Side Switching Time Increased Please

[ROX]

Spying used to be "bad"...now, it's just plain rampant.

(Just look at the roster...10 guys in the same squad are on one country--one guy is in another....(hello....McFly).

Having the side switching time be as short as it it (what, and hour--maybe?) seems to highly encourage spying. 

If it is the official policy of the host to encourage spying, please leave it how it is.

My wish?  Have the side-switch time go from one hour to one week.  This would be the perfect deterrent.

Most of these slimeballs would be far less apt to switch & spy if they knew they'd be stuck on that side for a week. 

Most organized squads that rotate do so on a pre-planned schedule anyway...wouldn't adversly effect them.

Sure, there will be the "I always switch to the side with the lowest numbers" crowd.  (Biggest lie in the game...write down their ID's and whatch the roster and see what I mean.) 

BTW:  I'll bet you $100 bucks in advance that the only ones who will disagree with this wish are (guess what?) chronic spies.



ROX

[Lusche]

BTW:  I'll bet you $100 bucks in advance that the only ones who will disagree with this wish are (guess what?) chronic spies.

Typical witchhunter logic


The only thing rampant is paranoia.

Last week, when an "alliance mission" was giving it's location away by popping darbar during it's 3rd run, I was promptly under suspect of having spied when I showed up for goon hunting in my 262.

Please send me that 100$.

Thank you.

[TalonX]

24 hours works.   The only risk here is the guy that is logging off anyway, deciding to spy.

In my squad, the Nasty Dead Men, we are absolutely prohibited from switching sides.  Instant ejection.    We don't even like the APPEARANCE of spying.

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[ROX]

Typical witchhunter logic


The only thing rampant is paranoia.

Last week, when an "alliance mission" was giving it's location away by popping darbar during it's 3rd run, I was promptly under suspect of having spied when I showed up for goon hunting in my 262.

Please send me that 100$.

Thank you.

Paranoia?  Are you even remotely serious?  Paranoia?  What you are implying is that no one EVER spies.  Gimme a break.

Lusche....do you constantly side-hop and spy?   I dont think so...I have never seen you do it.

So why would you have any objections?

All I am asking is that those who DO...be marooned there for a week.

Honest players should have absolutely no gripe with this request....

Slimey players, however, will bellyache and moan 'til the cows come home.

[Lusche]

Lusche....do you constantly side-hop and spy?   I dont think so...

So why would you have any objections?

All I am asking is that those who DO...be marooned there for a week.

Honest players should have absolutely no gripe with this request.

Because I know many honest good guys that switch sides several times a night even. Some trying to balance, some just trying to stay in their fav ride despite ENY, some just looking for the best fight possible, and some, because they do have friends on every side they like to wing with.
I remember one night when CorkyJr (I think it was him) first shot me down as a knight, then as a bish, then he finally was flying besides me in green on the rook side. All good fun.

And I don't like the implied connection between side switching and honesty.

Paranoia?  Are you even remotely serious?  Paranoia?  What you are implying is that no one EVER spies. 

No I'm not. Don't read anything into my words I didn't write.

But fact is that some players do get so obsessed by this addiction if ours, that when something doesn't work it's always "them". Spies gave away our mission, ENY always discriminates Knights (Rooks/Bishops), HTC is biased and hates Knights (Bish/Rooks), (Bish/Rooks/Nits) have a hack that prevents bases from flashing when under attack...

Penalizing 100 honest players for one actual dolt doesn't sound fun, fair or even efficient.

[Guppy35]

My guys, the 80th Headhunters, switch sides to even the fight.  We could care less if you take every base in the arena.  But to limit us from doing what we enjoy, which is flying against the horde, seems somewhat silly.

I'd think you'd want folks to oppose you so you'd have a challenge.  I hate being part of a mob.  I don't mind dying, and I'll more then happily up into the crowd.

As for spying.  Ya gotta lighten up.  This just isn't that serious.

As for honesty, I'm telling you as straight as I can.  I could care less about what you do.  If you want to fly the mob, enjoy.  By your logic, you'd have everyone fly on your side so you could fight unopposed.

My loyalty is to my friends in the game from all sides and to the fight, not to some silly chess piece symbol or to the joy of the do-over steamrolling of the maps.  One base looks the same as the next.  The challenge is the fight.

Oh, as one who is objecting, I've never spied, have not intention of spying, and as mentioned could care less about your approach to the game. To me, anyone who is concerned with the notion of spying in a game, takes it way too seriously.

As it is just a game where I get to pretend to be a WW2 fighter pilot flying a cartoon airplane against cartoon bad guy planes, flown by often time people I respect and enjoy.  Since I have yet to actually die in Aces High, I'll continue to have fun thanks

BTW my attitude about switching sides and evening the fights goes back over 11 years to my Nomad days in Airwarrior.  The name said it all.  We went where the fight was.  That approach isn't going to change either.

[ROX]

Good point...because we all know in real life...in WWII...any pilot could defect from Germany---to Russia---then to USA all in under three hours just to fly their favorite planes.

I'm sure it happened all the time.

Back then...spies were SHOT.  I wish we had that option now.


ROX

[Guppy35]

Good point...because we all know in real life...in WWII...any pilot could defect from Germany---to Russia---then to USA all in under three hours just to fly their favorite planes.

I'm sure it happened all the time.

Back then...spies were SHOT.  I wish we had that option now.


ROX

I rest my case.  This isn't real life.  This is a game.  There is nothing at stake.  My family is safe, and I'm enjoying myself.

If you want to play it that way, then lets make this one life and you never play again.  How long you gonna last at that?

You gonna keep flying the way you do if you know that despite the horde, you might get shot and thats it?

LOL this isn't WW2.  Until we start really dying and there is real risk, that's a baseless argument.

This isn't about favorite planes btw.  This is about having fun and finding a fight.

But I'll tell ya what. 

You be Germany, I'll be the Allies.  It's 1945 and since most of the guys in the horde fly like they've only been up for a few hours, this is the most reasonable way to divide it.   I get my 10,000 sorties a day, to your 5-600 if you are lucky.  My better trained and equipped guys will probably slaughter your guys but we'll be loyal to our sides.  Sounds fair don't ya think? "_

I promise to stay Allies and never switch.  You stay Germany and we'll see how it goes.

[Larry]

Good point...because we all know in real life...in WWII...any pilot could defect from Germany---to Russia---then to USA all in under three hours just to fly their favorite planes.

I'm sure it happened all the time.

Back then...spies were SHOT.  I wish we had that option now.

ROX

Get over it! Not all people that switch are spys. Sure there will always be one idiot thinking that spying is cool, but you cont stop them with this. They will just make another account to spy with. I switch sides almost every day, sometimes two or three times a day so I can fly any plane I want. This is a GAME not a real war. I could care less about winning the war I dont need the 25 perks hardly ever help with base captures. Stop shining about the people that even the numbers so you can fly your Lgay7 and SPixqueen and play the game.

[Masherbrum]

Spying used to be "bad"...now, it's just plain rampant.

(Just look at the roster...10 guys in the same squad are on one country--one guy is in another....(hello....McFly).

Having the side switching time be as short as it it (what, and hour--maybe?) seems to highly encourage spying. 

If it is the official policy of the host to encourage spying, please leave it how it is.

My wish?  Have the side-switch time go from one hour to one week.  This would be the perfect deterrent.

Most of these slimeballs would be far less apt to switch & spy if they knew they'd be stuck on that side for a week. 

Most organized squads that rotate do so on a pre-planned schedule anyway...wouldn't adversly effect them.

Sure, there will be the "I always switch to the side with the lowest numbers" crowd.  (Biggest lie in the game...write down their ID's and whatch the roster and see what I mean.) 

BTW:  I'll bet you $100 bucks in advance that the only ones who will disagree with this wish are (guess what?) chronic spies.



ROX

I'll bet you $5,000 ROX.   I am in Nazgul and will OFTEN switch to Bish or Knight if Rooks have the "large stack" in the Arenas.   I don't spy, only time I would, is if TT or FT bases were involved to keep them from being captured.    I'd stay Rook for that anyways.   

Care to take me up on the bet?   

[ROX]

My guys, the 80th Headhunters, switch sides to even the fight.  We could care less if you take every base in the arena.  But to limit us from doing what we enjoy, which is flying against the horde, seems somewhat silly.

As a matter of record: twice yesterday our missions were spied on by a bishop who defected, sat on our mission channel, and PM'ed all mission detail back to the bishops.

The first mission we had barely taken off before three 262's (all flown by members of the 80th Headhunters) jumped us.  (No other cons in the grid, all mission was NOE, nobody popped).  

Are we to assume that three bishops, in the host highly perked plane in the game, came over to an empty base where nothing was on dar based on what?  ESP?  Give me a break! 

The second mission, we get to the intended base NOE to find scads of gv's on the field tipped off in advance (guess what, many were 80th Headhunters).

Please don't assume that peaple are as stupid as you want us to be.

I can only reinterate that the only folks opposed to the request are just that...either chronic spies or are making use of spies.  PERIOD.


ROX

[Guppy35]

LOL.  You've got to be trolling now.  You can't be that silly.

And I do note you avoided responding to anything I said in my reply to you.

[Masherbrum]

LOL.  You've got to be trolling now.  You can't be that silly.

And I do note you avoided responding to anything I said in my reply to you.

<whispers to Dan>"Wait, ack-ack DID bring the Enigma encrypter this time right?   Don't tell me a spi got a hold of it."

[Motherland]

As a matter of record: twice yesterday our missions were spied on by a bishop who defected, sat on our mission channel, and PM'ed all mission detail back to the bishops.

The first mission we had barely taken off before three 262's (all flown by members of the 80th Headhunters) jumped us.  (No other cons in the grid, all mission was NOE, nobody popped).  

Are we to assume that three bishops, in the host highly perked plane in the game, came over to an empty base where nothing was on dar based on what?  ESP?  Give me a break! 

The second mission, we get to the intended base NOE to find scads of gv's on the field tipped off in advance (guess what, many were 80th Headhunters).

Please don't assume that peaple are as stupid as you want us to be.

I can only reinterate that the only folks opposed to the request are just that...either chronic spies or are making use of spies.  PERIOD.


ROX

And I imagine you had a much better time fighting people instead of buildings? I never understood the appeal of capturing an undefended base in the MAs.


Btw, Ive never been anything but knight for the past 3-4 months, nor has anyone from my squad. I'll be expecting $100 in my PayPal account by Friday.

[Guppy35]

<whispers to Dan>"Wait, ack-ack DID bring the Enigma encrypter this time right?   Don't tell me a spi got a hold of it."

It's all part of the SAPP plot to control Aces High.  Get enough Craggenmore to HTC and you can have anything you want, including advance notice on any raids.  That 12 year old scotch works wonders.  No need to switch sides.  SAPP now has access to the text and vox from all three countries.  And we are able to tune into VOX without being seen.

Muhaha!