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Offline Wilbus

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« Reply #30 on: April 24, 2007, 02:45:37 PM »
Uhm come to to think of it, the split up arenas (although good in many aspects) is probarly a big bad guy in this discussion.

Before we were all gathered in one arena, now we are split up in (mainly) 2 arenas + a quite small percentage in the early and mid war arenas. Guess I may be chosing the wrong arena from time to time and have too many friends to search for.
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Offline Krusty

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« Reply #31 on: April 24, 2007, 02:47:34 PM »
I can't say for sure, as I don't know who you're thinking, but there have been a lot of folks that left, got banned from the forums (and then left), left because CT isn't out, left because the arena split, left because they burnt out, left because they flew for the horde and couldn't take low ENY planes, etc.

I know what you mean about flying with certain folks. Even if I'm just in the same fight as some guys (not even winging up, mind you!) I seem to have more fun. I had noticed a bit of a decline, but I thought it was just that my flight-time was cut way back since the new job and crappy hours.

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« Reply #32 on: April 24, 2007, 02:50:30 PM »
Rooks are the best country if you want to score hore and be an astronaut, and a lot of good people are rooks.but the take it way to serous they really don't need missions to take bases,they just tend to fly together.the bish are second,only thing wrong with them is they depend on 1 or 2 people to take a base and the rest of the bish follow,bish have the most fun,but the don't GIVE 6 CALLS a lot. knights are well the bottom of the bucket,not a lot of good people their and only  a few descent squads,and most knights are squeakers. now this is just my thought on this.And if you dont like what i put get over it :aok .

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« Reply #33 on: April 24, 2007, 02:51:01 PM »
I think there may also be a few of us with names you don't know...


Be nice if HTC would set accounts to inactive permitting players to come back to the game and not mess around getting their handle back...

I've done it so many times, I just about can't be bothered this time... so flyin Sporadic

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« Reply #34 on: April 24, 2007, 03:07:14 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.


In deed, just chekked, all my kills are as knight, all deads as knits.   Tend to kill more bishops than rooks too.

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« Reply #35 on: April 24, 2007, 03:08:23 PM »
any spell checker in these foruns?

Offline Laurie

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« Reply #36 on: April 24, 2007, 03:10:11 PM »
lotta old timers went at the arena re-shuffle.

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« Reply #37 on: April 24, 2007, 03:37:26 PM »
Hey Wilb,

you are right, older vets no more showing here.....
I am playing AH until 99  as a knight, maybe I can be considered  a vet (not for my statistisc only for a matter of time spend in AH ;) ) , and I am flying only occasionally  at the moment.
Why???

Well, I find furballin boring after some time, old strategy is dead, trying to win the war has no more sense, any strategic option has been frustrated, and for this reason many of us has left....
My squad has left for other sims, and so has happened to many vets; you know Wilb all those guys who we were flying with, it was a pleasure winging with them, I recall winging with many good sticks, covering our six, enjoying group tactics......
Well I find this is all faded away now; I'm not accusing Knights now to be not collaborative but that "old spirit" is gone..... and maybe its only me having lost that enthusiasm.
But my feelings seems to be common to many old players.
Some choices have changed this simulation into a game for me. Still I don't blame AH for this, its their job, their sim, and their business; I still consider they have made a great work, but this is not the sim I used to play and I used to enjoy some years ago.
I'm still here nevertheless, even if with a cut down to minimum activity, waiting for good news
Maybe others have choose other options

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« Reply #38 on: April 24, 2007, 03:45:15 PM »
BUT, I digress

Im a knight, left a squad who went bish last may, and just happy with my chess piece I guess. Got so comfortable made a squad, after what I was seeing, in the past 3 months. At first I thought it was true that the knights tended to get the newly influx of players. I know this not to be the case, but I actually couldnt believe what I was seeing was, IMHO, a total lack of coordination. This has nothing to do with any other squads on the knights, t just somehow, people were just flying and doing their own thing, and more and more and more bases, were just getting ganged over, with no stop. Hence made a bomber orientated squad for base capturing, because this s the game style I enjoy. So I sought out like minded people, and well were doing ok. I cant speak for the whole country because everyone plays differently. Me, I suck at acm, Ive been playing over a year and half, still havent been with a trainer. But I up and fly my best that I can with studying moves, amovies, reading. the hardest for me is putting it together. BUT the thing that I get off on, is stratagy, and thats what this game is for me. IF I can grab a base, in front of the other teams wide open eyes, dig it, im down with it. If I can do it while their looking the other way.
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But heres what Im seeing, and I may be totally off here.

1. 3-30 knights chasing one plane. Ive shot myself down numerous times so far when Im engauaged, because someone is so damn greedy, or I dont know what.

2. Check sixes. This is just plane rude. Either the people dont have mics, or dont know the damn key. I try to educate everyone this. This isnt a rant, but a known fact, when you turn around  as u drift backwards without a tail and see 2-4,5 people chasing the plane you were. This I think, almost made me jump countries 2 months back. We stayed because we put it to a vote in the squad, and its all for 1--1 for all. Now there are certantly people who do give checks, I try to all the time, but again, the bottom line, is its you arse, cover it.

3. Same maps. OVer and over, and over, and over, and   over. The same tactics, the same flight plans, the same thing. Boring.

4. And definitly Areana cap/split

Now, I have been working with alot of squads on the knights, and I have a blast. I may not play like everyone on the knights, and I dont want to. I play to win, plain and simple. Thats what keeps me paying.

Ofcourse at the begining and the end of the night I like to just go up,
and furball around. and sometimes, Im really not in the mood to do anything. Its those times, that I like to think of something outragious, and get some people together, and try it out. See where it failed, and then get it worked out, to a precise base take. Now that my friends is kewl.

Anyway long winded, I step off the soap dish, and slip out the door. C U all the air. :p

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I think the nits are better today then 3-6 months ago., we just gotta keep it together sometimes. And thank you very much for the Shout Casper1
to you to Sir

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« Last Edit: April 24, 2007, 03:52:45 PM by 4deck »
Forgot who said this while trying to take a base, but the quote goes like this. "I cant help you with ack, Im not in attack mode" This is with only 2 ack up in the town while troops were there, waiting. The rest of the town was down.

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« Reply #39 on: April 24, 2007, 04:00:28 PM »
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....Some choices have changed this simulation into a game for me. Still I don't blame AH for this, its their job, their sim, and their business; I still consider they have made a great work, but this is not the sim I used to play and I used to enjoy some years ago....
Stegor, this is what has caused our squad to diminish from 23 to 11 members, 1 of which is maintained posthumously and only 5 of which fly regularly.

I've watched it happen to other 10 year+ squads and it is sad.
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« Reply #40 on: April 24, 2007, 04:10:02 PM »
ours has gone from 32 members and full squad participation down to about 7 on squad nights now
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« Reply #41 on: April 24, 2007, 04:17:56 PM »
Wil...

Play time has been a bit short for me the last couple of months (reality rears it's ugly head :)). But, when I do play, I enjoy the EW/MW arenas. Lots of noobs there that I can 'assist' and occasionally a good driver will show up and hand me  pieces of my nether region to prove that I'm not really very good. :)

As a guy who played AW in the day of the arena limits of 32, I find it reminds me of the 'old days'.
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« Reply #42 on: April 24, 2007, 04:20:38 PM »
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Well, I find furballin boring after some time, old strategy is dead, trying to win the war has no more sense, any strategic option has been frustrated,



 


 well said!

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« Reply #43 on: April 24, 2007, 04:36:12 PM »
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Well, I find furballin boring after some time, old strategy is dead, trying to win the war has no more sense, any strategic option has been frustrated,


I still do see map resets. That means there is someone winning the maps, so I don't see how "trying to win the war has no more sense" ?

The only old strategy that was really killed: Always the same two countries constantly hammering on the third one, map resets and the same gangbang starts again. Now to win the war you have at one point to stop beating up a country already laying on the ground and go fight someone else...
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« Reply #44 on: April 24, 2007, 04:52:50 PM »
I've always been a Bish and was always an AZ in AW.  

From my perspective the Knights seem to have an over-abundance of noobs.  It's like they sign up for the game, stick with the Knights until they learn a few things then jump ship and are replaced with more baby seals.

Rooks seem to have the most experienced players and they seem to work well together.  The alt-monkey as a group thing gets a little annoying as an opposing player though.

Bish seem to be somewhere in the middle but lean toward the more experienced side.  We can sometimes work well together strategically but almost always communicate well in a big fight.  I think because of this Bish sometimes seem to simply ignore the map opting instead for the biggest fight.

Just my one-sided observations.
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