Request Elimination of Sideswitch Time Limit in Off-Peak

[Wiley]

I hope they see it. I hope more they will change it.   It is driving a lot of us nuts, especially the crowd that plays with low numbers.

I can guarantee you they've seen it.  Like someone else said, it comes up pretty much weekly.  Every permutation of it has been discussed.  For whatever reason, they're standing fast on the issue.

Wiley.

[guncrasher]

I hope they see it. I hope more they will change it.   It is driving a lot of us nuts, especially the crowd that plays with low numbers.

I have a question?  why dont you save your switching time for let's say late at night when you have really low numbers?


semp

[Vraciu]

I have a question?  why dont you save your switching time for let's say late at night when you have really low numbers?


semp

Because we fly as a squadron.  We don't always join the game at the same time.    Some of the guys may have switched to Knights several hours before I come on.  So I switch from Bish to Knights and my timer is not in synch with theirs.    

Or we switch during peak to balance out the numbers only to find that four hours later we are now off-peak high side with nobody to fight.

It is impossible to predict which side will have numbers.   We always go to the low one but that doesn't hold indefinitely as people come and go.

[guncrasher]

Because we fly as a squadron.  We don't always join the game at the same time.    Some of the guys may have switched to Knights several hours before I come on.  So I switch from Bish to Knights and my timer is not in synch with theirs.    

Or we switch during peak to balance out the numbers only to find that four hours later we are. Ow off-peak high side with nobody to fight.

It is impossible to predict which side will have numbers.   We always go to the low one but that doesn't hold indefinitely as people come and go.

dude you guys are a squadron.  dont you communicate with each other?  I have yet to see most of my squadron not on the same side.  as for the "we balance the numbers"  I call that bs.  i have seen you on the high side a lot.  oh sorry that's cause of the 12 hour switch time   .


semp

[Vraciu]

dude you guys are a squadron.  dont you communicate with each other?  I have yet to see most of my squadron on the same side.  as for the "we balance the numbers"  I call that bs.  i have seen you on the high side a lot.  oh sorry that's cause of the 12 hour switch time   .


semp

Correct.  Or if the disparity is slight.   If it is 57 -54 - 60 and we are on the 60 we won't burn our one chance to switch over that.

Glad you read what I wrote and subliminally reposted it.   I will requote part of it for you.    

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Or we switch during peak to balance out the numbers only to find that four hours later we are now off-peak high side with nobody to fight.

It is impossible to predict which side will have numbers.   We always go to the low one but that doesn't hold indefinitely as people come and go.

Admittedly I prefer Bish because I started there, but I switch when my squaddies do.   Our objective is to find a fight not bore holes in empty air.

Also, unlike you, I don't live on the game.  I work for a living.   My squad mates are all over the world.  "Hey, we switched to Knights" in an email doesn't do me any good when I am four hours away from even logging on or haven't played in a few days.   How you got the notion we don't communicate is beyond me.

Let me try to explain it slowwwwwwly.   We don't all play at the same times from start to finish.  We don't all play every single day.  Some guys do and some don't.   A guy can login after being away a few days and be on the wrong side.  He switches and now everyone of our group gets stuck because we can only go as fast as the slowest man's timer.  Got it?


(Gotta' love all these Internet wiseguys.)  

[Megalodon]

A agree with the elimination of the side switch ......change it to 1 month and eliminate the 12 hour rule  

[guncrasher]

Correct.  Or if the disparity is slight.   If it is 57 -54 - 60 and we are on the 60 we won't burn our one chance to switch over that.

Glad you read what I wrote and subliminally reposted it.   I will requote part of it for you.    


Admittedly I prefer Bish because i started there, but I switch when my squaddies do.   Our objective is to find a fight not bore holes in empty air.

Also, unlike you, I don't live on the game.  I work for a living.   My squad mates are all over the world.  "Hey, we switched to Knights" in an email doesn't do me any good when I am four hours away from even logging on or haven't played in a few days.   How you got the notion we don't communicate is beyond me.

Let me try to explain it slowwwwwwly.   We don't all play at the same times from start to finish.  We don't all play every single day.  Some guys do and some don't.   A guy can login after being away a few days and be on the wrong side.  He switches and now everyone of our group gets stuck because we can only go as fast as the slowest man's timer.  Got it?


(Gotta' love all these Internet wiseguys.)  

sorry dude, I may not work as hard as you do.  considering that I get 1 day off a week and every other week I get two days off.  as I am currently working 11 or 12 days in a row with as many as 16 hours a day.  I started working last tuesday and my next day off is next saturday.  I'll be working today and have almost 50 hours of overtime in a two week period.

I was able to play with my squad last sunday and fell asleep during a mission as I was tired.  I am looking forward to monday when I can log in in the afternoon and fly a couple with my squad.  hopefully I wont fall asleep again.

and even with the little time I log in.  I have yet to log in and be on the wrong side.  I cant remember the last time I logged in and couldnt find a fight.


you got it?  internet wise guy
semp

[Hoplite]

Oh, Ok, then in that case...

-1,000,000

Especially because you posted this 15 minutes after the thread here on the same dang subject.

Gotta agree.  Yeesh.

[Vraciu]

sorry dude, I may not work as hard as you do.  considering that I get 1 day off a week and every other week I get two days off.  as I am currently working 11 or 12 days in a row with as many as 16 hours a day.  I started working last tuesday and my next day off is next saturday.  I'll be working today and have almost 50 hours of overtime in a two week period.

I was able to play with my squad last sunday and fell asleep during a mission as I was tired.  I am looking forward to monday when I can log in in the afternoon and fly a couple with my squad.  hopefully I wont fall asleep again.

and even with the little time I log in.  I have yet to log in and be on the wrong side.  I cant remember the last time I logged in and couldnt find a fight.


you got it?  internet wise guy
semp

Your 50-hours a week job is obviously to troll the AH forums.

1/10, tbqh.

 

[guncrasher]

Your 50-hours a week job is obviously to troll the AH forums.

1/10, tbqh.

 

well let's compare my 11 hours and 27 minutes against against your 3 days and 6 hours of playing the game in February.  so you still want to argue who's busy at work?

last couple of months,  you have played more hours than I do.  I find this comment of yours so funny  "I dont live the game, I work for a living". 

anything else you want to argue about internet wise guy? 





semp

[Vraciu]

You don't play the game.  You live it.  Troll it.  Look up stats.  Prob sleep with your stick.  

Thank you for proving my point.

And you still don't get the side-switch issue.  You have so little time in-game that you are unqualified to comment.  (Insert yawn.)

[Vraciu]

well let's compare my 11 hours and 27 minutes against against your 3 days and 6 hours of playing the game in February.  so you still want to argue who's busy at work?

last couple of months,  you have played more hours than I do.  I find this comment of yours so funny  "I dont live the game, I work for a living".  

anything else you want to argue about internet wise guy?  


semp

Guide to semping

1. Ignore every reasonable point in the post.
2. Reply by getting across semps point.
3. Become perplexed that posters don't get semps point of view.
4. goto 1

Semp you missed the point of Brooke's post I am gonna semplify it for you by puttin it in giant letters mkay?

I'll reword to be more precise:

It is useful after about 2 am Eastern time to be able to switch sides easily.  Then, you can jump to a side to even up fights and to get fights, instead of being stuck on a side that has the overwhelming force in the fight.  Note that I am now making no claims on the roster -- only what is observed in the fights. This is also based upon my direct experience, not suppositions on my part.
EDIT IN: (And Vraciu's among MANY MANY others....)

At prime time, there are no problems.

[mbailey]

Gotta agree.  Yeesh.

Nothing to add...just wanted to say great avatar Fulcrum.....what is the image down in ur sig?

[hlbly]

Not to belittle Skuzzy, but he has very little to do with the game. He is the network, web guy. But he does read a lot of the boards as he's the main guy taking care of it.

Hitech as well as Waffle and Superfly and Pyro, the art and coad writers DO read the boards as well. HTC is a very "hands on" company and watches whats going on very closely.

You can be pretty sure if the idea has merit THEY WILL see it. If its the same idea that someone posted last week and the one before..... wellll

Look I think the OP is a bit of a gashole. However your last sentence is full of BS. I posted multiple threads on a particular subject. Pointing out a bug. Suggesting something related to it needed to be redone. I spent 2 years doing it. You were amongst the many  detractors. It took a retired Navy pilot, that has flown many of the planes in here, that HTC wanted to hire . Saying  "hlbly is right" for almost all of you to shut up. My idea had merit. The bug was acknowledged but nothing changed until the guy talked to HT and posted about it. The very next patch what I had been asking to see for years was implemented. Let me ask you this , how often do you think HT is up between midnight to five am to see what disaster LWMA is ? HT thinks FFB is a stupid gimmick. Told me so himself when the game was in beta. Told me he had no plans to add FFB at all. I do not understand the cheering section mentality at all. The 12 hour side switch rule I have never heard anything from HTC about the reasoning. It is his baby though so he does not have to give us one.

[The Fugitive]

Look I think the OP is a bit of a gashole. However your last sentence is full of BS. I posted multiple threads on a particular subject. Pointing out a bug. Suggesting something related to it needed to be redone. I spent 2 years doing it. You were amongst the many  detractors. It took a retired Navy pilot, that has flown many of the planes in here, that HTC wanted to hire . Saying  "hlbly is right" for almost all of you to shut up. My idea had merit. The bug was acknowledged but nothing changed until the guy talked to HT and posted about it. The very next patch what I had been asking to see for years was implemented. Let me ask you this , how often do you think HT is up between midnight to five am to see what disaster LWMA is ? HT thinks FFB is a stupid gimmick. Told me so himself when the game was in beta. Told me he had no plans to add FFB at all. I do not understand the cheering section mentality at all. The 12 hour side switch rule I have never heard anything from HTC about the reasoning. It is his baby though so he does not have to give us one.

First off, if your going to go off on a rant lets get the data strait. In the "Last line" where did I say it wasn't going to happen? Where did I say the OP doesn't have a chance in h@ll?

"You can be pretty sure if the idea has merit THEY WILL see it. If its the same idea that someone posted last week and the one before..... wellll "

It looks to me like I left the statement open on the end there. I may have insinuated "don't hold your breath" but I didn't say never, especially after we finally DID get the B29. How many years did that wish cover and how many wishes was that?

Second, please take the time out of your oh so busy scheduled and type out the words. What the heck is "FFB"?