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Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Redd on April 05, 2005, 07:03:47 PM
While the CT struggles for numbers most of the time,  what is the point of having GV's enabled  ?

I happened to look at a film  the other day when there was about  18 players total in the CT  and around one base there were 5 or 6 GV's.  That's just one base , god knows how many there were elsewhere.

I would have thought that the point is to get as many in the air as possible while the numbers are fairly low.

No wonder people come in, fly around for a while , can't find a fight , leave and don't come back.

I know I'm only a casual CT'er, but it just seems  kind of dumb.
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: RedDg on April 05, 2005, 07:26:46 PM
To pad scores.
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Slash27 on April 05, 2005, 07:30:13 PM
We have score potatos in the CT?:D
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Oldman731 on April 05, 2005, 08:22:01 PM
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Originally posted by Slash27
We have score potatos in the CT?:D

Just me and Grits.

- oldman
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Slash27 on April 05, 2005, 08:34:31 PM
Yeah, I hate you guys.
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: storch on April 05, 2005, 11:04:32 PM
The suggestion has been made to make bases uncapturable.  I say allow folks to play how they want but make base capture a chore.  minimum 50 troops and hardened structures.  If folks want to drive trucks then it isn't up to us to say whether they can or not but in the spirit of realism the bases should be very tough to capture and easy to defend.  make them hard won victories or frustrating defeats.
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Redd on April 05, 2005, 11:46:17 PM
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Originally posted by storch
The suggestion has been made to make bases uncapturable.  I say allow folks to play how they want but make base capture a chore.  minimum 50 troops and hardened structures.  If folks want to drive trucks then it isn't up to us to say whether they can or not but in the spirit of realism the bases should be very tough to capture and easy to defend.  make them hard won victories or frustrating defeats.



I would agree with you on player choice if there were 100 ppl on-line (or even 60)  - then folks running around in gv's is no big deal.

But at the end of the day - it's supposed to be a flight sim first and foremost, why piss around with the GV element in the CT when it only distracts from the main focus of the game.

CT doesn't have the critical mass to support GV's .
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: TrueKill on April 05, 2005, 11:49:44 PM
HT says this is not a flight sim its a WWII sim
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Grits on April 06, 2005, 12:14:56 AM
How many planes are modeled and how many GV's?

Its a flight sim with some distracting GV's.
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Redd on April 06, 2005, 12:16:06 AM
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Originally posted by TrueKill
HT says this is not a flight sim its a WWII sim



And politicians say they care about the average family man.... but that's just patting the tank dweebs reassuringly on the head and sending them back out to play   ;)


aces ,  which is derived from the latin  "people who do good flying" , and high as in latin for "in the air"  leads me to believe that first and foremost it's a  flight sim.

(along with the fact that there's 231 available planes    vs  2 trucks and a couple of tanks)
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: SKJohn on April 06, 2005, 12:54:11 AM
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Originally posted by TrueKill
HT says this is not a flight sim its a WWII sim


Oh, ok.  I must have missed the part in my history class about the Germans producing P-51's, and the American Zero factory, etc.  That explains why we have the same country's aircraft shooting each other out of the sky.....
Maybe the CT could be said to be a WWII sim, but the MA???
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: TrueKill on April 06, 2005, 01:03:32 AM
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Originally posted by SKJohn
Oh, ok.  I must have missed the part in my history class about the Germans producing P-51's, and the American Zero factory, etc.  That explains why we have the same country's aircraft shooting each other out of the sky.....
Maybe the CT could be said to be a WWII sim, but the MA???


and your point is???? just cuz the MA isnt historical doesnt mean its not a WWII sim. IF it was a flight sim then y did HT make GVs and PTs in the first place?
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Redd on April 06, 2005, 02:28:18 AM
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Originally posted by TrueKill
and your point is???? just cuz the MA isnt historical doesnt mean its not a WWII sim. IF it was a flight sim then y did HT make GVs and PTs in the first place?




For people using a mouse ?

but

Debating whether its a flight sim or WW2 sim is not the point.

What I am asking is whether GV's and field capture make sense in the CT.  If the CT came to be known for the quality of air combat surely that would be something that would help differentiate it from the MA , and perhaps over time foster and increase the player base.

The MA has plenty of GV and field capture stuff to go around.

If it got to a critical mass of 50 or 100 folks on a regular basis , then sure , let the GV's roll
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: plank on April 06, 2005, 09:21:52 AM
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Originally posted by SKJohn
Oh, ok.  I must have missed the part in my history class about the Germans producing P-51's, and the American Zero factory, etc.  That explains why we have the same country's aircraft shooting each other out of the sky.....
Maybe the CT could be said to be a WWII sim, but the MA???


You can call the MA a potatohouse :)
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Eagler on April 06, 2005, 09:55:06 AM
thought someone said two weeks ago the score/rank in CT was going to be disabled?

kill rank and watch the gv's disappear
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Redd on April 06, 2005, 10:08:12 AM
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Originally posted by Eagler
thought someone said two weeks ago the score/rank in CT was going to be disabled?

kill rank and watch the gv's disappear



Not sure the CM's can disable scoring , but they could disable the vehickles.

But I agree with you


PS I am very worried about Jamusta, I think he's gone all  score-potato on us. I believe he's considering a contract offer from a notable high scoring group who are devasted at losing the No1 spot  ;)
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: SuperDud on April 06, 2005, 12:16:25 PM
But...but... A high score is how I get the chickies!@@!@!@:aok

Would also like to add I've been flyin in CT more and as I do, it seems to get better and better. Was a little rough at 1st, and I had my doubts. But I'm now a believer:p
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on April 06, 2005, 12:47:08 PM
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Originally posted by SuperDud
But...but... A high score is how I get the chickies!@@!@!@:aok
 


Ahhh, so it was YOU Filth made that little film about eh?  :lol
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: SuperDud on April 06, 2005, 03:48:40 PM
Yup, and it's all true! When I'm talkin to the chicks on the phone and I tell them I'm a virtual ace they just throw themselves ay me!!! For some reason though, they make me pay $3.99 a minute???:D
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: VWE on April 06, 2005, 04:13:44 PM
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I believe he's considering a contract offer from a notable high scoring group who are devasted at losing the No1 spot


If jammy hadn't spent more time in the tower than flyin last night he wouldn't still be numero uno... besides, the month is very long and we just started. :aok
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Slash27 on April 06, 2005, 06:31:40 PM
YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNN NNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn......... ............................. .................


















sorry, what were you guys talking about again?:p
Title: GV's and field capture ?
Post by: Redd on April 07, 2005, 09:30:54 AM
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Originally posted by VWE
If jammy hadn't spent more time in the tower than flyin last night he wouldn't still be numero uno... besides, the month is very long and we just started. :aok



with 3 weeks of milkrunning  still to go it's too early  to call I guess   ;)