how bout those armchair generals......

[NavyOne1978]

what do you all think of the aviation "lawyers".. you know the guys that sit there and nitpick every little thing everyone else does, calling foul on all things, real or imagined... I understand there are ethics, and unwritten rules to the game, but those who complan at EVERY percieved infraction, every 5 minutes, and always are the quickest to point out violations are annoying as hell..

These are the guys that complain that everything someone else does is unfair, and probably spams HTC email with video and screenshots of some injustice.. How do you all deal with these guys??


 

[crockett]

Isn't that pretty much what you are doing now?

[NavyOne1978]

maybe, just a little bit......

[Hap]

Isn't that pretty much what you are doing now?

No.  He's beefing about bossy bosses.  NB  They are an essential part of AH2.  Without them, the game would devolve into a bunch of guys shooting at each other in planes for fun.



As to bossy bosses, I used to be one.  AND no one listened.  Good for them!!

A funny one: ran a mission long time ago.  Target was at 045 from the staging field.  I'm 1/2 there in a goon.  Mission ups.  I ask Slammer to bring 'em to the field.  I watching dar.  Field runway points 225 or thereabouts.  1 min in bunches o dots still heading 225 dead out sea with no land in sight forever and I hearing Slammer on vox "this way ladies, this way ladies."

Is VERY funny once you begin to take it all less seriously.

[NavyOne1978]

my whole rambling point is people who take the game WAY too seriously......

[uptown]

        get back to your battle stations damnit! We have incoming!!!!!!!

[hubsonfire]

How do I deal with it?
I wait until a base is taken, then I chastise them on country channel for sitting in the tower shouting orders, then I type .squelch (ltown/baba/drdeathx/squeaker etc). Works pretty well, I think.

[NavyOne1978]

        get back to your battle stations damnit! We have incoming!!!!!!!

 

[Patches1]

" .squelch General " works fine for me...   <GRIN>

[Masherbrum]

Yep, 9 times out of 10, they are chirping from the "confines" of a tower near you.   

 

My personal fav's are the "<insert any Country> Suck, you guys just flat out suck!!!!"   

[moot]

Only the ones that won't stop repeating the same tactical/strategic arguments, even after they're acknowledged and/or refuted, and/or type them in all caps are truly annoying.  They get squelched.

[sunfan1121]

my whole rambling point is people who take the game WAY too seriously......

when did this become a game?
























 

[Nilsen]

We have a few on the knit side. They serve a purpose for those that think basecapture and such is what the game is all about, but i usually dont bother with em.

Some times if im over a field and a friendly misson (or just one of the generals and his posse) arrives and commands me not to pork the field I go into turbo mode and pork even more than I intended to in the first place.

"Waaaa dont pork ords, Waaaaaa dont pork troops we will have it soon". An hour later and they still buzz around and havent taken the field, but our cv is dead or a nearby base has been captured. 

[stephen waldron]

    I'm confused.  Wouldn't the game have to be "Real" in order for someone criticizing it to qualify as an "armchair" general ?   Isn't that what they call the talking heads on TV who give us advise on how to fight real conflicts 2,000 miles away ?  Wouldn't that person also have to be someone Removed from the actual combat ?
    And the people doing the criticizing in the main arena ARE actually in the game fighting it, arn't they ?  That doesn't seem to fit the definition of an "armchair" general.  "Armchair" meaning once removed from the combat.
    Are you suffering from the delusion that you're the Only person in the game fighting it correctly, while others are unfairly criticizing you ?  Then you ask other people suffering from the same delusion to validate that for you.  And they do it !
     My advise to you is that you should give this some thought and seek help.


                                                              The Armchair Psychiatrist,

[SD67]

when did this become a game?

Whaddaya mean GAME????
Say it ain't so!