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Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: kj714 on February 10, 2004, 03:39:10 PM
Lately, when I first log on, the friendly planes taking off from a field are red icons and the field ack is firing away at them. After a few seconds, they become green icons and the field ack stops firing, everything continues as normal.  What the heck?
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: slimm50 on February 10, 2004, 03:41:47 PM
Yeah, I've noticed that, too. I just figger it's net lag, or something like that. Was a bit disconcerting at first, but no longer bothers me.
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: Steve on February 10, 2004, 03:45:31 PM
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Lately, when I first log on, the friendly planes taking off from a field are red icons and the field ack is firing away at them. After a few seconds, they become green icons and the field ack stops firing, everything continues as normal. What the heck?


I've had this since I started playing last August.  The friendlies are not just red icons, they are actually all bish ponies... take a closer look next time and you'll see.  :)

I think bish pony is the default plane for the server.  You'll see tracers from the ack but the planes never take damage.  However, if you were to up immediately, before the planes switched to green, (you're a rook),  the server would put you on the tarmac as a bish pony and the ack would blow you to pieces....... seriously.
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: SunKing on February 10, 2004, 03:56:58 PM
Quickly up while your client is still updating from the server. Ack hits you and its a kill against you on the stats.. ouch.
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: dedalos on February 10, 2004, 04:08:47 PM
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Originally posted by Steve
I've had this since I started playing last August.  The friendlies are not just red icons, they are actually all bish ponies... take a closer look next time and you'll see.  :)

I think bish pony is the default plane for the server.  You'll see tracers from the ack but the planes never take damage.  However, if you were to up immediately before the planes switched to green, (you're a rook),  the server would put you on the tarmac as a bish pony and the ack would blow you to pieces....... seriously.


Yep.  And if you wait just long enough and take off, and see a red pony on the runway don;t try to kill  it.  Kill shooter baby
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: Steve on February 10, 2004, 04:13:02 PM
Lol Ded, never tried that... makes sense though... funny stuff.
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: kj714 on February 10, 2004, 04:16:39 PM
That makes sense as I've always been Bish until recently. I thought maybe something was goobled up on my front end.

thanks for the info!
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Post by: Flossy on February 10, 2004, 04:26:50 PM
Yeah, I've noticed this since changing to Rooks on one of my accounts.  I had thought it was due to changing from my Bishops account to my Rooks account within a few minutes, but it's obviously happening to others too.  I suppose I have never noticed this before because I have always been Bishops....  :)
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: dedalos on February 10, 2004, 04:39:30 PM
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Originally posted by Steve
Lol Ded, never tried that... makes sense though... funny stuff.


Pony was sitting on the rearm pad.  I was wandering why no one else was shooting at it, but I had to try it.  Back to the tower
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: Steve on February 10, 2004, 04:58:14 PM
lol!  I bet for the split second before you figured it out you were thinking:  WTF!!!???

LOL!
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: MOSQ on February 10, 2004, 05:34:39 PM
It's a hack the Bish snuck on to the server to help even the score when  Rookie Rooks, Nit Wits, and  Bish traitors think they can get an easy kill only to killshooter themselves.
:)
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: Morpheus on February 10, 2004, 06:38:53 PM
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Originally posted by Steve
.  However, if you were to up immediately, before the planes switched to green, (you're a rook),  the server would put you on the tarmac as a bish pony and the ack would blow you to pieces....... seriously.



SUCKS alot too. Happend to me in a 262 once when I logged on. Came into the game. Was hot to trot to fly a 262 so i quickly grabbed one, jumped on to the runway and BOOM! "you have been killed" GRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Needless to say I wasnt so hot to trot about flying 262s that night:mad:
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: Steve on February 10, 2004, 07:15:47 PM
well Morph, I wasn't in a 262 but it makes me feel a little better that I'm not the only one this has happened to.  Me, you, Ded... numerous others who have been afflicted w/  this version of takeoffis interruptis.
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: FT_Animal on February 10, 2004, 10:14:00 PM
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Originally posted by Flossy
Yeah, I've noticed this since changing to Rooks on one of my accounts.  I had thought it was due to changing from my Bishops account to my Rooks account within a few minutes, but it's obviously happening to others too.  I suppose I have never noticed this before because I have always been Bishops....  :)


It's the Rook Captain Crunch Decoder kickin in. See, Rooks are spys in shades. ;-)
Title: anybody else notice this?
Post by: dedalos on February 11, 2004, 08:21:17 AM
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Originally posted by Steve
lol!  I bet for the split second before you figured it out you were thinking:  WTF!!!???

LOL!


I was kind of hopping it was you :D