AH getting boring as hell !

[Saurdaukar]

If your sick of not being able to catch people, fy a 51 - more "honorable" than an La7 and people are shocked when I actually fight with it.  

[Shane]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
If your sick of not being able to catch people, fy a 51 - more "honorable" than an La7 and people are shocked when I actually fight with it.  

well, yeah, that's fun as hell...  but... the pony won't catch tiffy/pony/la7/190d9 runners like the la7 can.

and try fighting the la7 like you are the pony...

fwiw i kill la7's in a pony, and ponys in an la7 when it comes to tnb/e-fighting.

i'm just *that* good.

[shredar]

RPS ?? RPS ??

http://www.totalsims.com/index.php?url=wbiii/content_home.php

http://www.raafwarbirds.org.au/rps/rps.html

Bwahahahahahahahaha

[Turbot]

Originally posted by shredar
RPS ?? RPS ??

http://www.totalsims.com/index.php?url=wbiii/content_home.php

http://www.raafwarbirds.org.au/rps/rps.html

Bwahahahahahahahaha

RPS is the hugest failing of warbirds.  It is best left where it is still experimented with despite all reason.  There are a thousand threads on warbirds board - with input by warbirds staff mind you - that you are free to explore.

Alot of warbirds downfall comes from one thing alone - attempting to make people fly the way someone else thinks they should fly.  In effect some wierdo got control of the helm and made warbirds MA a CT arena.  Guess what?  Nobody liked it there much more than they do here.

Warbirds is on life support, and that is a shame.   Competition spawned AH in the first place, and competiotion will make it better.

[beet1e]

Mr. Turbot!  I don't know why I always prefix your name with "Mr.", but for some reason I always have.  Anyway, -

attempting to make people fly the way someone else thinks they should fly.

The flip side of that is that the überpilots of 109G10, P51D, dare I say LA7(?), 190D9 etc. force any early war aficionados that might be here (and I am not one of them because I'm crap in early war planes and freely admit it) to give up their early war rides and fly über in order to avoid being fragged. The point I am making is that the uberity of the arena leaves nothing for the early war guys who are effectively being forced to match the uberity of the enemy. But oh! It's the pilot, not the plane. So, Spit1a v 109G10? Do me a favour...

I hope the Mission Arena works. Yes, AH is "just a game", as they say, but all games have rules! Whereas AH MA can be total anarchy - Ozzy rules football. Fortunately I am asleep during peak hours.

AH has a Chess flavour, with Rooks, Bishops, Knights - but far from being a game of strategy, it has become the schoolboy version, in which all pawns count as Queens (LA7s). A piece gets taken in every move, and the game is over in 5 minutes. Some might say that the REAL version of Chess is boring, but it has persisted, unchanged, for centuries. I think the Mission Arena might be like REAL Chess.

Having said all the above, I had a very good day in AH yesterday, but it was during Euro day time, so not too many people on. Discovered some new people I can work with - that's always a step forward.

[Turbot]

überpilots of 109G10, P51D, dare I say LA7(?), 190D9 etc.


This camp I flew this plane yesterday and today only:

turbot has 21 kills and has been killed 9 times in the Bf 109F4  

I think 109f4 is early war.  An d yes only in the past 48 hours have I flown 109f4 at all.

[Voss]

I don't know what you mean by boring. For the most part I've always found something to do that nets kills. I've seen you (beet1e) attack GV"s, and that's where I have the most fun. Lazer and I (and a couple others), just tonight, tore up some GV's and it was great fun. It didn't last long enough, but oh well.

I know what you mean about La7's. It seems these guys fly La7's not because they want to turn fight, but because they want to chase down guys that are finished fighting (i.e. out of gas, out of ammo), or just goon hunt with them. That's a shame, because the La7 is great at field defense and that's probably where it shines the most.

As far as the kills per hour thing goes, well it's part of rank, so we're stuck with it. One thing though, those same La7 drivers are making a grievous error in chasing people. You see, the chase takes more time then actually getting to a fight and killing without having to travel very far. This is where aircraft like the Spit 5 and A6M2 shine. I like the Spit 14 in this role, but you have to be very careful as it acts as a magnet for tards that can't fight at all, but can frag you on landing and will risk the ack to prove it (Spit 14 has short legs). Just some food for thought.

Anyway, when you get bored the best medicine is a bottle (or a woman) and some time away. I think the mission arena will be a great change of pace, but I don't think it's going to be the cure all.

[Mitsu]

Add Ki-84-I-Otsu "hayate" which has 4x20mm (150x4). :-/

[shredar]

Originally posted by Turbot



Alot of warbirds downfall comes from one thing alone - attempting to make people fly the way someone else thinks they should fly.  

A self defeating argument if ever I saw one !! Hehehehehe.

I fly both sims. But I enjoy the recreations of the actual battles our heros participated in. Not some fictitious fairyland where there are P51s against P51s etc. Guess which is which ??

[XIII]

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[beet1e]

To say that an RPS denies the right of the AH player to fly the plane of his choice is a bit like smokers claiming the divine right to smoke in bars...

...but what about the rights of those who would like to visit a bar without having their clothes stinking of an ashtray afterwards?

[Miska]

Bored with the MA?  See you in the CT!  880 welcomes guests for orientation flights Tue and Thu 2100 Eastern.

[lazs2]

RPS doesn't work for the "vast silent majority"... it turns arenas into the ghost town that WB has become...  The guys that cry for RPS and axis vs allied don't fly much anyway and are no fun when they do.

having said that... It would be nice to have a place for early war planes...

everyone hates the stupid, timid pizza map but.... cut 1/3 of it out at the bottom... seperated by a 50k mountain range and make it the early war "area"   only early war planes able to fly there...  NO axis vs allied anal crap just good early war fights.

It would cut the pizza map down to a reasonable size if nothing else.    All the other maps are smaller and more fun.   If the early war area was fun and caught on...  we could experiment around with the idea of maybe a mid war area...  a perk area..  baby steps are best tho.

we allready know how well the friggin allied vs axis lopsided crap works.    If you want that there are a least a dozen like minded guys in the CT u can fly with.
lazs

[Catching Spies]

The MA does at times get boring that's just due to the lack of other thinks to do within it. I am personally not looking forward to the mission arena "just sounds boring" who wants to fly around for 30 minutes to only have 10 seconds of fun dropping bombs then flying 30 minutes back to your base? I know this is what some people want "I hope they have fun".

I would like to see the following added ASAP:

Subs with deck guns, oil slicks
Ships with depth charges, sonar
Ability to take individual destroyers/battleships out "deck guns to shell land, 10 human ack points on each ship, damage compareable when hits by bombs, ability to repair damaged ships ports, ships that somke with damaged.
Infantry w/guns, bazokas, gernades
Contuinous Human controlled ack at both airfields and cities "once you get killed you have a 10 minute waiting period at that base.
More human ack points within the bases
Dual gun ack points

Think it would may be fun to have massive land tank battles with infantry.

[Revvin]

Originally posted by beet1e
To say that an RPS denies the right of the AH player to fly the plane of his choice is a bit like smokers claiming the divine right to smoke in bars...

...but what about the rights of those who would like to visit a bar without having their clothes stinking of an ashtray afterwards?

Well said