I love the new HOST/kill message text!

[Hristo]

I am flattered, but maybe you should try with a girl first

[Nath[BDP]]

hell... i'm talking to poopster.

[Hristo]

why you lookin at me then ?

[Nath[BDP]]

Because you are absurdly ugly.

[Hristo]

turns ya on, eh ?

[lazs2]

I would rather see kill buffer messages than all the inane and insipid channel one chat.

I also liked knowing where people were by their kill buffer messages.

I do like the fact that your plane type is part of the message now.

I would like it the way it was but with plane type noted as it is now.
lazs

[poopster]

Looks around ...

Did someone say something to me ??

nopoop

[Braz]

Damn it!

Laz, they just won't play the way you want 'em to. Bastards.

[Kanth]

I really like it too, I've unsquelched channel 6 for the first time since playing AH.

Really good idea imo.

Also different thing but the buff boxette's are awesome, what a blast trying to bomb, and the way it's setup now..

Great stuff.

Originally posted by eskimo2
I've been flying in the CT mostly for the past few months.  When I've visit the MA I find/found one of the greatest differences to be the text buffer.  Before 1.10 it moved way too fast to catch much.  Now the clutter is gone, and I can read what folks are saying, and still catch on to who's getting kills.  The best new change, however, is the addition of the killer's plane type!  Very cool!  

The only problem is that many squad names are so long that the plane type gets cut off.   Perhaps removing/shortening the end part "... Landed XX victories in a Plane X".  Maybe "Joeblow of ~~~The Pea Shooters~~~ 7 Kills > P-40  (Since we know that only landed kills are now displayed).  Or, limit the number of characters for squad names.

Anyway, great new change for the ever expanding MA!

eskimo

[Bluedog]

You think a kill message change is going to blunt egos enough to make this crowd timid and non-aggressive?.....yeah, right.
We are all virtual pilots, we all think we are pretty toejam hot ( c'mon...you do, admit it) and we are all as eager to prove it to the guy with the red icon as we ever were.

Before, I squelched 6 on entry to the arena, so no kills but mine mattered to me anyway, now, I dont bother squelching 6, 'cause there is no need, now I see who landed a multi kill sortie and in what...still means jack toejame to me in 99% of cases ( xxxxxxx landed a 6 kill sortie in a Ju88, or Val, or 234 or something would make me sit up and take notice , the same in a Nik, Spit, 190, G10 etc etc, wouldnt)
If having your name up in lights means that much to you, land the sortie, shouldnt be a problem if you are half as good as you would like everyone to think you are.
If that takes too much time, and you are really in it for the 'trigger time' anyway, it wont mean a thing either way if the world sees your name or not.
Blue


PS..the use of the word 'you' in this post is a generalisation, I am not referring to, or replying to, any one particular person.

[lazs2]

braz.. no, they don't allways do things the way I want at first.   Sometimes it takes years for them to get it right.

lazs  (or maybe you were talking to that insipid laz/lazer guy?)

[Minotaur]

Yep I really like this new system much better.

What I notice is that players don't land kills much and that GV's and Field/Ship Gunners do really well.

[Steven]

are you saying that WWII fighter pilots did not fly agressively?

 -Lazs

Actually, most weren't.  I once saw a rough statistic regarding the number pilots who aggressively engaged during WW2 vs those who didn't and it was low.  Also, most kills were made by only a few pilots of those who actually saw combat.  This is a game not to be mistaken with the fears of real life-and-death battles.  I respect each and every combat veteran whether they earned a victory or not.  The trouble here is that entertainment is subjective and varies by degrees.

[lazs2]

I would love to see how they came up with a statistic that showed that most pilots were not aggressive.   I am only going by what the guys who flew and lived said..   far be it for me to call em liars.   In any case... It was not at all unusual for fighter pilots to act aggressively.   That is all I am saying.    

To justify being timid in a game by slurring real fighter pilots is not real cool IMO.
lazs

[AKIron]

I'm much more likely to notice how well someone's sortie went now than before. Was information overload before and I tended to ignore kill messages completely. I like the new system.