Author Topic: Bribe HTC to delete Pizza? (Read 694 times)

Fariz · « **Reply #15 on:** June 17, 2003, 01:22:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Toad
Any map is fine but I don't think ANY map should run more than 3 days. This 7 day long same-o same-o could be adjusted down to 3 days without hurting anyones feelings, I'm guessing.

3 Day would allow ~ 10 different maps per month. Hmmmmm... 2 day rotations?

cc, shorter rotations could be nice. At least 2th per week, monday and wednesday may be?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2003, 01:27:57 PM »

Heres a plan...we all take turns delivering 2 large pizza's every day to HTC for lunch. After a few weeks, THEY'LL be sick of pizza...pay backs are a bittcch!

Fariz · « **Reply #17 on:** June 17, 2003, 01:28:59 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
Can't do much about Pizza but we've been thinking of doing another map. One with fewer fields and an even drier desert. We could probably be persuaded to postpone our plans for the right amount. I'll post my paypal email address for the "not another pizza" bribe fund.

Heh, you will be rich

Actually I know several people who like pizza a lot, but it is generally probably one of the most unliked map around. I heard Trinity were changed, can't you update Pizza as well? Change alts, turn some vh fields into airfields, and change textures to less eye unfriendly, and I bet many people will love it.

Fariz · « **Reply #18 on:** June 17, 2003, 01:31:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Heres a plan...we all take turns delivering 2 large pizza's every day to HTC for lunch. After a few weeks, THEY'LL be sick of pizza...pay backs are a bittcch!

That may work

I heard some guy sent them pizza to office, but we really need to coordinate those efforts

boxboy28 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 17, 2003, 03:58:48 PM »

another thing i hate about the damn ZAA map is all the bummpy terrain makes it hard to drive GV's lol
I like rips ideas but the pizza got to be 3 day old cold nasty pizza

Manedew · « **Reply #20 on:** June 17, 2003, 08:32:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Fariz
I heard Trinity were changed, can't you update Pizza as well? Change alts, turn some vh fields into airfields, and change textures to less eye unfriendly, and I bet many people will love it.

They've updated pizza at least once already.... The only good fights for me are over water on pizza.... even with the terrian update you still can't see crap ... there might have been pleanty of deserts of similar color in WWII, where air combat took place .. but nevertheless the pilots wern't looking at 1600X1200 resolution 20" boxes.

I spend pleanty of time at 20K in jug on all maps ....

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Yesterday when pizza was up in error, I took a P47 from a 12K airfield, and went hunting. Landed 4 kills. No big deal, but I would probably have struggled to find this type of fight on another map in a P47. I was able to get to 20K in a reasonably short space of time - and that's where most of the fight took place. Later on, when the children's map was on, I couldn't get much higher than 8K before being spotted by cons...

sounds like your upping and climbing towards nme rather than grabing away. if you climb towards enemys of course they are going to spot you ... if you up from a field being attacked don't exepect freedom to grab, take off from the field behind that one if you want that much alt.

You also speak of realism beet1e.... do you really find 12K fields to take of from realistic? cause you know there was so much air combat in the Himlayas, and it was completely a desert 50 years ago

The map doesn't resemble planet earth.... trinity does this too, to an extent, though not nearly as bad (the 20k mountains everywhere- what 13 -14k isn't enf?!?! rockies are a big mountain chain (bigger than the alps) it's higest peaks are around 14k).
10K canyons!!! with straight cliffs! .... this is not realistic and has the ability to foil SA beyond what a realistic canyon could do. 10k con can't be seen till they are right above you diveing... total BS in any realistic canyon this alt advantage would be greatly reduced along with the huge amount of LOS lost to this horrible idea ...

btw no offence to AK's I think they understand that.
I thank them for thier hard work on pizza ... but I hate it

BNM · « **Reply #21 on:** June 17, 2003, 09:39:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Fariz
Change alts, turn some vh fields into airfields, and change textures to less eye unfriendly, and I bet many people will love it.

Agree, that and add a few more ports for more CV battles.

JB73 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 17, 2003, 10:37:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Manedew
but nevertheless the pilots wern't looking at 1600X1200 resolution 20" boxes.

must be nice

max 1024x768 here with 17" (15.5 viewable) and i got the best video specs for my squad i believe.

what you have is definately the exception in AH not the norm.

tatertot · « **Reply #23 on:** June 17, 2003, 10:52:25 PM »

there is alot of different things to do on pizza(onions peppers chees TATERTOTS) only grip i have is i cant play longer than a hr before getting a headache:( im sure we all have grips on every map dont we??

Manedew · « **Reply #24 on:** June 17, 2003, 11:03:00 PM »

wasn't sayign I played at 20" with 1600x1200 ... just that, it's about the maxium configuration you could get (excludeing projectors)

actually useing 20" 19 somethign veiwable -but at 1600x1200 refresh is too low and gives headache.

Pongo · « **Reply #25 on:** June 17, 2003, 11:11:19 PM »

I dont play on the Pizza map.
For what its worth, I had thought that kind of symetical map would be great. But it didnt work and it is painful to play on. alot was learned that was applied to the Trinity map which is the only map we have that can sustain a week of play. Dont like pizza and dont like being banished there for a week.

Tumor · « **Reply #26 on:** June 18, 2003, 01:39:41 AM »

I'll throw in $50 if HTC will torture and then kill the Pizzacrap map.

beet1e · « **Reply #27 on:** June 18, 2003, 04:45:09 AM »

Manedew - well you made some good points in your reply to me. I have always believed that the Pizza is a ridiculous map. This is what I said about it on Sept 13,2002 in this thread started by Urchin:

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It has some good points - furballing and gangbanging are reduced, just as dbeav points out. It's different but, as I said the first day I saw it, it is a quite ridiculous map, and I doubt whether we'll be using it three months hence of when I first said it. It's not really a map on which the war can be won, because there will be several little wars going on all around. For example, the vehicle fields on the outer crust provide for some GV battles, but those fields are of no consequence to the main airfields - unless you planned to launch an LVT and sail across to the mainland for a field capture, assuming you had a few hours to spare. I also note that the three central islands have a vehicle base, but no airfield, and therefore these vehicle fields are of no strategic importance, and it's a bit of a waste of time going after them.

I also said somewhere else that it was a waste of time to have all those fields, as combat would always be at the frontiers. I was wrong about how long it would last - nine months since I said that and we're still playing it. But clearly, the map makes no attempt to model any particular geographical region in any part of the world, although Bryce Canyon in Utah springs to mind. 12K airfields? The highest in North America is at Leadville,CO - elev. 9927.

But do any of the other maps model reality? The small maps? Hardly... where in the world were airfields located 5 or 10 minutes apart? Or a three sided war, with Spitfires killing Spitfires and 190s killing 190s? Steamrollering hordes? Like any map, Pizza has been engineered to provide gameplay. No it's not realistic by any means, but the gameplay in some cases is "less unrealistic" than that to be found on the children's maps.