Jochen, the "teammates" was a way to say that you have few real online friends. The other people is simply "known" people.
And to answer your question, while I have whined a lot of times, the experience I had when I
dared to say that I didnt like the new FM when 1.04 was released(note that I didnt say by then that it was more or less realistic, I simply said I didnt like it that much), made me open my eyes about how the major part of this so-called community is.
I am not, by far, the best representant of a class-act community member. Many times my opinions go into the whine zone. I complain. I squeak.
Maybe my opinions havent been exposed in the best of the ways. sometimes because my hot blood, sometimes because my boredom, sometimes because English is my second language and I suck at it. But I always try to give my opinion in a clear way, I always try to be honest...and I try to respect others opinions.I dont jump on people because they freely say what they think. Just what most people here does when someone dares to raise the head and say "I think that this is wrong"
I have to say, that most of this community has dissapointed me to a point you will never known.In the first times here while I was happy with AH and I thought everything was allright, everyone liked me and I was seen with approbation.
The first moment I said that a single-ping 1K kill from a hispano (read my post on a kill Fariz got on me back in 1.01) was crap, I started to feel a change in attitude...change that has turned into something that can't be explained right now.
Most people here can't stand a critic to AH or HTC. Even if it is documented, even if al proofs point to the truth of a critic. Of course if the only back-up of a critic is opinion,and not hard data, the witch hunt is almost criminal.
my last five days as RAM in the Main arena saw me always hunted by the very same guys, and then,after I left, I found out that two guys in my country (one of them one who I once thought as a friend) were continuously radio-ing my position to their "buddies" on the other countries. Of course there is no doubt that I always found the same people everywhere I went
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Kudos for a community that has individuals like those ,and respects them (yes, they are known. and yes, they are respected)
Originally posted by Jochen:
Get a grip. You have quit this game many times and every time you have to come back?
This argument has been asked and answered so many times, , that now is almost fun to answer it
yet again-but, ok I'll do it one time more.
I left AH for little less than one month. ONE TIME. ONCE. so the "so many times" argument is old and plain wrong.
Originally posted by Jochen:
If you suffer so much for being around here why don't you just do what you have said many times and leave? It would make yourself and others feel better.
because there is no other decent WWII online air simulator to fly. WB 2.76 FM sux in some aspects, and its not worth the money. AW seems like a nintendo game for kids 7 years old. And I'd better not say a thing about FA.
That is the reason I wait for WWIIOL, and Wb3. and while Il2 wont be a pure online sim, it promises great things. When I have more options then I will freely choose between them, but as now I have only one option...you get the point.
Think about it as an election. I have only one choice to vote, and I cant abstain (I simply love online sim flying). But be sure that unless those three games are abysmal failures, the day I can really vote for multiple choices, AH will start with a disadvantage. I dont say I will go. I say that AH will have a disadvantage.
And now, flame on me (as usual). I'm outta this thread.
[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 01-02-2001).]
