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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Getback on August 14, 2009, 04:40:39 AM
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I let out some troops last night and the rascals seem to be double timing it. They also ran past the maproom, looked at the map, checked their compass and then came back in lock step. Anyone else notice this?
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Well I do know that the FREE beer for the drunks has been cut back drastically as a cost cutting method by the government - so no doubt there is an urgency now to be 1st into the bar - hence checking co-ords on a map for the fastest route.
....ya can always lead drunks to beer - never a prob getting them to drink it either eh!
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They always ran to a point about 10 yards NE of maproom and the made a beeline for the hill...
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Last one to map room buys! :rock
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That I remember, Troops run slightly slower than the LTV...maybe 22 mph. They also enter the map room from the same side every time so depending on which side you drop them on woould determine if they run past the map room or not before entering.
If you think they run faster just up and LVT, let them loose and have a race with them. The LVT should still win.
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Our town was flat with some enemy troops already in the map room..bummer! Engaged with a con I noticed another c47 nosing up over the town to dump more troops. I brake hard to get the goon. Troops pouring out the back I shoot the c47 out the sky but there's at least 7 troops in the air.....eeek!
Tracer comes zipping past and I take some small caliber hits. That con's on me like the proverbial. Troops start to land inside the town....not good. I manage to make a strafing pass on 2 troops still in air and get 1. 6 troops all skipping an a jumping over buildings. More tracers fly by and a quick glance shows me what evasive I need but the troops will make it in if I reverse the con. I go for the troops. I'll take one for the team .....death or glory I'm lined for another strafing run. Taking hits the con is 200 off me six... this is it...the last chance to save the base. Just as I'm about to shoot whatever troops I could see the troops vanished....pooofff gone. No more troops. I brake hard left and the con augers into to building...haha.
A quick assessment of the town shows it's still flat and all the acks down. Then it dawns on me what happened. The goon pilot was killed but upped another sortie there by voiding his troops :aok
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without sheep the troops have no reason to stop on the way now
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A quick assessment of the town shows it's still flat and all the acks down. Then it dawns on me what happened. The goon pilot was killed but upped another sortie there by voiding his troops :aok
:rofl
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So now if the goon/m3 driver dies your troops disappear????????
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So now if the goon/m3 driver dies your troops disappear????????
No, however if you die, and then you respawn your ordinance will disappear. If you just die they'll keep going.
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xpost.
Nope, it was just part of the update to stop gamey scoring. Now when you drop ord or troops they disappear as soon as you start another sortie. Previously they still dropped, meaning you could drop bombs from a lanc, quickly end sortie and up a PT boat, and get the damage points when the bombs hit. The new version fixes that.
But now you have to be careful not to up too quickly after your goon/M3 gets shot down if you released troops.
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xpost.
Nope, it was just part of the update to stop gamey scoring. Now when you drop ord or troops they disappear as soon as you start another sortie. Previously they still dropped, meaning you could drop bombs from a lanc, quickly end sortie and up a PT boat, and get the damage points when the bombs hit. The new version fixes that.
But now you have to be careful not to up too quickly after your goon/M3 gets shot down if you released troops.
Good to hear, about time.
btw Lynx, congrats on being numero uno. I wondered why the ranking changed.
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Unsure if I like that or not should I shoot troops in the air or just kill goon and hope he ups another ride like most guys would do.Doubt if to many will sit in hanger for a few minutes to see what happens.
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So if you drop egges from 25k and get nailed in process, you have to sit in tower now until they hit?
BS!
Badly thought out.
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So now if the goon/m3 driver dies your troops disappear????????
only if you re-up right away
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only if you re-up right away
shhhh... don't spread the knowledge.
I saw several sets of LVT dropped troops disappear today for this very reason.
They proably didn't get our base just because of it :lol
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I let out some troops last night and the rascals seem to be double timing it. They also ran past the maproom, looked at the map, checked their compass and then came back in lock step. Anyone else notice this?
someone overdosed em on that 5 hour energy stuff. :noid
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So if you drop egges from 25k and get nailed in process, you have to sit in tower now until they hit?
BS!
Badly thought out.
Kev... you need to keep up with whats been happening. Folk were dropping ords at alt then bailing and upping a tank to collect the damage percentage. Folk for years have been dumping troops out of M3's then bailing but upping c47's to collect bomber field captures. Folk have been spamming PT torps for years then ditch repeat, ditch repeat, ditch repeat, ditch repeat, ditch repeat. One guy is bad enough but when you have several there's 100+ torps chasing the surviving Cv.
It's not BS....just gotta let the ords hit or torps / troops run before upping another sortie.
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Good to hear, about time.
btw Lynx, congrats on being numero uno. I wondered why the ranking changed.
Thank you for the congrates but 2 factors were involved 1) those that normally go for score didn't and 2) you cannot get to be number1 "over all" even with the new system, without gaming the crap outta it. Which I did.
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Thank you for the congrates but 2 factors were involved 1) those that normally go for score didn't and 2) you cannot get to be number1 "over all" even with the new system, without gaming the crap outta it. Which I did.
:rofl :rofl Still a big congrats, and a bigger congrats on honesty!
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Kev... you need to keep up with whats been happening. Folk were dropping ords at alt then bailing and upping a tank to collect the damage percentage. Folk for years have been dumping troops out of M3's then bailing but upping c47's to collect bomber field captures. Folk have been spamming PT torps for years then ditch repeat, ditch repeat, ditch repeat, ditch repeat, ditch repeat. One guy is bad enough but when you have several there's 100+ torps chasing the surviving Cv.
It's not BS....just gotta let the ords hit or torps / troops run before upping another sortie.
I know what had been happening.
This is still not the fix for it.
One 'possible alternative' would be to change the score system so you didn't get the points.
How long do u have to sit in the tower before a torp runs out? Thats what I mean by BS, poorly thought out.
Kind of makes it pointless to even attempt to torp a carrier with a plane now, doesn't it!!!!
Bailing yup, if u die it should't matter if u up right away or not.
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I know what had been happening.
This is still not the fix for it.
One 'possible alternative' would be to change the score system so you didn't get the points.
How long do u have to sit in the tower before a torp runs out? Thats what I mean by BS, poorly thought out.
Kind of makes it pointless to even attempt to torp a carrier with a plane now, doesn't it!!!!
Bailing yup, if u die it should't matter if u up right away or not.
how does it make it pointless? you've probably still got a possibility of a fight on your hands.
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I know what had been happening.
This is still not the fix for it.
One 'possible alternative' would be to change the score system so you didn't get the points.
How long do u have to sit in the tower before a torp runs out? Thats what I mean by BS, poorly thought out.
Kind of makes it pointless to even attempt to torp a carrier with a plane now, doesn't it!!!!
Bailing yup, if u die it should't matter if u up right away or not.
not every run is a suicide run and if your killeded is so hard to wait 1 min B4 upping again.
http://www.filefront.com/14275447/torp-run--0631.ahf/
Skuzzy said in a post words to the effect it was designed to stop the torp spamming. Someone else posted about deliberately riding into the fleet to get killed in the PT but complained about his torps disappearing after he upped yet another PT. Seems it works just fine.
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Nice torp run Lynx,..not often can you sink both ships and get away.
The map where A9 A10 pt spawns head west toward the cv spawn was a big problem if you remember, I was guilty of it many times....monkey see monkey do i guess you could say.
Are attack captures still possible in this version and what do you think the purpose of having them added into the previous version was? Never made sense to me :rolleyes:
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Not only the torps but it prevents one or 2 guys from saturating a base with troops.
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How long do u have to sit in the tower before a torp runs out?
Two minutes, tops?
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i dropped my torps on the town one night, bailed, and re-upped......but there was no damage!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :furious
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I let out some troops last night and the rascals seem to be double timing it. They also ran past the maproom, looked at the map, checked their compass and then came back in lock step. Anyone else notice this?
someone told em there was naked sheep and beer in there.
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Two minutes, tops?
Axis torpedoes......minute and thirty seconds.
Allied torpedoes........four minutes thirty seconds.
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Axis torpedoes......minute and thirty seconds.
Allied torpedoes........four minutes thirty seconds.
slightly slower if some evil dastardly maniac straps a sheep to em.
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They seem to crawl when I let them out.