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Offline Apache

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« Reply #30 on: March 12, 2001, 03:14:00 PM »
Lol, you got it Westy. Right on the money.

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« Reply #31 on: March 12, 2001, 03:21:00 PM »
 Wasn't side balancing supposed to be one of the applications of the perk point system?
 Hightech clearly stated that in one of his posts - pilots on an outnumbered side would get a perk point multiplier.
 So just wait until the appropriate release.

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« Reply #32 on: March 12, 2001, 03:28:00 PM »
Dago, Westy:  My point is, if a team cannot gangbang there wont be any "turn in the bucket".  I know there will always be some gangbanging but "the current numbers are so off it’s not even worth clicking on the Aces High icon anymore except to cancel your account".  quoted by a close friend who has been a subscriber since AH went pay.

Eliminate the ability to "make" a country be the country "in the bucket" and you eliminate the problem in a sense stopping the problem before it ever has a chance to be a problem.

I don't know if a 2 country war is the answer but frankly it wouldn't matter how many country's there were IF there was some load balancing etc.

I'm only concerned with the grossly unbalanced numbers, I don't have a problem when the teams are say plus or minus 20 spread across all the country's.  "All" country's being the key word in the above statement.  

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« Reply #33 on: March 12, 2001, 03:31:00 PM »
Big supprise Dago is a knight...lol.
Its even honest. wink wink wink.
move 50 hog Cs to field 3 pronto. I saw a hanger up for a minute.
Lets park 3 lancs over the rook hq and city before reset...that would be fun..


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« Reply #34 on: March 12, 2001, 03:44:00 PM »
anyone even consider the 2 sided war? no?reason ? none . ht dont like it i guess . man i hope ww2 online dosent suck.

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« Reply #35 on: March 12, 2001, 03:50:00 PM »
Is this the sissy thread of the month or what?
All the squeakers stackin up like cordwood!

Ugh....
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« Reply #36 on: March 12, 2001, 03:51:00 PM »
Funny how the people crying "whiners" are not flying Rook.

This weekend was a farce, logging on and finding no fields to take off from, or ones that still had hangers were all CAP'd.  I got to ride out a reset where the Knits still had cons over the strategic targets and immediately hit everything again to take it out.  Then the rush was on to take the most rook fields and get another reset.

Why bother kidding anyone that it's been a 3 country game, it was 2 country all weekend with the rooks being the whipping boys and trying to play spoiler for one of the other sides.

Sure, "what comes around goes around", but that's just a poor excuse for doing something to help the situation.

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« Reply #37 on: March 12, 2001, 04:13:00 PM »
One of the fixes might be no changing sides
once a tour begins...no hoping countries to get perks for resets..
 

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« Reply #38 on: March 12, 2001, 04:21:00 PM »
Perk the 51 D & B models...that will solve everything!

 



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« Reply #39 on: March 12, 2001, 04:21:00 PM »
There should be a way to increase structure "hardness" for things like the HQ down to field AAA for the under dog team.  Perk prices could also be lowered, as HTC is planning to do.

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« Reply #40 on: March 12, 2001, 04:31:00 PM »
This game had the same problem when JG2 was so big and they decided to move every month .

Seems the same problem again all over again , and it's not JG2 now .

They ( the rotating squads ) move and mess up the numbers . I just bet they are "never" in the so called "bucket" .

Maybe I am wrong but it looks that way to me . Looks like they are always in the numbers as they are making the biggest imbalance happen in the game .

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Offline mrniel

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« Reply #41 on: March 12, 2001, 04:31:00 PM »
Flying for Rooks.
When I was on last night, the numbers was
95 - 76 - and 38 rooks.
2 bases left A44 and A7
Flew 3 missions, and really kept my eyes busy
because of the overwhelming odds.
I just knew that enemy buffs would be
dropping on the last 2 bases, So If I could
survive the climb, the wait would no be long.

1st. mission, survived, barely ( in 109 )
2nd. mission, 2 buffs killed  ( in P47 )
3rd. mission, 1 buff kill ( in p51 )

So despite the odds I actually had a great
time. And You get more pleasure flying
a succesful mission, when you are outnumbered.

No problem here, numbers are fine with me.
Unless offcause we are unable to launch any
planes.

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« Reply #42 on: March 12, 2001, 04:34:00 PM »
 
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Originally posted by -towd_:
anyone even consider the 2 sided war? no?reason ? none . ht dont like it i guess . man i hope ww2 online dosent suck.


Same here Towd....then we won't have to hear yer bulltoejam!!

My 30 bucks stay here because I like the game and I don't care about my score.  Anybody who's been here for a time knows what it's like on both sides of the gangbang.

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« Reply #43 on: March 12, 2001, 04:52:00 PM »
<S> All, Top o' the mornin' to ya  

I'm in one of those 'supposed' LW squads that rotated out of Rookland to Knits last tour. We (KG200) did this to see if the proposed Knight Axis Group would pan out........so far, it has more than panned out, it is great. The call goes out for escorts for our bombers on the LW channel, and within minutes, we have good leather clad Jagdflieger overhead   an unheard of occurence while we flew for Rooks, occasionaly a fighter or two may have tagged a long and gawked at our formation, and mebbe even drag the odd con through..but co-operation?? he he, yeah right.
So we stay where we are.

As for the numbers problem, I have to admit there has been some pretty lopsided teams at times, and the Knights seem to have more most of the time, I am sure that will change once the 'new version trial accounts' have left and everything settles back to 'normal' again.....no biggy, it happens to everyone.
In the 10 or so months I have been playing AH, I and my squad have flown for all three countries [about six of those ten months were as Rooks] and the Knights seem to have it in the bag as far as actually understanding and using the strat features of the game to their advantage goes, and for that matter, how to defend against strategic strikes, rather than only the tactical ones.
Before you jump all over me for Rook bashing, or for being one of those 'bomb the FHs at all frontline fields, and the fuel and ammos at all secondary ones......make 'em work for it' kind of people.....I pay $60 Aus/month to enjoy the strategic features of this game, it's the main reason I brought myself and the rest of the squad over from WB for you all to shoot at, a couple of Knit JG guys asked us to join the KAG, and to top it off, Knits are strat minded........as CO of a LW strategic bomber unit....who would you fly for?

As far as bringin' it on goes.......anytime ya bunch of furballin', no dar, what-does-strat-mean? dweebs!!
They used to say 'theres nothing to fear but fear itself'....then the Knits got organised, and the KAG was born  
Now there are hordes of German planes streaming across the sky, black leather clad pilots skoffing sauerkruat and sausages, washing it down with gallons of great beer, and finishing up with a buxom blonde or three.....*ahem*, sorry, got a little carried away there, but hey, sounds like fun to me

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« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2001, 05:12:00 PM »
How about a forth country...
THE QUEENS
That way all the wussie whiners can go there.
The problem with most rooks is you have the squads trying to take bases and they need help from the "unaffiliated" but what happens is you get a bunch of dudes in spitfires with no ord circlin the base while jabo and ack straffers are desperately needed. I dont know how many times we get a bases down to the just fh or just couple of osties and 15 guys circling with no ord or no desire or maybe courage or maybe skill to dive in and get some fer rookland. I flew 2 tours with 1st/ag Bishlanders (S! Hangtime) and jabo was a must. I started tour 3 as a rook and will stay.... heck I took on 2 tempests in a 109f last night and had a heck of a good time duking it out... I pinged 1 but they got me and was S! all round. Plus you get the token guy sittin in tower yellin "HQ HQ HO" watchin the whole thing not once uppin to do his duty.

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