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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: nrshida on September 26, 2022, 02:21:35 PM
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Getting off topic even by my standards in the other thread...
I've had quite a few one on ones with the judge. he hunts as I do. Many in a Yak co alt with him. Quite a few when I had the altitude and the smash. In all with the exception of a tie, I have died. My thing is I really like fighting the pilots that own me.
Then you fly to challenge yourself & improve and you certainly don't fly like he does. Judge is not a hunter he's a scavenger who looks for easy kills, HOes on any co-e merge exploiting his laggy connection and dives away, seeks weak prey already engaged, outnumbered, lower, and or slower. The moment he senses danger of loss of advantage he's nose-down to extend as fast as he can, either to ack or friendlies or to climb back out of range and return later to rinse and repeat. His flying has not advanced one bit in years. He has not, and cannot improve his flying and has long since-displaced any illusion of that with the self-delusion that 'success' <- his term by-the-way (his score he means), is unchallengeable. Even arguing on channel 200 that he's 'better' than people who clearly have ACM a good magnitude above him. Is no longer able to discern that his 'success' is environmentally exploitative, and if everone flew like he did, the MA would be empty in a week.
He's like a deluded, mindless, rigid, automaton, endlessly looping through the same flowchart over and over again for endless hours per month trying to sooth an ego so fragile that can't stand any criticism at all, accurate or not.
And in anticipation of the standard: "It's his $15, he can play any way he wants": sure, he absolutely can and just consider how many people's gameplay he's systematically ruined with his selfish approach, and finally let's not have any delusion about his modus operandi. Let's call a spade a spade, shall we.
All of that ^ as Zack would have said, fact*. Please do point out where my observations are incorrect.
*Probably a bad idea to insult my friend Stig this evening on channel 200, eh Judge?
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I am somewhat curious/skeptical about this topic.
Don't think I'll fly when a certain individual is online.
Il-2 and DCS for me at those times.
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Nrshida what's your handle and what time can you be found in ma?
Sounds like you have a hard on for thejudge...
Need to see your technique as it must be pure a2a with no hoing or running...
Eagler
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You know everybody has a different idea what they think is fun. You think that he's deluded just because that's what he wants to do in a game that he pays for?
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So far, in my experience.. The op has presented an opinion on how he feels everyone should act in every sitch.
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Nrshida what's your handle and what time can you be found in ma?
Sounds like you have a hard on for thejudge...
Eagler
I have to agree with another pilot that owns me. :D And for the life of me I can't fly a 109 either..
You went off on him on 200 today also. I really don't understand.
Out of the 90 plus kills of me, he has never talked smack. He might say "Good morning poopy" I have never seen him talk smack on 200 unless attacked there. Which tend to have the same players anytime they die in flames..
Flying Bish anytime you call out for help, if he's in the area he comes gunnin.
But if you are out and about and see a high 190, you better have your big boy pants on because he does not miss.
All co-alt merges I have had with him he is diving for speed as I do also. After that pass the fight is on. I've had great fights with him even though I die. Others were embarrassing ;)
Flying Bish I search for him or Silent as they find the fights. And your conception of how he flys is incorrect.
As far as diving out when you lose the advantage ? What would you suggest flying a Dora ? Really, what would you suggest as an alternative ? I like to learn.
Play the game, don't join the small group that insists on talking smack on 200 when they lose...OR win.
The majority of us players are far to old for that.
<S>
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I have to agree with another pilot that owns me. :D And for the life of me I can't fly a 109 either..
You went off on him on 200 today also. I really don't understand.
Out of the 90 plus kills of me, he has never talked smack. He might say "Good morning poopy" I have never seen him talk smack on 200 unless attacked there. Which tend to have the same players anytime they die in flames..
Flying Bish anytime you call out for help, if he's in the area he comes gunnin.
But if you are out and about and see a high 190, you better have your big boy pants on because he does not miss.
All co-alt merges I have had with him he is diving for speed as I do also. After that pass the fight is on. I've had great fights with him even though I die. Others were embarrassing ;)
Flying Bish I search for him or Silent as they find the fights. And your conception of how he flys is incorrect.
As far as diving out when you lose the advantage ? What would you suggest flying a Dora ? Really, what would you suggest as an alternative ? I like to learn.
Play the game, don't join the small group that insists on talking smack on 200 when they lose...OR win.
The majority of us players are far to old for that.
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That sums it up for me, in Fighter, bomber or gv. Well said nopoop.
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Good points of view expressed. That's great.
I flew once again today as a Knit...great fun. Was killed alot but it was fun with good fights. I got my money's worth.
This is still the best one out here. Cry and whine...you can't find anything better.
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You went off on him on 200 today also. I really don't understand.
Eagler doesn't like me because I once said something critical about him I should imagine.
My motivation is simple and does not involve my reproductive organs. TheJudge smack-talked a friend after killing him in a ganging and since English is not his first language, I stuck up for him. Here, some home truths.
As far as diving out when you lose the advantage ? What would you suggest flying a Dora ? Really, what would you suggest as an alternative ? I like to learn.
There are and have been way better Dora pilots who don't take one swing and run. That aircraft is well disposed to vertical-fighting, which Judge can't do either, because his spatial-awareness is deficient. But wonder for a minute what dictated what: plane-choice or tactics.
Nrshida what's your handle and what time can you be found in ma?
nrshida, somewhere around 10-a.m. - 19.00-p.m. CET some days of the week if you want to teach me a lesson.
Need to see your technique as it must be pure a2a with no hoing or running...
Frankly, taking a confrontational stance for poor reasons imho means that you forfeit any reasonable technical discussion thereafter. Yes I have some films of TheJudge somewhere around evidencing my argument. I'll try to dig those up later in the week anyone's actually really interested in ACM. I'm not intolerant of other approaches. I like to fight really skillful BnZers for example but there aren't many left now. This is about deriding another player, insulting and devaluing them when you don't have a leg to stand on yourself.
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I have nothing against you as I don't recall you in ma
I do know who thejudge is
You fly the plane as designed..
I don't ho in a 109f but given the right chance I will open up at a 1k ho in a 109g2 with gonds and win 85% of them
Faster planes shouldn't slow down and try to turn fight a slower more maneuverable plane unless they want to die
Yes we can go into da ..please ping me if you see me in ma
Eagler
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This is still the best one out here. Cry and whine...you can't find anything better.
Come fly some DCS in the Enigma server.
Cold War setup.
reminded me of AH2 days
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people complaining about how other people choose to play = pointless.
Fugitive was deriding me the other day because I was in a Dora and a F4u was running me down, caught me and killed me. I guess Fugitive was behind the F4U and he was mad that I didn't turn and fight. I'm not even sure what he was angry about. I had to ask him to leave me alone.
I don't care if someone in a faster plane runs away. who cares?
There are not many 1v1 fights to be had. People will pick you off while you are engaged. Who cares? People just want to shoot other planes down and have fun however they have fun. No need to analyze it or complain.
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I have quite the collection of both laggy "wtf how did he hit me?" films and film of him doing exactly as nrshida states.
I never question that his shots are invalid from his perspective, but his serious lag makes it very difficult to engage when he's an outlier hiding behind others.
If you know it's him - he's easy, but if you guess wrong you just set yourself up for an easier death making a too early move.
This is the advantage he acquires as more skilled pilots make their moves based on visual cues (based on the average connections) and the visual cues are completely out of phase with average connections. Those without a clue think he's some awesome marksman when it's nothing more than his lag messing with them. Those with a clue have learned to avoid his area in general, or if they know it's him, make the needed adjustments to send him running.
He's an inherent runner - typical FWeenie we've seen thru the ages but it's his time to shine behind numbers advantage where in the past there would be too many enemies in the skies for him to engage as successfully as he does now.
Yes I have some films of TheJudge somewhere around evidencing my argument. I'll try to dig those up later in the week anyone's actually really interested in ACM. I'm not intolerant of other approaches. I like to fight really skillful BnZers for example but there aren't many left now.
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Shane help me out here. I understand net lag with all having a good connection. I don't understand a laggy connection how it becomes an advantage. I would think there would be warping which I see occasionally with planes. Maybe once a day with one particular plane. Though there have been days where it is more prevalent.
Do you mean a slow connection compared to the average connnection speed ? If so, walk me through it so I can understand how that becomes an advantage.
A film with an explanation would help. How it changes the dynamic on a co-alt merge etc.
BTW when flying a dora which I suck at, I'm a FW weenie :D
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Faster planes shouldn't slow down and try to turn fight a slower more maneuverable plane unless they want to die
Perhaps you could extend me the courtesy to grant that I know all about the pitching of relative attributes and style already. Do people think I can't BnZ, or energy fight, or stall-fight? I can do all of those things and styles not formalised, all mixed together and appropriate to opponents & situation. I will extend also from a better-turning opponent if he joins a fight for an easy kill or conspires to catch me sub-e for just long enough to establish an energy-building advantage, because I'm not an idiot, as dictated by any combat manual you care to read. That's not the same as running a sector so you can start your picking routine from a fresh, safe position. I'm sure I don't have to explain that difference to any student of ACM.
I admire skill and the work it took to get it. Then along comes lazy-arsed ubernoobs who can't even BnZ properly, just a hit and run picker using his score to berate others who play a more self-challenging way <- criticising other's playing style, through brandishing their score, which means the same as the method you used to get it - absolutely nothing.
The following not directed at you Eagler, but some other people's comprehension of both concepts and the actual text is woefully deficient. It's a one page thread so-far and people are raising points I've already raised and answered. It's almost as if the text is random symbols if it wasn't what you are prejudiced to seeing. If you don't understand the topic try reading and understanding instead of banging on the soundbyte sampler. "It's his $15". Try to maybe think about things a bit and especially their consequences. All I ever see on Channel 200 is complaints about gameplay. I've heard now in the last 24-hours from five players who say they'll just avoid him. That means they'll mostly log and consider the merit of their subscription. Do. The. Math.
Yes thanks Shane for the reality-check. Starting to wonder if I'd stumbled into the Twiglett Zone here. My films are not of Judge's elastic connection, I failed to film those, plus I think you'd need both perspectives to make a convincing argument and he's hardly likely to help illustrate the magnitude of his easy-modeness. They were mostly about his deficient ACM to highlight the decoupling between score and quality of airmanship, as you already described.
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I'll post two films that will show you from my perspective. To fully appreciate it it, you'll need to view it several times at slow speed from both internal and external perspectives (both mine and judge's.)
You'll see my film showing him firing either *after* he passes me, or with no potential solution and then me taking damage shortly after (when I would normally clear from guns solutions on me - or nrshida.)
By trying to apply my "normal" timings, judge's latency throws that off in his favor given most time he engages with an advantage already. So, the fancy skitter aside move I just did hasn't been seen on judge's end - he's shooting at my "ghost plane (his front-end views with the server) that because of his latency in receiving/transmitting positional updates hasn't gottten around to doing that fancy move I just did and because of his transmitting latency, he's closer than I thought he was and able to hit my un-fancy moving plane from his view (totally legit, just a distressing visceral reminder that latency still exists, and judge is an outlier with his.)
And if you've been paying attention, I've been calling out judge's latency issues for the past few months - he takes it pretty well, but it does give him inherent advantages that many mistake for either a hack or mad skills, when it's latency plus decent skills plus a bunch of other factors that work in his favor (shrug). He's not the only one, just the most successful one.
OTOH, high(er) latency also benefits in HO situations, and I think that post earlier summed it up well. Latency has always been an issue I'm aware of since it's all about timing and mental/sight pictures.
When I was last regularly playing years ago, the avg latency was around 200-300ms with some pacific players hitting 500ms. HTC's smoothing code (that patent thing) leveled the field quite a bit at the time and over the years, but I don't think it has kept pace with the much better connections now where the average maybe be around 50-60ms and the less robust connections can still hit 150-300ms.
Is judge unplayable against? No, not if you can id him and be aware (SA) but it's not something overly fun since he will run at the slightest whiff of losing his advantages. Been there, done that.
Anyway.. the films... hang on let me clip them to smaller size and pinpoint some of the film times to look at. Let me know if they make sense or if I need to break them down further. I'll post in the films forum. They're fairly recent, too.
Shane help me out here. I understand net lag with all having a good connection. I don't understand a laggy connection how it becomes an advantage. I would think there would be warping which I see occasionally with planes. Maybe once a day with one particular plane. Though there have been days where it is more prevalent.
Do you mean a slow connection compared to the average connnection speed ? If so, walk me through it so I can understand how that becomes an advantage.
A film with an explanation would help. How it changes the dynamic on a co-alt merge etc.
BTW when flying a dora which I suck at, I'm a FW weenie :D
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He doesn't use tracers right?
They always seem to hit late on me
Eagler
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Great explaination shane !! Now it makes sense. That explains bullets in the tower when I die sometimes.
I'm wifi and have a rock solid 60ms connection with jumps on very rare occasions. That also explains why I lose 99% of headons.
I suppose you could game it with a dial-up connection if it still available..
Thats amazing, coming in on dive on a low con with you having a slow connection you would be shooting at a ghost before he breaks, when he broke at the correct time.
Looking forward to the films.
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Wifi playing a h2h internet computer game?
I would think being wired would immediately improve your performance
Eagler
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The guy really is more of an annoyance than anything.. I couldn't imagine being a newer player and being on the receiving end of his "tactics" and connection issues.
Most of the time she runs from me, until I engage someone with a bigger pair.
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I find this thread very informative !!
Eagler what is your connection speed being hardwired ? Curious how much better it is. Like I said I'm a rock solid 60ms with wifi. I paid extra for 50meg downloads.
So..
In effect, if you have high latency, but it is a "good" connection, you are not going to warp to be seen by other players. In the game the way "you" see it is, planes are not breaking when they should, you always see them breaking too late.
If you have high latency, will other planes warp on your FE ? Or being that you have a good connection but slow, they won't ? I always thought that lost packets was the main cause.
Good stuff fellas. Good thread.
Shane you got those films ?
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Digging for them - deleted a bunch about 2 months ago and haven't engaged judge much since.
latency = ping time to server and back, no warps involved. My ping times bounce from 30ms to 33-34 to sometimes 40ms - pretty stable within that range.
warps = a variety of causes that disrupt/lose the info packets transmission - could be your computer, the internet or the server.
I find this thread very informative !!
Eagler what is your connection speed being hardwired ? Curious how much better it is. Like I said I'm a rock solid 60ms with wifi. I paid extra for 50meg downloads.
So..
In effect, if you have high latency, but it is a "good" connection, you are not going to warp to be seen by other players. In the game the way "you" see it is, planes are not breaking when they should, you always see them breaking too late.
If you have high latency, will other planes warp on your FE ? Or being that you have a good connection but slow, they won't ? I always thought that lost packets was the main cause.
Good stuff fellas. Good thread.
Shane you got those films ?
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I'll take any of you on one versus one if you guys want to duel.
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And if it's world war 1 I'll probably hand you your arses.
❤️
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It's hard for me to appreciate players who fly E mode in the fastest planes in the game. These types of planes like the 190D. It makes little since that one of the most successful and fastest planes in WW2 is not perked. As you can see that a skilled BnZer can take advantage of the players with no risk. When a player gets over 1,000 kills a month with a low population, it does have an impact on player #s. It also creates more players who fly the same way, thus making the air combat atmosphere stale. I know Judge is a pretty decent stick, but hiding behind a 190D just makes it look like he needs a crutch to have advantage over other players.
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I played for years tethered to my iPhone which I had to deselect LTE but use 4G for a consistent connection latency of 400ms which is about 150ms slower than dial-up and nobody complained of me warping.
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Here you go. These aren't the best examples, but they're typical.
https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,365206.msg5379352.html#msg5379352
Thats amazing, coming in on dive on a low con with you having a slow connection you would be shooting at a ghost before he breaks, when he broke at the correct time.
Looking forward to the films.
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Not as dramatic as I thought it would be but see the delay when slowed down.
On being on the receiving end of a pick a last second break would show very well lag that would show the advantage.
Good stuff Shane, thanks
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Yeah, not the best examples. I've had a few in past where it's more clear he's shooting further behind.
Not as dramatic as I thought it would be but see the delay when slowed down.
On being on the receiving end of a pick a last second break would show very well lag that would show the advantage.
Good stuff Shane, thanks
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I wish we had that sign you see in side view mirrors of car… things are closer than they appear.
When working with a player I always suggest they break early,yes it might give away your first move but it’s better than being shot. On your end when you look back you might see the enemy at D1000 but he might see you at D600 on his end.
These are just examples as there’s no way to know what the other player sees on his end and he has no way of knowing what you see on your end. Your ping might be a steady 60 to80ms and the other player could be having a ping of 200ms,the lag is the total of the 2 so about 260ms or just over 1/4 of a second of total lag. Then factor in the speeds and directions and there could be several 100 yds difference between what either player sees.
YMMV.
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No speculation that this is the rebirth of Skyyr, Starfox, Vendetta etc? Too many names to remember.
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No. Skyyr had a deep understanding of technical knowledge, a particular (and unconventional) strategy - in the MA at least - and a skilful execution of it.
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No. Skyyr had a deep understanding of technical knowledge, a particular (and unconventional) strategy - in the MA at least - and a skilful execution of it.
yeah he was awesome, still remember when I did a complete circle around him and he just seemed to stay in the same place nose straight up.
semp
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I wish we had that sign you see in side view mirrors of car… things are closer than they appear.
When working with a player I always suggest they break early,yes it might give away your first move but it’s better than being shot. On your end when you look back you might see the enemy at D1000 but he might see you at D600 on his end.
These are just examples as there’s no way to know what the other player sees on his end and he has no way of knowing what you see on your end. Your ping might be a steady 60 to80ms and the other player could be having a ping of 200ms,the lag is the total of the 2 so about 260ms or just over 1/4 of a second of total lag. Then factor in the speeds and directions and there could be several 100 yds difference between what either player sees.
YMMV.
I thought HTC had some technology that limited the effects of differing ping times? If I recall, Dale has said that variance in delay causes more problems.
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In a new exciting development, I ran into Judge this evening who once again killed me entirely due to laggy connection. On my end I'm a clear and stable 30-degrees AoT before suddenly losing a wing. Not really a biggie to me but Judge got very excited. Cue twenty minutes of quite highly-motivated smack talking, name calling and vitriolic accusations mostly to do with soya beans. Was funny though a bit wasted on non-Americans.
So again: if I don't have a point about your parasitic gameplay and lack of non lag-related skill: why so angry and why do you refuse invitations to the DA?
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Shane shot me down a couple time the other night. I was in a Spit IX and he was in an LA-7. I had the advantage at least one time. Shane is so good that it doesn't even matter what advantage I have.
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He is. Part of what made Judge go into a total ego fap this evening was he also shot Shane down right before me. It's simply his laggy connection. You just have to guess where he actually is which throws years of experience out of the window and gives him an unfair advantage. And a platform to smack talk apparently.
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I pretty much stay off of channel 200 unless it's just to say good evening and good night to everybody.
I tried to salute shame but he didn't answer me. Lol
But there's a lot of players that are so good that you can't even be sure no matter what kind of advantage you might have. Granted, I'm not that good. I don't totally suck but I'm not that good.
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Can anyone be blamed for the quality of their internet connection?
I don't think anyone jacks with theirs to produce this super power described here...
I am usually killed by someone other than the one I am fighting in ma...just part of the game
Not everyone can duel but most can pick, gang and ho...just part of the game imo
Eagler
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Can anyone be blamed for the quality of their internet connection?
If they knowingly exploit it then integrate that as part of their platform for disrupting the even playing field for others then certainly I think they should be criticised. Reviewing some films I notice at a given moment TheJudge has moved to no tracers. I say that’s to help conceal the lag which is massive in a 12-12 merge.
The Ubernoob has (probably accidentally) discovered a novel way to neutralise players with superior ACM. From an evolutionary standpoint he’s hardly going to forfeit that voluntarily.
I think the best outcome of this exchange has been that Judge’s smack-talking on channel 200 now matches his fragile ego and vindictiveness. Having slept on it I rather feel sorry for him.
Not everyone can duel but most can pick, gang and ho...just part of the game imo
I agree with you Eagler.
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I never understood some of the complaints some people type on 200. "Run pony" "turn and fight" or complaints about how they got picked or whatever. Or on country channel - a sarcastic "thank for the check 6.
People get uptight and mad sometimes for just normal stuff that happens in the game.
As far as check 6's go, I appreciate them but never expect someone to give them. My own SA kinda sucks and I don't usually know enough to keep an eye on other people sometimes and not that I see something and just refuse to say. lol.
You also get people that think everyone else has the same goal of capturing a base to "win the war". I never cared bout that. I just want to fly around for an hour or two and shoot at planes. I don't want to "get a goon" or supplies or "come back with eggs" or "get the ack" most of the time. People sometimes get mad that other people aren't helping them do whatever it is they want to do. I mean, I'll help anyone when I can.
A lot of times people are running because there's 5 other people on their butt and they all want you to turn around and fight. I don't really mind what anyone says.
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In my experience, turning a 180 isn't the best way to begin a fight
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I’ve got a film somewhere of me surviving a ganging so replete with seagulls that I could not count them anymore. I managed to use my sustained climb rate to make it over friendly territory and do a defensive spiral downwards. When friendlies were there the gang just dispersed to get some easier kills.
Once when I was in my ACM-‘prime’ (I’m not anymore) player told me I’d made him so mad he’d grabbed his joystick off the desk and smashed it against the wall. I was horrified, being closer to the cricket-player mentality back then. Years of Aces High has altered that.
I’ll tell you a great way to get perspective. Sit in the tower for an hour as I had to do in the small hours of last night and just watch the interaction on 200 without being involved in it. You get the impression the flying aspect isn’t the main focus for the majority of the player-base :rofl
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lol, I prolly smashed a dozen sticks over the last 25 years
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If anyone remembers how I used to approach a fight in this game it goes without saying that I know my way around all sorts of turny burny reversal nonsense and that it was the style that gave me the most enjoyment. Most often I would play from disadvantage deliberately. However I will now uncharacteristically defend the 'stay alive' game play style. Some months I would up a Dstang or a Jug and fly to stay alive. After the first defeat I would then revert. But that pressure or survival, a real life role play if you will, is a valid and difficult act of discipline. It would have been quite boring for me if it was the only style I played, but that is subjective.
I'm sure I've had my fair share of times calling out runtards in the 20 years since first playing AH. But using the online arena for your own personal combat career a la Red Baron or Dawn Patrol is a perfectly fair way to play, I believe.
anyway, having flown about 10 sorties in the last years on aces high I don't really have a right to comment on current affairs.
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I agree, Mechanic. Some people just fly smart and they're not going to turn around to fight 5 guys in their 6 at 800 yards. Yet people still go on 200 hundred and complain about that. lol.
I would never think about complaining about anything on 200, especially how someone is playing.
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It's pretty easy to "fly Smart" when your plane goes 30 mph faster than most others, excels faster than almost any plane, and can dive better than 98% of the planes in the game, along with having 500 spray and pray cannons, but I digress....
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Right. So they are flying smart. Most of those planes are not going to last long in a turn and burn fight. If they're good they'll bnz and use energy fighting.
Also, no one is precluded from getting a plane that is just as fast.
When I'm in a Spit (pink) I don't cry when a pony refuses to turn with me and instead gets away with his speed and maybe comes back with more alt. I also do not mind one bit when someone "runs to his friends"
I don't understand the mentality of anyone who get's upset at how someone else decides to enjoy the game.
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Hey OBX..........over here................
FUSS!
:old: :neener:
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If anyone remembers how I used to approach a fight in this game it goes without saying that I know my way around all sorts of turny burny reversal nonsense and that it was the style that gave me the most enjoyment. Most often I would play from disadvantage deliberately. However I will now uncharacteristically defend the 'stay alive' game play style. Some months I would up a Dstang or a Jug and fly to stay alive. After the first defeat I would then revert.
Both of those activities have self-challenge and advancement at the core of them and neither are the easy-mode, systematic picking, ganging and running and then using score to try and shut people up when they call you on it because they contiguously know it’s true and are too sensitive to bear to hear it. You couldn’t make this stuff up :rofl
So when are you returning Mr. Fink?
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So when are you returning Mr. Fink?
A very good question! Batfink stuck his toe in the water about six months ago. Like you, Shida, he's on Euro time, so I'm probably missing his appearances.
Much to my chagrin. You can learn a lot by tangling with him.
- jkw
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I'll take any of you on one versus one if you guys want to duel.
you logged off and didn't even say bye...
I called you out to duel, have some fun, but you ignored me...
I don't normally go to the MA and to do it this many hours 2 days straight is very hard on my physical condition....
just saying.....not a complaint
cheers
TC
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you logged off and didn't even say bye...
I called you out to duel, have some fun, but you ignored me...
I don't normally go to the MA and to do it this many hours 2 days straight is very hard on my physical condition....
just saying.....not a complaint
cheers
TC
Sorry about that. I didn't notice. I keep text buffer at only a few lines. Last night I was drop-dread tired and I just logged off without saying goodbye, as I usually will. I've been dealing with some family issues
Let me know in a direct chat in game if I don't respond. Didn't mean to ignore you.
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I wanted to add that I've really been enjoying the game. I usually have enough time for an hour or two in the early evenings, California time.
The people I see online and who I fly with are great and fun to be with in game. Everybody is so nice on vox and a lot of fun to be with in the game.
As I said, I don't usually say anything on 200 other than good evening and goodnight to everyone. I keep that text buffer at maybe 4 lines and it goes by fast. I'm usually just flying wherever the planes are fighting and I'll just be in a fighter. I talk to the guys on local channel.
I'm so glad the game is still around. It's also so great to see so many familiar names from way back.
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Sorry about that. I didn't notice. I keep text buffer at only a few lines. Last night I was drop-dread tired and I just logged off without saying goodbye, as I usually will. I've been dealing with some family issues
Let me know in a direct chat in game if I don't respond. Didn't mean to ignore you.
No worries....hahaha I am sparsely even ever in the MA, but I had a brain fart thinking that I had this past Monday and next Monday to practice and knock my rust off for the upcoming KOTH event, but realized yesterday that it's this weekend, so 2 nights straight I stayed in the MA til 2:40am edt ...except last night I went afk for about the last hour trying ease off the pain it causes me to sit and even play for 30 minutes to an hour 🙃
Hmm, direct chat in game don't work anymore across countries...but I plan on trying to do this every night this week if I can push through, heh 😅
Have a great day!
TC
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If anyone remembers how I used to approach a fight in this game it goes without saying that I know my way around all sorts of turny burny reversal nonsense and that it was the style that gave me the most enjoyment. Most often I would play from disadvantage deliberately. However I will now uncharacteristically defend the 'stay alive' game play style. Some months I would up a Dstang or a Jug and fly to stay alive. After the first defeat I would then revert. But that pressure or survival, a real life role play if you will, is a valid and difficult act of discipline. It would have been quite boring for me if it was the only style I played, but that is subjective.
I'm sure I've had my fair share of times calling out runtards in the 20 years since first playing AH. But using the online arena for your own personal combat career a la Red Baron or Dawn Patrol is a perfectly fair way to play, I believe.
anyway, having flown about 10 sorties in the last years on aces high I don't really have a right to comment on current affairs.
I remember! and remember all our dueling and what not...is why I asked and invited to join the AH Training Corps....I saw what you had to offer to help the AH player community... pretty sure Badboy noticed something in your flying as well...
Hope to see you back soon
~☆SALUTE☆~ & cheers 🍻
TC
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Like you, Shida, he's on Euro time, so I'm probably missing his appearances.
Yeah it's pretty grim for the Euros, sadly.
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A very good question! Batfink stuck his toe in the water about six months ago. Like you, Shida, he's on Euro time, so I'm probably missing his appearances.
Much to my chagrin. You can learn a lot by tangling with him.
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Howdy Oldman, great to see you kicking about. I'm not currently playing AH but always thinking about it. I've been getting my fix recently in DCS with VR and some WWII modules. Not much of an online game there but the overall immersion is on a whole new level. I don't even want to admit how much the rig cost to run DCS in VR.
lots of love to you
S!
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Hiya Batfink...remember ole Max?
Yeah, player #'s are down and gameplay sometimes sucks but there's still some fun to be had. Jump back in for a month and go from there.
<S>
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This game is one of the best in my opinion, even with some of the whiney little poops in here. I love to fly and fight in almost any airplane, the Dora being one of my favorites. I love the Corsair, the Spit IX, the Spit VIII, the Yak-3, Yak-9, occasionally the LA-7, The mossy, the Zeke, the Ki-84, the Nicky, the Lightening, the Jug, the Pony, several flavors of the 109, and the 190-A5, A8, the P-39......I guess I don't really have a favorite, and I like to watch the players that specialize in a particular plane. The Dora is a blast, it's fast, dives well, has months of WEP, and cannons. It is hard to turn fight with, and does best vertically, or pulling the nose up slightly and chopping power before you start turning and burning. I don't follow any strict rules on fighting, as it doesn't really matter to me in my cartoon airplane. I usually don't know how many planes I've shot down in a sortie, and I don't really care. I like fighting several people in here, as they make my heart rate get up, and they usually don't talk smack first. Smack talk is something a lot of people do to increase the fun of the game, I don't because it takes too much effort. I usually won't respond to someone who's butt hurt or trying to get in some smack talking, once again, too much effort, and I don't like trying to type while flying VR. I have the bad habit of diving into high numbers of enemy planes and turning, which usually is predictable in how it ends.
This isn't an ego game for me, so I don't care about score, kills per sortie, or many things people try to measure their skill by. If I did, I'd fly a Pony or a Dora exclusively, and climb to high altitude and only engage when I found someone alone, or occupied with much less alt then myself. There are those players in the game, and I don't care if that is what they want to do, they can be a pain in the butt if you want to turn and burn, but it's their choice on how to play in a game that makes that work. If you wanted to ensure no alt monkeys were around to break up a fight, there should be an arena set up like Monday night madness, and another with air starts at 20k for the alt monkeys. Fly, kill, die, and repeat. Love you all, and God bless the BW1stpar like players in this game, as he flies well, doesn't complain if he's shot down, and always communicates and helps everyone. Enjoy this game while we have it, it's a lot of fun.
If you kill me in any fight, just assume I would salute you, with my new VR headset, I don't type much at all. I appreciate every kind of kill, be it a HO, a tank main gun round, (that still amazes me), or a classic turn and burn. Every once in a while I want to kill someone who is flying a plane I like poorly, or cheaply, but that's just me being a grumpy old poop. I hope to see you in the unfriendly skies, especially if you're on fire and in my gunsights <S>.
Dieter
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I love to fly and fight in almost any airplane
Good to have folks like you here, Dieter!
- oldman
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You too Oldman! <S>
Dieter
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Howdy Oldman, great to see you kicking about. I'm not currently playing AH but always thinking about it. I've been getting my fix recently in DCS with VR and some WWII modules. Not much of an online game there but the overall immersion is on a whole new level. I don't even want to admit how much the rig cost to run DCS in VR.
lots of love to you
S!
Storm of war was where WW2 was at last year but 4YA took it over. Still get a good euro crowd (30 to 50) evenings and weekends. I've been spending this year doing up the house, so going to fly some more now it's largely done. Spitfire mk 9 still owns all Luftdweebs that enter any sort of turn :banana: :airplane: :joystick:
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Right. So they are flying smart. Most of those planes are not going to last long in a turn and burn fight. If they're good they'll bnz and use energy fighting.
Also, no one is precluded from getting a plane that is just as fast.
When I'm in a Spit (pink) I don't cry when a pony refuses to turn with me and instead gets away with his speed and maybe comes back with more alt. I also do not mind one bit when someone "runs to his friends"
I don't understand the mentality of anyone who get's upset at how someone else decides to enjoy the game.
If everyone "flew smart" the game wouldn't be fun. Everyone flying in 190Ds BnZ or flying their spit16 and Yak 3 super fighters. It's not good for the game. I'd like to see them "fly smart" in a 109g2 or Ki84, spit9, or hell, even a 190A5 or a nice midwar plane. When vets fly these super planes in droves it just defeats the purpose. I have no choice but to give them a hard time in hopes they will understand their easy mode style is a detriment to the game.
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And this is why mid war was the best room in ah when it existed imo and many others...
I would be all for a rebrand...early and mid war planes only
Eagler
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I'd like to see them "fly smart" in a 109g2 or Ki84, spit9...
:rofl :aok
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So what is the solution you guys desire? Get rid of fast planes? Maybe limit them to a top speed matching a spit 9? Or do you just want the people who fly them to sit and turn fight with your turn fighter so you can easily kill them?
I don't get it.
You have to fly the plane to it's strengths. Why cry about what others do?
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All for perking all late war planes very heavily but I know the whine would crash the place...
Late war ruins MA imo as far as a2a goes
Eagler
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Get rid of fast planes?
No the opposite. Get rid of everything else apart from the Dora. After two weeks of getting used to it the playing field would be 'level' and the parasitic gameplay would stop. In fact when I'm elected president the Brewster Buffalo will be the first up against the wall.
Maybe limit them to a top speed matching a spit 9?
I don't get it.
You have to fly the plane to it's strengths. Why cry about what others do?
It's a bit hard to discern if it's worth going further with discussion if your most pressing impression is that people are suggesting all planes must turn fight. I don't even 'turn fight' in the classic term. Have to guess if you're dealing with disingenuity, trolling-flirtation or genuine misunderstanding.
Or do you just want the people who fly them to sit and turn fight with your turn fighter so you can easily kill them?
How do you conclude this from everything that was written in this thread?
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I think the biggest point here is that most of us would just wish everyone would fight.
I knew a guy that flew the 152 and could turn fight like it was a spit and would only die if it was 3-4 vs him (MOOT). Lefty is another guy. Sure for the most part he booms and zooms in that pony but he is ALWAYS in on you. He doesnt grab/run/extend/reset his perch for a sector and a half after each pass. Hes pushing to get you pass after pass until he does or friends arrive if you can survive long enough, but the point is is that he fights.
Just fight your fight, but fight!
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I knew a guy that flew the 152 and could turn fight like it was a spit and would only die if it was 3-4 vs him (MOOT).
TrueKill, a/k/a Larry, could do that in a 262. Very unsettling.
- oldman
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Never met TrueKill, but fought Moot at the DA. He was a beast in the Ta152. Although recently StepSis has demonstrated extreme skill in it too.