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Offline Creamo

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« Reply #30 on: June 19, 2001, 07:20:00 AM »
Looks to me like there is 140 people online. I like being able to find a fight.

These uneven numbers complaints are cyclic, as sides and numbers per country change several ways in every tour.

Always have, always will.

Your lucky it ain't a HA, with 70 Tempests heading over the English Channel and 10 109's trying to defend.

It's just yer turn in the bucket" is an absurd statement when we're talking about people tryin' to get their 30 bucks worth enjoying this game. Oh come on. You been reading to much hype on this bbs, which is surprising as hell to me. If someone can't enjoy AH that is into WWII flight simulation in a massivley smooth multiplayer format... geez.

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« Reply #31 on: June 19, 2001, 07:37:00 AM »
One thing that is very strange, especially for prime time....

70 is not an unusually high number of players... remember last tour when every country had that many players?  Its not like people can't get into the arena... people just aren't.

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« Reply #32 on: June 19, 2001, 07:51:00 AM »
Creamo I agree that this is a "massively smooth multiplayer format" and everything... and I assure you I've seen all two years of this "bucket" crap on the BBS, but I have never seen it this bad for this long. That's all.

....and FYI if I bought into hype be it here on this bbs or anywhere else... I'd prolly be off playing some *other* sim.

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« Reply #33 on: June 19, 2001, 09:07:00 AM »
"..and FYI if I bought into hype be it here on this bbs or anywhere else... I'd prolly be off playing some *other* sim."

Ah yes. The place touted as a "two sided, historically realish war." The online Valhalla. Well it would behoove many to try it out. I almost insist. Reality right now is it is a multi-world war and players are tending to log on to the world where their side is doing well. So now instead of one world where there are three sides you have up to seven worlds where it is a gang bang in a two sided war.

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« Reply #34 on: June 19, 2001, 09:25:00 AM »
Maybe HTC could send another poll to players who have left AH asking what kind of improvements they would like to see in AH.
And also offer some 9,95 deals if they come back   ;)

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« Reply #35 on: June 19, 2001, 09:45:00 AM »
Perhaps there's a reason beyond gameplay that many people like to fly for Bishops?

Perhaps there could be a reason beyond gameplay why people don't like to fly for the Knights?

I'm not impunging anyone. I've been Bish since Beta. It's a fun place to fly, the folks are pretty relaxed (understatment) and generally no one takes anything to seriously.
Check some of our more famous squad names, like FDB's   ;)

Are the Knights somehow making Knightland unattractive to players?

Just a thought.
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« Reply #36 on: June 19, 2001, 09:45:00 AM »
Reading it and buying it 2 is diffrent things, you know what Im getting at. I was just crackin on you for adding to the whole deal by mentioning it as if it's gotten so bad, it somehow should ruin the game?

It's just one more thing in a long list people spend so much time and effort worrying about when it's part of the makeup of the game, and trivial in my opinion. As soon as a squad rotates, or the timezone changes where its off peak hours, or a new tour starts and there's new players, it's all going to flip flop. So what's so new 'bout that?

 Ive really seen it pretty fair for a real long time, although I admit I never pay a whole lot of attention to it.

What's even more silly, it's probly the own countries fault. If everything isn't perfect and in their favor, people sign in, and immediatley log, or like mentioned before, just plain fight stupid. Instead of using a situation where your outnumbered to try some clever and fun ways of fighting back, they are snapping screen shots, and running to the BBS instead of playing the damn game.

 
I guess what irks me is people try use this kind of numbers game to in a round about way to condemn the 3 sides war, and HTC's decision to keep it that way. It's as if their historical arena will improve AH so it's finally worthy of their return and oh so important input to the AH crowd.

I think it works well, maybe this just shows the knits have a harder time with being in the hole than the other countries.

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« Reply #37 on: June 19, 2001, 09:53:00 AM »
Thought I add numbers online when i get off work this morning. It really means nothing.

Bishits- 25 players  18 bases
Twits- 29 players   11 bases
Rooks- 17 players  34 bases

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« Reply #38 on: June 19, 2001, 10:25:00 AM »
WAY TO GO TWITWADS YOU OUTNUMBER THEM!

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« Reply #39 on: June 19, 2001, 10:50:00 AM »
Maybe something could be done with the number of eggs to kill a hanger increases with the ratio of imbalance between countries or the number of troops needed increases. Just a couple of thoughts.

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« Reply #40 on: June 19, 2001, 10:51:00 AM »
In Warbirds, we had a country numbers problem.  Pyro asked a few of the squadrons within the higher numbered countrys to switch their squadrons to the  lower numbered countries.  Thats the solution, guys, and the honorable thing to do, but if your squadron does not, it just shows the rest of us that you NEED to have numbers to do what you do best...which anyone can do...I challenge some of you higher numbered squadrons flying bish to switch to Knits or Rooks...bet ya can't do what ya did with numbers....  :)

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« Reply #41 on: June 19, 2001, 11:00:00 AM »
Hmmmm...

Glad Creamo spelled it out for me.  I must just like killing Bishops.  :rolleyes:

Kills of Bishops: 133
Kills of Rooks:   53

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« Reply #42 on: June 19, 2001, 11:52:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
In Warbirds, we had a country numbers problem.  Pyro asked a few of the squadrons within the higher numbered countrys to switch their squadrons to the  lower numbered countries.  Thats the solution, guys, and the honorable thing to do, but if your squadron does not, it just shows the rest of us that you NEED to have numbers to do what you do best...which anyone can do...I challenge some of you higher numbered squadrons flying bish to switch to Knits or Rooks...bet ya can't do what ya did with numbers....   :)

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« Reply #43 on: June 19, 2001, 11:57:00 AM »
"Maybe HTC could send another poll to players who have left AH asking what kind of improvements they would like to see in AH. And also offer some 9,95 deals if they come back"

 Of course they could do that. But why ask such a small group of people?  The implication I take from your post is that the loss of these few players is actually worse than it seems and that AH may be experiencing a lowering of online numbers. It hasn't from what I've seen when online the past couple of weeks.
  Do some folks (Staga?) think that a few disgruntled and dissatisfied players actually have some sort of secret knowlege to a better and more fruitful AH?  That they, who may have been playing online games for a couple of years inmost cases, know this  business better and have more of an idea of what the customers want? That they know more than a team of people (HTC) who've been doing online gaming, as core of the community players, producers and developers, for almost a decade?
 Or would thier vision alienate the greater majority to for a smaller gaming environment much more to thier particular taste and liking?

 
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« Reply #44 on: June 19, 2001, 02:00:00 PM »
Well they did it earlier didn't they ?
I don't think it was done because they got some free time to spend ?  ;)