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Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: hblair on October 07, 2001, 11:26:00 PM
..."Crack Cocaine" would be more accurate IMHO.

Very addictive. Very expensive. Leaves you feeling used when it's all over.

But you still want more!

(cost me 700+ perkies this weekend)

 :cool:
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Fester' on October 08, 2001, 12:06:00 AM
damn thing i love to hate it.

lost 1000 perkies on the damn thing so far.

only have 1 more 262 left  :(
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Blue Mako on October 08, 2001, 12:16:00 AM
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Originally posted by hblair:
..."Crack Cocaine" would be more accurate IMHO.

Very addictive. Very expensive. Leaves you feeling used when it's all over.

Flew it for free on Friday.  7/0 k/d but can't afford to fly it at the price atm.  Gotta brush up on my B pony skills to keep racking up perkies...  Need another fix soon...  Need it bad...
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Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: -ammo- on October 08, 2001, 12:25:00 AM
I rarely see the things. I expected to all those guys that have gobs of perks flying these things constantly...I was wrong :)
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Staga on October 08, 2001, 12:28:00 AM
HB never HO a 109F with gondolas.
I didn't had anything to lose...   ;)
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: hblair on October 08, 2001, 12:36:00 AM
You!

I wasn't HOing ya, just wasn't paying enough attention to effectively avoid ya.

Nice gunnery.
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Blue Mako on October 08, 2001, 12:45:00 AM
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Originally posted by -ammo-:
I rarely see the things. I expected to all those guys that have gobs of perks flying these things constantly...I was wrong  :)

Tangled with Mitsu in one this morning.  I was in a pony with a couple of other 412er's.  He got two of us (myself included) before I pinged his engine (after I reupped). Wail and I chased him across 3 sectors.  :D

I just hope Mitsu doesn't have many perkies left...
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Saintaw on October 08, 2001, 01:24:00 AM
You guys didn't hear Kirin over Roger Wilco yet... I dunno how a man can drool, yell, laugh, sweat, scream & babble at the same time  ;)

I hear you've made one happy guy there, heh Kirin  :D
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Gremlin on October 08, 2001, 03:55:00 AM
When 1.08 came out, I thought the place would be crawling with 262's, to date I have not seen one, except for mine  :)  which I lost, when a mossie, killed his throttle and accidentally rammed me    :(

However I've been cruisin around a little bit in a 262 and I find it hard to see how anything could even get close to killing it, assuming the driver keeps it fast. I mean there's no way anythings gonna  catch this baby.

With this in mind, I wonder why there aren't more around?

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Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: MadBirdCZ on October 08, 2001, 04:49:00 AM
Well I have seen relatively a lot of them, yet I killed none  :(  And lost one  :D
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: 54Ed on October 08, 2001, 05:00:00 AM
How fast does the 262 climb up to 30k, and how does it perform once it is there?

Seems like it would be the tailor-made solution to bust up a big high-alt formation of Buffs and Ponies.
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: pimpjoe on October 08, 2001, 05:23:00 AM
crack cocaine is right.....blew almost 1000 perkies on the damn thing.......and i still took another one up
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: hblair on October 08, 2001, 09:42:00 AM
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Originally posted by hblair:
(cost me 700+ perkies this weekend)

 :cool:

Make that 900.

Took a 262 up last night with pimpjoe. Flew up north to combat the knight hordes, Did some B&Z work, got about 6 kills. I noticed my fuel getting low and started heading south. Got about halfway home and saw a low spit and 190. Pimp and I B&Zed 'em to death, my fuel was really low now, so I headed straight to my field. Had enough fuel for the landing with no second chance. I'm coming in a little too hot, so I zig-zag with full rudder to burn energy. I set her down and hit the brakes hard. Couldn't stop on the runway, coast about a hundred yards into a Palm grove, I slow enough to turn and my Jumo's suck the last bit of jet fuel and go kaput on me.

There I am sitting in my Messerschmidt just off the end of the runway. I get pimpjoe to bring me fuel in an M3. Doesn't work. Only for vehicles I guess. I have to abandon my expensive 262 in the palm grove and leave it to the salt air and sand.

 :(

Any rooks wanna do some 262 wingin' tonight?
  :cool:
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Kirin on October 08, 2001, 09:44:00 AM
Damn - consumed 3 of em so far... 1 lost in CTD (HT, please reconsider loss of so many perkies in a programm/system failure), 1 lost in killshooter (DAMN Glasses - a squadmate even!!) and one in collision with other 262 (of course he flew own unscarthed)... oth I glided 2 home so far - once outta fuel, once oil shot up...  ;)

Now I am all outta perkies... uuuuuuuaaaaah - need... more... I have to...  262 - arrrrrghh... speed... perkies - %*"&/ more now... gimme
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: -ammo- on October 08, 2001, 10:19:00 AM
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Originally posted by hblair:


Make that 900.

Took a 262 up last night with pimpjoe. Flew up north to combat the knight hordes, Did some B&Z work, got about 6 kills. I noticed my fuel getting low and started heading south. Got about halfway home and saw a low spit and 190. Pimp and I B&Zed 'em to death, my fuel was really low now, so I headed straight to my field. Had enough fuel for the landing with no second chance. I'm coming in a little too hot, so I zig-zag with full rudder to burn energy. I set her down and hit the brakes hard. Couldn't stop on the runway, coast about a hundred yards into a Palm grove, I slow enough to turn and my Jumo's suck the last bit of jet fuel and go kaput on me.

There I am sitting in my Messerschmidt just off the end of the runway. I get pimpjoe to bring me fuel in an M3. Doesn't work. Only for vehicles I guess. I have to abandon my expensive 262 in the palm grove and leave it to the salt air and sand.

  :(

Any rooks wanna do some 262 wingin' tonight?
   :cool:


LOL

Another mthing that is funny to me. EVERY 262 kill gets reported online. I thinks its hilarious when they name the driver too. "haha, <insert name> you just lost 200 perkies" You cant just go reup and get mad at yourself like the other perk rides. Noooo, they gotta report that you just got shot down in the one AC that shouldn't ever get shot down
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: popeye on October 08, 2001, 11:06:00 AM
We don't need no steenkin jets.    :)
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Saintaw on October 08, 2001, 11:14:00 AM
Lol Hblair, was looking for you when you asked about the plane-refueling-with-m3 on channel one.  :D

I gotta find Vulcan & ask him where he bought his "Assassins homeing device(Tm)" gear from...
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: DA98 on October 08, 2001, 12:38:00 PM
Kirin is out of perkies!!! Thanks, God!!!  :)   :)   :)
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: MadBirdCZ on October 08, 2001, 12:46:00 PM
So that explains the fact why I kept meeting Kirin only in his ugly 190   :) He was sucked dry by a 262   :D   :D

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: MadBirdCZ ]
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: DanielMcIntyre on October 09, 2001, 06:25:00 AM
Personally I don't really like the ME262 much.  Your going so fast you have very little chance of getting in an effective shot, your ammunition is slow as hell and theres stuff all available, every dweeb and his chog wants to HO you (their only real defense) and if you get past all this, you still gotta worry getting discoed and losing ya 200 perks.

I've killed 4 262's, 2 after the infamous free perk night and really its not that hard.  You fly nice and level on WEP, let em think they bouncing you, at 3 - 2.5k hard manuever vertical or flat into HO position, they're going so fast they'll try to avoid the HO but it'll just put them outta plane and deny them a HO shot, bang snapshot front quarter, kapoof, ded jet.

IMO they're just expensive buff killers not true fighters.
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: StSanta on October 09, 2001, 06:33:00 AM
<Waits for joystick to arrive>

<sulks>
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: MadBirdCZ on October 09, 2001, 07:01:00 AM
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Originally posted by Zygote:

IMO they're just expensive buff killers not true fighters.

Ehmm... Werent 262s supposed to BE buff hunters acually?
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: hblair on October 09, 2001, 07:24:00 AM
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Originally posted by Zygote:
Personally I don't really like the ME262 much.  Your going so fast you have very little chance of getting in an effective shot, your ammunition is slow as hell and theres stuff all available, every dweeb and his chog wants to HO you (their only real defense) and if you get past all this, you still gotta worry getting discoed and losing ya 200 perks.

I've killed 4 262's, 2 after the infamous free perk night and really its not that hard.  You fly nice and level on WEP, let em think they bouncing you, at 3 - 2.5k hard manuever vertical or flat into HO position, they're going so fast they'll try to avoid the HO but it'll just put them outta plane and deny them a HO shot, bang snapshot front quarter, kapoof, ded jet.

IMO they're just expensive buff killers not true fighters.

Actually, a 262 is pretty deadly to pony-D's, typhies, etc. if flown with a wingie  or two by a pilot who has the cajones (or is crazy/stupid enough to drop 2 notches of flaps and turn). The 262 can turn sharper than most pilots think, but you gotta risk your perkies to do it.

I lost another three 262's last night to stupidness. Was refueling at a large field when a spit dove through the cap and ack and pegged me as I was on the runway, I was clicking tower like a maniac, but wouldn't let me out in time. Another I lost to an HO by another 262 (thought it was an unspoken rule 262's don't HO each other!  :eek: :D). I lost another hundred points when my game just decided to crash to desktop.

Oh well. Gotta fly ultra-conservatively now.   :rolleyes:
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: -ammo- on October 09, 2001, 07:49:00 AM
well there is a thread in the 56th's private forum. We are actively hunting these things. I personally am hunting rook 262's because I get tag-teamed by two of them bum's last night....
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: lazs1 on October 09, 2001, 07:57:00 AM
"We don't need no steenkin jets"

Yep... didn't fly em when they were free and not gonna buy one.   What kinda wuss would fly one?
lazs
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Staga on October 09, 2001, 08:07:00 AM
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Originally posted by lazs1:
"We don't need no steenkin jets"

Yep... didn't fly em when they were free and not gonna buy one.   What kinda wuss would fly one?
lazs

Maybe 99% of AH players?
Maybe I should ask what kind of banana wouldn't fly one sometimes if he got points?
(Yeah I found slang word dictionary)
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: lazs1 on October 09, 2001, 08:41:00 AM
I have about 2200 of the stupid "perk" points and have no interest in flying one.   I have even less interest in seeing one in the MA.   For the noveltyu value I guess it's ok but it is vastly unfair.

so i guess the type of banana who wouldn't fly one in the MA even tho he had the points is the type that doesn't care about the novelty or attention but would like a good fight.
lazs
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Dawvgrid on October 09, 2001, 08:56:00 AM
I think those 262 is pretty easy to avoid,,,
if you see them in time that is  ;) ,they come
in very very fast.
dawvgrid
No 272 squadron "whispering death"
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Staga on October 09, 2001, 08:59:00 AM
There's (at least) two ways to fly a plane like Me-262:
a) Stay safe and attack when it suits you or
b) Go low'n'dirty, fight against other planes (and fear that 25k P-51 over your perk-plane)

It's your choice but I'm sure you can have fun in Schwalbe too. Ask from HBlair or TS more about this one.
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: Dawvgrid on October 09, 2001, 09:05:00 AM
Havent tried one out yet,,,,,dont think i have the nerve  ;)
dawvgrid                                   No 272 squadron "whispering death"
Title: The ME262 should be renamed...
Post by: ispar on October 09, 2001, 05:42:00 PM
No offense lazs, but I find the fact that you always have to qualify perks with "stupid" or "idiotic," and that you always gave to put quotes around it (as if it were unofficial, had no real name, or was nonexistent) infinitely amusing.

 :D