Why do you play the game?

[TwinBoom]

Uh oh, finnish is a very complicated language. Your online translator translated it like this:

Now you die this cartoon on the heaven.

This is a simple game I am by pressing button getting answer.... What exactly did you aim to say?

said now you will die in this cartoon sky
its a simple game i press buttons to get a reaction lol

[MrRiplEy[H]]

he clearly stated he knew it was snaphook.....was more than a hunch   your story seems to change a little bit every post; seems molded to accomodate you      just my $0.02

So if you met me on cartoon sky and found out it was me against you, what kind of conduct would you magically follow then? When you're a squaddie you get to know people. When you're an enemy side player you kill or get killed, you don't get to be friends with your opposing players let alone know their code of conduct.

[IrishOne]

So if you met me on cartoon sky and found out it was me against you, what kind of conduct would you magically follow then? When you're a squaddie you get to know people. When you're an enemy side player you kill or get killed, you don't get to be friends with your opposing players let alone know their code of conduct.

i wasnt stating a thing about flying conduct.  perhaps if you weren't so defensive you might have noticed this.  was simply stating that your story changes.  another $0.02

[Bronk]

Hunch or knew it was snap... Please get your stories straight.

[humble]

So if you met me on cartoon sky and found out it was me against you, what kind of conduct would you magically follow then? When you're a squaddie you get to know people. When you're an enemy side player you kill or get killed, you don't get to be friends with your opposing players let alone know their code of conduct.

I'd say that a significant portion of the regular player base knows that I'll do my best to call off a friendly if I'm engaged one on one in anything other then a pure B&Z attack. If an other friendly jumps in i'll normally disengage...

[macleod01]

What makes you think Wmaker SHOULD have any confidence of his level of morale by a couple of passing confrontations, even less knowing he had only a hunch that it might be snaphook in the SBD.

Oh please sir, give me a BIT of respect.

How many SBD's do you see trying to dogfight away from a CV? Personally I have never seen one othe rthan being flown by Snaphook. Also Wmaker already stated he knew it was Snaphook and was hoping to get a reaction. Please, I have a brain.

On your point about having to judge character, I did indeed say that it took me a while. However I was a newbie into the game, struggling to find my feet and constantly coming up against people with their own ideas on how I should fly. Wmaker has been around a lot longer than I have, as has Snaphook. Are you trying to tell me that you have never heard of anyone's reputation? You fly in the game and you hear about these things. I have never flown with Guppy, but I've heard all about him, and so I have a lot of respect for him. Another famous lady was Schatzi. Do any of the old vets here want to stand up and tell me they never heard of Schatzi's reputation in a Hurri 1?
Wmaker will of heard of Snaphooks reputation. He most probably knew that Snaphook would never vultch.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

i wasnt stating a thing about flying conduct.  perhaps if you weren't so defensive you might have noticed this.  was simply stating that your story changes.  another $0.02

My story doesn't change a bit. You're trying to twist things to suit your own purposes here. Tell me, was there a sign 'snaphook' on the SBD? If not, how could wmaker be 100% sure it was snaphook?

Even if he was 100% sure which I have no way of knowing, what makes you think he knew by wordless communication that snaphooks ruleset required a 1 vs 1 fight despite running out of fuel doing it? What makes you think we who joined the fight knew it was snaphook and we should not stop him?

You see, MA is a very complicated place with hundreds of individual players. Like it or not you cannot control what they do randomly at random locations.

[IrishOne]

My story doesn't change a bit. You're trying to twist things to suit your own purposes here. Tell me, was there a sign 'snaphook' on the SBD? If not, how could wmaker be 100% sure it was snaphook?

Even if he was 100% sure which I have no way of knowing, what makes you think he knew by wordless communication that snaphooks ruleset required a 1 vs 1 fight despite running out of fuel doing it? What makes you think we who joined the fight knew it was snaphook and we should not stop him?

You see, MA is a very complicated place with hundreds of individual players. Like it or not you cannot control what they do randomly at random locations.

lol my own purposes?? my "purpose" was to point out the variations in your story.  I'm simply here reading threads.    im not on either side of this debate.  lol, twisting for my own purposes....isn't that what I just said to you? 
and ease up on Wmakers ankle, all that humping is bound to chaff

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Oh please sir, give me a BIT of respect.

How many SBD's do you see trying to dogfight away from a CV? Personally I have never seen one othe rthan being flown by Snaphook. Also Wmaker already stated he knew it was Snaphook and was hoping to get a reaction. Please, I have a brain.

Sorry but when I saw snaphooks SBD approaching our field my first thought was it was some noob cannon fodder that by miracle made his way undetected that far. Your internet egos do not fly past country borders, you're anonymous more or less to the enemy. Just as non existent as Wmakers knowledge of snaps identity is to me.

You're taking awful leaps of confidence making assumptions that enemy players should know you or snaphook well enough to do jack about it.

I think that some people really think their internet ego shines through the borders that game imposes upon us. Well it doesn't. Boo-hoo

[MrRiplEy[H]]

lol my own purposes?? my "purpose" was to point out the variations in your story.  I'm simply here reading threads.    im not on either side of this debate.  lol, twisting for my own purposes....isn't that what I just said to you? 
and ease up on Wmakers ankle, all that humping is bound to chaff

The only reason I'm commenting this thing is that I was taking part in the fight and know what happened from our side. What exactly is your motivation in commenting on the issue i.e. ankle humping snaphook and his squaddies?

[macleod01]

I wasn't setting the SBD up for anything, I was testing if my hypothesis was correct. Ie, setting you up for Ch200 tirade. Thanks for not dissapointing.

Ripley, Wmaker knew.

[IrishOne]

The only reason I'm commenting this thing is that I was taking part in the fight and know what happened from our side. What exactly is your motivation in commenting on the issue i.e. ankle humping snaphook and his squaddies?

again, you misread.  im not on snaphooks side of the arguement, im simply here reading threads.  lol i didnt even watch the video.  im just saying that your version of the event had varied.  if you'd like me to explain that for a 4th time, please just ask.

[Wmaker]

Not that this has much relevance considering I've already explained my desicion making more than once but...

As I had shot him down in an earlier sortie in an SBD I was quite sure it was him. I very very rarely see him online probably due to number of reasons, I really dont care how he flies and it really had no bearing to the situation itself. As Ripley engaged I took a look at the fuel gauge and my alt and engaged myself. I've just remembered him commenting on Ch200 after getting killed sometime and as the situation unfolded I knew a reaction was on its way. Having been on the recieving end of several Ch200 tirades recently, I answered in an "ohh shaddap!" kind of manner, somewhat of a kneejerk reaction on my part. That set snaphook off and here we are.  As I've said again and again, had he stayed silent he wouldn't have heard a thing from me. He could have just taken a new plane and come looking for me.


I'll quote myself:

The only one anyone here has control over is themselves. The moment someone starts telling others how they should spend or should have spent their free time in an online pc game, he is out of line.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

again, you misread.  im not on snaphooks side of the arguement, im simply here reading threads.  lol i didnt even watch the video.  im just saying that your version of the event had varied.  if you'd like me to explain that for a 4th time, please just ask.

You have a not-so-well hidden agenda anyway so please tell me what's your motivation? Xenophobia? Homeland versus eurotrash? Come clean.

[5PointOh]

Sorry to butt in, but Snaphook I know your a good stick, next time your on let me know I'd like to fly against you.  I've been flying the SBD a lot as of late, and to be honest I really enjoy it.  

Ok everyone else continue on...