Chess piece nationalism (fanaticism)

[rvflyer]

What does Jokers have to do with any of this? Other than they are not a flash in the pan like 49ers were.

I guess the Jokers have been suffering from this malady for a long time.

[bozon]

It's been so very long ago that the memory is fading, but I remember when the game was about good fights. People switched sides to even out the numbers, people stayed out of fights if their teammates didn't ask for help, etc.

I remember that too!
We had rainbows everywhere and the unicorns were prancing around with the sheep 

[Dundee]

What does Jokers have to do with any of this? Other than they are not a flash in the pan like 49ers were.

Refer to the topic which my comment was directed to or do I have to draw you stick people to get the point across

[Meatwad]

Just cybro.  I was annoyed that he left his plane parked on the deck of a carrier, rendering it pretty much useless for offense.

Too bad it couldnt be like WW2OL where you could actually push things around. I would of loved to spawn in and push him off the carrier

[BOBO]

Too bad it couldnt be like WW2OL where you could actually push things around. I would of loved to spawn in and push him off the carrier

Did WW2OL let you pull pilots out of their cockpit and beat them senseless on the tarmac?

[Ramesis]

Why do people care what chess piece others prefer?
How does it effect game play?
Just shut up, play the game and live and let live
 

[Wiley]

How does it effect game play?

Because if people were willing to switch sides to even numbers, gameplay might improve.  They aren't, so if one country goes low the other two sides get ENY, and because for the most part people who move mud have a tendency to go after the side that isn't defending, they generally go after the low side.  Rinse, repeat.

Wiley.

[ghostdancer]

This has been an issue for a very, very, very long time. At least as long as I have been involved with AH. Always had one country that had the numbers and could steam roll the others and always had a country in the hole. Way back when the squads flying Rooks used to RJO (Rook Joint Ops) where they would set up a country wide night with one squad CO in charge and coordinating the actions of all the squads that decided to participate. I think the Knights did that also later on when it was there turn in the bucket.

But always have had issues where one country had the numbers, people not willing to switch sides. Sort of comes in cycles and intensity of it varies.

[Shuffler]

It is fun to stand against steam rollers. I take off and fight till I get shot down. I take off again and do not need to fly a long way to the fight... it is in my back yard. WHOOOOP. Wash and repeat.

Remember that each person you shoot down has to fly a good distance to come back to the fight.

[Traveler]

hey TC hi, was just thinking about you the other day

We all know what he is saying.  People are so loyal to a chess piece that when anyone changes sides to even up the numbers they are greeted with suspicion and outright hostility.

When we were kids on the sports fields we would even the sides up, shirts and skins.  In the World Wide Web of stupidity that concept is null and void and if you put a shirt on you must be a spy!!

Yes when you werew a kid you even the sides up, but once the game started you stayed on that team, right, you didn't change sides in the middle of the game?

[Wiley]

Yes when you werew a kid you even the sides up, but once the game started you stayed on that team, right, you didn't change sides in the middle of the game?

And when a couple of the other side's players had to leave because their parents came to pick them up, you all just yelled "SHIRTS FOR LYFE!!!" and made the other team play shorthanded, right?

Wiley.

[TheBug]

When I played it wasn't the loyalty to a chess piece that kept me from switching it was the fear that the imposed time limit for switching may lead to me not be able to fly and fight with my squaddies.  Which I admit having had a loyalty to them.

[Shuffler]

Yes when you werew a kid you even the sides up, but once the game started you stayed on that team, right, you didn't change sides in the middle of the game?

I don't know... would look pretty silly 5 against one in a basketball game because Billy, the twins, and Johnny all had to go to dinner.

Maybe someone could change sides and we all have fun playing.... or we can stop and all go home. If we stop I am going to Johnny's house... his mom is a good cook.

[Traveler]

I don't know... would look pretty silly 5 against one in a basketball game because Billy, the twins, and Johnny all had to go to dinner.

Maybe someone could change sides and we all have fun playing.... or we can stop and all go home. If we stop I am going to Johnny's house... his mom is a good cook.

But the first game was over, right, from your description the first game ended when most of that team had to leave, but a new game could start with even sides, right.  My point was that many new players jump from side to side and it usually looks like they jump to the side that is ahead, so they can get the perks for the win. 

[1stpar3]

I don't know... would look pretty silly 5 against one in a basketball game because Billy, the twins, and Johnny all had to go to dinner.

Maybe someone could change sides and we all have fun playing.... or we can stop and all go home. If we stop I am going to Johnny's house... his mom is a good cook.

And thats the problem! 5 on 1 in AH is bestest way to "Get ya NAME in the LIGHTS". Wonder if doing away with that might help. Seems kind of childish to me,honestly.