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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: jimson on September 18, 2009, 11:12:55 AM
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I'm not accusing anyone. I have no films and no names. I'm just wondering what happened here.
Last night there were several of us chasing a spit on the deck, I have scored a few hits on him and am lined up, just about to take the kill shot and POOF... he's gone. No explosions, no auger, just disappeared.
Others around me ask "where did he go, who got the kill?" Apparently no one did.
Was this a bug? or an incredibly timely accidental disco?
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I'm pretty sure that's what happens when someone disco's (as opposed to alt-f4, which would at least give you a proxy on him). As far as the "timeliness" of this disco...perhaps it's a combination of marginal connect and computer horsepower.
As you get closer to someone, the game needs to send more information more frequently to keep everyone's "reality" as close to the same for everyone involved. It's possible that these factors magnified what network problems he was having and "poof" was the result.
Not sure cable-yanking ever worked, or if people still try it...not really a topic to be discussed here.
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I edited my post accordingly.
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In a 38 the cammand is .cloak
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People who are very passionate about their score do whats called "plug pullin". It basically means what is said. By pulling the computer plug out of the outlet you supposedly disco.
Although I dont have a very intimate knowledge of computers i do know that they run off powers supplies that makes this theory irrellevent. Even if you pulled the plug on your PC, it would still have power for a good 2 to 3 seconds on most systems.
However if your running a laptop with no battery installed then this would definitely work if you removed the plug upon encountering danger.
A bich move if ya ask me.
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Yall do realize that folks just disco. :rofl
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All you have to do to "emulate" a disco is terminate your internet connection. Doesn't require powering your computer off.
Scoretard dweebs do it...but it's not easy to prove, especially with the game bugs still happening after the last patch.
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Others around me ask "where did he go, who got the kill?" Apparently no one did.
Was this a bug? or an incredibly timely accidental disco?
Wife pulled the power cord outta the socket?? :devil
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In a 38 the cammand is .cloak
:lol :lol darn i keep typing .coke and my lil cup holder pops out
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Hey! I was there chasing that spit too and was one of the folks that said "where did he go?"
It good to know how the game handles Disco's I've been disco'ed before, but that was te first time I'd seen someone vanish.
Although my bullets vanish all the time. ;)
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I thought better of this post and removed any reference to "cable yanking."
Who knows? could have been a legit disco, but man, what an opportune time for one.
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I thought better of this post and removed any reference to "cable yanking."
Who knows? could have been a legit disco, but man, what an opportune time for one.
Well think about it...
He probably had the throttle nailed to the firewall. Moving fast requires the computer to update fast. Throw in anything else that may have been in the area.... tracers, GVs, other planes. Computer might not have been able to cope.
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Yep, that's what I said in Reply #1. :D
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Yep, that's what I said in Reply #1. :D
Yup but now I have said it..... :P
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That is what a disco looks like my man! Or this...
(http://www.textually.org/ringtonia/archives/images/set3/SaturdayNightFever-1.jpg)
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So, you don't blow up when you disco nor does anyone close by get a proxies?
I've always assumed it is the same as auguring since it is scored as a "death".
Answers?
wrongway
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So, you don't blow up when you disco nor does anyone close by get a proxies?
I've always assumed it is the same as auguring since it is scored as a "death".
Answers?
wrongway
That'd be my guess. When I was on-call for my job, I had to alt-f4 out to handle an incident call. Before AH2 shut down I saw in the text buffer "blahblah killed you".
I've seen a couple of people vanish, one while I was 300 out and about to saw off his wings...he vanished and nothing in the text buffer about it.
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I've seen a couple of people vanish, one while I was 300 out and about to saw off his wings...he vanished and nothing in the text buffer about it.
Were you off the east coast of Florida? :D
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People who are very passionate about their score do whats called "plug pullin". It basically means what is said. By pulling the computer plug out of the outlet you supposedly disco.
Although I dont have a very intimate knowledge of computers i do know that they run off powers supplies that makes this theory irrellevent. Even if you pulled the plug on your PC, it would still have power for a good 2 to 3 seconds on most systems.
However if your running a laptop with no battery installed then this would definitely work if you removed the plug upon encountering danger.
A bich move if ya ask me.
Nobody else going to step in and mention that this would probably quickly destroy the internals of a computer?
The term "cable pulling" comes from yanking the internet connection, not the power. In any case, it doesn't happen all that often...I'd be surprised at more than five times a month. Though in these ones where the person just vanishes it's probable. The situations where someone, say, flies through a mountain, whips on your six, then kills you is not some guy yanking his cable, coming around, then plugging it back in like people love to believe. Networks just don't work that way.
ImADot's explanation is the most common cause.
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Nobody else going to step in and mention that this would probably quickly destroy the internals of a computer?
The term "cable pulling" comes from yanking the internet connection, not the power. In any case, it doesn't happen all that often...I'd be surprised at more than five times a month. Though in these ones where the person just vanishes it's probable. The situations where someone, say, flies through a mountain, whips on your six, then kills you is not some guy yanking his cable, coming around, then plugging it back in like people love to believe. Networks just don't work that way.
ImADot's explanation is the most common cause.
i'm trying to bribe my cartoon crewchief to install a new hyperdrive system in my p38 o doom. :noid
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i'm trying to bribe my cartoon crewchief to install a new hyperdrive system in my p38 o doom. :noid
Cap do this...
.SAPPenable then .jato
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I vote MJSmoke for the John Travolta award!
Fighter Bomber Attack Veh./Boat Total
Kills 67 22 56 305 450
Assists 21 4 9 84 118
Sorties 181 188 159 368 896
Landed 49 45 28 132 254
Bailed 11 22 12 0 45
Ditched 5 3 4 19 31
Captured 11 12 10 12 45
Deaths 99 99 99 195 492
Discos 6 7 6 10 29
Think about how many landed kills he missed out on!
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I vote MJSmoke for the John Travolta award!
Fighter Bomber Attack Veh./Boat Total
Kills 67 22 56 305 450
Assists 21 4 9 84 118
Sorties 181 188 159 368 896
Landed 49 45 28 132 254
Bailed 11 22 12 0 45
Ditched 5 3 4 19 31
Captured 11 12 10 12 45
Deaths 99 99 99 195 492
Discos 6 7 6 10 29
Think about how many landed kills he missed out on!
Probably not that many. :lol