Unhealthy Environment?

[Mugzeee]

Originally posted by NoBaddy
...and you would rather just ignore it and let the patient die. Yah...that makes a lot of sense.

Let em die without wasting 5 years of treatment with endless hours upon hours in the hospital makin some rich bastage of a doctor a million$

Simply to prolong the pain and spend the next 5 years dying while experiencing all the pain of the side effects the treament is causing as opposed to the pain of the desiese?

umm Yes.  

[NoBaddy]

Originally posted by Mugzeee
Let em die without wasting 5 years of treatment with endless hours upon hours in the hospital makin some rich bastage of a doctor a million$

Simply to prolong the pain and spend the next 5 years dying while experiencing all the pain of the side effects the treament is causing as opposed to the pain of the desiese?

umm Yes.  

...and if the disease is only terminal if left untreated? Heaven forbid that someone actually get paid for trying to save a life.

[Mugzeee]

Originally posted by NoBaddy
...and if the disease is only terminal if left untreated? Heaven forbid that someone actually get paid for trying to save a life.

Well...thats the clincher in nearly every case isn't it?

My dads cancer was "treatable"
He died a year later.

So the question is, is it treatable?
The answer is much different depending on which side of the fence you are on.

BTW..this is fun Dialouge.

I in no way blame the Doctors/Medical field for my Dads death.

Neither would he.

But I bet they are glad they talked him into the treatment.

I know my Mother regrets it now.

BTW this is bordering getting way off topic and silly...Better end it now..

NB..was interesting.

[The Fugitive]

Originally posted by 1Boner
remember that the registered date is the date we all registered for the
1st time on these boards.

not how long we have been playing the game!!!!!!!!

i,ve been playing in the ma arena for over 2 years.

played in h2h for about a year before that.

yes, i,m still a noob, compared too alot of guys in here



                                                                          still suckin my thumb,

                                                                                   Boner:aok

ya I understand that the date is for the BBS. I've been flying here since Oct 01....jeez has it been that long?  So ya you've never seen what the game was really like, back when it was a blast EVERY time you logged on. There was much less crap than there is today. Too many people looking for the short cuts instead of learning to fly and fight. No more "honor" for a better way of saying it.

However, like Guppy said its starting to come back around. Saluting players after a fight, chatting across countries, even meeting up with an enemy at a grid point to fly a little 1 on 1. Its getting there and the fun is coming back more often when I log on. Not so many frustrating night looking at a "no win" fight.

[NoBaddy]

Originally posted by Mugzeee
Well...thats the clincher in nearly every case isn't it?

My dads cancer was "treatable"
He died a year later.

So the question is, is it treatable?
The answer is much different depending on which side of the fence you are on.

BTW..this is fun Dialouge.

I in no way blame the Doctors/Medical field for my Dads death.

Neither would he.

But I bet they are glad they talked him into the treatment.

I know my Mother regrets it now.

BTW this is bordering getting way off topic and silly...Better end it now..

NB..was interesting.

Lost mine to heart problems 2 years ago next month. The last surgery he had was a long shot at best. But, it was the only chance he had. I do know about "desperate measures" and I believe the arena changes were not desperate...just needed.

...and bakatcha on the .

[FrodeMk3]

Hmmm......

Based upon the replies so far, It seems that we can draw a few conclusions.

AH, With all of it's different features, appeals to a wide range of players. There are those whose interest lies in Air to Air combat. Then, there are those who like the team-oriented style of play. You have those who have more of an interest in MMOG tank battles(which there are not so many on the Web, believe it or not, at least on the scale of AH). And, you have many who like the Strategic aspects of the game.

     We can judge, that do to the conflicts that all the different styles of gameplay, And do to the competive nature of the game, Somebody's always gonna be unhappy.

And the real clincher is, you will have somebody laughing and gloating over someone else's misfortune.

     And since this is basic human nature...The only solution that would be "Healthy", is to make everyone a winner.

I agree with Apeking, as to his posted reply. It's proven true by all the "WTG"'s and attaboys that people get when the system message saying what kills landed and when pop up on the buffer.

NoBaddy Hit upon something, that kind of struck a chord in me. An influx of PC gamers, that would'nt know Richard Bong or Gunther Rall from Captain Kangaroo, have started to appear on the scene. True, some become history as the 2-week trial runs out...A few stay on. But does The Unreal Tournament mentality stay as well? What do we do, say, "Sure, come play AH, But before we let you online, answer me these questions three!"

1. What, Is your name?

2. What, is your quest?

3. What, is the airspeed velocity of an unladen Spitfire!?!?!?!?

     Of course, the last is, All being individuals, Slum behaviour means different things to different people. The reason that HTC has had to take harsh reproach with some people, To institute these changes, makes me believe that he has been contemplating this for some time. I've Been watching AH grow for close to 3 yrs. now, and used to wonder about how large it would finally get. It's been stated that there wasn't a tech issue, But I've noticed that splitting the arena's seem to help influx larger numbers' of players. Let me put it this way: We started with AH as like being in a Model A Ford Street Rod club: We all had personal taste, and refinements in the way we played, and how we liked our rides, etc. Now, the street rod club has expanded to include other Brands and genres (No, I'm not implying that you will see Rodders hanging with import tuners) But it seems that's what we are trying to do. And, The Rodders are not liking what's happening at the car shows now. But, It's all money to the show promoter, and for him, the bigger, the better.

     But, none of us can blame HTC for wanting to expand. Especially if it eventually means more resources( Expanded plane/GV?/Game features).
We would all look back and say, "Wow, we've come a long way...." I know that there's a few that look forward to TOD, but the reality is that many are here because of the MMOG type of MA's that we have now.

Once again, Ty for your replies.

[crockett]

Originally posted by Bronk
Speaking from the nit view , are you nuts?


In the old ma can count on one hand the number of times nits had numbers. ( During my time of play)

As to the multi MAs, its starting to work.
I pop back and forth between LWMAs.  Lately in blue I have heard more than a few "GD ENY. Thats it jumping sides." or "This eny sucks going orange".

 
IMHO HT need to crank the eny a bit more to get that affect sooner.

Flame away.


Bronk

I dunno about that.. there are certain planes I like to fly. When the eny keeps going up all it does for me is make me log off and do something else. I've never jumped teams but I've thought about it when the ENY gets too high.

[Bronk]

Originally posted by crockett
I dunno about that.. there are certain planes I like to fly. When the eny keeps going up all it does for me is make me log off and do something else. I've never jumped teams but I've thought about it when the ENY gets too high.

You don't have to jump sides, just jump server.
See how easy that is.


Bronk

[republic]

Originally posted by NoBaddy
Had a noob ask last night if this game was Death Match or Capture the Flag.

[E25280]

Originally posted by FrodeMk3
But does The Unreal Tournament mentality stay as well?

I believe the agreed upon metaphor on the BBs has been "Quake Mentality."  

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by FrodeMk3
But, It would be nice to hear what kind of things actually constituted "Slum Behaviour" and an "Unhealthy environment".

Based on watching this BBS over an extended period of time, and a few ventures into the slum, I always interpreted this phrase as code for an observation that the MA was becoming like Baghdad.  You had a variety of death squads, intensely loyal to each other and growing in membership, who didn't care much about the rest of the population.  The result was hording, ganging, suicide bombing, vulching, and very, very ugly talk on the radio and in the text buffer.

May not have anything to do with what HiTech had in mind, but that's the way I always interpreted it.

- oldman

[Yknurd]

I didn't read everything before this but here you go...

I seem to recall that HT said something about a healthy environment has a sense of community; e.g. not being able to squelch the country channel.

I agree.  To me, the new arenas remind me of the old days when 120 people flying on a Friday night was a lot and NDisle was a new map.

Also, I think he mentioned things become impersonal when too many people are flying.

I'm going off memory and summarizing from there.  I'm probably wrong anyways.

[edit: becuase I r teh t4rd!]

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by The Fugitive
crush the opposition.

I agree.

[Hap]

Originally posted by Stang
I would argue the contrary, that the sissified nature in the MA that predominates now is anything but aggressive.

Feeling sort of agressive are we Stang?  

hap

[SuperDud]

Keep crying girls.

Yours truely,
 The Dud