Well, hey, all these years and I'm finally mainstream! Thanks, nrshida, that means a lot. I'm in from the cold at last.
Yeah you’re a fashionable Dicta Boelcke Rule № 1++ flowcharter. It’s the new black. You need to learn to fight in the vert brah. Think about it.
In the meantime, consider that you, and others who constantly pace the sidewalks holding "The End is Near" signs aloft while (whilst?) howling epithets into microphones, may have been among the many, many causes of the decline in numbers from AH's peak.
Where is the evidence supporting your assertion that players saying the game is in trouble has contributed to the game being in trouble? I can see none. What is your counterproposal? That everyone stands around with their hands on their hips, swaying slightly with a maniac grin on the face while muttering under their breath “There’s no place like home”?
I looked, at the Timezone the OP described. It’s at the tail-end of my playable Timezone. I know the players he’s referring to. Hunted them down. They squeal like babies when you shoot them down in a fair fight. But they’ll grind away 6 hours non-stop vulching and ganging like a horde of locusts without a moment’s consideration of anyone else’s gameplay.
Their gameplay is more important than the health of the game is how they act, and everyone not challenging that is supporting and agreeing with that premise. What is that American adage about a good man standing by?
Or don't. I'm certain that you consider yourself a prophet who is stoned in his own time, but will be revered by later generations. Take comfort in that warm, fuzzy thought.
What a fertile imagination some of you have about the delusions of those who say contentious things.
I take comfort in that warm, fuzzy thought that I joined the game when fighting it out with people who were better at ACM gave me something to work on and shooting your mouth off unfounded would get you a ride in the duelling arena right quick. That although the Charlie Sheen-clones were always around, they weren’t all that was around. That through hard work and self-directed learning I got to unravel what the masters were doing and happily paid the price of the thousand deaths to learn a high-level of ACM while there was the culture and possibility to do so. And of course that I got to witness the awesomeness that is Zack1234.
Ok. So what would you like me, Spikes, to do about it? What should Shuffler do about it? What about Arlo? I can't make the game fun for people or make any major changes. I can't do anything, so I'm not sure what me having my "head in the sand" has to do with the current state of the game.
Tell me what I can do to help the game that will make a difference.
Thank you for the first response in a long series of threads where someone actually doesn't want to make the bad sounds go away.
Perhaps stop taking the automatic position that criticism is negative and must be shut down immediately. That differing opinions are a thing that must be devalued instead of examined. List and complain about the things in the game that aren’t working and keeping new players from joining.
Criticise on 200 selfish gameplay and try to re-cultivate the natural self-balance it had about four-to-five years ago. Press HTC to act on the complains of the OP - raw data and points of action.
Make a bloody noise for new game content from HTC, new planes (would be highly likely to bring old players back to try), lobby for new persistent arenas and new gameplay possibilities. The flight model is good, the planeset is large. Possibilities are endless.
If you meet someone who can out-fly you ask if they can teach you something. If you’re clearly better than your opponent offer to teach them something. Go to the MPA and duel a bit, or fly in the TA to help others (or warm up there). Don’t be the second or third man in on a fight, stay out and be classy (some did that in the war you know (Marseille, Guynemer, Stigler...)). Try to not allow your gameplay to converge to a repetitive comfort zone. It's bad for everyone. Add balance to the presently dominant 'winning' cult. It isn't Per se a game issue but a cultural one.
Fight for your game because it is already lost to some of us and you might shortly also experience the process all the players on the European, Japanese and Australasian timezones have experienced. Many of us said it would spread out on both sides of the clock and no-one listened because it didn’t affect them. Now it’s squashing US primetime.
See we know, this is not speculation, we've experienced the death of the game. It is too late for non-US players I feel. You can ask Lusche if I’m too edgy for your tastes. No offence taken.
Apparently have a 1 on 1 fight with him in the MPA.
It's a shame you allow your prejudices to confine you. See I'd even teach you Arlo some of the wonders of ACM that'd make the little propellor on top of your school cap spin around in suprise and glee. I didn't mither on 200, didn't claim to be anyone's Daddy and only smack-talked the free-range rude. I championed the philosophy of dogfighting I learned here by experimenting, working, studying and leading by example. Aren't you curious to see what was once at the core of
ACES HIGH before it's gone?
