loss of members

[FishBait]

fishbait, what time zone are you on?  we have squad knight every tuesday at 5 pst.  we participate in every fso.  saturday knights you will see us from 5 or 6 pst till early morning.

semp

I'm 180-degress reversed from y'all Semp. Hardly ever get the chance to play on weekends and on weekdays I work mostly at night and play during the day. But eventually I'll be on during those timeframes, so I'll hit you up :cheers

[DmonSlyr]

All this game needs is a few adjustments to the maps. A few new maps, an easy adjustment to the DA (furball area) where the fields are all green and there is no alt cap. 5 bases 5 miles apart for easy upping, no vulching, no ack hugging, and nothing but FFA madness. It would bring in a lot of players and create excitement. Then just a few tweaks to the MA maps. Less 25k mountains. 15 mile apart bases, funneled action such that you see on festers map, just a lil bit smaller parameters. I promise you would see a lot more people involved in the game. It has nothing to do with the players as much as it does the layout and playability of the maps. It's an easy fix.

[Zoney]

I'm 180-degress reversed from y'all Semp. Hardly ever get the chance to play on weekends and on weekdays I work mostly at night and play during the day. But eventually I'll be on during those timeframes, so I'll hit you up :cheers

Burn the Vampire !!!

[Wiley]

I'm 180-degress reversed from y'all Semp. Hardly ever get the chance to play on weekends and on weekdays I work mostly at night and play during the day. But eventually I'll be on during those timeframes, so I'll hit you up :cheers

I feel for you man.  Being on during north american daytime just flat out sucks.  NA primetime is hit or miss but generally much better.  Daytime it's "milkrunners ahoy" and very few of them.

Wiley.

[Shuffler]

Had some fun in AH III last night. It is what you make it.

[FishBait]

Burn the Vampire !!!

I feel for you man.  Being on during north american daytime just flat out sucks.  NA primetime is hit or miss but generally much better.  Daytime it's "milkrunners ahoy" and very few of them.

Wiley.

Agreed. It used to be nice (to me). Just the right amount of players to make for good dogfights but not so many it became an arcade. But yeah, now it's a graveyard. My brit friends are dropping like flies.

[Masherbrum]

The sad fact is, most people aren't GOOD at it.  Just because someone is decent at the game doesn't mean they can impart how to do what they do to another person.  I know I'm one of them.  If people have specific questions I can and usually do answer them.  But when the question is "how do I get better?"  I've got very little.

Wiley.

I completely understand and helped quite a few deaf players.  I would literally correlate what I was doing, as well as set the table and provide the person options at each major point of engagement.  So when they went back and their interpreter signed it back, they would have a good understanding.  People have no clue as to how many days were spent doing this.   It was very mentally draining and I still enjoyed helping them.   But the sacrifice was one of after I was done?  I was not hopping into the MA.   But I was ok with the sacrifice per se.  I was thanked by a very accomplished stick who was also deaf (I will divulge).  Which made what I was doing worth it.   I started out merely helping Ghosth, who was swamped and needed help.   I was ignored with becoming an official trainer, but did it unofficially to try and make the game that much better.

Always considered myself average in skill.  Shot down the best, shot down by newbies.   Wiley, you and I have butted heads on this BBS in the past and can honestly say that I have always appreciated your honesty.   No fluff, just telling it like it is and it is why some do not like me.   I am the same way.

[JunkyII]

Moving bases on a map seems like it would take a lot of work.

I fail to see how anything I said was attacking the pigs, Junky, but if you or other squaddies took offense, none was intended. I always enjoy fighting alongside y'all. Nor was I attacking bustr. But I'm not going to sit back while someone essentially labels me an idiot without getting in my .02.

You yourself just admitted you don't see much interest in pig-hosted missions anymore (outside the pigs), but 'We' are all to blame for not hosting missions (which will garner ZERO interest)? That doesn't compute. Failing to engage in pointless endeavors does not make one the blame for anything. I couldn't convince people to join a mission a year ago. You think that's going to change now with a fraction of the players?

Good on the Pigs for hosting weekly missions. I never meant to undermine the effort.

Came off that way, Just saying don't judge it by the opinion of one person in the squad before hanging out with us on channel...as I've already posted I disagree with Bustr here. Missions unfortunately are a thing of the past...like you said only a few select people can up them, and they need to keep doing them for people to join, which seems unfair to them. I didn't say we don't get interest, get plenty of tag a longs in our missions...a lot of which join up (Sounds like 9 years ago...a young Junky1 following POTWs mission around until they invited me to squad )

I think bustr is mainly mad at the vets giving HTC a hard time, who don't put anything good into the game...or don't even play really. It's amazing that a lot of vets are in the MA talking about bad frames in Beta but haven't been in there since HTC did some more patches.....so they are complaining about something HTC and the testers (bustr is up there for most hours spent testing AH3 for sure) have already fixed....that doesn't help the game....I think that's what he is mainly getting at....some of his post confused me to be honest, but most of his posts do....I can't read Bustr, hes easier to talk to

[JunkyII]

I also lost count of hours spent in the TA informerly training newbies, while the "experts" hid under a rock and padded their scores. 

I find it hard to believe many of the top sticks throughout your time in Aces High have ignored those wanting to learn, just from my experience with a lot of the better sticks they are right away ready to tell someone what they did wrong if they ask for it. I hardly ever see anyone in the TA or DA anymore, normally stick my nose just incase something fun is going on. You know there are committed trainers when you go into the TA to find only trainers in there

[Masherbrum]

Most will not be bothered by it.  Sorry that you disagree.  But if more stepped up then?   This game would be entirely different. 

[FishBait]

Came off that way...

Cuz you're reactionary like I am?

Thought it went without saying, but I love the Pigs

[Wiley]

Always considered myself average in skill.  Shot down the best, shot down by newbies.   Wiley, you and I have butted heads on this BBS in the past and can honestly say that I have always appreciated your honesty.   No fluff, just telling it like it is and it is why some do not like me.   I am the same way.

Being good at explaining/training people quite often has little to do with your abilities in game past a certain point.  Some of the best most patient trainers I've seen were quite good sticks, but not tip top shelf.  Occasionally you'll see someone who's really good who's also really good at explaining it but most of the time from what I've seen, the student kind of needs to have a pretty good understanding of things to get what they're saying.

Patience and being able to explain effectively is my downfall.  If the person "gets" the way I explain things, it's ok but I have trouble explaining it in an alternative way if they don't.

Any time we've interacted, at worst it was no more than differences of opinion though.  Hehe, I don't consider that "butting heads", merely rubbing up against different ideas.  That is going to happen on the internet.  I'm also definitely a fan of directness and honesty though, and have noticed that about you as well.   

Wiley.

[FLS]

I completely understand and helped quite a few deaf players.  ...

I still lament the loss of FFB stick vibration in lieu of the stall horn for deaf players.

[Masherbrum]

I still lament the loss of FFB stick vibration in lieu of the stall horn for deaf players.

I completely agree with you on this aspect and used to have a squaddie that used padlock.   Maybe the third installment might have features which can help assist in these areas.

[Goth]

Always considered myself average in skill.