What is this sim coming to?

[bloodstain]

Okay playing tonight heavily outnumbered as usual, Rooks about 45, bish 80, Knights 140....Trying to defend the homeland. Come into a11 notice alot of enemy fighters about. Swoop down notice a c-47 , figure hmm better check him out! Swoop in while he was aparently landing. Already let out the troops and captured the base. As this is happening I light him up! boom pretty explosion. Then one channel 1 get called a wuss for shooting a landing C-47.

I mean come on is that really necessary? Do people who fly troops and supplies expect not to get shot at? I try to shrug it off but the kid(I will use this term instead of what I really feel like calling this person)keeps on barking! Meanwhile I am being chased by numerous cons and get shot down.

I think sometimes people in this game take getting shot down way too personal. They confuse real life ehthics with a game! Oh well guess I should just squelch channel 1 like most everyone else does and continue on my way.

So in a nut shell to all those pilots out there that get shot down and don't cry out for there mothers nipple! As for the rest of you, well I guess you guys can just keep on complaining!:rolleyes:

[rv6]

Agree with you 110%..  Nicely said.  Main Arena is No-Holds-Barred.  This is the fun of it to me..

Like you said, it is afterall, a game.  No one gets hurt, nothing is lost.  You think shooting a landing C47 gets a brisk response?  Try these..

Try clicking off a belt-full of Spitty .303 into a chute, when channel-1 has been quite. This'll get a lively response..

Or.. if your own country's channel is getting boring,, follow a tail-less shotup nme plain to earth (as it's about to crash) and hose it with cannon fire until she pops..  Then you get the kill instead of the guy who tangled with it at 40,000 feet for the past 30 minutes!

HOOOO-EEEeeeee!  You'll hear (read) words and insults that defy imagination.

Not that I've ever partaken any of this amusing stuff, mind you..

Remember:  Its a simulation for fun.  No hurt, no damage (other than over-inflated egos)

On the other hand.. (opposing viewpoint)

Some nights it IS real.  You strap into that flight sim Thunder-Seat, turn the lights down low, grab the HOTAS stuff, and ease your feet into the Rudder pedals.

Your view spans 3 speparate 21" Viewsonic G810 screens, (front cockpit, left window, right window) using a Matrox Parhelia video system.

Surround sound & huge subwoofer shake the sim pit as you accelerate down the runway in your (La7? because you hate fair fights~)

Then, as your about to go "wheels up" 2 nme FP's sitting on the respawn point pop you like a bag of cheap popcorn!

Then your vulched the next 3 times out..  Then gangbanged, and hammered in your chute,, all in 3-dimensional living color, and sound.. and insulted on channel one,, ie:

"TUFF TOOTIES YOU La7 WUSSY!  MOOOhahahaaa!"

Would you be fighting mad and remember; It's only a game?  Or would you strike back (verbally),, then turn the freakn thing off, and go out and actually talk to wife (husband) for a change?

Hmmmm?


See ya'

RV6

[Goth]

Originally posted by rv6
Or.. if your own country's channel is getting boring,, follow a tail-less shotup nme plain to earth (as it's about to crash) and hose it with cannon fire until she pops..  Then you get the kill instead of the guy who tangled with it at 40,000 feet for the past 30 minutes!

RV6

Been at both ends of this one. I try to chill, but sometimes even my anger get's the best of me. I've seen some real class acts though in the arena who would rather salute you, and that's who I would like to be more like.

[gofaster]

Been there, done that, in Air Warrior on AOL.  Now, it doesn't bother me one way or the other.  Its all cartoons anyway.

[Matt1221b]

getting shot when your landing a C-47 is no different than shooting it at 15k altitude, the thing has no guns anyway, what are you supposed to do when a fighter gets on your tail...i mean seriously that "kid" should grow up, if hes stupid enought to fly a transport without any guns, he has to learn that hes gunna get shot down no matter what, ive never seen a goon make it back to base, even the base the just captured

[BNM]

Or.. if your own country's channel is getting boring,, follow a tail-less shotup nme plain to earth (as it's about to crash) and hose it with cannon fire until she pops.. Then you get the kill instead of the guy who tangled with it at 40,000 feet for the past 30 minutes!

Hehehe... LMAO! Funny stuff rv6 and that's so true. I follow one down sometimes (not firing) just to see if someone will scream "He's dead! He's dead!" and usually they do. I also lost alot of kills by someone flaming a plane I disabled going down. I didn't scream about kill-stealing.

I have found if you play for fun and have a good time joking with your team/squadmates it's a great game but if you take it too serious and just play for points it is more like work. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun!

[Matt1221b]

ya i mean like some people if i shoot at them when they turn after take off or when they arnt paying attention, or i shoot them in a field gun....They get SOOO mad its pathetic, its not even fun playing with them anymore

[SPIKER]

Good Huntin