On gaming the game - comments please

[john9001]

i guess control of CV is controled by "rank"?
don't know , never controled a CV.
AK's are a gypsy squad (change sides every month)....maybe "rank" to control CV should be based on how many days in a row you have flown with one side??

Admiral of the ocean sea
Chris Colombo

[Pepe]

Again and again....

It is a matter of conceptions. Somebody are here for the fun, some others seems to be here to prove something.

Altho tactically sound, Hiding Fleet off the map detracts fun from the game. For me, It is exactly the same as off the map raids. As Dweebish as this. Off-The-Map air raids are also tactically sound movements, but shows little respect for your opponents, and little skills as well, as shows evidence that the planners and executors: a) Have not a better idea on how to inflict damage to the enemy  b) Are people who don't care to take advantage of a blatant bug in the game to achieve their objectives.

Here, as in life, we have to have a bit of everything. Good people who come here to have fun and burn some adrenaline, and folks whose idea of fun is win win win whatever it takes. If they need to game the game, so be it. They are only just a bit away from hackers, but the philosophy is the same...If It can be done, why not? I guess that It's only that they do not know how to hack this. Thank God.

I <S> AK's for what they have apparently done. In my onw country, I will do the same if I am able to. If not (rank is not that good nowadays   ) I will inform where our Off-the-map dweeb lives.

Cheers,

Pepe

[paintmaw]

I'm not a fleet lover so no fleet would be fine with me . Haveing a mine layer whould be cool though  and a mine sweeper .

[gatt]

I think it is up to HTC to set the allowed level of gaming the game. In other words, if:

- Hispanos have heavy tank armor penetration
- CV groups have that 3K-30K selective UFO-ack
- GV spawn points sometimes make playing Quakeish
- you ditch only 1ft beyond your rwy but you can land safely in a semi-closed enemy rwy
- autopilot is often the only one able to spin a plane
- off-mappers are still welcome
- car-bombers are still welcome
- 2 Lancasters can ruin 50 players fun
- buffs can still do aerobatics at 30K while fiters stall
- buff Brownings still have such incredible lethality settings
- buffs can put a bomb in a barrel from 30K,

then perhaps it must be a reason. Some of those are known bugs(?) from, say, one year and a half. Probably they are game features you have to live with.

[This message has been edited by gatt (edited 04-09-2001).]

[Staga]

 

Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
I would love to see code added that if a CV were outside of a certain zone (off the map) for more than 15 minutes it returned to its port.

AKDejaVu

I agree.

[Ripsnort]

I have been encouraging others to use it against the Bishops, its better in an offensive role against our enemie's enemy than it is parked.  I would have never put up a mission to capture Port 55 and personally sunk that CV last week had I known it was going to be 'parked' in such a manner.

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[SOB]

 

Originally posted by paintmaw:
I'm not a fleet lover so no fleet would be fine with me . Haveing a mine layer whould be cool though  and a mine sweeper .

 

I know it's fun & all, but do you really think it belongs in AH?


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[hazed-]

i think it sucks parking fleets.who ever did it is an idiot whether is to safe guard it or 'deny the enemy' (ROFL)
What youve done effectively is removed a game peice!.Its like playing chess and hiding the king under the table so the game cant end fairly.
Whom so ever thought this up id suggest you consider it cheating.
Flying bombers off map i think is ok personally although i think its a bit cowardly and very dull, i cant be bothered to do it myself as it takes forever and besides gunning is more fun.I get great pleasure killing the off map buffs anyhow  
The carrier thing though I find distasteful.
What good is a carrier that we never use or see?
handsomehunk PLAN!  
sure sail around in hiding! that will give me something to search for just dont remove it from play.
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[This message has been edited by hazed- (edited 04-09-2001).]

[Mighty1]

You might call it being a traitor but if I see buffs/carriers going off the map then I go on open channel and tell everyone.

Just because you can do it doesn't mean it's right or fair.

[aknimitz]

I am 100% opposed to hiding enemy CVs.  If you capture a ROOK CV, take it down to bishop territory and attack with it.  Use the territory gained as an advantage, not a non-factor.

I 100% agree with Deja, if CV off map for 15 minutes, it returns to port.  I think this is the exact same thing as off the map bombing - gaming the game and unacceptable.  Brady condones off the map bombing, and even admitted to doing it "all the time."  This was almost enough for me to leave the knights.  If it were not for the AK's all being knight, I would have.  I will not support people who, in my mind, cheat.  

But as my wise father has indicated, it is your $30, play as you will ;/

Nimitz

[Ripsnort]

Nimitz, if you did leave, you'd be leaving for yet another country that does it, Knits were hit with a big HQ raid yesterday that was 35-50 miles off map.  Every country has users that do it, and I'm sure HTC is fixing that problem.

With all due respect, leaving another country wouldn't do anything except make you feel better.

[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 04-09-2001).]

[Dinger]

You know, if they turned off sector counters, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

[Tac]

Hiding a CV is just LAME. But its also quite stupid to capture a CV, lose that cv's port and leave the CV around to be re-captured. I usually pull the CV out of the area and keep it at a distance, but not all the way to the edge of the map or the like. If they want their CV back, heck, they will have to make an effort and sink it, I ain't going to leave it hovering near their airfield so a kamikaze attack gets it.

2 tours ago, we were on the SE island, we lost the Port and CV. when we recaptured port, they pulled the CV back WAAAY North of A9 and it was still steaming north. CavemanJ, others and myself took some ponies up and did a kamikaze strike on it, we got it back. Had we not done that , that cv wouldve been parked in that corner until the reset or something.

Off map buff raids is a way of cheating imo. Anyone claiming "strategy" or "tactic" is just making up excuses for their actions. If you really need to take 2 lancs off the map at 30k, why the fek do it off map? at 30k you can fly directly over the enemy territory unharmed and come back. All that time it takes you to circumvent the map is the same time it would take you to get to 32k+ in a lancaster. Bring along 2 escorts and no one will touch you.

[Moose11]

Ripsnort, I certainly hope you are not referring to the Arado raid the Assassins threw up last night that went right through enemy territory at 10k!

 

Now THAT folks, takes guts.

[Ripsnort]

No Moose, this wasn't last night, it was yesterday afternoon.