LOL when it gets to this point ???

[DrDea]

Actually the whole thing boiles down to diffrent strokes for diffrent folks.The Strat people call the furballers score potatos and the Furballers call the strat people  strat girls. Im going to step away from this one because I actually did what I was despising,Trying to make others play the game a way diffrent from what they wanted to do.I dont have that right and I certainly dont have the right to bust on anyone for not wanting to play the game the way I do.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by DrDea
The Strat people call the furballers score potatos and the Furballers call the strat people  strat girls.

The funniest thing I ever heard someone called was when a small group was "milkrunning" a base. Some guy called us a "bunch of milkmaids" - ROFL!!

[wulfie]

Originally posted by lazs2
if we formed an order of the noble furballer with secret meeting places and such... we would be just as silly and pompous as the strat guys.

beetle.. you never have figured out toad have you?  I think everyone else understands what he is saying.   He doesn't want to tell people how to play but he would protest the implementation and using of say... the atom bomb in AH.    The skilless and small minded have too much effect on too many people.   Sorta like suicide gameplay.  suicide the fuel... suicide the CV.
lazs

Make perk points spendable to repair ships, facilities, etc.!

The 'Admiral' in command of the CVG uses his 'skill at naval command' (perk points) to aid his sub-commanders in their efforts to aid their damage control parties. He spends perk points to repair damage to ships, to alter ship formation ("All destroyer pickets between that airbase and the carrier!"), etc.

There's got to be tens of thousands of unused perk points floating around the AH MA.

Mike/wulfie

[wulfie]

Originally posted by nopoop
Enlighten me.

This may not be the case with these guys, but every once in awhile it is fun to sneak an Ostwind into an enemy airfield hangar and wreak havoc for some period of time.

Insane 10 on 10 just above the wavetops ACM is a blast but like (almost) any other thing that is fun the 42nd insane dogfight in a row can be a little tedious.

It depends on your mood. Sometimes a really good fight in AH (or back in WB) is the best thing you can remember doing on a computer. And sometimes a crazy CTF battle on a good Quake server is more fun at the time that 99% of the AH moments you remember.

Sometimes it is just fun to blow stuff up and be a biatch and enjoy the fact that you are driving the guys who vulched you last week insane as they land to rearm for 30+ kill 'sorties'...620 meters from the end of your 3.7cm FlaKs barrel.

If I was there, I would have gone 'home' and come back with some bombs and rockets and made them pay, and then gone looking for an A2A brawl on the next sortie.

Mike/wulfie

[lazs2]

fields too far apart make for boring and timid gameplay... some people are boring and timid so far fields suit em.   most are not.

sure... perk points to repair is fine for me but it is rank not perks that put yu in comand of the CV... I wouldn't want to command the CV but I would use a couple thousand perks to repair it.... Tens of thousands.... there are guys in my squad with tens of thousands by themselves.  none of us has any rank tho I don't think.
lazs

[Pei]

Figures may be somewhat off but the trend is clear:

End of 2000
Peak Players: ~140 Number of fields on maps: ~35
Player:Field ~ 4:1

Late 2001
Peak Players: ~ 250 Number of fields: ~ 45
P:F ~ 5:1

Late 2002
Peak Players: 550 Number of fields: ~ 280
P:F < 2:1 (and even less when you take out V & P fields)

Add this to having fields over a sector apart and you are bound to get less action.

Now I agree we need bigger maps for more players but I think 100 or so fields would be more appropriate (and incidently much more viable during non-peak hours as well).

[MJHerman]

Someone explain this one to me:

Chasing a Spit in my Spit last night, down on the deck in the middle of a fair sized furball.  He's chasing someone else, so he's not checking his 6, letting me slide up on him.

I check my 6 and see a Pony booming in on me.  I'm D400 from the Spit, Pony is D1.2 or so from from me.

Since I'm dumb, I hang on the Spit for another second and am just about to squeeze off some 20mm at him when a dialogue box pops up on my screen.  It says something like:

So and so has invited you to join their squad - Accept or Decline.

So there I am.  Closing on Spit with a Pony on my tail, lined up for a shot and about to break to avoid the Pony.  Now I can't see because of the dialogue box, and it freaked me out so I scramble for the mouse to hit "Decline".  While doing all this tracers go flying past me, take off a wing, and I go down.  Elapsed time - maybe 5 seconds between the dialogue box and the kill.

And I look to the message buffer to see who got me and, surprise surprise, its the chickenhead who asked me to join their squad.

For whomever the hero was who subjected me to that last night, in my mind you are the greatest fighter pilot in history, whether virtual or otherwise.  I would rank you right up there with Erich Hartmann (who I understand used the exact same tactic in each one of his 352 kills).  I bow to your flying abilities, and I am not worthy of even being in the MA when you are in flight.  Next time, please just send me a message so that I can bail out the moment you arrive on the scene.  I beg for you to teach me the very skills which you have obtained so that I too can be as much of a chickenhead as you.  Never mind common courtesy.  Never mind gentlemen's conduct.  Never mind any sense of honour.  Please, please, please feel free to bombard me and others with requests to join your sqaud in the middle of a furball.

And instead of getting upset about all of this, once it happened, a brief vision flashed through my head of this idiot sitting at his computer with a watermelon eating grin on his face, congratulating himself on his kill, and basking in all the glory that AH must bring to his life on a regular basis.

[Westy]

"....surprise surprise, its the chickenhead who asked me to join their squad. "

That's baloney (that players action, not your post). IMO you really should just tell us who it was.  As long as you hide thier identity due to some perceived "correctness" there can't be any community "inquisition."  And no way we can mock or make fun of them for having to use such a lame tardass ploy to get "kills."

Westy

[MJHerman]

Originally posted by Westy
"....surprise surprise, its the chickenhead who asked me to join their squad. "

That's baloney (that players action, not your post). IMO you really should just tell us who it was.  As long as you hide thier identity due to some perceived "correctness" there can't be any communitu inquisition. And no way we can mock or make fun of them for having to use such a lame tard-ploy to get "kills."

Westy

I can't remember the name, but it was one of those unpronounceable names.  Something like "spqr" or something like that, but I can't exactly remember.

[DrDea]

I would rank you right up there with Erich Hartmann (who I understand used the exact same tactic in each one of his 352 kills).

 LMFAO.I you for that quaity line and understand Erics Wife has hired Johnny Cochran to sue you for slander.Aparrently Adolph Galland will appear as an experteen witness from the grave on her behalf.Seems he only got 212 that way.

[MJHerman]

Originally posted by DrDea
I would rank you right up there with Erich Hartmann (who I understand used the exact same tactic in each one of his 352 kills).

 LMFAO.I you for that quaity line and understand Erics Wife has hired Johnny Cochran to sue you for slander.Aparrently Adolph Galland will appear as an experteen witness from the grave on her behalf.Seems he only got 212 that way.

[Gooss]

than the story.

SPQR has no kills in a P51.
SPQR is not in a squad.

Did I miss something?

Or does SPQR deserve an apology?


HONK!
Gooss

[Kev367th]

Someone mentioned HQ earlier.
Pointless upping to defend HQ now unless it is 2 or more boxes of buffs.
As 1 box can't affect HQ (double hardness, no partially down anymore) why bother.

[Tails]

Either something is broke, and alot of those posts were showing the wrong date...or this thing got resurrected a full year to the day after it's last post...

[Arlo]

Ling Ting Tong ... he can never be wroooooong ......

go on and sing your sooooo-oooong ......

Ling Ting Tong ....