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Offline dedalos

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #45 on: July 01, 2011, 10:49:29 AM »
What exactly is fun about a death star entering a fur-ball or any fight?  As a fighter that has to worry about other fighters trying to shoot you down what exactly is going to make it more fun by having a bunch of stationary guns shooting at you no matter what maneuver you perform?  Between fighting the guy you are engaged with, the HO fly by-s, the 190s and 51s coming in burning from the re-entry I think it is fun enough lol.  How will another 8 or 10 guns shooting at you enhance it?  Think realistically, the buff will come in last due to its speed and just end the fight.

Just another way to pick and ruin fights.  There is a reason HT did not implement them  :aok
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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #46 on: July 01, 2011, 11:35:31 AM »
What exactly is fun about a death star entering a fur-ball or any fight?  As a fighter that has to worry about other fighters trying to shoot you down what exactly is going to make it more fun by having a bunch of stationary guns shooting at you no matter what maneuver you perform?  Between fighting the guy you are engaged with, the HO fly by-s, the 190s and 51s coming in burning from the re-entry I think it is fun enough lol.  How will another 8 or 10 guns shooting at you enhance it?  Think realistically, the buff will come in last due to its speed and just end the fight.

Just another way to pick and ruin fights.  There is a reason HT did not implement them  :aok

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #47 on: July 01, 2011, 01:01:59 PM »
Bold.... now that there's funny... I don't care who ya are

 :uhoh you don't care about me?  :cry
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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #48 on: July 01, 2011, 06:06:49 PM »
I have seen KOOL, Gooss, and Piles in the last year or two. Gooss is even on the boards at times. KOOL is probably pretty busy with the kids now, I think Gooss' kid is close to being grown. Spaz was supposed to be moving real close to me a couple of years or so ago, but I never heard from him again. I haven't seen Piles in person since his last "world tour" while he was still "in". I know KOOL was flying 2-3 years ago. Last couple of times a 327th group of any real size was on was when my Dad died a few years ago, and when Eagle died. The site is still up http://www.327th.com/main.htm and still has a few on the roster. I doubt it is up to date, shows Gooss updated it 5/09. It does have a link to Eagle's Memorial Flight. I think most of those who still fly regularly are guys who joined well after the move to AH.

Just noticed, the site has you listed on the memorial, you might want to get that corrected.

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #49 on: July 01, 2011, 09:07:20 PM »
whats a death star?  :o
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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #50 on: July 02, 2011, 02:17:00 AM »
What exactly is fun about a death star entering a fur-ball or any fight?  As a fighter that has to worry about other fighters trying to shoot you down what exactly is going to make it more fun by having a bunch of stationary guns shooting at you no matter what maneuver you perform?  Between fighting the guy you are engaged with, the HO fly by-s, the 190s and 51s coming in burning from the re-entry I think it is fun enough lol.  How will another 8 or 10 guns shooting at you enhance it?  Think realistically, the buff will come in last due to its speed and just end the fight.

Just another way to pick and ruin fights.  There is a reason HT did not implement them  :aok

 :D deldalos  your missing the point, the fun is for the occupants of the death star, roaring into their mics about the poor sapp (not the Sapp we all know here) that happens to wonder into gun range, or the guy that sees a lone buff and thinks he has an easy kill, only to realize to late as his wing folds in half, what just happened.

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #51 on: July 02, 2011, 03:38:56 PM »
How the hell did we play airwarrior on dial up!?
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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #52 on: July 02, 2011, 05:37:43 PM »
How the hell did we play airwarrior on dial up!?
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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #53 on: July 02, 2011, 06:16:15 PM »


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What exactly is fun about a death star entering a fur-ball or any fight?


Who cares what a few fur-ballers think......... Its fun for the buff crew!   :aok


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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #54 on: July 03, 2011, 01:03:26 PM »


Who cares what a few fur-ballers think......... Its fun for the buff crew!   :aok


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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #55 on: July 03, 2011, 02:57:17 PM »
I think the import thing here is that adding this feature would just add an extra dimension and more fun to the game.  :salute

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #56 on: July 03, 2011, 07:30:15 PM »
the death star plans are not in the main computer  :bolt:

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #57 on: July 04, 2011, 01:23:01 AM »
I think the import thing here is that adding this feature would just add an extra dimension and more fun to the game.  :salute

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While making most bombers less effective and less survivable in exchange for something that would very rarely be used.

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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #58 on: July 04, 2011, 03:54:23 PM »
While making most bombers less effective and less survivable in exchange for something that would very rarely be used.

HiTech has spoken on this in the past.  It isn't going to happen.

Yes.

It's not an either/or issue. Or maybe it is.

It's, "I can have a formation of three bombers that I can gun myself" or "I can fly a single bomber that I cannot gun and need gunners to defend myself".

So, if you cannot get any gunners, at all, you would be pretty screwed.




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Re: The Death Star
« Reply #59 on: July 04, 2011, 11:04:14 PM »
Yes.

It's not an either/or issue. Or maybe it is.

It's, "I can have a formation of three bombers that I can gun myself" or "I can fly a single bomber that I cannot gun and need gunners to defend myself".

So, if you cannot get any gunners, at all, you would be pretty screwed.


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Thats kinda what I was thinking...
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