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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Simaril on June 06, 2008, 11:30:12 PM
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Yesterday had an annoying extended "fight" with a guy I hadn't seen much in the MA -- he was in a Dora, and reminded me of nothing so much as a ball on a rubber band. You know, he sprints away till you turn, then he comes right back; you make a reversal, and away he goes to repeat the cycle. When someone else got him in a similar late war ride, and I got the assist message, I checked score to see what this guy was made of...
And was surprised to see that in the 3 complete days since the tour started he had logged Forty Three Hours. (Tour started on the 2nd due to weekend, and this was the 5th.) When I logged off today, he was continuing the blistering pace with Fifty Two Hours in four days.
Ladies and Gentlemen (along with any AHers that leaves out), that amounts to Thirteen Hours Each and Every Day! Maintaining that torrid pace seems impossible, but if he manages to continue he'd spend over FIVE HUNDRED HOURS playing AH this month. A commendable performance for anyone, and on track to be among the truly great recipients of the Pasty Face Award.
Now for those who don't remember, in years past players whose addiction (or competitive drive) compels them to completely surrender their lives to AH have been nominated for this prestigious award. It's been quite a while since I've seen the topic come up, but in the face of such dedication it only seems right to revive the decoration once more.
So if you have nominees, bring them here!
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Post would be alot better with names...
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yikes 45 hours thats air time too, someone needs to go out meet girls.
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Yeah, we need names, because that's just time in-flight, not including screaming for more hot pockets in the tower. There's no shame in shaming someone with no shame, right?
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Yeah, we need names, because that's just time in-flight, not including screaming for more hot pockets in the tower. There's no shame in shaming someone with no shame, right?
It's HT isn't it? :D
:eek: (runs and hides).
donkey
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LOL, I know who it is.
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I spent that long just today trying to get a stupid field capture in a goon. I win.
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sorry to ruin the surprise but okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok.
I think HTC need to do a check on this guy. He clearly needs help. THIS GUY IS EVERYWHERE, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY.... He is going to die infront of his PC. His name is so annoying to read so I figured id spam it.. how do you pronounce that??
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Right. AH = best pool to survey time well spent lives well lived.
BBS = best pool of those to diagnose and proscribe.
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If it's who I think it is, he's been in the lobby most of that time. Oh yeah, his name rhymes with gang :devil
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Joker2 has 2 minutes short of 50 hours already :rofl
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and in the news today, man playing AH2 for 18 hrs a day, had to have his butt unfused from his chair by paramedics.... details at 5pm :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
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sorry to ruin the surprise but okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok.
I think HTC need to do a check on this guy. He clearly needs help. THIS GUY IS EVERYWHERE, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY.... He is going to die infront of his PC. His name is so annoying to read so I figured id spam it.. how do you pronounce that??
LOL Rumble. Rumble is correct. okllok and I go back, I never even talked to the moron a couple years ago when this all started. He is a mental case that scorepotato's and thinks because so, "he's better than anyone else". He'll run his mouth and when asked to go to the DA, every excuse will begin to surface.
Now mind you last night did not let anyone down on Country channel. "I'm Russian!!!" Like that has ANY bearing on a DA when Simaril challenged him after okllok stated "you'd lose honey." Simaril or MOST for that matter could pounce this cherry picker in the DA. I've also seen him at times, shadowing me to get kills as I moved in on them.
The funny part is him ripping on both Sim's and my Hit %. His isn't any better and he relies on Late War rides. I use Mid War rides for the most part and getting kills isn't as easy. He's just wrapped up in himself thinking he's better than anyone else. Heck, it is fun prodding him until he spews "afk" because he ran out of material.
Simaril, it would have been fun watching you wipe the floor in the DA with his arse.
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Jesus, 50 and 60 hours 4 days. Go Voss go!
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Right. AH = best pool to survey time well spent lives well lived.
BBS = best pool of those to diagnose and proscribe.
I was thinking exactly the same thing Hap.
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He is a mental case that scorepotato's and thinks because so, "he's better than anyone else".
In that case I will enjoy adding him to the "guys I love to beat in the monthly rankings" contest. Tripl5 is already on that list.
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Right. AH = best pool to survey time well spent lives well lived.
BBS = best pool of those to diagnose and proscribe.
Point taken.
I have to confess: The guy did get under my skin, and I let him annoy me when I should have just ignored him. There are excuses (pretty tired at the end of a long day, frustrating evening, etc) but in all honesty I DID post to needle him a little, even though I didn't actually name him. In the end I have to take responsibility for deliberately shining the light of public scrutiny on him when my motives weren't the best.
Not my proudest moment, whether he deserved it or not.
(Though with equal and hopefully objective honesty, it seems to me that you'd be pretty hard pressed to support the idea that 13 hours a day on a computer game is healthy in any conceivable way.)
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I think I might jump in on this thread.
Some people that play this game are retired, disabled, and various other sorts of things. Me for one, I had a life threatening sickness last year that left me so week that all I could do was basically sit. This game was a life saver for me since I don't watch TV.
I like many others have grown kids that do not need my regular attention, and my wife for one, is just happy for me to be alive, so seeing me sit and do anything makes her happy. This is one reason why I log so many hours.
I know this thread was not about me, but when looking at the hours some people play, it may not be just an addiction, there may be many other factors as to why they spend so much time on-line.
Just putting out some thoughts.
BMWgs
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Absolutely true, bmw.
I firmly believe that everybody's got a right to play the way they enjoy. Hording to capture, furballing, clever land grabbing, bombing, whatever -- it's all good, and if something seems to annoy you its best to just go somewhere else. And if folks have the time to play for long hours, that's perfectly OK too.
I think what attracts attention to some heavy volume players is that those few convince themselves that they are especially skilled even though their stats are largely the product of total time spent or timid flight style.
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I'll add that, being divorced and living alone single, I don't watch a lot of TV either (except for football, auto racing and quite a few movies) so AH is where I am with the rest of my free time (60-100 hours/mo.). Being a single income household makes it hard for me to get out much.
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The original purpose of the thread has been "looked over". The bottom line is this, you had someone who is Ranked 9th in Fighters. They aren't worthy of it, they know it and critcized two people of having a "crappy hit %" while his very own, is "just as crappy". When "confronted" by "two mediocre" folks for a stroll to the DA, he chickened out.
The amount of time played is merely the icing on the cake for who this thread is about.
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LOL Rumble. Rumble is correct. okllok and I go back, I never even talked to the moron a couple years ago when this all started. He is a mental case that scorepotato's and thinks because so, "he's better than anyone else". He'll run his mouth and when asked to go to the DA, every excuse will begin to surface.
Now mind you last night did not let anyone down on Country channel. "I'm Russian!!!" Like that has ANY bearing on a DA when Simaril challenged him after okllok stated "you'd lose honey." Simaril or MOST for that matter could pounce this cherry picker in the DA. I've also seen him at times, shadowing me to get kills as I moved in on them.
The funny part is him ripping on both Sim's and my Hit %. His isn't any better and he relies on Late War rides. I use Mid War rides for the most part and getting kills isn't as easy. He's just wrapped up in himself thinking he's better than anyone else. Heck, it is fun prodding him until he spews "afk" because he ran out of material.
Simaril, it would have been fun watching you wipe the floor in the DA with his arse.
lol agreed, looking at his extended stats and the planes he fly tells it's own tale. It's 40% kills with 190d hit and run style. I've got a better "rank" than him sure but I spend about 50/50 of my time in DA. I only have like 10 hours in MA this month.. if I see him coming into a furball I pretty much count him out, only thing he's gonna do is come down and steal a worked out kill... Haven't seen the sight of him over tanktown, unless he's chasing after buffs (easy targets for high flying german planes...).
Of course people can play the way they want, and I can have my opinion on how people play. Especially if they open their mouths and don't back it up. I haven't seen this guy in DA once.
He doesn't have a mic from what I've seen, but I'd imagine he'd be spewing out jibberish of 1's and 0's cause he flies like a one dimensional bot. I'm actually on the same country as him, so it's no a Ooohh he shot me down kind of gig either.
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lol agreed, looking at his extended stats and the planes he fly tells it's own tale. It's 40% kills with 190d hit and run style. I've got a better "rank" than him sure but I spend about 50/50 of my time in DA. I only have like 10 hours in MA this month.. if I see him coming into a furball I pretty much count him out, only thing he's gonna do is come down and steal a worked out kill... Haven't seen the sight of him over tanktown, unless he's chasing after buffs (easy targets for high flying german planes...).
Of course people can play the way they want, and I can have my opinion on how people play. Especially if they open their mouths and don't back it up. I haven't seen this guy in DA once.
He doesn't have a mic from what I've seen, but I'd imagine he'd be spewing out jibberish of 1's and 0's cause he flies like a one dimensional bot. I'm actually on the same country as him, so it's no a Ooohh he shot me down kind of gig either.
Rooks Don't have it any better, prime example is today while flying a 109f I scored few hits on a spit16 which i was dogfighting alone,
after 2 minutes twist and turning, some guy comes in hoin my spit16 down, and wondered why I chased him down spraying with 8mm's
But yeah Time2Die pulled same crap today, flying a tempest came down from 15k to pick someone, got 2 on him and ran to field ack, 3 sectors away. Hey you pay your 15 bucks to fly how you want, im not gona care really - ill offer to take ya to TA and teach some ACM.
Some take the offer some don't, im not trying to be a sweetheart about it just offering help cause some people really dont know ACM and never learned. Some seriously take this as an insult, but think of the timid flying, you think your that good anyway?
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back in aceshigh 1 i managed 13 hours non stop one night. i nearly died.
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A video game should never consume the majority of your day, every single day, period.
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Wow! I'm happy when I get thirteen hours in a tour.
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I must admit I have played long sessions and i usually work them into a day off from work , today I have probably 8.5 hours , I play the game check other guys/girls 6's and try to be a considerate player , But as Baldeagl had stated I'm a bachelor and its easier to play this game than go clubbing or drinking . And I also believe its a persons right to play long hours if they wish and play how they want , it is open to everyone who pays there monthly dues to do so . I learn what I can when I can and there is a whole bunch of nice folks who offer their time and energy to help . So in essence I'd like to say thanks to all of you who do help. But mostly enjoy have fun and fly its our common interest .
thanks Nutte :)
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A video game should never consume the majority of your day, every single day, period.
Nor should the BB.
I don't need to give names but there were some funny ones brought up when the BB finally came back up in another thread. Is there an award for them?
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If you leave Opera open, the tabs with BB threads refresh themselves on their own, for some reason. If you happen to have your pc on 24/7 (e.g. SETI or 3D renders, etc), that means an :eek: amount of BB hours logged.
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I think I might jump in on this thread.
Some people that play this game are retired, disabled, and various other sorts of things.
I was dropped about 30 feet at work. Smashed my right leg, hip, and pelvis. Not broken, shattered/smashed. I'm somewhat new to AH2, but it isnt my first WW2 online flight sim, but honestly... When we talk about things that are really important, who cares when I played my first online flight sim?
As far as I am concerned is that the game (and it really is a game), gives "some" feel of the reality.
I play to pass the time and entertain myself, anything more serious is a laughable joke
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I've played for at least 24hours straight a few times.A couple of years ago I even called in sick to work to play this game.Even now I have to force myself not to play as much.It's sad I know. :cry
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A video game should never consume the majority of your day, every single day, period.
Exactly :aok
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I did play for 20 hours or so once when I just needed something to help reset my sleeping pattern, this was under special circumstances though hehe. never again!! i had psychodreams about AH which we shall not go into detail bout.
My general max play time is 1-2 hours a day though. then I have breaks for months at a time hehe.
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okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok okllok.
how do you pronounce that??
I think it is pronounced C-H-E-R-R-Y P-I-C-K-E-R
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I think it is pronounced C-H-E-R-R-Y P-I-C-K-E-R
Ahhh, yea must be russian for cherryboy.
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How do you all know that he isn't simply logging into the LW Orange in the morning to secure a slot there for his evening flight session? I'm not saying that that is the case, I don't know the guy nor have I ever run into him, but this thread reeks of typical BBS judgemental retardness.
I :salute you all for your superior playstyle/lifestyles.
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The scoring function doesn't account for tower time- only the amount on sorties.
As far as "reeks of typical bbs judgemental retardness" is concerned... have you met Kettle yet?
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He's an easy kill when you catch him too.
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Ahhh, yea must be russian for cherryboy.
He made the AvA what the AvA became, lol. He is really popular there :rofl
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A video game should never consume the majority of your day, every single day, period.
Unless you work with video games, which consumes around 12 hours of my day each day, 5 days out of the week.
Back to the subject at hand. I've never cared how many hours someone puts in each tour, it's really no one's business. However, what I find to be really ironic with those that are in the hundreds + hours each tour is that they suck royally. You would think that someone that plays for 250+ hours each tour would actually get better, not stagnate and wallow in the gutter of crappiness.
ack-ack
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Unless you work with video games, which consumes around 12 hours of my day each day, 5 days out of the week.
Back to the subject at hand. I've never cared how many hours someone puts in each tour, it's really no one's business. However, what I find to be really ironic with those that are in the hundreds + hours each tour is that they suck royally. You would think that someone that plays for 250+ hours each tour would actually get better, not stagnate and wallow in the gutter of crappiness.
ack-ack
I actually find the less I play the better I do. Last night for example I was hot for my first two fighter sorties, then had a bad one, then everything went bad as I tried to re-gain lost ground. I should have quit while I was ahead (after about 1 hour of play). Instead I spent another couple of hours digging a deeper hole.
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One of the new guys in our squad has 49 hours in 9 days...... :D I thought that was alot when I saw it....But this guy okllok needs to find a woman or something.....Maybe one of our fine AH Ladies would help him out.... :rofl
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Who cares if the guy plays alot. He spends his 15 dollars to play as he wants, same for anyone else.
Some play for 20 hours a tour others 400. As for woman, how you know the guy isn't married?
Granted thats alot of hours, so he's just getting his moneys worth. I've known guys playing warcraft
FAR longer then half a squad can post per tour in hours spent online. Back in my hay day, spent quite a few
hours flying Falcon 4 and counterstrike in my high school days.
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Adonai I'm just breaking balls..... :P
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I don't think I could play that long my longest session is about 4.5 hours or so... :cool:
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13 hours a day for 30 days at $15.00 is $0.03.8 per hour. Maybe he's just a bargain hunter or a tightwad stretching his entertainment dollar.
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Maybe one of our fine AH Ladies would help him out.... :rofl
All ask Jaxxo if he could make Hub available for a few days
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I did something like this once....it was earlier this year when my parents were both out of town for about 3 days, I was supremely bored and logged about 24 hours... :o Needless to say, I was not proud of/impressed with myself...
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i used 2 b able 2 play 4+ hours a day... but since they split up the arenas and stopped usin the good maps, i dont play as much anymore :uhoh
-BigBOBCH
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13 hours a day for 30 days at $15.00 is $0.03.8 per hour. Maybe he's just a bargain hunter or a tightwad stretching his entertainment dollar.
lol if he spent some time working he'd be able to diversify his entertainment.
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lol if he spent some time working he'd be able to diversify his entertainment.
He's just at the age where Girls, alcohol and the partying life is no fun yet. When boobies become interesting his hours will
seriously drop off. Just remember wear a rubber ace :aok