Author Topic: If you had an hour or less to fly... (Read 402 times)

Mighty1 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 20, 2002, 07:53:29 AM »

Well last night I spent most of my time trying to program my new throttle. I stayed in for about an hour and got into 1 fight.

Was sitting on a refuel pad working on my controls when some AK couldn't resist dropping a bomb on me!

I bet he couldn't wipe the smile off his face when he saw his bomb hit.

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #16 on:** March 20, 2002, 08:01:43 AM »

one hour, half an hour, 10 mins, no matter, just pick up a D9 and look for spits (it is a personal crusade

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lazs2 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 20, 2002, 08:20:39 AM »

very good thread... glad to see so many "mindless furballers" who dare to have a real life coming out here. I have a little more than an hour to play a night usually but I sure as hell don't want to spend it on some roadkill strat crap. I wanna kill something.

We need indestructible bar dar... we need closer fields.. I think we allso need an "area" for the early war planes. Close fields and early war planes will be a forget to blink, throat drying hour of pure mayhem...

Let the sky accountants and no lifes milkrun all the deserted fields and fight over the gangbang scraps of the guys too dumb to not defend a field from "organized" attacks... when they "win" the war then.... I'm sure someone will inform us. Just so long as it doesn't interfere with the real fun.
lazs

Lazerus · « **Reply #18 on:** March 20, 2002, 08:45:14 AM »

We already have an arena for furballing. Close fields, hell most of the time its set up so you can take off from the same field. It's called H2H. It's even free.

lazs2 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 20, 2002, 08:47:59 AM »

not good enough.
lazs

Wlfgng · « **Reply #20 on:** March 20, 2002, 10:32:19 AM »

lazs is a bit one-tracked isn't he

I agree that when I feel the need to furball, I'd like to find it fast and get into action.

however,
that's only part of the time. I'm not huge into strat but I do the base capture thing occasionally too.

We need all types IMO. early plane set (area?), furballing, strat.

I think the lazs types need their own ACA

lazs2 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 20, 2002, 02:36:02 PM »

well.... I didn't mean a seperate arena for early war planes or even for closer fields. I don't think seperate arenas work. I will point you to the CT which averages about 2 players per hour. I do believe that a seperate "area" for early war planes would work well though and..... I see no reason why closer fields would be anything but a blessing. they certainly couldn't hurt those who eschew (or are frightened by) intense air combat. We are talking closer in like 10% closer here.

I enjoy flying with my squaddies and I enjoy killing the red guys. If I happen to be doing something "strategic".... so be it, but, it is accidental or.... unintentional. I go where the fastest and easiest action is and give not a whit about the "war" that takes days to win/reset.
lazs

Doberman · « **Reply #22 on:** March 20, 2002, 03:16:00 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
well.... I didn't mean a seperate arena for early war planes or even for closer fields. I don't think seperate arenas work. I will point you to the CT which averages about 2 players per hour. I do believe that a seperate "area" for early war planes would work well though and..... I see no reason why closer fields would be anything but a blessing. they certainly couldn't hurt those who eschew (or are frightened by) intense air combat. We are talking closer in like 10% closer here.

lazs

I've seen you mention this before, and just don't get it.

How is a seperate "area" any different than a seperate arena? I'm assumng that you wanna block off a corner of the map with a few fields limited to early war and have some sorta boundary so that late war planes can't get in there. Again, how's this better than an early war (or RPS) arena? I see a ton of difficult coding problems, and absolutley no benefit over an early war arena.

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lazs2 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 21, 2002, 08:33:52 AM »

while you are in an "area" you can see the entire map. You are in the same arena as your squaddies (and everyone else) and can seemlessly switch (by your field choice) where, and what type of plane you wish to fly. It would simply add choice and parity to the arena and be hassle free. The early war "area" would not be accessable to the other planes but you would be able to see what is going on and communicate. One sortie in the Early war area and then.... click... be at another "regular" field with the regular plane choices fighting mid/late war planes

One big happy arena.
lazs

Seeker · « **Reply #24 on:** March 21, 2002, 08:53:03 AM »

How about:

"If you have only an hour or less to drive"

"If you only have an hour or less to bomb"

"if you only have an hour or less to sail"

I wonder it HTC keep tabs on such a thing as an average log-in period?

I'm all for some way of concentrating furballs for furballers, even if I'm hazy on "the perfect way" to do it; but what about a tank killing ground (furball Island on ndisles terrain could just as well be called roach ranch) and a couple of ports on island archipleagoes.

The software's getting more complex and supporting more types of action, it'd be nice to saisfy more apetites with arena design

After all, it takes longer to get anywhere in a tank than it does in a buff.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #25 on:** March 21, 2002, 09:43:22 AM »

I know you didn't mean a seperate arena lazs..

I'm just saying to HT to give you your ACA and leave the MA alone

J_A_B · « **Reply #26 on:** March 21, 2002, 01:11:08 PM »

"I don't think seperate arenas work. "

Think what you want Lasz, but you're completely mistaken. You forget that AH isn't the first WW2-era flightsim; separate arenas have been used in other games with great success. There is no reason whatsoever that such a setup wouldn't also work in AH if HTC were to choose that route.

Indeed, problems such as mass-ganging, netlag, and comm clutter would be greatly reduced. Plus variety could be increased.

The CT is not intended to be a mass-appeal alternative to the MA; it caters to the smaller number of players who prefer a more historically-flavored feeling to their flying experience and are less picky about their plane choice.

J_A_B

Hamish · « **Reply #27 on:** March 21, 2002, 04:58:41 PM »

In the new 512x512 maps that are coming... it's Plausible that a "fighter town" area could be available. it wouldn't be hard to do, make 3 fields, equidistant apart, and then set all field objects at those fields to be non-destroyable. Viola, fiter-town, and Lasz etc. will be happy. (filed objects at fiter-town must be un-bombable or you'd have twisted jerks like myself taking a LANC to 30k to Bomb them just for fun, and to annoy Lasz)

lazs2 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 22, 2002, 09:18:27 AM »

jab... this is the third flight sim I have played over the years and I have seen that seperate arenas do not work. You will admit also that they divide community and break up squads. People tend to go to the arena with the numbers or... they tend to stick to one type of flying (easy mode, PAC, ETO etc.). The CT is really not all that bad but it is not as fun as the MA so... given a choice... and, people who might go there see 20 people in the arena and shine it. Same would happen with any other arena. AW (when I played it) WB, and now AH... they all have gon the seperate arena route and failed at it.

Time to think a little differently. And wlfgng.. idiot smiley face asside... Can you read?
lazs