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Offline DrDea

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I miss the good old days
« on: March 29, 2008, 01:04:57 AM »
 Remember in AW how you would get engaged with someone and they would start smoking and you gave a <S> and let them go home?Alotta the quake types playing wouldnt understand that.It wasnt about the kill.It was all about the fight in the old days.The days of Air Warrior.Now I find myself wondering if this guy in front of me is gonna give me a face shot.Should I dive down up both giving him a snapshot at me?Should I give him a shot in the face myself?
  I had several if not many fights with Nomde.Him his 47 me my 109.All straight up legit fights and we more often than not both ended up smoking and calling it a fight so we could rtb.Hell he called off 2 guys from his country one time so I could rtb.That kinda honor has gone.Now its smack talking tards that belittle people nightly on 200 thumping their chests and calling everyone else dweebs."Go to the DA now your your a wuss" I see this so often it makes me wanna puke.The prevailing attitudes in AH has damaged the game.I was gone for around a year and decided to come back.Man this place has changed in a year.My % of giving a HO has tripled due to the fact thats all I get anymore.I cant wait till CT comes out.I'll live there.
 I miss my old game.I wish there was a way to make it come back. :frown:
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2008, 01:09:30 AM »
Just squelch Skyrock. I always do   :aok
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2008, 01:35:43 AM »
Quote from: MajWoody on March 29, 2008, 01:09:30 AM
Just squelch Skyrock. I always do   :aok
I think Skyrock has toned it down quite a bit from the past. There are plenty more on now who just never let up with the 200 b/s & I will squelch them or shut off 200. How ever even with that you will get the pm's if you are involved with some one who is that way inclined. At least with Skyrock he has mentioned in the past in the forums that it is a persona & Mark is not the same person as Skyrock. So I tend to take any of his banter as his roll playing where prior to his forum post I was a bit confused by him & figured there was more to him that meets the eye. Guess what there is. 
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2008, 01:39:49 AM »
Maybe he should join his local drama club  :O
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2008, 01:43:50 AM »
Quote from: MajWoody on March 29, 2008, 01:39:49 AM
Maybe he should join his local drama club  :O
  That is funny you should mention drama club because that is were on my post about there is more to him that meets the eye would apply.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2008, 01:47:34 AM »
Quote from: DrDea on March 29, 2008, 01:04:57 AM
Remember in AW how you would get engaged with someone and they would start smoking and you gave a <S> and let them go home?Alotta the quake types playing wouldnt understand that.It wasnt about the kill.It was all about the fight in the old days.The days of Air Warrior.Now I find myself wondering if this guy in front of me is gonna give me a face shot.Should I dive down up both giving him a snapshot at me?Should I give him a shot in the face myself?
  I had several if not many fights with Nomde.Him his 47 me my 109.All straight up legit fights and we more often than not both ended up smoking and calling it a fight so we could rtb.Hell he called off 2 guys from his country one time so I could rtb.That kinda honor has gone.Now its smack talking tards that belittle people nightly on 200 thumping their chests and calling everyone else dweebs."Go to the DA now your your a wuss" I see this so often it makes me wanna puke.The prevailing attitudes in AH has damaged the game.I was gone for around a year and decided to come back.Man this place has changed in a year.My % of giving a HO has tripled due to the fact thats all I get anymore.I cant wait till CT comes out.I'll live there.
 I miss my old game.I wish there was a way to make it come back. :frown:

It's still there.  All depends on whether you let yourself get sucked into the other stuff or not.

All kinds of good folks who are just looking for a fun fight. :aok
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2008, 01:51:21 AM »
 NAw its not the drama queens...Its the total lack of any type of what AW had going.The old sticks will know what Im saying.You could fight a guy for 5 min and one would get hit in the engine and ya called it a fight.You dont see that now.Its die or die.Sure has changed alot.Now everyone has to concider the %of having to throw out a face shot.Playstation and X box has killed the honor mentality.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2008, 01:53:41 AM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on March 29, 2008, 01:47:34 AM
It's still there.  All depends on whether you let yourself get sucked into the other stuff or not.

All kinds of good folks who are just looking for a fun fight. :aok
Guppy I know what your trying to say.but you just dont know if its gonna be a HO shot or not anymore. I find myself expecting it more often that not  and that sucks.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2008, 01:54:26 AM »
 And of all things AvA has turned into a land grab.
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Offline Guppy35

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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2008, 01:55:14 AM »
Quote from: DrDea on March 29, 2008, 01:51:21 AM
NAw its not the drama queens...Its the total lack of any type of what AW had going.The old sticks will know what Im saying.You could fight a guy for 5 min and one would get hit in the engine and ya called it a fight.You dont see that now.Its die or die.Sure has changed alot.Now everyone has to concider the %of having to throw out a face shot.Playstation and X box has killed the honor mentality.

Define an old stick.  My AW days started in 96.  The old guys then thought we were kinda useless too :)

There were mouths, and vulchers and guys who only fought when they had every advantage.  There were porkers, and milk runners and everything else.

The guys who wanted to fight and understood it was a game tended to find each other anyway.  I'm having as much fun now if not more then I had back then, and I had a blast.  I understand what you are talking about.  I think we all have our 'time' in the game where we remember something special.  I just think that it's still here as long as I still want to find it.
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2008, 02:12:04 AM »
I agree 100%.  I started in 1996 too and it's not much different now than it was then.  The only diffeence is the number of players in an arena at a given time and the fact that you know fewer of them.

I hear what you're saying about the honor part but there wasn't always honor in AW either.  Maybe a little more than now though.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2008, 02:16:28 AM »
I'm going to do it from now on.. Screw the kill stealers and gang bangers.. Screw score and all that crap.  Unless the plane is heading to pork, I'm letting it go if it's crippled.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2008, 02:50:11 AM »
I treat "honour" in other way. Fighting when you are outnumbered, your plane is cripled, w/o ammo or fuel and dont blame other guys who dont let you go.

Most time i will shoot planes which i damaged before or planes w/o ammo or fuel if they attacked me before. But will let them go if somebody other cripled them, unless they attack me after that.

Its a game after all, no one lost anything if he died.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2008, 02:55:36 AM »
as a reliably new guy here and reading posts like this ive taking up the notion to let live,  many times in a GV ive smoked someone and he headed back to base, i could of chased him down in a M-8  but ive let them go.
i dont fly very much at all and the few times i have ive gotten one kill this tour but if i did get the upper hand and smoke someone and he ran for home id let him go verse the easy kill to up my rating,  id rather have the <S> for letting them go then to think about my ratings.
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Re: I miss the good old days
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2008, 03:14:26 AM »
I think it is not just the game, it is the natural progression of things.  In WW1 they started off very "honourable" for the most part.  But over time it was replaced with the "kill them all even if they are going down".  WW2 begam similarly (although, to a lesser degree and it depended on who was fighting who), but over time if was just a brutal as any grudge match.

That said, I still have fights like that.  Furball about a week or so ago was killing us all in his Hurri.  I was coming back into the fight and he was landing.  He called out over 200 he was out of ammo, so I let him go.  Later that day I got all beat to heck and obvious I was no threat so the con (still don't know who he was), peeled off and let me go.

Some guys talk smack on 200 and now I laugh at them.  Used to get all worked up, but what is the point.  If I met anyone in person it is not like this game means that much.  And usually, unless I give it back and escalate things it goes away quickly.  Internet and MMO game tough guys really don't impress me at all.  Usually, they are just blowing off steam so I let it go.

And, if someone doesn't let me go home when I am obviously finished, well, that is the name of the game.  Not a quakefest if the idea is to shoot the other guy down and that is what they do.  Just means I was the bug that time and they were the windshield.

To me it makes it more special that the "honor" thing doesn't happen all the time.  Makes me appreciate it more when it does.
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