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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #75 on: October 20, 2006, 06:17:05 AM »
and get:



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« Reply #76 on: October 20, 2006, 07:08:39 AM »
I have tried to give the new format time before weighing in on this subject.
There are things I like and things I don't like...oh well.

It does seem to me to be a rather complicated and convoluted way to deal with HTs huge concern over the Herd/Horde problem. My own preference would have been 2 Main Arenas...one with an RPS and one that remained the same as old. I'm not for a minute saying I believe this would be more successful than our current situation but I do feel it would provide more options for people and be far and away less obtrusive.

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« Reply #77 on: October 20, 2006, 07:54:28 AM »
I don't understand the complaints about not being able to find squad members. Granted, it's alot different than before the change, but with co's,  email, in game vox,  squad page on the bb's, and the cross arena pm's all you have to do is set a time and place.
I was in one of the mega-squads for a while, and we had monday nights at 8pm eastern scheduled as squad night. Why couldn't the squad members come up with a time/day/arena to meet in? If i were a CO i would pick EW or MW since they usually have the lowest numbers and you could get your whole squad (all 96 members) in, then figure out from there where you are going to fight for the night. Maybe from 8pm-8:15pm everyone gets together in the EWA , then the CO's say where to go, or stay.  


And in all honesty, with the new change, even with the old arena, there's no reason for a 96 man squad.  I mean 10 bomber pilots = 30 bombers, + 20 fighters + 2 goons = 32 man squad (Or whatever configuration you like).   And i know that alot of guys don't like the idea of switching sides, but imagine one wing of 32 as the attackers, and another wing of 32 defending.  Maybe the 3rd wing would be divided amoung the two making it 48vs48.  I honestly doubt that your ever going to get all 96 guys on at the same time, but you get the point.

The game is supposed to be fun, and there's nothing more fun than killing/being killed by squaddies, then cursing eachother and laughing afterwords.
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« Reply #78 on: October 20, 2006, 08:15:53 AM »
Speaking from an old timers perspective (alpha .00001 era) I like the change in arena sizes. Cap on players means getting to know folks better and in case you haven't figured it out this activity should be a social function as well as a recreation one. In the 750 cap days of the arena it was next to impossible to get a text conversation going with a friend on the same side and totally impossible to get one going with someone from an opposing country. One of the indicators that things were broken in the arena has been con attendence. Player base is growing but con attendence is shrinking every year. Most folks here probably have not attended a convention but the ones that have fully intend to be back next year. Meeting your squadies and other flyers that share the same interest as you do is enlighting and rewarding. The games manager for Airwarrior had it right, the game is not the end product, the game is a vehicle for relationships.

Let the nay sayers begin but if you haven't attended a convention you know not of what I speak. I met two of my closest friends at a AirWarrior Convention in Washington DC in 94 and still hang out with them today outside of the game. You know them as HiTech and Nobaddy.

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« Reply #79 on: October 20, 2006, 08:17:34 AM »
this change plain sucks..

It was tough to find a decent fight last night during primetime...


If you play in the A.M, I feel sorry for you.  40 people split into two arenas is really never fun.

Just 1 or 2 guys milkrunning bases.

I love this game, but if something doesn't change, Im out.  The one real reason I play (furball) is almost impossible to find.

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« Reply #80 on: October 20, 2006, 08:25:44 AM »
Too funnay ...

One guy complains about the new map and the GV spawn points ... then some dolt claims that HT is trying to phase out GVs ... and another swallows than hook line and sinker and threatens to quit believing that HT IS trying to get rid of GVs ... :rofl

Another is jerked because the new changes FORCED everyone in both LW arenas to "furball" ... :rofl ... I flew in LW last night and that is just an outright lie ... and if they were furballing ... that was their choice ... zOMG !!!

Even funnier is the assumption that 250 people spread thru one arena CAN'T get their collective arses together to come up with some strateegery and miszuns to capture bases ... without 500 people in an arena people fly around mindlessly furballing ... :rofl

Most of these people pissin' and moanin' probably never flew in AH1 and don't realize that at one point, 250 people in the MA was considered to be monumental and unbelievable ... yet we still were able to "wIn the w@R" and run "miszuns" ... now, without 500+ people in an arena they fly around like they had a frontal lobotomy ... what a crock.
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« Reply #81 on: October 20, 2006, 08:35:29 AM »
I haven't heard 1 good comment about this change, other than SlapShot now.


I think it sucks, its not fun.  Thats the opinion of the majority.  If there was a "furball", it was a 1 sided base shackle, not a fight.  I was so bored last night, I sank my first CV ever.. lol


This sucks, whether you think it does or not.

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« Reply #82 on: October 20, 2006, 08:38:36 AM »
Why don't you come log into AH right now, and show me a fight?

You either see a toolshedding hoarde, or 1 guy at every base with a panzer, trying to kill the town.

Not my opinion of fun, doesn't sound like anyone elses right now, either.

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« Reply #83 on: October 20, 2006, 08:54:07 AM »
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Too funnay ...

One guy complains about the new map and the GV spawn points ... then some dolt claims that HT is trying to phase out GVs



Did said "dolt" really claim that?

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« Reply #84 on: October 20, 2006, 09:02:50 AM »
lazer... maybe those guys will leave or... go to the ct when it opens..  maybe once they do... the board will all be talk about how superior killing ai and sheds is to furballing?

Maybe the new guys that join AH will have arenas where they can find fights because the guys who like to fly only for one country and have rules against change... will have gone to the ct.

falconwing actually said it best... or, addmited it..  take your pick.   he said that the newbies instinct was to furball...  the implication being that if he didn't mold the fuzz cheeked squeaky voices into a ridgid hero worshipping toolsheed and whorde.... they would fall prey to their baser instincts and.....

fite!

once you get the anal leaders in the ai fighting (and why not.. they never know the other 2/3 of the community anyway) once you get em in the CT... those who want to fight will go to the other arenas...   It just may be the thing to make everyone (somewhat) happy.

I am waiting to see how it shakes out... I have been following HT and co around from game to game cause they allways delivered.   We don't see eye to eye a lot of the time but...  in the end....  no one else delivers as dependebly.

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« Reply #85 on: October 20, 2006, 09:15:26 AM »
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Most of these people pissin' and moanin' probably never flew in AH1 and don't realize that at one point, 250 people in the MA was considered to be monumental and unbelievable ... yet we still were able to "wIn the w@R" and run "miszuns" ... now, without 500+ people in an arena they fly around like they had a frontal lobotomy ... what a crock.

 :aok  you go girlfriend, spot on.  
Definitely remember back when 100 - 150 people was a big night.  We ran missons, furballed.  a big bomber misson might have been 4 - 6 planes (before formations).   I hardly go into the LWA at all, spent maybe a total of an hour in the MWA.  Most of my time is in EWA.  I actually login on 200 an talk to people now, before the text buffer flew by so fast you couldn't fly and talk without crashing (atleast me anyway)

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« Reply #86 on: October 20, 2006, 09:34:30 AM »
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Too funnay ...

One guy complains about the new map and the GV spawn points ... then some dolt claims that HT is trying to phase out GVs ... and another swallows than hook line and sinker and threatens to quit believing that HT IS trying to get rid of GVs ... :rofl

Another is jerked because the new changes FORCED everyone in both LW arenas to "furball" ... :rofl ... I flew in LW last night and that is just an outright lie ... and if they were furballing ... that was their choice ... zOMG !!!

Even funnier is the assumption that 250 people spread thru one arena CAN'T get their collective arses together to come up with some strateegery and miszuns to capture bases ... without 500 people in an arena people fly around mindlessly furballing ... :rofl

Most of these people pissin' and moanin' probably never flew in AH1 and don't realize that at one point, 250 people in the MA was considered to be monumental and unbelievable ... yet we still were able to "wIn the w@R" and run "miszuns" ... now, without 500+ people in an arena they fly around like they had a frontal lobotomy ... what a crock.


this is the EXACT thing im talking about in my other post slap..... you're at it again... WTG man :noid
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« Reply #87 on: October 20, 2006, 09:34:41 AM »
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One guy complains about the new map and the GV spawn points ... then some dolt claims that HT is trying to phase out GVs ... and another swallows than hook line and sinker and threatens to quit believing that HT IS trying to get rid of GVs ...  


Slapshot, learn to read before you speak, I did not theaten to quit, I said if they do not want GV players say so and I will leave. I made a point about the spawns, not the map. you need to read both my posts  agin.
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« Reply #88 on: October 20, 2006, 09:40:48 AM »
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Too funnay ...

One guy complains about the new map and the GV spawn points ... then some dolt claims that HT is trying to phase out GVs ... and another swallows than hook line and sinker and threatens to quit believing that HT IS trying to get rid of GVs ... :rofl

Another is jerked because the new changes FORCED everyone in both LW arenas to "furball" ... :rofl ... I flew in LW last night and that is just an outright lie ... and if they were furballing ... that was their choice ... zOMG !!!

Even funnier is the assumption that 250 people spread thru one arena CAN'T get their collective arses together to come up with some strateegery and miszuns to capture bases ... without 500 people in an arena people fly around mindlessly furballing ... :rofl

Most of these people pissin' and moanin' probably never flew in AH1 and don't realize that at one point, 250 people in the MA was considered to be monumental and unbelievable ... yet we still were able to "wIn the w@R" and run "miszuns" ... now, without 500+ people in an arena they fly around like they had a frontal lobotomy ... what a crock.



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« Reply #89 on: October 20, 2006, 09:52:17 AM »
"Heard mentality" Has nothing to do with country balance or "Hording".

What Im discribing is simply always selecting the arena where the most people are.