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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Mathman on September 11, 2002, 01:02:25 PM
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I know my asking for help is long overdue, but I decided I really could use everyone's expert opinions. I mean, you guys are the best people to ask for this, you guys know everything!
Ok, I want to know a couple things:
1) What is the established list of "legitamate" tactics? I don't want to piss anyone off by flying and fighting like a "dweeb." I see all sorts of posts concerning this move and that move that people say is not what a "good" pilot would do. Is flying straight and level the only legit thing to do?
2) What is the established list of acceptable planes? As far as I know, the following planes are flyable by everyone: A-20G, A6M2, A6M5b, B-17G, B-26B, Bf 109E-4/F-4/G-2/G-6/G-10, Bf 110C-4b/G-2, Boston III, C-47A, C.202, C.205, D3A1, F4F-4, F4U-1, F4U-1C, F4U-1D, F4U-4, F6F-5, FM-2, Fw 190A-5/A-8/D-9/F-8, Hurricane IIC/D, Hurricane Mk1, Il-2, Ju88, Ki-61, Ki-67, La-5FN/-7, Lancaster III, Mosquito Mk VI, N1K2, P-38L, P-40B/E, P-47D-11/-25/-30, P-51B/D, SBD-5, SeaFire, Spitfire Mk I/V/IX/XIV, TBM-3, Typhoon IB, Yak-9T/-9U (I left the perk planes off because not everyone can fly them until they get the points). Which of those planes are acceptable for me to fly? Maybe we should have a list of acceptable planes for people to fly pop up as a MOTD.
3) What is the acceptable rules for attacking other countries? Do they have to have the same number of people on as your country? Are you only allowed to vulch the country with the most players? Are you even allowed to vulch? Chutes - are they really ok to shoot or should I leave them alone? Lets say I am in Country A, and Country B is attacking Country C. Am I only allowed to attack Country B? What if B has the fewest numbers?
4) What is considered a gangbang? Is it when a fight gets to be more than a 1v1? If one of my squaddies is fighting someone, am I allowed to jump into the fight too? What if the squaddie starts to lose the fight? Can I jump in then, or do I have to wait until he dies and the guy that shot him down climbs to my alt and gets up to full speed?
5) What is milkrunning? Doesn't it make sense to attack a base that is lightly defended over one that is not? It does to me. However, if this is not acceptable, I will only attack those bases that have equal or more defenders to the number of people attacking it.
6) Talking on channel 1. I see that a lot of people do what is called "chest thumping" on channel 1. Is this encouraged? If so, I will endeavor to do it more often. I just want to fit in with everyone.
7) This one is kind of off-topic, but I just had to ask it. I recently saw a thread started by a guy named Ripsnot. In it, he mentioned that he has been flying an American flag outside his house since the day he bought it. Well, it comes across as if he is pointing out that those that have only started to fly the flag after September 11 last year are somehow lesser Americans than he. I thought that the fact that I love my country, pay my taxes, and am grateful for the freedoms I was given made me a good American. Hmm, go figure.
Anyways, any help with those questions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Math
p.s. For those of you who read the above and actually think that I am serious, you are one of those about whom I am making fun and pointing out how asinine many of the whines and rants on this BBS are. Get a life and some sunlight.
p.p.s. Getting a sense of humor would also be a good thing. If you can't find one, buy one on Ebay. It will be a good investment.
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What I tell you is what is acceptable, nothing more, nothing less. And no one else is the penultimate authoritah on this issue, so you answer to me and only me.
HO Dweeb!
-SW
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Originally posted by Mathman
I know my asking for help is long overdue, but I decided I really could use everyone's expert opinions. I mean, you guys are the best people to ask for this, you guys know everything!
Ok, I want to know a couple things:
1) What is the established list of "legitamate" tactics? I don't want to piss anyone off by flying and fighting like a "dweeb." I see all sorts of posts concerning this move and that move that people say is not what a "good" pilot would do. Is flying straight and level the only legit thing to do?
Only if I'm behind you. Any and all tactics to survive are acceptable unless they cause me to miss you, then you're a dweeb. If you actually shoot me down, then things get profane.
2) What is the established list of acceptable planes? As far as I know, the following planes are flyable by everyone: A-20G, A6M2, A6M5b, B-17G, B-26B, Bf 109E-4/F-4/G-2/G-6/G-10, Bf 110C-4b/G-2, Boston III, C-47A, C.202, C.205, D3A1, F4F-4, F4U-1, F4U-1C, F4U-1D, F4U-4, F6F-5, FM-2, Fw 190A-5/A-8/D-9/F-8, Hurricane IIC/D, Hurricane Mk1, Il-2, Ju88, Ki-61, Ki-67, La-5FN/-7, Lancaster III, Mosquito Mk VI, N1K2, P-38L, P-40B/E, P-47D-11/-25/-30, P-51B/D, SBD-5, SeaFire, Spitfire Mk I/V/IX/XIV, TBM-3, Typhoon IB, Yak-9T/-9U (I left the perk planes off because not everyone can fly them until they get the points). Which of those planes are acceptable for me to fly? Maybe we should have a list of acceptable planes for people to fly pop up as a MOTD.
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Anything you want, so long as I can shoot you down in it. Actually, the best plane to fly is the Me262 at 200 kts straight and level at 5k altitude.
3) What is the acceptable rules for attacking other countries? Do they have to have the same number of people on as your country? Are you only allowed to vulch the country with the most players? Are you even allowed to vulch? Chutes - are they really ok to shoot or should I leave them alone? Lets say I am in Country A, and Country B is attacking Country C. Am I only allowed to attack Country B? What if B has the fewest numbers?
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You can attack Bishops and Rooks at will. There's no bag limit.
4) What is considered a gangbang? Is it when a fight gets to be more than a 1v1? If one of my squaddies is fighting someone, am I allowed to jump into the fight too? What if the squaddie starts to lose the fight? Can I jump in then, or do I have to wait until he dies and the guy that shot him down climbs to my alt and gets up to full speed?
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Gangbang is defined as any attempt to shoot me down. Also can be defined as someone else shooting you down. In the first case I'm getting gangbanged, but the second is actually somewhat fuzzy, and can also be defined as KSing since the only person allowed to shoot you down is me.
5) What is milkrunning? Doesn't it make sense to attack a base that is lightly defended over one that is not? It does to me. However, if this is not acceptable, I will only attack those bases that have equal or more defenders to the number of people attacking it.
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Any time you attack my base and don't die. If I attack your base and survive it's skillful planning and uber flying.
6) Talking on channel 1. I see that a lot of people do what is called "chest thumping" on channel 1. Is this encouraged? If so, I will endeavor to do it more often. I just want to fit in with everyone.
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I don't listen to channel 1, so you can do whatever you want.
7) This one is kind of off-topic, but I just had to ask it. I recently saw a thread started by a guy named Ripsnot. In it, he mentioned that he has been flying an American flag outside his house since the day he bought it. Well, it comes across as if he is pointing out that those that have only started to fly the flag after September 11 last year are somehow lesser Americans than he. I thought that the fact that I love my country, pay my taxes, and am grateful for the freedoms I was given made me a good American. Hmm, go figure.
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Amoeba are higher life forms than ripsnot.
Anyways, any help with those questions would be greatly appreciated.
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Glad to help.
Thanks in advance,
-Math
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Puck
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1) always fly as if you're afk
2) any high eny plane. Please see answer to 1 for how to fly it.
3) if you are flying as stated in 1, this is an invalid question. However, to be fair, you must spend equal amounts of time over all airspace.
4) a gangbang is anytime there are more than one bogie in the air at a given time. The *ONLY* time you are allowed to maneuver your plane, and thus the excpetion to the answer in 1, is to bring your plane directly behind your friend and then fly straight and level.
5) Again, see the answer to question 1 for how to approach a base attack
6) in addition to flying like you're afk, you may also fly like you are typing. In either case, your plane shall not be manuevered except for the situation discussed in 4. Your comments in the open channel buffer are limited to " pilot_who_just_shot_me_down" and "I am currently at xx.xx.xx at xx altitude"
7) I thought *I* was the one true American.
Hope this helps.
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Acceptable:
Flying any plane that sucks.
Flying in a straight line, at 200mph, so that I can kill you.
Unacceptable:
Flying a good plane.
Shooting me down.
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Originally posted by Mathman
1) What is the established list of "legitamate" tactics? I don't want to piss anyone off by flying and fighting like a "dweeb." I see all sorts of posts concerning this move and that move that people say is not what a "good" pilot would do. Is flying straight and level the only legit thing to do?
Been wondering the same thing!!!
2) What is the established list of acceptable planes? As far as I know, the following planes are flyable by everyone: A-20G, A6M2, A6M5b, B-17G, B-26B, Bf 109E-4/F-4/G-2/G-6/G-10, Bf 110C-4b/G-2, Boston III, C-47A, C.202, C.205, D3A1, F4F-4, F4U-1, F4U-1C, F4U-1D, F4U-4, F6F-5, FM-2, Fw 190A-5/A-8/D-9/F-8, Hurricane IIC/D, Hurricane Mk1, Il-2, Ju88, Ki-61, Ki-67, La-5FN/-7, Lancaster III, Mosquito Mk VI, N1K2, P-38L, P-40B/E, P-47D-11/-25/-30, P-51B/D, SBD-5, SeaFire, Spitfire Mk I/V/IX/XIV, TBM-3, Typhoon IB, Yak-9T/-9U (I left the perk planes off because not everyone can fly them until they get the points). Which of those planes are acceptable for me to fly? Maybe we should have a list of acceptable planes for people to fly pop up as a MOTD.
Any plane you can beat the whiners with is a Dweeb plane!!
3) What is the acceptable rules for attacking other countries? Do they have to have the same number of people on as your country? Are you only allowed to vulch the country with the most players? Are you even allowed to vulch? Chutes - are they really ok to shoot or should I leave them alone? Lets say I am in Country A, and Country B is attacking Country C. Am I only allowed to attack Country B? What if B has the fewest numbers?
You are supposed to ask permission of your Countries Generals first if you can attack a country first... And then on channel one let the other country know where and when you are attacking them!!
"sarcasm :)"
4) What is considered a gangbang? Is it when a fight gets to be more than a 1v1? If one of my squaddies is fighting someone, am I allowed to jump into the fight too? What if the squaddie starts to lose the fight? Can I jump in then, or do I have to wait until he dies and the guy that shot him down climbs to my alt and gets up to full speed?
Any time a whiner losses you are in the wrong and it is a gangbang!
5) What is milkrunning? Doesn't it make sense to attack a base that is lightly defended over one that is not? It does to me. However, if this is not acceptable, I will only attack those bases that have equal or more defenders to the number of people attacking it.
Mikrunning is a term Furballers use to boost there fragile ego's?!
6) Talking on channel 1. I see that a lot of people do what is called "chest thumping" on channel 1. Is this encouraged? If so, I will endeavor to do it more often. I just want to fit in with everyone.
ITs called Male bonding....
p.s. For those of you who read the above and actually think that I am serious, you are one of those about whom I am making fun and pointing out how asinine many of the whines and rants on this BBS are. Get a life and some sunlight.
Mathman with posts like this you could be the fave at next years AHcon!! :)
Peace.... T0J0
p.p.s. Getting a sense of humor would also be a good thing. If you can't find one, buy one on Ebay. It will be a good investment. [/B]
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Just how long did it take you to type all that toejam out for a stupid post like this?
lil bit of over kill on this one Math kinda like fishing with TNT!
lol ;)
box
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Originally posted by boxboy28
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lil bit of over kill on this one Math kinda like fishing with TNT!
But who DOESN'T want to try that once?
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As long as your not in that candyass F6 your fine with me...I just hate people that can kill you in planes you can't B*%ch about.
Far as I'm concerned only semi-legitimate beef is the Nikki...and only marginally since the FM got tweaked.
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Oooh! Feels like a nibble, doesn't it Math?
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Come on Math, remember the bag limit. You've had a good run already this week, leave some of them for the rest of us.
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At first I thought it odd coming from you. At #2 I began to wonder if I was maybe misunderstanding. When I finally got to #3, I understood fully. I'm slow, but not completely braindead yet. Good post. Chk yer 6:)
Mac out
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Mathman is trolling.
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Can you do the belly dance thing too ? :D :eek:
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He made someone say nikki .
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I think it is only proper for you to ask these questions to the person who pays your AH bill each month.
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more than a nibble IMO.. should have one or two in the bucket
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When did u get unemployed?
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Wulfe wrote:
"What I tell you is what is acceptable, nothing more, nothing less. And no one else is the penultimate authoritah on this issue, so you answer to me and only me. "
At long last, a leader emerges from the masses. Tell me what I must do, O' Great One, to break out of my "dweebisness".
Slimm50
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Originally posted by Innominate
Acceptable:
Flying in a straight line, at 200mph, so that I can kill you.
Shooting me down.
No! Never fly straight and level as I ALWAYS miss the easy shots. Zoom, but not to high, dive, but never to fast. Turn a bit, roll, whatever, but NEVER fly straight and level.
I agree with the "shooting me down" thing, thats extremely dweeby as everyone knows I'm a pushover. Pure dweebdom.
If you must, fly right across my line of fire(red people) and please time it so I'm missing an easy shot on one of your countrymen. That way I get a big fireball and a kill, I might even be mistaken and think I got the easy shot and thereby boost my ego. Which is the goal of this flight sim isn't it?
Green people need to fly behind me. They've already hit the power sheild/reflector power ups and, I'm not stupid I know it will kill me, so fly behind me that way I won't be forced to try and over power the sheild/reflector power up thingy.
Thanks!
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hehe....nikki is always a good answer.
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MATHMAN
You have long been one of the pilots that I have respected, however,,,,, I now have called for the Mental Health Mental Retardation people to come visit you and do selective screening on you. LOL
I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE and I SAY IT NOW
YOU ARE A NUT
and you do deaf e nately need help
But this is a nice trolllllllllllllllllllllll and I got a big belly laugh out of it (S)