Tired of the cannons

[Vermillion]

Pongo, how much real life experience do you have with weapons? Have you ever fired a heavy machine gun? Have you ever fired a light machine gun, a full caliber assault rifle (7.62 Nato), or a high powered hunting rifle?

Edit: I wrote a huge long disertation on the effects and effective ranges of my personal experience with high powered rifles, assault rifles, and the M60 I fired in the military, but decided its like preaching to an atheist.

If you can find someone who has done these talk to them in person. They will tell you that it is possible to hit at a non moving target at 1,000 yards with Heavy MG's and cannons.

Do you even know what "burn out the gun" really means?

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"

[Rude]

Some of you guys TURN your aircraft?

Yikes!

Rude Out!

[CptTrips]

>Verm, I don't know what significance that
>would show, it would just be testing my
>ability to hit a moving target

You were not able to reproduce that with any of the other aircraft in the plane set?  Did you test all the others?

I've prolly gotten more 1.0 kills in my Spit than my 1C.  

Maybe the Spit is going to be the next plane on your list to be "removed".  

Anyone remember in the beta days it was the pony that had to be removed or drastically castrated.  Uber-UFO-zoom pony?  Remember how it unbalenced the arena??? Remember?

I'd almost say take the 1C out just to shut up the whiners, except I'm certain they'd move right on to the next plane on the list and we'd be fighting this fight all over again with another aircraft. (remeber the uber-pony?)  The bad part would be that HTC would have then set the precedence that a sufficient amount of whinning can remove any plane in the arena.  You then set yourself up for an endless campaign of complaining and ultimatiums (get rid of that plane or our squads out of here!).  

If HTC ever opens that flood-gate, we'll fricken drown in whiners.


$0.02,
Wab

[Ripsnort]

   

Originally posted by AKWabbit:

Anyone remember in the beta days it was the pony that had to be removed or drastically castrated.  Uber-UFO-zoom pony?  Remember how it unbalenced the arena??? Remember?

Wab

I believe that the Pony at that time was no where near the historical numbers performance wise, if memory serves right (Correct me here if I'm wrong)...

To set the record straight, the 1C is being targeted by not only flyers but the Tankers as  well.  And most want the 1C to stay,(see survey) with no changes.  IMO,  most want a historical arena to play in, in addition to the  'all-planes' arena.  This would fix obsessive whining.  BTW, I fly the hog alot.  And I voted to keep it and its guns, just give me a historical arena where the 109F can be competitive!    

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[Ripsnort]

Let me quote Pyro:
"What you complain about is in my area of responsibility, so I'll give you my viewpoint. My interest is snot in continuously changing the game, it's in advancing it. So I don't like to knee-jerk changes in until I'm convinced it is the proper action. On issues that are not clearly bugs, this may take some time.

The downside of this is when people go off the deep end. For example, I spent yesterday afternoon going over weapons modeling in detail and turned up a few things. Good news? Well maybe in that case, but maybe not in the overall scheme of things. Why? Because once somebody goes off the deep end, any changes that come about will be perceived as a result of their action. That perception  will frustrate the majority of players who feel the loudest voices are the only ones listened to and will serve to reinforce that as a means to an end. That will degrade this community and our relationship with it. Alienation is a bad thing.



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[Minotaur]

 

Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Let me quote Pyro:
"What you complain about is in my area of responsibility, so I'll give you my viewpoint. My interest is snot


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LOL  

You sure that Pyro said "My interest is snot"?  

Must be a computor geek thingy...

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Mino
The Wrecking Crew

[qts]

This thread has been most amusing.