Toolsheders

[Yarbles]

I know what furballers are but what are toolshedders?

[VonMessa]

They kill the evil, dangerous buildings on a base.

 

[CAP1]

They kill the evil, dangerous buildings on a base.

 

some use torpedoes for this. 

[uptown]

some use torpedoes for this. 

I prefer drop tanks 

[CAP1]

I prefer drop tanks 

ya, but with torps, you can lead it a bit, so when someone turns the town, ya still hit it. 

[VonMessa]

ya, but with torps, you can lead it a bit, so when someone turns the town, ya still hit it. 

I thought I was the only one seeing this       

[Anaxogoras]

Someone will correct a detail of my definition, but here's my best try:

Toolshedder:  Is typically a bomber pilot who ignores player controlled objects and attacks stationary, unoccupied buildings instead, i.e. a shed full of tools; especially when there is a large furball underway and the bomber pilot drops the fighter hangars without the threat of field capture by either side, which also makes him a griefer.  Another variety of toolshedding is noe-base-sneak-capture missions.


Von that white 7 looks frign' awesome!

[Murdr]

Sounds fairly good to me gavagai.

[flatiron1]

my definition is targets

[CAP1]

soooo...in all seriousness now.......

sometimes when i don't feel like flying a fighter, i'll take lancs, and just go drop bombs. sometimes fuel or dar factories. sometimes on a town, if there;s an attempt at capture going on at that base....sometimes i'll just go and pop radar on multiple bases....usually picking a route that has me heading home when i drop my last egg. sometimes, i'll go to a small base, and de-ack it......just because i can. it tends to piss off some people too.....but sometimes that;s the point too.
 when i'm doing this, it's a bonus if someone comes up to fight me.


so....is this considered toolshedding?

[Murdr]

I added both to the Common terms page  They are intentionally brief, but I think they cover the definitions.

[Dawger]

Someone will correct a detail of my definition, but here's my best try:

Toolshedder:  Is  a player (using a bomber, fighter or GV) who ignores player controlled objects and attacks stationary, unoccupied buildings instead, i.e. a shed full of tools; especially when there is a large furball underway and the player drops the fighter hangars without the threat of field capture by either side, which also makes him a griefer.  Another variety of toolshedding is noe-base-sneak-capture missions.


Von that white 7 looks frign' awesome!

That's my edit of an otherwise excellent definition.

[VonMessa]

Someone will correct a detail of my definition, but here's my best try:

Toolshedder:  Is typically a bomber pilot who ignores player controlled objects and attacks stationary, unoccupied buildings instead, i.e. a shed full of tools; especially when there is a large furball underway and the bomber pilot drops the fighter hangars without the threat of field capture by either side, which also makes him a griefer.  Another variety of toolshedding is noe-base-sneak-capture missions.


Von that white 7 looks frign' awesome!

Herr Bug's doing 

[Patches1]

I'm not really sure just how fighter-bombers fit into this thread, but I do both: I take out ords/VH on an airfield if necessary, dump 3k ords on a cv, or ca, and hit strat targets, if necessary...and then...furball, providing I survive the awesome ground, or puffy ack (from CVs). Some may call me a Toolshedder, others may call me a "Suicide Bomber" which I am not ( I always fly with the intend of surviving)...but I can read a map and see where the fight is going and how I, as an individual, may be able to influence the map to my Country's favor.

Many Tours ago a single Corsair could sink a CV; today we call for more hardening of a CV that now takes 8K to sink, but with increased ack defense.

Many Tours ago we screamed for more ack protection on Airfields, and more Barracks to prevent captures from opposing Airfields...and this happened; now we scream that there is too much ack and that it is too accurate, and that Bombers are targeting Fighter Hangars and Bomber Hangars on airfields we insisted were poorly defended before, but are now protected by the very same defensives we asked for a few TODs ago.

So, am I a Toolshedder, or a Furballer? I fly an aircraft capable of both; I've furballed on the deck with Spits and Zekes, and furballed at 30K with bombers; and just for the record, furballing bombers at 30K far exceeds, in my opinion, the skill of furballing Spits, or Zekes, at sea level.

And! Oh! Do Bombers at 25-30k fall into the Toolshedder Category? And! Do fighter-bombers who oppose this action fall into the Furball Category?

Just wondering...can one furball at 30k...and be a Bomber?

[Chapel]

Play the game the way you enjoy it Patches. If someone else has a problem, it's thier problem and they can learn to deal with it, or go to a different area/map/arena.
Assuming that you're playing within the rules of the game and designers that is.