Viking,
If you ever see a bunch of Buccaneers flying together, we may not respond to what you or anyone else says, not because we are trying to keep to ourselves, but because we don't read the text buffers.
Our squad, and many others, have a verbal comunications link going while we are flying as a squad. Most squads use RW (Roger Wilco). 13 of the Buccaneers live in the same area code (Colorado Spring) so we use our second phone lines and make a giant conference call. The other 3 Bucs use RW, and we will have a few of us hooked into the phone come and RW.
Anyway, the point is that if you have a verbal com with a bunch of other guys, you tend to not notice the text buffer.
If we have not yet established a phone com and are using the text buffer, we tend to just pay attention to the red (Squad) text.
People aren't being rude, they just don't notice everything.
I (and many others) do not multi-task very well, and type with 2 figers and need both eyes to type. So, I almost never type in the combat zone, because I can't.
eskimo
