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Offline E25280

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« Reply #585 on: September 18, 2006, 09:37:42 PM »
Cnuk: A28 is in deep now.
Moil:  Wow, this base is flat!
Cnuk: VH was the first thing down, should be back up in one minute.
Moil: OK, everyone get cleared up.  Meet at A28 tower.

Moil: I wouldn’t if I were you . . .

Moil:  This place is capped.  Just hang tight.
Rokit:  Why haven’t they taken the base yet?
Cnuk:  Ghi killed three goons already  . . .

Deth whoa, nasty . . .
Rifle:  How many are out there?
Moil: Gotta be fifty at least.
Rogue:  Won’t be for long . . .
Cnuk:  Thirty Seconds!
Moil:  We have everyone here?
Stud:  Just landing.

Stud:  Back.
Raptr:  ‘Bout time.
Medc: fellas.  What’s up?
Moil: Base defense, A28.
Medc: Be right there.
Rukus: Troops dead A32, bailing . . .
Rifle:  Typhies, LA-7s, Ponies, Doras . . .
Rokit:  Town looks flat from here.  Don’t see any friendlies airborne.
Moil: Copy that, Rokit.  I will need two to head for the city in case a goon gets through.
GHI:  Goon 4 dead.  Come on Bish, need help at A28.  Zone base!
Cnuk: VH UP!
Moil:  OK, GUNS UP! CLEAR THE SKIES!

Rifle: “Uh-oh!  He needed that!”
Moil: Fan out!  Keep the lead flying!
Stud: Typhie down.
Raptr:  190 dead.

Moil:  Get the Pony on the vulch!

Target: Darn assists . . .

Moil: Get the LA-7!

Cnuk: Heading to town . . .
Rifle: Following Cnuk.
Rukus: LA-7 down.
Deth: Typh diving . . . My turret’s out!
Rokit: Typh down.
Moil: Keep up the fire!


Target: I’m Down!
Medc:  Come on, 190, get some!
Rifle: He’s thinking about it . . .

Moil: Uh-oh!
Rokit: Muahahaha!
Deth: I think they’re breaking up!
Rukus:  Fighter hanger up!

Cnuk: Goon at the town! Still 1K out!

Rukus: Goon’s going to drop troops!
Target:  In on goon . . .  
Cnuk: Check 6 target!
Rukus: Typhy diving, Target!
Target: (silently counting troops exiting C-47 – one, two, three) Almost there . . . (four)
Cnuk: Break, Target!
Target: (five, six – too late for you!)



Target: (from tower) Did I get him?


Moil:  Another nice base defense, folks.  Well done.












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« Reply #586 on: September 18, 2006, 09:44:47 PM »
The last time I actually played the game was.... um.... September 16, 2006.
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« Reply #587 on: September 18, 2006, 09:51:13 PM »
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The last time I actually played the game was.... um.... September 16, 2006.
Thought you said you quit -- "News a lot of you want to hear" thread.  Sorry for misunderstanding.
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« Reply #588 on: September 18, 2006, 10:00:01 PM »
Unfortunately, he came back all too soon.

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« Reply #589 on: September 18, 2006, 10:07:01 PM »
Not to interfere with the griping you guys are doing at each other, but I'd like to gripe just a bit about the eny.  Most of the time in  Trinity map in the Mid war (I'm a Rook) we cant up a panzer because of eny.  Sure wish we could have something besides a t34 against the bombers in there and tigers on other side, let alone the panzers they get to up.
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« Reply #590 on: September 18, 2006, 10:15:33 PM »
If there was a really massive raid to the likes of ww2, you would have so many crybabies here on the forums it would boggle your mind.  (100+ planes in a single mission)
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« Reply #591 on: September 19, 2006, 12:01:17 AM »
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Thought you said you quit -- "News a lot of you want to hear" thread.  Sorry for misunderstanding.


He meant to call that thread 'I just want attention' ...

He spelled it incorrectly.
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« Reply #592 on: September 19, 2006, 12:02:43 AM »
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« Reply #593 on: September 19, 2006, 12:09:57 AM »
I quit, and then opened an account upon learning of the changes HTC made. I hadn't liked the direction the game was heading, and, upon consideration, believed the change was a good idea. Some folks said they'd cancel their accounts to show HTC they didn't like the idea. I opened one to show that I did. Sue me.
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« Reply #594 on: September 19, 2006, 01:13:11 AM »
seems alright, but alot quieter than i remember.  

is it just me or are people talking less?

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« Reply #595 on: September 19, 2006, 02:06:17 AM »
In my experience, there's a lot less talking ****, and a lot more just playing the game. it's a bit weird at first, but it's kind of nice. tonight was 2 guys pursefighting for an hour, rosco offering tips to guys getting shot down, a few guys asking questions, a few logical replies, then more blessed silence. I suppose as people break the ice, the rest will warm up, but I have to say, it's a refreshing change from the norm, at least in the EWA.
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« Reply #596 on: September 19, 2006, 07:47:24 AM »
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In my experience, there's a lot less talking ****, and a lot more just playing the game. it's a bit weird at first, but it's kind of nice. tonight was 2 guys pursefighting for an hour, rosco offering tips to guys getting shot down, a few guys asking questions, a few logical replies, then more blessed silence. I suppose as people break the ice, the rest will warm up, but I have to say, it's a refreshing change from the norm, at least in the EWA.
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« Reply #597 on: September 19, 2006, 07:52:30 AM »
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In my experience, there's a lot less talking ****, and a lot more just playing the game. it's a bit weird at first, but it's kind of nice. tonight was 2 guys pursefighting for an hour, rosco offering tips to guys getting shot down, a few guys asking questions, a few logical replies, then more blessed silence. I suppose as people break the ice, the rest will warm up, but I have to say, it's a refreshing change from the norm, at least in the EWA.


I agree, I think it is because the fights are more skill-based and involved, when you get shot down it's usually not because you got cherry-picked or BnZ'ed at 500+ mph.  It's more of a SA based fight than an ACM fight in the EWA.  Doesn't mean I'm any good at either though ;)

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« Reply #598 on: September 19, 2006, 07:58:38 AM »
Well, I do understand your running a bussiness and we are playing a game,is it the screwed up eny's that don't allow me to take out a panzer at times,is it the small boring maps that i have always hated, is it the 3 main arenas (main?), is it the communication difficultys, or am i just bored.
 i will admit that change and i don't get on well, but so far this just isn't fun.Seems the more players the more fun,might i suggest that rather then early, mid and late war arenas, you set up fighter freindly and gv freindly arenas, add new gv's, add new bombers, fighters,put a pilot rescue mode in gv's add a rescue plane add an infantry squad that can auto attack gv's,placed at towns or where ever let them last on the ground like supplys do for a given period of time.
 there are alot of things you can do to keep it fresh.and to grow.Have a european ,pacific arenas with only those plane which went aganst each other.
 increase the player numbers to each arena,add feachers to new arenas not available in others,i know these are growing pains,everyone has an opinion,but i haven't heard anyone in any arena say "oh golly this is great" i have heard alot,most griping about it,thats not good.
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« Reply #599 on: September 19, 2006, 08:18:33 AM »
raider..  I have never seen you in the game so you must go by something other than raider179...

But... I seriously doubt that you fly "alone" to attack the horde  And if you fly at all by yourself I doubt that you do it in anything less than a spit 16 or lala...

I also flew in the MA so don't blow smoke... the whordes did not fight each other... they avoided each other....  30-50 guys in the whorde all milkrunning fields in planes that could do it with 5 or 6...  runway diving in planes that the ack couldn't hit because they were too fast...  They didn't attack other whordes and everyone knows it..  the first thing they want down in the radar so they can sneak all those guys into an undefended base... if they ever were to meet any opposition they would be slaughtered and you know it.

slum behavior...  gameing the game.... the limit for squads was 32 but the griefers had to game it... had to figure out a way to whorde fields with 90 of their closest mouse weilding friends and lovers...  now you are crying because you forced a fix.  A fix for behavior that only a small percentage of people approved of.

You have stated what you like to do and it makes it impossible for a new person to enjoy this game or... anyone who like air combat sims.  

I would say that more people in the mega squads than you know will be dropping out when they see how fun real gameplay can be...  I would say that they are populating the LW arena because they are forced to be by squad affiliation...

the mega squads are bad for the game.   They are bad for the players and the gameplay and my guess is... they were beggining to impact HTC's bussines.   Now, they think that they can bully things back the way they were the same way they take undefended fields.

The mega squads had/have no real purpose other than to grief the game...  

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