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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: TT on March 08, 2000, 01:00:00 PM
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While ive been playing prop games ive noticed that pilots tend to fall into two groups. The live a all cost, i want to take 20 hits and still get home typs. And the jump into the furball and kill all you can before you die types. How do you see yourself.
I tend to be a furballer. The only time i make a point of makeing it home, is if someone says there cummin after me. Then ill kill them and get the hell out of the furball.(Huh, wardog (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
Anyway i just wonder if the rest of us see you the way you see yourself
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I usually start the TOD trying to run up a streak. After I die a couple of times, or get tired of being careful, I start jumping into furballs.
popeye
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I try to stay alive for a slong as I can, but then once in a while I just can't resist myself taking off from vulched field (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
mx22
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I do jump in,allthough i like my K/D i rarely make it back to base to land.
Love the fight to much. Icluding HOs with 190s F4Us and anything with cannons (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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[This message has been edited by Wardog (edited 03-08-2000).]
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well, there IS a 3rd type. Those folks usually fly with a squad. It's very different when you fly "lone wolf" with a pack of friendlies, than it is as a "team member" of a squad. The ultimate goal is not how many kills you get, it's if you accomplish the goal you and your squad set out to do. If the goal is to "Furball".. then the goal is to prevent anyone from killing your squad mates while they jump into the furball. Sometimes we pay the ultimate sacrifice for each other, but that's okay, because compassion for your fellow squaddie returnes 10 times more satisfaction to us than score does.
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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~ XO
Aces High Training Corps
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2/)
(http://Ripsnort60.tripod.com/190srip.gif)
"Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them."
[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 03-08-2000).]
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I think we all go thru phases. The same old thing tends to get boring.
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I'm of the 'jump into the furball and try and make them break a sweat just a bit before dying dramatically to them' type. I might even get a kill or two by accident!
In scenarios I am much more disciplined and serious about what occurs.
-Westy
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Torque...Bingo. Our ancestorial behavior is instilled upon us as humans, to make life unpredictable in nature. For most, the same old duldrum just don't cut it, have to mix it up to make it interesting.
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Rip, you are right I forgot about type 3. The gang banger.
Torque. You never passed up fresh meat in your life.
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I like the idea of landing kills.
Trouble is, I dont get the chance often enough (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Yeager
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I dont give a rats behind if i live or die.
Flying around for 20 minutes grabbin alt and only attacking with advantage is boring as watchin paint dry, gimme a fight, and right now! Vulched fields are perfect! I might get shot down 20 times in a row..but sooner or later im gonna get one o them bastages.
Live to fight, not to fly
Granger
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I am a "land the kills" kinda guy.
I always wanted a REAL GOOD scoring system, but after years of hoping in despair, one develops a score shmore attitude.
However, with all the vulching and little strategy it gets kind of redundant, so I have been ditchin' or dyin'.
K1
"Fight to Fly,
Fly to Fight,
Fight to Win."
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I love landing a sortie
unfortunately i like furballs too so its water n oil there with that combination.
also like those patient slow 30k fights where its you vs 3 enemy and ya kill 2 and the 1 remaining one runs away (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) , rare but very satisfying (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
but like torque said, same old same old fighting style gets boring so ya switch around a bit depending on what mood your in.
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CitabriAirbatiC
"There Is No Spoon"
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Im squarely in the DAAR catagory...this rare sub species exibits traits and tendencies that consistantly qualify for the various "darwin" awards, however we also have alot of fun (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)....
Seriously however, I find myself usually drawn to the side with fewer players and area's with more bogies than friendlies, combined with my overwhelming desire to squander any advantage I might have by diving down, chopping throttle and T&Bing in that enviornment let me sign off as....
Dumb As A Rock
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Live to fight... but mostly Fight to LIVE! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
(http://web.mountain.net/~arringto/pics/yak3.jpg)
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Depends on my mood, and how much time I have. Also, as noted, whether I'm flying with squadies or lone-wolfing it.
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Sabre, a.k.a. Rojo
(S-2, The Buccaneers)
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All of it.. I like to fly the whole damn sim.. the Map; the furballs; the squad bit and the roaming loner are all profiles I'll fly.
Depends on my mood; the country's mood and what my squaddies are up to. In this sim; gettin out alive is a victory; gettin kills is a bonus.
Satisfaction and enjoyment is based on degree of diffculty.. the harder it is to outsmart the other side; the more gratifying it is when you accomplish it. Makes no diff if it's a furball, a 1 v 1, a vulch line, a deep strike at HQ or a field capture; gettin the mission accomplised and gettin out alive is what makes it fun for me. (and the cat)
Hang
TDY/357th Pony Express
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Me?
I like to innocently head straight into a furbull. Fly around some and act like I am trying to get on someones six. Then I pop off a few rounds missing intentionally.
When I see that none of those 6 or 7 guys on me has any clue. I intentionly pull some bonehead manuver just to allow 4 of them to saddle up on my six.
Not sure why, but it gives me great satisfaction to know that 4 guys are all shooting at me at the same time. The more the better, in my book. When I am finaly get shot down I laugh to myself, "What a Bunch of Suckers!"
Really! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Mino
The Wrecking Crew
Trainer
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As Hangtime said .. getting back alive is the victory too .. sometimes I RTB with no kills and still feel satisfied because i was abble to get into a furball and out without dying (just dinnea hit anything.. happens a lot with D-Hog to me (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif))
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Phillip "Duckwing6" Artweger
Flight Officer "E" Flight
Skeleton Crew (http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/oneshot/main.htm)
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I need atleast 1 kill before i RTB, but after that 1 kill i will RTB without any shame at all (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Its great being able to land at your base alive. . .
In WB i was an TnB pilot and in AH im an BnZ pilot. . .
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AH : Maniac
WB : -nr-1-
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[This message has been edited by Maniac (edited 03-09-2000).]
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"so whatta ya mean there's only 8 of em??"
"there's only one of me"
"CHAR....GE!! oops,, ohoh..."
guess that sums it up for the most part for me......
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GreyBeard
Flight Commander, Aces High
"Skeleton Crew"
"Fly with Honor"[/i]
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If I have a wingman I focus on keeping the wingman alive. Otherwise it's balls to the wall banzai baby!
I'm still learning lots about the flight models and gunnery in here, so I try to get as much heavy ACM and shooting time as possible. Maybe later I will use some SA. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by funked (edited 03-09-2000).]
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I like to live through a sortie...although that aint completely working out too well this ToD...
RE:furballing or grabbing alt?..
Depends what plane I'm flying. When I was flying the Nik, I'd jump into the nearest furball. But flying the 109, Hog and now 38..I'll take a book and grab some alt (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
Ex.
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Same as popeye... In the beginning of the TOD I try to stay alive for as long as possible... when I do get killed I don't give a rats bellybutton anymore and change flying and fighting style whenever I feel like it. BnZ (trying to stay alive) and TnB (getting as many kills before you die)
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BEE
'Nemo Impune Lacessit'
(http://saintaw.tripod.com/109bee.gif)
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2/)
[This message has been edited by JENG (edited 03-09-2000).]
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I just want a good fight- whatever that might be on a given night. Furball one night, lone-wolf patrol another, hopeless base defense the next. Comes in all flavors!
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I wanna win the war!!
If that means I gotta TnB then I do if I need to buff hunt then I do if I need to wash dishes .....well...
I'm a TnB guy at heart but I have my nights when I'll jump into a 38 or 17 and just fly around.
Definitely a lone wolf..not good at saving a wingy..I try but not very good at it.
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Mighty1
The New Baby Harp Seals
"Come try to club THIS Seal"