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Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Rude on May 08, 2002, 03:08:33 PM: and the Whiner is.........

banana
Senior Member

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: USA
Posts: 3429
Buffing: Why bother?
After spending over two hours last night to earn one lousy bomber perk point, I'm beginning to wonder if it's worthwhile to even attempt to buff in the MA anymore.

It takes 60 bomber perks to get to fly the lowest perked bomber, the AR-234. I currently have 9.62 bomber perks. I've been buffing for over 6 years in WB and AH combined, so while I'm not the best buffer by far, I at least know my way around them and am fairly competent. But when you consider the amount of time an average bomber sortie takes compared to a fighter sortie, accruing bomber perks take a much longer time compared to fighter perks.

And when you consider that a buff is easy meat for all but the most inexperienced of fighter pilots, once a buff pilot encounters an enemy fighter, he/she has about an 80% chance of dying shortly thereafter.

HTC, IMO, caved in to the "Anti-buff" crowd like Lazs and his ilk by moving the strat targets 40 miles behind the front lines, and changing the configuration of the airfields so that buffers have to spend an inordinate amount of time over a field, increasing the exposure time for buffers.

Fine. I can live with that. But at the very least, I would like to ask HTC to bump up the ENY values for all buffs to something more equitable, that would allow the buffers to accrue points at relatively the same rate at which fighter points accrue. Either that or how about reducing the AR234's perk value to 20, or something more fair. At the rate I'm going, it'll take me another 6 months to get 60 bomber perks. If I were to go for just fighter perks in that same time, I know I could get three times that many points in the same amount of time.

How about throwing the bomber fans a bone or two?
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Makofan on May 08, 2002, 03:13:18 PM: hmm

I think the person whining about the score should have won (does this count as a whine?) :)
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Preon1 on May 08, 2002, 03:14:25 PM: wow, a whiner as senior as banana?!?!???

Actually I agree (with banana)... but I thought most whiners were people that I'd never heard of before.
Title: FINALLY!
Post by: Wanker on May 08, 2002, 03:14:36 PM: I'd like to thank the Academy, my family...all God's children.....

"I'm the King of the Whine!" (well for this week, anyway).

:D
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: AKEagle+ on May 08, 2002, 03:19:01 PM: WTG banana!

An obvious choice! You sir serve as an example of what junior members should strive for. :D

Excellent choice Rude, once more we submit to your discernment. :)

AKEagle+
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Nefarious on May 08, 2002, 06:10:42 PM: Why is that a whine?

I think banana has a good point. And it should be looked at.
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Pongo on May 08, 2002, 06:30:11 PM: WTG banana..
welcome to the elite few!
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: bowser on May 08, 2002, 06:51:00 PM: So to sum up...you're tired of getting shot down by those mean 'ol fighter planes and want to fly an AR234 so nobody can touch you while you wreak your destruction. Yeah, I think that qualifies as a whine.

bowser
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: SirLoin on May 08, 2002, 07:58:31 PM: Yes,but to make a very valid point AND win the WoW award is very rare indeed...Salutes banana..:D
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: funkedup on May 08, 2002, 08:24:04 PM: Should have been that a-hole who whined about gangbanging!
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Staga on May 08, 2002, 10:32:32 PM: Yeah, Or that dweeb who's posts usually starts with "Nights suck" :)
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: funkedup on May 09, 2002, 12:11:14 AM: Yeah I hate that arnoldhole!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Rude on May 09, 2002, 11:15:20 AM: Nefarious.......

It didn't tilt the scale until I read the following.....

Quote
HTC, IMO, caved in to the "Anti-buff" crowd like Lazs and his ilk by moving the strat targets 40 miles behind the front lines, and changing the configuration of the airfields so that buffers have to spend an inordinate amount of time over a field, increasing the exposure time for buffers.

Oh, and when ya get a chance, re-read the thread title...specifically the part following the ............

You can always make your own offering...perhaps something like, Valid Points.............by Nefarious

Later:)
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: lazs2 on May 09, 2002, 12:14:29 PM: in view of his oft stated opinion of me... I find bananas award quite droll.
lazs
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: SOB on May 09, 2002, 02:42:48 PM: It's fixed! This (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52675) was obviously a better whine...I demand justice! I want a whine medal too! Maybe with enough public outcry, we could have a ceremony where both banana and I could get gold whine medals?!

Damned judges.

SOB
:D
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: AKEagle+ on May 09, 2002, 03:03:28 PM: Quote
Damned judges.

I feel your pain SOB :(

However, I do feel that you have the creative potential to make WoW soon.

Remember, Champions are not those who never fail, but are those who never quit. :)

I'm rootin for ya! :D

AKEagle+
Title: Whine of the Week........by Rude
Post by: Alpo on May 09, 2002, 03:11:42 PM: Sorry SOB but I think Superfly's whine in the same "gangbanging" thread probably overloaded the judge's calculator. :D

AND... if you really think about it, anyone that has the 'nads to say "After spending over two hours last night to earn one lousy bomber perk point" deserves a WoW award. :rolleyes: