What happened to Knits?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Wilbus
Uhm, what happen to the veterans in Knitland?

I haven't been on all that much myself lately however I have noticed that old timers have been very scarce, atleast in knitland. Just don't see as many good old names as I used to (those who change names I usually know about).

I do notice A WHOLE LOT of new people though (good thing for HTC).

I changed to Bish a few days ago and I've been flying with bish for a couple of days, not saying I will stay bish but so far I enjoy it more. Why? There is a very very big difference between playing style. I am getting 6 calls from people I don't know or have flown with before, I hear people give 6 calls all the time, radio chatter is more frequent then it ever was on knits. So I am kind of impressed...

So my question... during the past few weeks or maybe months where I haven't flown much... WTH happened to Knits?

define "Old timers" please.

I'd like to know when I've made it

[hubsonfire]

Keep in mind that numbers surely vary, but complete noobs are assigned to whatever country has the lowest numbers at the time they first log in. In an arena where the noobs start, see they're horribly outnumbered, and either log, change arenas, or change countries, they're setting up the next wave for the very same thing. To a degree, I think this explains the perception that all the noobs wind up in the same place.

[SKurj]

Originally posted by BaldEagl
I've always been a Bish and was always an AZ in AW.  

 

Bish = BZ I was never Bz and will never be Bish!!


I was a knit and a rook during a long time spent in the bucket when bish (and for that matter Bz) had the numbers for a looong time (1 yr+) for that reason I have a for bish.  Tis nothing personal as I am sure you all understand +)

[whiteman]

must be the late hours i play but i always get in with guys newer than me and and most of the time getting gang banged(I play on the Bish side). The few times we aren't getting hammered were hammering the nits that have as many people as they do fields, makes no sence to me.

i might start switching sides even though my squad is bish, i'm starting not to have fun cause the only thing going on is a furball or base defense from a horde. only been playing since nov 06 but the first 3 months there were people actually capturing fields and maps being won by someone. i haven't seen a map won in 2 months.

[halcyon]

There are many great pilots still flying for the Knights (like ME!...heheh..heh?). I do agree that more noobs seem to be flooding the game, but it's not just on the knights.
Noobs are flooding all three countries, which is great for me since I need more easy targets to shoot at.

About the bish....yea uh, ahem......no comment.

[RedTop]

<--Old Timer....Knight......Busy with real life.

No time to fly these days....and when I do fly it's usually not more than an hour or so.

[Wilbus]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
define "Old timers" please.

I'd like to know when I've made it

Your 10k+ posts have made it already

Hard to define who's a "vet" and who's not and kind of stupid to argue about it.

A year doesn't make you a vet in my eyes, that's still a n00b just to clearify a few things

[Krusty]

I'm a permanent newbie. Not to be confused with the lame l337 speak version called "n00b".

[Wilbus]

LOL

[crockett]

I've jumped over to the knights side from time to time when their numbers are way too low. I've also noticed the lack of check 6's while on nit side.

I can also say there is a lot less check 6's lately on the Rooks side as well. I assume it's the influx of noobs. I'm a noob myself but I always give check 6's if I can.

[hubsonfire]

If there's a period of dweebdom you refer to as "the old days", you're a vet. And a dork.

[Kimber1]

Originally posted by Krusty
I'm a permanent newbie.

Same here;)  ............... I just have not had time as of late to fly:cry

[BiPoLaR]

lmfao Carl your crazy...wooty woot woot

[Kweassa]

Okay, here's a simple low-down on what happened to the MA during the time you were away, Wil.

 ...


The Bish-Borg Hive

 The Bish, became a brain-less Borg horde who consistently walk in zombie-steps, chanting "resistance is futile"... except for some peculiar reason, they always seem to go hit only the places where there wasn't any people to resist in the first place. When you see a conga line of red dots on the map, you can bet your money that it's one of those Bish-Borg 'mishunz' targetting unpopulated areas on the map.

 However, since they've now all assimiliated into a single-mind collective, if their "leaders" are not online to "guide" them they are about as interesting as ants on your front porch.


The Bashful Knits

 I'm not entirely sure of what happened to the Knits, but it is as if all the fizz went out. Frankly, years ago I used to think the Knits above the Bish - the Bish were always numerous, but the Knit pilots were on average more deadly, IMO. At least, that's become a past tense, and in both late-war arenas the Knits are now under-manned as much as being under-skilled. For some reason the Knits have lost a massive number of veterans than compared to either Bish or Rooks, and this seems to have influenced their flying style - namely, bashful pilots singing and dancing to the tune going "timid and shy, and scared am I".


The Rook Snowball

 The Rooks have now become the snowball. Our glorious past as a tightly-packed team is all but spent, and the proud tradition of the legendary RJO is now forever lost. We have no missions, we have no organiztion, we have no teamwork, we have no 'leader' squads, and no Napoleons... and yet we seem to be doing farely OK.

 What we have now is an anarchistic collective of individual idiotas who love furballing, and if something fuels the fire then the Rooks start rolling rampage like a snowball going downhill in the land grab. We avalanche everything in our paths, until we go smack into a wall. Then everything stops and we melt away into nothingness, and then lose everything we've gained so far. The people disperse, gather up on the mountaintop again, and then starts the snowball again and again and again.

 

 

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Kweassa
Okay, here's a simple low-down on what happened to the MA during the time you were away, Wil.

 ...


The Bish-Borg Hive

 The Bish, became a brain-less Borg horde who consistently walk in zombie-steps, chanting "resistance is futile"... except for some peculiar reason, they always seem to go hit only the places where there wasn't any people to resist in the first place. When you see a conga line of red dots on the map, you can bet your money that it's one of those Bish-Borg 'mishunz' targetting unpopulated areas on the map.

 However, since they've now all assimiliated into a single-mind collective, if their "leaders" are not online to "guide" them they are about as interesting as ants on your front porch.


The Bashful Knits

 I'm not entirely sure of what happened to the Knits, but it is as if all the fizz went out. Frankly, years ago I used to think the Knits above the Bish - the Bish were always numerous, but the Knit pilots were on average more deadly, IMO. At least, that's become a past tense, and in both late-war arenas the Knits are now under-manned as much as being under-skilled. For some reason the Knits have lost a massive number of veterans than compared to either Bish or Rooks, and this seems to have influenced their flying style - namely, bashful pilots singing and dancing to the tune going "timid and shy, and scared am I".


The Rook Snowball

 The Rooks have now become the snowball. We have no missions, we have no organiztion, we have no 'leader' squads, and no Napoleons. What we have is an anarchistic collective of individual diots who love furballing, and if something fuels the fire then the Rooks start rolling like a snowball going downhill in the land grab. We avalanche everything in our paths, until we meet a wall, where we come to a stop, start melting helplessly, and then lose everything we've gained by coming downhill. The people disperse, gather up on the mountaintop, and then start the idiot process again and again and again. It's fun, but it's also brain-less.  

I enjoy the "Snowball".   I also enjoyed putting together the "Candy Mountain Mishun" with 47 Ju-87's in it.    I've never been a Napolean, no desire to either.