Author Topic: I like to furball (Read 4148 times)

Kieren · « **on:** January 24, 2001, 11:00:00 PM »

...and I don't care who knows it. Therefore, so as to not clutter the airwaves for the generals who need an open channel over which to continually chastize us (the troops) I will be squelching the country channel. No offense, I just would rather fight and die in the style I feel befitting my $29.95 without unsolicited advice on how I can have more fun and be smarter, too.

Hangtime · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2001, 12:52:00 AM »

LOL.. may I suggest.. dare I say it... some A1 sauce on yer furball pie??

<S!> to you Kieren, and bless the troops; god love 'em, they're good to have around and ops staff should treat 'em right.. otherwise they would all be lonely and very frightened when things got ugly.

The troops don't like to be hollered at. And I hate officer noises.. being a troop myself, I still chuckle when they get all worked up.. it is a rather piss-poor way to get a keyboard busted. Then; their fingers prolly hurt so bad they can't knit.

Along the way I have discovered that if I make a green bar in another grid larger than the one in the A1 grid... (combined ops)

I find that works much better than hollering.

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Voss · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2001, 01:00:00 AM »

Exactly why we need the Brewster Buffalo!

Voss 13th T.A.S.

prz · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2001, 01:12:00 AM »

more power to you, Kieren. Some people take field, some people fur. I find I need both, mostly I get all worked up trying to help with field and if htings go well, I get a vulch orgy, then move to another field. Often however after 1/2-3/4 hour without gettting a field I tend to go furballing ...

Nash · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2001, 01:41:00 AM »

If yer just furballin' - then there's no real reason to tune in to the country channel, is there? Seems like you've found an acceptable solution.

To the guys that are trying to get *their* kicks outta doing planned missions... well.. where else to accomplish this *but* the country channel? And more power to those guys also.

See - everyone's happy

lazs · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2001, 08:28:00 AM »

if you admit that you enjoy it the amish, enemies of fun, will try to figure out a way that you can't do it..... You may bet your house on it.

If you are having fun then you are ignoring them....
lazs

JimBear · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2001, 08:32:00 AM »

Now tell me how you squech your Country Channel? er squelch (darn sticky keys)

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Westy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2001, 08:35:00 AM »

Hallelujuh Kieren!

Last night we had Knights squeaking about people flying and furballing at A1. When they pat my monthly subscription I'll do what they think is right.
I had about an hour to have fun online last night and fun for me was not defending anything nor trying to capture somewhere else. I wanted to scrap with some fine opposition, which I did, with as many rinse & repeats as I wanted. Cripes amighty I found em too. A big <S> to Moss, CP and the others trying to keeeeel us at A1 !

-Westy

funked · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2001, 08:46:00 AM »

We definitely need a .squelch 2 command or a .squelch amish command.

Dinger · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2001, 08:55:00 AM »

Since I was in a ranting mood and went into Toko-ri mode last night, I'd just like to clarify something here:

I have nothing against furballing. Furball when and where you like. Fine. What I find idiotic are the people who start yelling "We're gonna lose A1. Everybody defend A1" when A8 is about to go. They continue yelling and insisting on the priority of A1 through A11, P14, A18, A17, and A15. Somewhere in there, someone will yell "my god, we're losing V27!"; somebody else decides the best way to stem the tide is to plan an HQ strike.
Sorry, but when people who are claiming to play the strat game insist on defending A1, which is designed to be a part of a furball center (That's why there are three main fields close to each other in the middle), I get annoyed.

Kieren · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2001, 09:14:00 AM »

I have absolutely no problem with anyone wanting strat. I do think it is a big world, and like Westy, often when I log I have just this >-< much time to spend, and it doesn't include enough time to launch a deep strike to the enemy resources, a lone-pilot last stand at a vultched base, or suicide mission into the flak of a faraway enemy fleet. I have time to find a few satisfying ACM duels, and I do that by climbing high and looking for that dot on the periphery that is hanging out around a base looking for easy scalps. In most cases I'll find a good pilot that I will have to work very hard to kill, if I do at all. And if I lose, at least I had a chance, not like popping up over and over on a base covered in blue-draped hispanos.

What was most annoying to me last night was the nonstop railing on the Knights at A1 for doing exactly what they wanted to do. I don't give a damn about the war, perk points, or my score. I don't care if we lose on a reset. I don't have the time to get that involved.

I don't tell strat guys they are stupid for playing their way, or that they can't be having fun.

Hangtime · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2001, 09:22:00 AM »

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...not like popping up over and over on a base covered in blue-draped hispanos.

ROFL... Kieren, you have a really great gift for the turn of a phrase. <S!> Sir!

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Staga · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2001, 09:27:00 AM »

Maybe HTC should open a "AirCombatArena" for guys who like to furball?

Cut out middle-islands and move it to its own arena. That way they could have their own fun with AH and then they dont have to listen if someone asks help to capture more fields to your country.

Maybe players should get points not for reseting arena but field capturing instead? (Jaboing/Bombing/shelling ack and structures, Shooting down planes in bases airspace etc.)
That way the guys who try to capture bases and that way trying to reset arena could get the reward they deserved.

Westy · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2001, 09:34:00 AM »

"Maybe HTC should open a "AirCombatArena" for guys who like to furball?"

Why? I'm not complaining or even saying that anyone was able to interfere with what I wanted to do, only that last night there were several folks choking the country channel with alot of whine.
Maybe there should be a small arena for the minority of generals? Hmmmm?

-Westy

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Dinger · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2001, 09:36:00 AM »

Things got kind of ugly last night -- part of what happens when you lose.
Frankly, when someone yells "we're losing XX" on the channel, I never respond. 9 times out of 10 the field is already lost. What bugged me were the generals insisting that A1 be defended, as we could then go out and capture fields from there (never mind that our barracks complex was being milked, and A1s barracks were down for the duration), when the spawn-and-get-vulched crowd could have gone somewhere else and pissed folks off, and the field capturers had much more sensible targets.
I'm in favor of keeping the center islands; they are a good area for furballing. But to get people screaming about the absolute strategic necessity of holding A1 while we are losing the war, that I can't take too much of.
I guess I need a .tardsquelch

Author Topic: I like to furball (Read 4148 times)

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