Please register my whine- I'm bored.

[Ack-Ack]

try EVERYTHING in the game.

Furball
Toolshed
GV
meet people

theres SO MUCH to do... how can you get bored so fast?

Reminds me of other MMOs where people burn through and max out their levels within a few days and then cry that there is nothing left to do. 


ack-ack

[Overlag]

Reminds me of other MMOs where people burn through and max out their levels within a few days and then cry that there is nothing left to do. 


ack-ack

yeah, you get so hyped up about a new game you play it constantly for a few weels before getting bored...

i must admit i sometimes play this 80-100 hours a month, but do also drop as low as 10-20... it totally depends on real life. This is the ONLY game i play at the moment... hell its the only reason i own a PC lately.

[ROC]

I'm in it for the friends I've known for more years than I have toes (got em all btw) and all the ones I haven't met yet.

Game is nothing more than an bar with a chair perfectly formed to my butt.  Most faces hang around, occasionally we lose "Bob" or "George", often some new guys walks in and buys a round, but the foundation of the hangout remains the same.  Once in a while, every 2 weeks or so, Dale tries a new beer on tap.  Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's sour, but you roll with it, cause Dale Tries. 

Alot of the young ones come in, hang out a bit and decide they don't quite like the music or the fact that there isn't enough bubbles in the pit or strobe lights, and run off to find some quirky fad type club, bashing us old fogies on the way out.  It's ok, we were all there.  They will find the fancy places change ownership, and flashy lightbulbs, more to keep up with the next fad than to keep their customers content.  They will grow out of it, we did.

We won't miss em when they leave, heck, we won't remember their names, but a few will stick around and grow on us. 

Those are who we are here for.  Those that want a home, those that want stability, those that their wifes know, and kids know.  Those who think it's great when HB555 comes to town because Dad talks about him and Easyscor at the Collins foundation air show.  Dad's happy, life is good.

Bored?  Your trying to hard kid.  Have a seat and look at what's around you.  With luck, it'll be here a long time from now, the resistance to instant gratification and fad is too strong in this group.  It's not out of stubbornness, it's out of experience.

Now, you say you are bored because your squad has moved on.  All what, 12 of them?  There are Thousands of people out there.  Trust me, not one of them are logging in to entertain you.  That's not our problem to solve.  But, feel free to hang out, see what a single year cannot, will not ever show you. 

[Squire]

Have you tried the FSOs?

[Getback]

Toonces,

I've thought you been around longer than a year. Sure seems like it to me. Anyway, I've been in the same boat you are on (Figuritively). I would come on and no one would be on. Flying alone day after day. One day I just said this is enough and joined another squad. It's been great since. I always say I never left my squad, they left me. All the suggestions given are very good suggestions. Try out the AvA and the FSO. Try new plane types, try impossible missions, try to think of something that no one would ever consider. And if need be, there's nothing wrong in taking a break. Done that too.


Good luck!

[EskimoJoe]

Stick around for CT. Only two weeks left...

[CAP1]

Hi all.
I'm coming up on a year online here (or maybe I've been on a year now- it's gotta be close).

I'm finding myself searching for reasons to stick around.  Why?  Because I am utterly bored with the gameplay. 

For a while the complete newness of the game had me hooked.  Then, for the last few months I've been enjoying the game more for the folks I fly with on my squad than actually 'playing' the game.  But, unfortunately, real life has robbed me of my squad mates and more and more I find myself logging on, checking the .sr and if nobody's on I just log off and play Il-2 or Silent Hunter 4 or something.

I want to play the game- I've already paid the money so it's not costing me anything more to stay logged on and play, but the experience feels empty anymore.  Up, fly around, look for a fight, hope I don't get HO'd right off the bat, land, rinse, repeat.  There doesn't seem to be any driving reason to up again- there's no goal to be obtained, no purpose to the fight besides the fight. 

I guess I see folks on here that have been playing since AW and I wonder what's kept you online for so long.  I think I'll be more of a combat tour guy, where I have a goal to which to work, but until then, I'm just finding myself sort of rudderless in the game, and not sure why I don't find it fun like everyone else.

Thanks for registering my whine, and any comments are welcome.
Your target,
Toonces

 

well, sir..one cure is to make your own missions.....or if you don't want to join a new squad, then find one to fly with......there's lots that'll have a good stick without mking him join. if you're just looking for a fight, fly lower(i remember a night that i think it was you in a mosie at about 18k or so..and i know the alt because i was at about 14k in my JU's).......but from what i've seen, you're a dam good stick, and most likely don't need all that alt......fly down low.....5k and below.....tons of fun fights there as talked about in another thread..........or go to DA......if i can get my azzz back into the game, i think i might try that a bit to avoid the HOtards...or to learn to better avoid them in the MA's....but no matter how ya cut it, there's sooooo many ways to make your own fun in here. one of my favorites(when i'm bored and don't feel like flying a fighter) is to take lancs......climb out to about 14 or 15k alt......then just plan a route, and drop the dar on each enemy field you cross. sounds childish, and probably is, but it's fun when a coupel try to climb to ya as you're doing it....then they ALWAYS attack from your 6 low, right up untill you remove very important parts of their aircraft for them.
anyway, stick with us dude!!!!! you're one of the nicer guys i've dealt with in here.......can't afford to lose you from this game sir!!!!

<<S>>

[REP0MAN]

you should try out FSO's and AvA if you dont already, very fun and differnt then a regular sortie in the MA IMO.

This man's a genius.

Come on over the the events side of things. It's WAY different and we work very hard to keep it that way.



EDIT: Sorry, Squirre too. Genius I tell ya, sheer genius!

[NoBaddy]

It's not just about the friends you have made in the past....try making a few new ones.

[toonces3]

Thanks for the replies.

I had started to post this before, but ran out of time before I could complete it.  I appreciate the sentiments, but I'm not interested in joining a new squad just now.  I really enjoy flying with Stoney and the rest of the gang.  While joining up with another crew might be a solution of sorts, I don't think it's the one I'm looking for.  Knowing Stoney and the 348th was out there having fun without me...it would be like breaking up with my girlfriend or something and then being jealous when she started dating someone else!   

[edit: major whine paragraph deleted]

But maybe it's really like ROC says.  And I suppose I've come to that conclusion too.  And that is why I still play because from a historical aspect I don't really get immersed.  But I like to crack a beer and joke on vox, and the best times are when it's midnight on Friday night, and Rockdog is convincing me to fly a zero on a capped base, just getting whacked like a fly and laughing about it.  And then joking on 200 with the other team, trading salutes and taunts.

There's alot of things I haven't done yet in this game, and so I'm going to keep trying new things.  One of my most fun (and lowest scoring) tours was flying a tour in attack in the A-20.  Maybe I'll work on that some more.  Maybe I'll fly bombers some more.  I've barely touched the light bombers in this game.

Alright, whine mode off. 

p.s. I regularly fly FSO and I do poke my head into AvA once in a while.

[OOZ662]

You know, you see all the constant crying over the tollshedders, the furballers, the podunk GVers, ect. all the time. This thread really seems to point out the fact that this game really is more balanced than we whine it out to be. Telling people to go try their hand at ruining a different group of people's day (that's the whole point of this game, after all) instead of saying that only one group should exist overall really makes a point.

[BMathis]

Up a GV and get some skills in those. I found it's actually nice to GV if you get a good battle going. SPawn campin is a beast, but it's part of the game... So up a GV if you don't already... As long as Dr7 isn't on the other end of the spawn. 

[RoGenT]

I know that I haven't been doing as good as I have in the past. Like you, I been getting rather bored with it and lost lot of interest. However, still playing 

[Bruv119]

the greatest squad ever.

In your opinion.   


Bruv
~S~

[angelsandair]

Well I would change teams if I got really bored. But I would only be attacking Knits or Rooks though... I really like bishies.