Whats a \\\"Mega Squad\\\"?

[Slash27]

Originally posted by hubsonfire
I would think that any squadrons pretending to be a single unit, while having to creatively work around the existing squad structure, could be considered mega-squads.

You guys, the CH's, the WoT, the BoPs, etc etc

If the actions of the "Mega-Squad" include the milkrunning, non-fighting, furball ruining hoarde. Then that aint us and never was. Ask your boy Grits about us. He was there when it started and when we had a little growth spurt. Ive not been on to see any of the other mentioned squads taking part in this so I will have to reserve my judgement on them till I see whats up for myself. If people want to lable us a "Mega Squad" then what the hell ever. I say we dont fit the criteria.

[E25280]

Originally posted by MOIL
I still play this game for the hot chicks!!!

Hate to tell you moil . . . That is neither "hot" nor a "chick."


But, if that is what you play for, have at it.

[hubsonfire]

Originally posted by belethch
you forgot the un-forgivin, 31st, and 96 delta's group, and i'm sure there are alot more. [/B]

Ah, yes, thank you. I could only come up with a few of the more recognizable bunches.

And Slash, before you get too wound up, look at what my criteria are. By those same definitions, I've been in 3 squads that meet them. I'm just attempting to explain what it means to me. At one point, I wanted the squad limits higher. At this point, I think that some people are substituting their squad for the community at large, and I think that means more friction on down the line. At some point, the entire community wasn't any bigger than any 3 "mega squads" of the current days. At some point, everyone knew pretty much everyone else; nowadays, people can't even name all their squaddies. What's that say about the community as a whole?

[Slash27]

Not wound up at all hub. If it came across that way its wasnt on purpose,some of it was more of a general statement than just a response to you. Also dont think Im not in agrement with you on alot of points.


 I have talked to Bear and some others about how some squads have taken to milking empty arenas and I didnt want to be the HAs thought of like them. Being that we dont do that maybe I shouldnt have started this thread in the first place. I dont get how rolling up bases with out a fight would be entertaining, or mobbing an arena with low numbers for that matter. I just cant see paying $15 month after month for that kind of fun.
 
 From my point of view I felt I needed to get out there something about my guys. If it helps good, if not then oh well.

[indy007]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
well i hate pulling the score card out but...you have a fiter k/d ratio of 1.1 and a attack k/d of .7

If I wanted a high k/d, I'd stop flying zekes, upping into vulches, fighting until I was out of gas, and find my own vulch to attend. Posting a high score is alot easier than doing the pure furballing thing. Takes less effort & there's more opportunity for it now with the small pop arenas. A good fight is hard to find I know, because I've done both... and I'm not unique in that regard... at all. On top of all that, I have to cram in as much fighting as I possibly can in my hour or 2 a day before my WoW guild comes off of vacation and goes back to 3 a week 40man raids.. time on that clock is running out

Plus, I never pulled out total k/d's. It's irrelevant. I pulled out individual stats against a particular player in the only engagement I've ever fought with them, with the odds ridiculously stacked against me.

You most definately have to have some sort of sales job.... or you're a talking head pundit... or you've had too much exposure to Lazs....

You're just upset because I said you have lemmings. To me, that's hysterical, because I'm a lemming too. I just aim for fighters that are already in the air, get shot, rinse & repeat. I choose not to play in easy mode, y'all do, big deal.... just accept who you really are

[FALCONWING]

deep breath indy and reread your posts...i didnt start with you though i am always ready to finish

you posted comments meant to be derogatory but had to distort the facts in an effort to "shame" guys into "playing your way".

lets do a "what if?"  

what if bops hadnt upped a vulched base and saved it?

lets see then either:

1) the base would have been taken without a fight
2) you could have padded your score vulching

im guessing that those were the results you wanted...why else have a cv parked off the last bish base before the main island?

and if we hadnt killed the cv by deacking it and then sinking it then:

1) we could have died in cv ack
2) been overrun by lvts since you guys had kilt ord and vh

so your style of gameplay prefers lopsided fights, base capture and forcing the enemy into inferior fights

hey maybe you are a l33t furballer after all!!!

you also brought up a guys ability to fight you...obviously without considering that then your own abilities would be brought up which would show you NEED the loopsided fights to be successful.

PAWNED!!!!!:lol   and QUAAHHHHH!:aok

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by indy007
If I wanted a high k/d, I'd stop flying zekes, upping into vulches, fighting until I was out of gas, and find my own vulch to attend.

Agreed.  Stats are a pretty poor means of assessing competence.

- oldman

[FALCONWING]

Originally posted by Oldman731
Agreed.  Stats are a pretty poor means of assessing competence.

- oldman

im pretty sure in this case they are accurate:D

[doc1kelley]

Originally posted by 1Boner
Lazs resorting to name calling again??---how un-lazlike.   if you elitist furballing dweebs would expend as much hot air lobbying hi-tech for a fighter town only arena as you did in this forum , we all might get our wish ----making each other disapear------as usual laz and crews' insightful and one sided arguments and name calling (they will reach puberty some day)  has provided us all with literally hours and hours of comedic entertainment.  go blow your horns at ht ---we get the picture already!!!--lobby for your little 100 cap fighter only map and stfu !!!!

peace gentledweebs----your buddy boner

Boner, the reason why he doesn't is because he will not have enough people to fight when he wants to fight.  Sure their are a lot of folks who just want to furball but not enough folks just want to furball all the frigging time.  He and his like minded folks want to force us all to just furball and be done with anything else.  It's play HIS way and not YOUR way.  I've always advocated protected fightertown and tanktown parts of the map but HT apparently has decided that we should be forced to all play one way or not at all or at a crippled play to herd us to the furballers way.  Actually, it's to break us all in for CT and I've stated from day one that I have no interest in CT, I can do that offline in many other games.  

All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1

[doc1kelley]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
well i hate pulling the score card out but...you have a fiter k/d ratio of 1.1 and a attack k/d of .7...this means you dont even kill 1 enemy per death...this is of course confirmed by the fact that your kill/sortie is actually less then .8 on both attack and fiter.  yes i would agree with the "im a crappy furballer" comment.

i do believe however that you do represent the skill level of many of the "furballers" so dont be ashamed...you are still l33t because you say so!!!

i can also see why killing two guys attacking a cv in a sortie would leave you proud and good for ya bud!!! you are awesome!!! also i like that you were "cherry picked" while flying in cv ack...hehhehe...huh?

and the "quah" thing is top secret so dont try googling it mister:p   only the "real" masters know how powerful a weapon it is:t

NO Falc!  You are pulling a Laz in pulling out the worthless k/d ratio and score crap.  Don't embrace the dark side of the force.  Take two valiums and call me in the morning before responding to this BS.  You are my CO but I have to call ya out on this one!  We can't stoop to the level of the Laz.  Everybody knows that "Quah" is a trademark of a BOP from a long long time ago in a game far far away.

All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1

[indy007]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
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I have 0 vulches this month. I actually let people takeoff and leave the ack cover. I'm not scared of a fighter going 15mph. I'm not concerned letting it up will cripple the capture attempt I'm not even making. I go as far as to plead with people on my own side on range vox to let people takeoff so they can actually fight. On top of that, I switch sides in the middle of fights when it does become lopsided. If I wanted a high score, I would have one. Score is the easiest thing in this game to get. My time is too limited to bother, and there's other games where I can game the game as hard as I want, and actually have significant financial motivations to do so (WoW in particular).

If you really insist on that's how I play, post some videos of me doing it. According to you, won't be hard, just look for the biggest horde or vulch where I'm padding my score.

[Donzo]

Originally posted by indy007
I have 0 vulches this month.

I must have missed the "Vulches per sortie" category on the scoring page.

Do you track this information manually?

[Quah!]

Boner, the reason why he doesn't is because he will not have enough people to fight when he wants to fight. Sure their are a lot of folks who just want to furball but not enough folks just want to furball all the frigging time. He and his like minded folks want to force us all to just furball and be done with anything else. It's play HIS way and not YOUR way. I've always advocated protected fightertown and tanktown parts of the map but HT apparently has decided that we should be forced to all play one way or not at all or at a crippled play to herd us to the furballers way. Actually, it's to break us all in for CT and I've stated from day one that I have no interest in CT, I can do that offline in many other games.

Boy that is some twisting going on there.  You better sit down after all that spinning.

As an outsider usually only reading, I have found prior to the change that the likes of Laz and his ilk have actually been accused of too much lobbying for FT.  So I guess the pretty much exposes this.

And BTW FT was always full all the time.

And every thread that I read only stated they wanted a place to find a fight and that they could care less about the strat guys and how they played.  I have seen Laz post that a number of times.

Now the only thing you have gotten right is that HT is getting his community ready for CT.  No squads, more strat based and hopefully pitting the groups against each other rather than what the strat and its players is today, which is opposing groups running away from each other.

What is complete funny throughout this BBs is that the strat minded have not lost anything except card blanch on the milk running and hording, due to lower numbers in the arenas.

So you can only up missions of 30 guys rather than 60 or more LOLH.  And all the people complaining about not being able to move their squad between the two LW arenas, really have a problem with membership, following instructions and the gaming the sqd limits.

[FALCONWING]

sounds like you need to do more reading:lol

BoPs are doing fine and the guys quitting are not members of large squads..it is the smaller squads who have fewer numbers that are suffering the most it seems...

and no one with a "megasquad" has ever posted that furballing should be banned....

most of the responses here are to the "do it my way or you suck" attitude reemphasized in post after post by lazs and crew....

you embarrass the Quah! poser!!!!

[indy007]

Originally posted by Donzo
I must have missed the "Vulches per sortie" category on the scoring page.

Do you track this information manually?

Simple logic. If you don't dive on a runway and vulch... how do you have any?