Hi guys,
Dang, lots of input in this thread. I like the level of interest and enthusiasm.
I'll try to address a few of 'em in a single post:
To Kingpin,
I appreciate your bring the problem(s) up. To be honest, I was quite distracted what with furballing,
trying to clear sixes, clearing my own six, and getting new joiners "on channel" and laying out the rules
via text and vox. So, I had more than a little happening on my end.
The first PM I understood and tried to convey that problem over text and vox on the "Rook" side.
But then another came , and then a "I'm gonna leave if this continues". And to be honest, I just felt
like I was havin' too much thrown on my shoulders at that point. I logged out shortly after. I was
just too stressed and felt I couldn't enjoy myself in there any longer.
The first few week we did the Monday Night Madness thing, we actually started things off with
a couple of sets of Ju-88s with escorts to give the Knights "a taste of blood" to get things rolling.
However, that was announced on the "All" channel prior to launch, along with our altitude and
the direction we were coming in from. The target was the town, which we announced as well.
That turned out to be fun; the "enemy" fighters got some kills on the buffs and then could still
tangle with the "escort" fighters.
To Kingpin and Buster,
I'm in concurrance with Buster that any "bomber runs" should be announced on the "All"
channel. I personally don't see any reason to disallow 'em from use as long as they're
not targetting radar or fighter hangers. I will say that I think B26s are a bit too lethal and
not in keeping with the "fair play" aspect of the evening. Ju88s, He111s, G4Ms and similar
should be fine.
I don't at all like the idea to tune a common cross-country vox channel, there's simply
going to be way too much traffic happening. Granted it works fine in the DA with limited
numbers of folks, but we had 26 in the AVA at one point last night.
To Easyscore,
I'm all for dialing up the field ack all the way up. The fights should -never- be closer than
3 or 4 miles from a field anyway. That gives lifters a chance to get up to some alt
so they can start dancing. They shouldn't have to worry about gettin' "picked"
after just lifting and sittin' at 2 to 3 K.
All in all, I thought both sides did a superlative job keeping the main fights over the water,
away from the fields. There were a couple of points where I had to ask my fellow Rooks to pull
away from the field and bring the fight "out", but those "close to the enemy field" encounters
were only brief windows and didn't/don't reflect the overall character of the evening's furballing.
We also had some new (though veteran AH pilots) join us this week, which was wonderful.
Should they continue to show, they'll develop a "feel" for what we've got going here.
There's no hard and set "rules" for us to adhere to beyond the 10K alt limit, no vulching,
"keep the fight away from the field", no killing radar and of course, no dropping hangers.
I think we can all just use the "All" text channel to try and "guide" the evening's fights
into what the original intent was; to have fun and furball with MidWar planes.
Best regards, Odd
