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Offline NHawk

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« Reply #30 on: October 08, 2007, 02:49:32 PM »
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.... and willing to go to the low numbers country with my squad has made it much easier to keep going then.  ENY has not affected my flying at all....
This is where I have a major problem with ENY...

If I am in Country A with the sole purpose of defending a base WHY would I change countries to attack the very base I'm trying to defend?

And if I don't change it's like getting into a back alley brawl with a pea shooter vs a shotgun. What else can I do but run the other way?

I'd rather log off to help lower ENY than change sides to attack the country I currently fly for.

I'm not being sarcastic here either. It just doesn't make sense to me to fly for and defend a country and then change sides to attack it. Something is just inherently wrong with that picture. It's one thing to change sides for a tour but an entirely different thing to do it on a day by day basis.
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« Reply #31 on: October 08, 2007, 02:52:30 PM »
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This is where I have a major problem with ENY...

If I am in Country A with the sole purpose of defending a base WHY would I change countries to attack the very base I'm trying to defend?

And if I don't change it's like getting into a back alley brawl with a pea shooter vs a shotgun. What else can I do but run the other way?

I'd rather log off to help lower ENY than change sides to attack the country I currently fly for.

I'm not being sarcastic here either. It just doesn't make sense to me to fly for and defend a country and then change sides to attack it. Something is just inherently wrong with that picture.


Chances are it's the low number country defending however.  I've been in the spot where my first flight is with the larger crowd to a certain base.  The numbers are so far off that I switch and I'm suddenly fighting the guys i was flying with defending the base getting mobbed.

It generally leads to a good fight and a good laugh :)
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« Reply #32 on: October 08, 2007, 03:10:06 PM »
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My squad has nothing to do with this. But if you want to drag us in, that's fine.

I didn't "drag" your squad into this, you shoved it in everyones face with this quote. "When a M.A.W. quits, it's a blow to the community.[/b]" What you are stating is something like this statement: If this star goes out the whole sky will turn into an inky black wasteland.   Witch is a totally untrue statement.  Yes the night is darker when one candle is extinguished, but not for long as other candles come to replace it.

I've watched 20 members of my squad with 10 years+ time leave because of nonsense like ENY and other things in AH.

The choice to leave was theirs, for their own reasons.

If you count all of the old timers that have quit, regardless of squad affiliation, you'd find it's a huge number.

If you count all the new members that have joined, you will also find that it is a huge number too.

And the attitude you portraid wasn't called for.

It may not be called for, but it is my own attitude cultivated over years of reading whiny threads about how ENY is "unfair", about how this, or that is "unfair".  "Hitech please ( fill in stupid unworkable suggestion here )."

I just don't have anymore cheese for these whines.  

Hitech has done the best that anyone can do for this game.  Yes their are situations where the "rules" have been manipulated to produce an undesired, and unintended result.  Deal with it and make the best of it, or quit.  I'll still be flying whatever ENY will allow, trying to halt the hoard.
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« Reply #33 on: October 08, 2007, 03:28:54 PM »
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... Yes the night is darker when one candle is extinguished, but not for long as other candles come to replace it....
But imagine how much brighter the night would be if the old guard stayed AND others joined.

Enough said. The M.A.W earned their respect. There's no need to beat them or one of their members down because their opinion differs from others. A simple would have sufficed.
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« Reply #34 on: October 08, 2007, 04:04:12 PM »
Doesn't anyone remember the clouds of spits descending all at once, prior to eny? Running into 25 LA-7s, with two other people helping you defend....ALL night?  Am I the only one?

God, peeps, shut up. IT'S ONLY A GAME....AND ITS THE BEST DAMN ONE OF THEM OUT THERE.  Eny has made this game better.... you should attempt to enjoy the other fighters, besides the uber rides.  Personally, the game got a whole lot more enjoyable for me, when I could kill spixteens with a  Yak Tango reliably..... but then I like a challenge.

Go be coddled somewhere else...I hear dogfights has a totally BS flight sim now....

I also think that if it really bothers you, you SHOULD take a break from the game.... you may have missed there is a whole wide world out there.
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« Reply #35 on: October 08, 2007, 04:13:30 PM »
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.... you may have missed there is a whole wide world out there.


Huh?  What?
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« Reply #36 on: October 08, 2007, 04:35:38 PM »
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Doesn't anyone remember the clouds of spits descending all at once, prior to eny? Running into 25 LA-7s, with two other people helping you defend....ALL night?  Am I the only one?

I remember whole tours like that.  Made me almost, want to quit.  When 4 out of 5 planes you saw was ether a Spit, Niki, LA-7, or a P-51.  Almost made me wonder why Hitech modeled those other planes.

Go be coddled somewhere else...I hear dogfights has a totally BS flight sim now....

Here, hear, yes my thoughts exactly.

I also think that if it really bothers you, you SHOULD take a break from the game.... you may have missed there is a whole wide world out there.

Yes do take a break, and see why Hitech, pretty much has the only game in town worth your money.


Everyone has a choice, and choosing not to play the game because of ENY, or any other perceived fault of gameplay decisions, Hitech has made, is a choice too.
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« Reply #37 on: October 08, 2007, 05:55:02 PM »
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My squad has nothing to do with this. But if you want to drag us in, that's fine. I've watched 20 members of my squad with 10 years+ time leave because of nonsense like ENY and other things in AH.
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that's your squadrons issue, not HiTech's.  If they let something like ENY to cause them to quit, they were on the edge of readying to quit already.  ENY just gave them a convenient scapegoat to use.

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If you count all of the old timers that have quit, regardless of squad affiliation, you'd find it's a huge number.


I doubt they all stopped playing because of the ENY and you'll find that most of the quitting is all part of the natural attrition process.  There are quite a few "old timers" still playing, after all the MAWs aren't the only 13+ year old squadron in AH.


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« Reply #38 on: October 08, 2007, 06:50:13 PM »
Arena caps make all of these things worse.  MANY times I have gotten the boot from the arena involved in fights where we were outnumbered but could not get back in due to the damned infernal arena caps that had the side imbalance locked in.  

A lot of players are understandably side-loyal.  I am, and do not apologize for it.  Get rid of the arena cap and it would help.

Open another arena with a 200 limit or so for people who like flying in puny anemic arenas.
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« Reply #39 on: October 08, 2007, 07:06:02 PM »
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A lot of players are sheep and can only fly if they are part of a herd.  I am, and do not apologize for it.  Get rid of the arena cap and it would help.



Fixed for accuracy.

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« Reply #40 on: October 08, 2007, 07:15:14 PM »
Ack Ack... I suppose it isn't your fault no-one wants to fly with you. Wonder why?  :rolleyes:
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« Reply #41 on: October 08, 2007, 09:10:44 PM »
The solution is easy, ENY does work against you. Lalas and Spixteens should be perked that is all then the ENY would'nt be as bad to deal with!

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« Reply #42 on: October 08, 2007, 09:15:29 PM »
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Ack Ack... I suppose it isn't your fault no-one wants to fly with you. Wonder why?  :rolleyes:



they don't?  I guess I should take more showers then.


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« Reply #43 on: October 08, 2007, 09:30:18 PM »
We've lost a lot more BKs because there wasn't ENY. We are a more important and influential squadron, so please change the game to suit us immediately.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

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« Reply #44 on: October 08, 2007, 09:54:29 PM »
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Ack Ack... I suppose it isn't your fault no-one wants to fly with you. Wonder why?  :rolleyes:


Are you suggesting I'm a no-one?  I've flown with AKAK.  He seemed to be harmless enough.  Had fun winging with him on more then one occasion too.  Where did I go wrong?


I feel...so...insignificant! :)
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