specific group of people. Yeah, you're so much more evolved.

I do so loathe liars and hypocrites.

Hoarach · « **Reply #306 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:02:45 PM »

Liars?!?!!? You could only hope.

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #307 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:08:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Hoarach
Liars?!?!!? You could only hope.

Half your crap about "they do this" and "they had all these planes" is a lie. I know I've said at least 3 or 4 times that rarely does an LCA mission have more than 12-16 people join it unless its something quirky. But you and your chums keep saying otherwise - saying something that isn't true is called a lie.

Simaril · « **Reply #308 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:12:37 PM »

Gotta say, though, that the "hate the horde" justification runs a little thin after flying tonite.

Seems that now the Nits are hording, serially gang banging, dropping a bases hangars and then abandoning the attack, upping endless buffs, and doing some truly impressive alt monkeying. (In frustration, I climbed alone to 23K to try to get above the steady stream of 4-5 nits at a time coming into 21. Ther were guys even higher, including a 27K pony who I got to blow his E advantage....so he could run bak to the swarm for safety.)

Basically, everything that many posters claimed was the reason for migration.

Of course, the LCA remains rook, and I gather that ....personality conflicts....may have been a good aprt of why some left. Also, the rooks probably deserve some paybvack after significant numbers of them horded in triumph for weeks.

Just hope the balance returns to the force. I play for fun, and tonite was no fun at all for a mediocre to poor fighter pilot like me. I kept upping against the numbers, I didnt play "safe", I tried to learn. But, it does get really old dying to dweebs who happen to travel in packs....

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #309 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:22:25 PM »

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Gotta say, though, that the "hate the horde" justification runs a little thin after flying tonite.

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Damn ... I called it, didn't I?

And Sim ... I'm pretty sure I've flown with you on Rooks and you are quite removed from "mediocre" ... knock it off.

AKWarp · « **Reply #310 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:35:09 PM »

Seems like Simaril has his head screwed on right and isn't a whiny little prima donna like so many around these parts.

It's so nice to see that after having been gone for a year or so, that nothing has changed around here. A few loud mouthed fools whining about anyhting and everything.

killnu · « **Reply #311 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:35:57 PM »

sim, i was on when you said that about 21...looked at dar and knits still there, they didnt leave it. and that was to keep the hi help from 21 going to 22, which we took.

as far as number swing, when a 30+ person squad moves, and a few other squads move, numbers are gonna swing. since the swing, rooks are going to see what it was like to be outnumbered. since i flew rooks, i know what that was like.

as far as the alt thing, guess that goes to all countries...we was getting bounced all night by rooks 20k+, heck, some even admitted to 30k+. when i say we, mean my squad. that was at the 21-22 area as well.

not sayin what you have seen isnt true, just saying things will change when large number of people switch. i went rook year or 2 ago when they was in the crapper numbers wise and flew with them for awhile now when they have had the numbers adv. got bored with it and switched to side with lower numbers, typically. its changed some rather quick tho.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #312 on:** April 04, 2006, 10:05:45 PM »

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Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Yeah ... and I can't wait to see you jerkwads turn on each other when Knit-land becomes a Horde. Who will become "you people" next?

After all the whining about greifers and "ruining the game," what's your response - to set up an organized campaign to ruin the game for a specific group of people. Yeah, you're so much more evolved.

I do so loathe liars and hypocrites.

Dok, I hope you are kidding by what you just said, or I hope it's all part of your effort to bring 'hate' into the game. I sure remember hearing about your part in bringing it to AW etc.

Personally I can't take any of it seriously but considering you are supporting the land grab crowd in this and are apparently one of the organizers, I'd think you'd be pleased that those of us who'd otherwise be fighting each other in FT have come out of our 'pointless' little corner of AH and are fighting back.

To quote one of the AW 'legends' many of us were 'raised on" in that sim:

"Aw hell....It's still very basic: See it, hate it, hunt it, kill it. You guys make every thing sound so friggin complicated."

So in the end we're just practicing what you preached.

anRky · « **Reply #313 on:** April 05, 2006, 12:46:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
It's pretty much AW now.

I wish it was pretty much AW now! There is so much I like about the game itself, but the atmosphere of this place (especially the MA) leaves far too much to be desired.

However, I did have fun in the latest scenario frame--it reminded me a lot of why I liked AW--and it may just keep me hanging around here a bit longer.

Now, if there was only a permanant fightertown... : )

DamnedRen · « **Reply #314 on:** April 05, 2006, 12:46:16 AM »

It seems amazing to me that all of a sudden there are squads that have migrated to the Knits from Rookland.
What's more amazing is that the squads that migrated aren't flying at 30k anymore. What's up with that?
I mean most of the rooks still fly in the stratosphere, which is fine by me as they still have to come down to die.

But.....the most amazing thing is we still couldn't take a field if one of the other countries bombed their own field and town and drove our GV in and dropped off the troops.

However, imagine how much fun everyone would have if they just took every field in sight. None!

IMHO a dogfight is like a game of chess...but really fast. You make a move, he counters. At 300 mph! There's a million moves and a million counters. WOW! Why? Because its some gomer out here facing you and not a computer program. How fun is that! And you guys all whine about a lil buffluff'n and such. Have fun and do whatever it is ya wanna do. I'll never get in yer way. I might shoot ya down from time to time but hey! It's what I do.

Opps, almost forgot. Bombing is more like checkers. Doh! I tink I'll jump there. KING ME!!!
I mean we still have enough Kings....err generals to go around. Don't we?

See ya up there!