How does your Country getting pwnd affect your mood and legnth of play?

[potsNpans]

Country schmuntry, so long as you love a good fight. Though I could do with out the 3 + on 1 encounters. As an a American we always root for the underdog.

[chaser]

Personally I like playing for the country thats getting pwnd. They usually have low number and a really high perk bonus! Lots of easy perks to be made 

[Guppy35]

The gnashing of teeth and general whining that is often exhibited on channel 2 bothers me more than anything that is actually happening on the map or in the air.

Back when we had the 1 hour country switch it wasn't uncommon that I would switch to the losing country just so I wouldn't have to fight other countrymen for the few scrapes on the table, so who "wins" the map is of little consequence to me, when I'm playing the concern is the other planes in the sector with me, or the base I'm flying from or flying two. Rarely do I look much beyond that.

What Soulyss said.

The only discouraging thing in the end, is when you log on and see a large mob in each country and none of them fighting each other.

[titanic3]

If the same map has been going on for over 3 days, I do whatever I feel like it, because frankly, I just want a new map. If we're losing, I just go and find my own fight. If we're on the verge of winning with one or two bases left, then hold on to your hats, cause here comes the horde.

Otherwise, I just fly with squadmates or some friends. Maybe organize a fun mission like a strat raid or a 40 ENY fighter sweep.

[Dragon]

I always find something to do. I'll normally up a set of buffs and start dropping dars just to antagonize the "steam rolling" chess piece team and possibly start some good fights.



We are not chess piece loyal, so switching is no problem and often done.

[oboe]

"Effect?  I'll tell you what the effect is!  It's pissing me off!!"

[1701E]

 Long as I find a good fight I wouldn't care if our country got wiped down to 1 base in mere seconds. Mind you, finding someone who will fight a rusty P-40C in LW is hard, most just want to get that "easy kill" quickly and run home to land it. Thought I had found some, turns out it only seemed that way cause I could keep them from pointing their nose at mine for a decent amount of time.
 I tend to avoid country chat and subsequently avoid helping county. I don't find any enjoyment in taking bases anymore, the way it's done just bores me. Although if I have to hear about "We're losing" or "We can't take this base" whining crud over vox, it certainly makes me log faster. I personally don't want to hear you old men whining like 5 year olds. It's a game, it's a map, it's a set of plane, just play!

[Tank-Ace]

I used to be a bishop exclusively. I HATED seeing enemy hordes, I HATED the feeling of watching my countrymen get pushed back and being unable to stop it dispite my hardest efforts. Just made me feel sad, and out of sorts. I hated the enemy players the way I would hate anyone that defeated my country in an actual war (I know, silly isn't it? But this is more than just a game or a hobby for me. My friends here matter to me as much as the ones outside of the game. We share not only personal likes and oppinions, but a love of flying and always trying to better oneself). That was 5 1/2 hears ago though.

Now, while I still feel much of the same emotions, I feel them less acutely. Yeah, loosing sucks, yeah, it sucks being helpless dispite giving it your all. But then I think "Hey, those morons are only averaging about .07 kills per person, and most of them won't even be on for the map-win perks. They're just shooting themselves in the foot with this one  ", and then I go back to my slaughtering of V-tards or Alchies.

When that grows tiersome, I just head over to the DA, or WWI if theres someone in there. I've NEVER been unable to find a good fight in those two arenas.

[thndregg]

When I am discouraged, I usually have something else to do.

[Cooley]

Your flying for the wrong country if you like to capture or defend bases

Other then a couple squads, Nits are pretty much just kill counters who care less about the war

Not offering an opinion on that, just is what it is

Im all for doing what ever you like for your 15 bucks

But as far as the Countries go...

Rooks are the Patriots, Bish are the Packers, Nits are the Dolphins

 

[Chilli]

Quite a wide variety of opinions, and what I expect to be true for me isn't what I expect to be true for anyone else.  The part that I can't shake is caring about an effort by teamates, that carries momentum only to find out that you didn't have teamates at all, you just had an angry mob with pitchforks and you were carrying the torch 

  Everyone hope to see you in the skies to shoot at and feel free to shoot me down and hopefully we both can have a good laugh about the whole thing.

[uptown]

I haven't seen a map won in a few years at least. So why in the hell would I worry about it?! I just try and bomb what needs bombin' and shoot down what needs shot down. I let the rank dweebs lose sleep over that winz teh war crap. I got enough going on around the house here to worry about a INTERNET war.
I used to care and did nothing but see how many bases I could take for hours on end. But then I came to realise that I was always pissed off...and for what? The next map you just start all over again   The same thing goes for the rank thing. When a "game" becomes a job or chore, it becomes unfun.

My only goal now is to learn to fly better.  

I see you're from the Chesapeake area Chilli. I went to Tangier Island just this last summer to visit family. I miss that area.  

[FBCrabby]

Its called moral - yes its a part of gameplay...

[zack1234]

It a depends what I have had for tea 

A light meal usually means I will be aggressive and ask for more

A full hearty meal I will keep to a less active part if possible 

we need more big missions in my opinion .

Due to lack of strong personalities at present in game there have been very few big shows

[Greebo]

I'm really just looking for the right type of fight when I log in. Something which isn't too unbalanced locally one way or the other. The biggest darbar on a map tends to attract the bnz pickers so its usually better to look for a smaller fight. Fights near CVs are the best generally. I actually prefer it if we are under attack as there is less distance to get to the fight. If there is nothing happening in the MA at the time I'll just log off and do some skinning.

Some maps are harder to find a fight in than others. I'm particularly discouraged when I see one of the CV-less maps up for instance. Trinity is only interesting once it gets away from the starting positions.