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Offline icepac

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Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« on: October 30, 2012, 10:35:26 AM »


One second later...........he earns his "V".

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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2012, 10:51:39 AM »
Wow.  Thanks for wasting my time. :aok
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2012, 10:53:09 AM »
I think its a rant against bomb & bail types
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2012, 11:51:06 AM »
I am a 'play how you want' type person in most cases, but people who bail from their buffs after dropping just to get up again sooner irk me mightily for some reason.

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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2012, 11:55:03 AM »
Had he bailed as soon as he finished dropping his bombs, then I would consider it a "bomb and bail" but this wasn't.
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2012, 12:01:48 PM »
A bomber without bombs is not a threat so who cares if they bail?

If you're going to complain about something, complain about wasting your time chasing empty bombers!

If you knew they already dropped you should have started hunting someplace else.
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2012, 12:22:46 PM »
LOL.....sure dude.....I will immediately break off my attack when they drop even with a 200 mph closure speed.

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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2012, 12:24:09 PM »
ya bomb and bailers is definitely lame :aok

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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2012, 12:28:32 PM »
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2012, 12:37:15 PM »
Does it ***really*** surprise anyone???    The player, the unit?
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2012, 01:33:59 PM »
A whine has been recorded
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2012, 01:51:51 PM »
Does it ***really*** surprise anyone???    The player, the unit?

Nope.  No surprise, but I think it's good to see it exposed and discussed.

I don't mind people who never land because they just want to fight.  But these guys with their suicide jabo-porking and bomb-and-bailing simply degrade the game experience more than anyone.  They are truly are the lowest common denominator -- the worst of Aces High.

The irony is to read the recruiting posts from some vGuys with claims of them changing their ways.  But sadly this is the way they play -- a suicide-bomber's approach, with little or no regard for landing or surviving.  For most of them, that mind-set and their squad culture will not change.  Their self-inflicted curse is that the better players, those looking for improvement and more of a challenge, will continue to leave them.  In a way, more exposure of this does make these "whines" somewhat productive.

On the bright side, I found vDallas recently without his hordling meat-shield around him, and after shooting him down, got 20 minutes of PM crying about how I "wasted my time" going after him and how "horrible at flying" I am.  What a laugh riot that was.  So, occasionally their lack of character does bring some enjoyment to the game.

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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2012, 01:53:37 PM »
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2012, 02:08:37 PM »
A bomber without bombs is not a threat so who cares if they bail?

If you're going to complain about something, complain about wasting your time chasing empty bombers!

If you knew they already dropped you should have started hunting someplace else.

You're assuming too many things.
 
A: Did the fighter know if the bombers are empty?
 
B: It terms of action/combat an aircraft is an aircraft and if it presents game play then why not???  This isn't a Micro$haft flight sim in which players just buzz around looking at gauges, terrain, etc.  Engagement is the name of the game. 

In terms of defending a hotly contested piece of terrain then sure, there are other targets that are more of a threat *if* those bombers have already dropped.  But again, we can not assume the fighter pilot knows that at any point unless he saw the bombers actually drop all of the ordnance.

I think the negative attitude towards the bomb-n-bail types is completely warranted, *especially* if there is an opposing playing moving in to engage.  Play it out!  That is why we are all here to begin with.   
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Re: Forcing lowest common denominator experience on others.
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2012, 02:13:49 PM »
A bomber without bombs is not a threat so who cares if they bail?

If you're going to complain about something, complain about wasting your time chasing empty bombers!

If you knew they already dropped you should have started hunting someplace else.


Yeah, because no bombers were ever shot down in WWII on their return trip.  [Now where's that sarcasm font?]
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