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Offline pervert

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Balloons for WW1 arena.
« on: February 27, 2012, 12:15:11 PM »
I would like to see observation balloons added to the WW1 arena. Reading up on it for a while balloon busting in ww1 was a lot harder than it looked and usually heavily defended it would provide a different dynamic to the gameplay for the people who want more to do than dogfight. Also it would provide an interest in the times that the arena is largely empty.

From a modelling pov this shouldn't be to hard or require that much time to implement? Its been 2 years since the WW1 launched and besides the revision of the DR1s flight model nothing else has been done.  :salute
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Offline caldera

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 02:06:36 PM »
Hope they model it like Flyboys, where the guy was running to the back of the airship because the front was on fire.  :rofl
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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 02:09:06 PM »
Quote from: caldera on February 27, 2012, 02:06:36 PM
Hope they model it like Flyboys, where the guy was running to the back of the airship because the front was on fire.  :rofl

That wasn't am observation balloon. Ahem.
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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 03:14:05 PM »
Quote from: caldera on February 27, 2012, 02:06:36 PM
Hope they model it like Flyboys, where the guy was running to the back of the airship because the front was on fire.  :rofl

:rofl Sounds good to me :lol

Quote from: Arlo on February 27, 2012, 02:09:06 PM
That wasn't am observation balloon. Ahem.

Oh, do shut up :D
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Offline Arlo

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 03:20:02 PM »
Quote from: B-17 on February 27, 2012, 03:14:05 PM
Oh, do shut up :D



Not often confused for ....



.... but it happens. And apparently happens here.  :D
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Offline caldera

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2012, 03:20:48 PM »
Quote from: Arlo on February 27, 2012, 02:09:06 PM
That wasn't am observation balloon. Ahem.

So they'll have less room to run, whatever.   :D
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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2012, 03:22:48 PM »
Quote from: caldera on February 27, 2012, 03:20:48 PM
So they'll have less room to run, whatever.   :D

LOL
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Offline Arlo

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2012, 03:24:20 PM »
Quote from: caldera on February 27, 2012, 03:20:48 PM
So they'll have less room to run, whatever.   :D

Why yes ... 'they' will. Ahem.  :rolleyes:

p.s. - We've just about broken my 12 yr old step-son of 'whatever' responses.  :D
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Offline caldera

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2012, 03:33:51 PM »
Quote from: Arlo on February 27, 2012, 03:24:20 PM
Why yes ... 'they' will. Ahem.  :rolleyes:

p.s. - We've just about broken my 12 yr old step-son of 'whatever' responses.  :D

At 45, I am too old to be broken of such habits.  "They", as in the crew of said dirigibles.  Whatever.
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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2012, 03:35:20 PM »
BALLOON WARS!!!      :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2012, 03:35:47 PM »
Quote from: caldera on February 27, 2012, 03:20:48 PM
So they'll have less room to run, whatever.   :D
Observation of balloons... Calderas avatar... less room to run... *Snap out* and throw another 'whatever' in!  :old:
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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2012, 03:49:54 PM »
Quote from: DMVIAGRA on February 27, 2012, 03:35:20 PM
BALLOON WARS!!!      :rofl :rofl :rofl

Lengro, you might remember this Miller Lite balloon war:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82BNBwck8Zs

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2012, 04:00:00 PM »
It was done before.  HiTech and Pyro made Warbirds, and they had their WW-1 arena, complete with the LZ-30 Zeppelin.  It had controls for gas release and water ballast release to control altitude.

Go, was the Zeppelin a pig to control though.


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Offline Arlo

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2012, 04:22:42 PM »
Quote from: caldera on February 27, 2012, 03:33:51 PM
At 45, I am too old to be broken of such habits.  "They", as in the crew of said dirigibles.  Whatever.

That's too bad, but I'll still hold out some hope for you. The crew of observation balloons were generally one or two guys hanging from a basket with no supernatural ability to run around on the top of their balloons. What seemed to stop the young'un from the reflexive 'whatever' response was a challenge to back a claim or assertion with fact when he got careless, even when in jest. His jokes and facts have gotten better.  :D
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Offline shdo

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Re: Balloons for WW1 arena.
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2012, 06:50:46 PM »
Quote from: Weirdguy on February 27, 2012, 04:00:00 PM
It was done before.  HiTech and Pyro made Warbirds, and they had their WW-1 arena, complete with the LZ-30 Zeppelin.  It had controls for gas release and water ballast release to control altitude.

Go, was the Zeppelin a pig to control though.

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thanks Weirdguy, loved flying those Zeps :)

shdo
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