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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: TeeArr on March 09, 2011, 09:26:21 AM
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I thought I would just throw this out for discussion:
Since we have changed arena format by adding the "Off Hours Arena", is there really a reason to continue with Titanic Tuesday?
I base this question upon the following reasoning; First is the amount of Lag that seems to be associated with Titanic Tuesday running at peak player hours, and the level of irritation and grousing that come from players corresponding to the above.
Obviously, I will play the game either way, but it seems to me we are rapidly headed to a single Late War Arena 24/7.
Thanks,
TeeArr
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TT is so fun though!!
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Interesting point, and a fine question Tee! It really doesn't make sense, other than the fact that it's a 24 hour arena. All the other are half day arenas more or less.
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KEEP TT!!!
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Titanic tuesday is good when we normally have orange and blue arenas, but when we normally switch to the off hours arena I think titanic tuesday should switch as well. Right now during the times of the off hours arena we have about 50 people on a large map (today 4AM MST: 26 bish, 26 knights, 13 rooks). I see no need to have a large map during the off hours.
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I say keep TT but go to off hours later. It just gets so sparse.
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I would like to see TS, TM, TW, Tth, TF, and TSat added TY
JUGgler
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I would like to see TS, TM, TW, Tth, TF, and TSat added TY
JUGgler
:rock :aok
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Titanic teusday sucks, every fight is horde v horde.
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Titanic teusday sucks, every fight is horde v horde.
As opposed to......the horde vs horde the other 6 days of the week?
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When I logged on last night, it was Rook horde and Nit horde v. swamped Bish defenders
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When I logged on last night, it was Rook horde and Nit horde v. swamped Bish defenders
You just typed out three impossibilities. :huh
;)
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As opposed to......the horde vs horde the other 6 days of the week?
Thats just it, the same thing as the whole rest of the day. Since the area change, there is nothing really special about TT
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When I logged on last night, it was Rook horde and Nit horde v. swamped Bish defenders
LOL it was.....ahhhh never mind I dont want a "see rule #"
LawnDart
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I personally enjoy TT but because my computer is hold and right on the edge of having enough GH to play, it just causes me so much lag that it is quite difficult to play. However that is just me after all.
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As opposed to......the horde vs horde the other 6 days of the week?
Normally, it is a horde attacking an undefended field, and 2 sectors away, the other team's horde attacking an undefended field.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I feel undefended airfields and hordes each have opposing magnetic fields. Unfortunately, hordes all have the same poles and tend to avoid one another.
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KEEP TT!!!
Concur. It has done wonders for attendance in AvA.
- oldman
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Normally, it is a horde attacking an undefended field, and 2 sectors away, the other team's horde attacking an undefended field.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I feel undefended airfields and hordes each have opposing magnetic fields. Unfortunately, hordes all have the same poles and tend to avoid one another.
Someday you will have to show me what a hoard attacking an undefended field looks like. I've never seen one.
Anytime I am attacking a field/base the place is like kicking a garbage dumpster and watching enemy icons piling out like cockroaches.
That would make it.........DEFENDED.
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Someday you will have to show me what a hoard attacking an undefended field looks like. I've never seen one.
Anytime I am attacking a field/base the place is like kicking a garbage dumpster and watching enemy icons piling out like cockroaches.
That would make it.........DEFENDED.
ehem! That would be a JUG and yes, I have a spoiled Bigmac under the seat!!
JUGgler
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Someday you will have to show me what a hoard attacking an undefended field looks like. I've never seen one.
Anytime I am attacking a field/base the place is like kicking a garbage dumpster and watching enemy icons piling out like cockroaches.
That would make it.........DEFENDED.
What a suitable user name he has :noid
jk :lol
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Someday you will have to show me what a hoard attacking an undefended field looks like. I've never seen one.
Hold on, let me update AH on my laptop here at work and I'll show you.
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I just logged on and found one... not real hard.
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/ahss1.jpg)
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I just logged on and found one... not real hard.
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/ahss1.jpg)
Oh lordy. Can I see a SS of the same time/moment on the other knight front? Those three little specs of friendly radar floating around the sectors surrounding that "undefended" base might simply be the best fight we have to choose from at that moment. :D
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As opposed to......the horde vs horde the other 6 days of the week?
No
As opposed to Horde Vs auto ack only
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Normally, it is a horde attacking an undefended field, and 2 sectors away, the other team's horde attacking an undefended field.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I feel undefended airfields and hordes each have opposing magnetic fields. Unfortunately, hordes all have the same poles and tend to avoid one another.
:aok :cheers: :aok
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Sure is some good spawn campin on TT.......
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I just logged on and found one... not real hard.
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/ahss1.jpg)
Proves absolutely JACK.
Just because you see no darbar doesn't mean it's undefended.
Your discounting every cockroach in a tank and wirbel piling out that does not show on radar.
Let's face it. We come from two different aspects of the game and I'm not going to convince you and you certainly (not in this lifetime) going to convince me.
Unless, of course, your main times of game play are 3 AM Grapvine time or in EW or MW, where I'm sure it happens failry often in USA prime-time.
PS--It also completely discounts a SS where the hoard has already killed all the hangars.
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Was this thread seriously discussing gettin rid of Titanic Tuesday?! If so, ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR DAMN MIND?!
LEAVE Titanic Tuesday ALONE, it's fine as is!
If you got LAG issues, figure out what is wrong with YOU, don't blame it on the rest of us!
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I .Squelch AUTO
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.ignore AUTO
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I thought I would just throw this out for discussion:
Since we have changed arena format by adding the "Off Hours Arena", is there really a reason to continue with Titanic Tuesday?
I base this question upon the following reasoning; First is the amount of Lag that seems to be associated with Titanic Tuesday running at peak player hours, and the level of irritation and grousing that come from players corresponding to the above.
Obviously, I will play the game either way, but it seems to me we are rapidly headed to a single Late War Arena 24/7.
Thanks,
TeeArr
What internet connection do you have? Spec of your system also.
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I would like to see TS, TM, TW, Tth, TF, and TSat added TY
JUGgler
+1.
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once it hits the 64 bird in the air limit... i get annoyed because i cant see all my enemies and allies in my field of view... only time im bugged by TT...
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Titanic teusday sucks, every fight is horde v horde.
Horde vs Horde is fun as all get out. It's Horde vs 2 that's no fun. But then that may depend on the individual. Some enjoy the odds. One of the best sorties I ever flew was in an f6 vs. about 6 or more bish. I couldn't believe I lasted so long. Finally the clipped an elevator and I crashed while doing a yo yo.
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Horde vs Horde is fun as all get out....<snip>
Uhmm, they call those FURBALLS, atleast they did, back in the day, when we only had 1 MA, NOW THOSE, WERE FUN! :rock
Ofcourse most of teh "kiddies" wouldn't know that, so they call em HORDES! :headscratch:
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Ofcourse most of teh "kiddies" wouldn't know that, so they call em HORDES! :headscratch:
they want a 1 vs. 1 in a MMORPG game. :rofl
not to mention i got picked by one of these horde whiners in this thread while in a 1 vs. 1 myself.
the irony is mind blowing. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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I just logged on and found one... not real hard.
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/ahss1.jpg)
I just noticed the base and relative time that you posted it.
We were at the same base at the same time :rofl
Undefended? Hardly.
I had logged in maybe 12 minutes prior to you taking that SS. I asked my squaddie the status of 77 and he said that "they have been furballing there for an hour". He also said that the town had hardly been touched. The vh had just popped so I upped an wirbel and headed to town. I had almost got there when a set of B-26's suicide egged town and I got 2 proxies. FastTone, VW, and two others (who's ID I don't remember) were dukeing it out low on the deck with overwhelming numbers..there were at least two friendlies that had come in from the spawn but was taking a long time as they had other NME gv's coming in as well. At that point I get bombed at the town. We were still red flagged at that point.
I went out for a smoke and came back and got into the last field gun still available (not still up, just available). The cons were too far out so I swing around and notice an M4 1.5 from the field. I open up and get maybe 4 sprites and then *poof* screen pops me to a base in the rear and it shows up that 77 was taken by the knights. My best guess is that SS was was taken seconds before that happened.
You picked one heck of a "not real hard" example SS there Del. :rofl
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my opinion on hords. Leave the maps to peak and off hours, or no titanic tueaday, or titanic everyday like JUGgler says. a hord will form, ALWAYS.
If the hord is left to hord for enough time, it will become dull to even the horders and they will want to change things up a bit. Also if you don't like the hords, why are you in them? if your not then you don't know they're there. a hord is not going to win the war. and you can't attack or defend were the hords are. best bet strategically is to bring the fight to the oppising hord side by attacking and capturing there in-active bases. this will make the thought process of the horders to begin to shift to the defencive.
:angel:
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they want a 1 vs. 1 in a MMORPG game. :rofl
not to mention i got picked by one of these horde whiners in this thread while in a 1 vs. 1 myself.
the irony is mind blowing. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
What does someone wishing to have 1v1 fight have to do with AH being a MMOG? Just because a game is massively multiplayer doesn't mean one has to fight massive amounts of people, it's just a description of the kind of game it is. Your argument is just as silly as those certain groups that play MMO's that whine about solo players.
Oh...and just to clear things up. Aces High is a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) and not a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) as there is no character creation, development, persistent world, etc., that you see in MMORPGs like WoW.
ack-ack
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Just because a game is massively multiplayer doesn't mean one has to fight massive amounts of people, it's just a description of the kind of game it is.
i dunno, something's just not right for people to expect not to be picked or ganged when they KNOWINGLY fly into a horde.
its like getting into a train at rush hour and expecting to have the whole seat all to yourself.
sure you can have your one on one in this, but fly on the side of the map where the horde is not rolling bases.
dont expect them to change either, that is how they enjoy their game and you cant do squat about that,
much less coming to the BBS and post endless threads here about the "horde."
i just got in here because i find it HYPOCRITICAL some people whine about picks/hordes;
when i see those very same people in-game engage in same behavior. :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh
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i just got in here because i find it HYPOCRITICAL some people whine about picks/hordes;
when i see those very same people in-game engage in same behavior. :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh
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lol right? this means, if you are IN the horde, then you are a PART of the horde! don't join a hockey team if you hate hockey or much less contact sports :old:
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I just noticed the base and relative time that you posted it.
We were at the same base at the same time :rofl
Undefended? Hardly.
I had logged in maybe 12 minutes prior to you taking that SS. I asked my squaddie the status of 77 and he said that "they have been furballing there for an hour". He also said that the town had hardly been touched. The vh had just popped so I upped an wirbel and headed to town. I had almost got there when a set of B-26's suicide egged town and I got 2 proxies. FastTone, VW, and two others (who's ID I don't remember) were dukeing it out low on the deck with overwhelming numbers..there were at least two friendlies that had come in from the spawn but was taking a long time as they had other NME gv's coming in as well. At that point I get bombed at the town. We were still red flagged at that point.
I went out for a smoke and came back and got into the last field gun still available (not still up, just available). The cons were too far out so I swing around and notice an M4 1.5 from the field. I open up and get maybe 4 sprites and then *poof* screen pops me to a base in the rear and it shows up that 77 was taken by the knights. My best guess is that SS was was taken seconds before that happened.
You picked one heck of a "not real hard" example SS there Del. :rofl
Gimme a break. More times then not, by a wide margin. the bases the hordes attack are either nearly undefended or completely undefended. I know, I used to try to defend against em. But like someone else said. Horde vs 2 becomes old very quickly.
Yea you will come across some with all GVs up defending and thus a lack of dar. or some stuck flying so low that they leave no dar signature. But those are by far more the exception rather then the norm.
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Gimme a break. More times then not, by a wide margin. the bases the hordes attack are either nearly undefended or completely undefended. I know, I used to try to defend against em. But like someone else said. Horde vs 2 becomes old very quickly.
Yea you will come across some with all GVs up defending and thus a lack of dar. or some stuck flying so low that they leave no dar signature. But those are by far more the exception rather then the norm.
Please provide proof.
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1/7=14%
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I wish every day was Titanic Tuesday. Leave it alone!
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I wish every day was Titanic Tuesday. Leave it alone!
:rolleyes: yup sure is nice to see almost nothing but spixteens and temps with the occasional 262 buzzing through the romper room horde for an entire day...exactly like furball lake in the da...lots of fun for someone... :headscratch:
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Gimme a break. More times then not, by a wide margin. the bases the hordes attack are either nearly undefended or completely undefended.
So why isn't anyone defending? True hordes rarely go NOE because they contain newbs who can't fly under 65 feet. It takes 2 minutes to get from the edge of the dar circle to the field. That's more than enough time to organize a defense if anyone wants to. It's certainly enough time to get a goon hunt up or get a few tanks on the way to town. If it's 30 on 2 that just shows that only 2 guys out of 150-200 in your country (since it's TT) care enough to bother to defend a field under attack. That's not the attackers' fault.
Or do you mean it's bad form to attack a field that doesn't already have a large number of defenders in the air before the attack gets anywhere near it? But why would any attacker do something as stupid as to throw away at least some degree of tactical surprise? That's not only dumb in war, it's dumb in any game I've ever heard of. You don't pass the ball into the biggest knot of defenders you can find just to prove how much better your receiver is! :rolleyes:
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I wish every day was Titanic Tuesday. Leave it alone!
It already is when the off hours arena is in operation.
All the Best...
Jay