Author Topic: What happened to Knits? (Read 3115 times)

Simaril · « **Reply #15 on:** April 24, 2007, 12:00:23 PM »

I know what you're saying Wilbus -- noticed it some myself.

I'm no ace, but I've played for a while -- mostly flying lone wolf but also with squaddies. Lately I've wanted to wing up with an experienced pilot or two to do whatever...not caring whether we flew fighter sweeps, defended bases, took bases, who cares -- just wanted to do something fun and do it well.

Tried that for about a week, never hooking up with anyone I recognized. When I logged on to Uterus, and saw the rooks had fights going near A1/A19 axis, I went there and immediately found guys I knew and planty of co-op activity.

Pacifica · « **Reply #16 on:** April 24, 2007, 12:20:16 PM »

I switched from Knights to Bishops a few months back and I noticed that exact same thing.

DaYooper · « **Reply #17 on:** April 24, 2007, 12:25:19 PM »

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quote:Originally posted by SKurj
I'll flop back and forth tween rooks and knits, but I will never fly bish...

Chess piece-ist?

The Bish move diagonally, don't you know?

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Eagler · « **Reply #18 on:** April 24, 2007, 12:34:15 PM »

couldn't tell you who I flew for this morning or at lunch, I fly a green plane and shoot at red ones .. the rest is not important to me

Casper1 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 24, 2007, 12:40:25 PM »

Its been a slow decline for knitland over the past few months, maybe even year. Seemed to start when a few of the larger, more vet squads switched countries. I think I have been playing for 2 years now, and when I first joined with the knits, they rocked the MAs much more often then they do now. I hear this is a cyclical thing...we shall see!!

There are the ever-faithful knits who do their darndest to get the knit populace working together and communicating, but it doesnt happen often anymore.

I did like what I saw in LWBlue last night though. Good stuff from knitland.

A Big ~~to Floatsup and the (+) crew for some good missions. Wish there were missions out the wazoo more often!~~

Puck · « **Reply #20 on:** April 24, 2007, 12:52:27 PM »

Knights couldn't fight their way out of a wet newspaper anymore.

Mr No Name · « **Reply #21 on:** April 24, 2007, 01:21:59 PM »

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Originally posted by REP0MAN
Chess piece-ist?

Yep, I was... Will not consider flying elsewhere.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #22 on:** April 24, 2007, 01:39:37 PM »

When I had 4 guys in the "Crazy Diamonds", we'd hop countries to help the "short stack" at that time.

Now, I have returned to Nazgul and they are a Rook squad. I will STILL hop countries if I see friends on (The Flying Circus, need to wing with Lute again, etc.).

Hoarach · « **Reply #23 on:** April 24, 2007, 01:48:04 PM »

Ive noticed the same thing Wil. I usually switch between rooks and nits but now that I am finding that I switch to bish instead of nits. Bish just seem to give more 6s, provide help more, and dont seem to kill fights as often. I usually switch to the side that needs more help/small numbers or just happen to have big furball.

CarlsBee · « **Reply #24 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:03:40 PM »

Nothing to post really. Just getting thr junior out. No vet Member here?

Its_a_game · « **Reply #25 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:28:58 PM »

I just found player's STATISTICS can be found at http://www.hitechcreations.com under the COMMUNITY pulldown menu, Scores, "Kill Stats in Expanded format".

On the bottom of that breakdown list, it shows how many kills a player experienced as a Knight, Rook or Bish.

Interesting.

Krusty · « **Reply #26 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:29:56 PM »

Yes, that's been there for ages

I like it because I can check which aircraft I gravitate towards.

GooseAW · « **Reply #27 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:37:27 PM »

Still here,

C-HAWKS are still Knit and always focused on helping the team. Myself, I'm finding myself in furball mode lately. I'll help my squaddies on attack/capture missions when asked most of the time. I love base defense against superior numbers, and yes, it seems that we are consistently outnumbered and ganged by the bish/rooks since the arena split. Maybe thats the reason you notice fewer "vets", maybe not.

I will tell you that from my perspective, these maps are utterly fossilized and in desperate need of replacement. No, I'm not going to build any myself so I won't whine. I'll just keep furballing over TT or fighting the numbers to try to bust the enemy cap over one of our fields. These are about the only aspects I find much fun in lately.

I too took about a 10 month sojourn from the game and am back other than helping my squad part time in ww2online.

It is all cyclical yes, but this is a different game than it used to be.

NHawk · « **Reply #28 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:42:31 PM »

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Originally posted by Its_a_game
I just found player's STATISTICS can be found at http://www.hitechcreations.com under the COMMUNITY pulldown menu, Scores, "Kill Stats in Expanded format".

On the bottom of that breakdown list, it shows how many kills a player experienced as a Knight, Rook or Bish.

Interesting.

Yep... I spread mine around evenly...

Bishop 0 22
Knight 47 0
Rook 0 25

Wilbus · « **Reply #29 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:43:00 PM »

Well atleast I am not the only one feeling/thinking this way

Krusty, I am one of those no good darned furballers. That's not my problem though: No problem at all really.

I just wanted to throw out a question to see if anyone else was noticing a decline in vet numbers, be it nit och bish or rook ar whatever.

Scot, well, I rearely need a 6 call nor do I expect one. However I was just so surprised to be overwhelmed by 6 calls when I flew bish that I had to brind it up. It could very well be that there are so many n00bs in knitland at the moment.

I've been a hardcore knit for ever (almost) but have started switching more often, specielly since the country change time was lowerd from 12 hours to 1 hour (excellent move HTC).

I have long time friend in for all the chess piece countries and I am only sad that I can't fly and wing with them all at the same time.

Simaril, that's exaclty what I mean. Every time I've come online over the years there's been players online whom I've known pretty well. Wether I've winged up with them or not is another question. But just flying in the same fight has given me alot of fun.
During the years the companionship of long time (albeit "internet") friends have given me more fun and enjoyment then any game could ever do. Hell, some of the guys, Ghosth for example has been around since I started flying Warbirds back in 1995 (I was 12 years old at the moment, I was almost raised by some of the online flightsim junkies).

So that's what I am really asking for... while alot of you are still here and make my enjoyment in AH so much better... where did my other friends go?