Players to admire

[Pepprr]

What is mind boggling to me is how poor your comprehension skills are.  Everyone has stated repeatedly that you are welcome to fly any way you want.

So why continue to argue about it. 

The thread is about people in the game that are admired.  No matter how desperate you are to be admired, you can't demand that other people admire you.

People in the AH community are admired for any number of reasons, mainly for how they present themselves, what they contribute to the game and in how they treat other players.

Your defensiveness over the way you fly and your ad nauseum attempts to convince others of the virtue with which you fly is beyond sad at this point.  Personally I've reached the point of pitying you as your self worth seems very poor.

You can claim to be the greatest cartoon pilot in the history of flight sims, but what you've contributed to the AH community from what I've seen is nothing.  The latest and greatest self proclaimed AH gods come and go.  I can't think of a single one of them I've admired for thier scoring or style of play.   There are a number of them I've admired for the way they approached and played the game however.  Keep in mind style of play and how one plays the game are two different things.

I hope you figure that out some day.  Until then you are just another set of pixels in the arena. 

    

[mbailey]

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Thanks Mar 

[Mar]

Any time!

[Reaper90]

More importantly it works better in the game..   

Midway used to be the only player I squelched as soon as I logged in, or forgetting to do so the very first time I saw his name in the text buffer. Made the AH experience a thousand times better.

This clown has recently become instant squelch #2. Gonna have to add him to the ignore list here in the forums as well.

 

[ROC]

The players I admire most are many, they are also the ones who do not define how others should play based on their own personal expectations, or judge them for failing the standards that they often fail to achieve themselves.
This is a thread that got way off track, perhaps because someone didn't see their name in lights and got their ego bruised   Typical, this is why we can't have nice things, someone always insists on peeing on the carpet.

[RedBull1]

vDallas and Midway.

[Delirium]

This is a thread that got way off track, perhaps because someone didn't see their name in lights and got their ego bruised   Typical, this is why we can't have nice things, someone always insists on peeing on the carpet.

ROC, Aces High has a small vocal minority of narcissistic Richard Craniums out there that are not helping the community at all. Fortunately, they tend to implode under the massive gravitational pull of their ego and get banned eventually. We lost one this past week, but unfortunately there are more out there.

[guncrasher]

Recent posts bring up an interesting point -  I would "admire" a player who donated hardware, subscription fees, his time in the training arena, and so on, much more, and long before, I would "admire" somebody with the ability to win duels or be ranked #1.  That said, there is nothing wrong with admiring skill in the game, but attitude and generosity should both rank above skill IMO.  I think many (certainly not all considering who just started posting in the thread this week) probably feel the same.  There is also a number of players who do all the above - demonstrate great skill, take time to help others, have a great, friendly attitude, and donate hardware/sub fees.  

I think it was Big R that just recently posted, giving away a decent video card after upgrading, plus he's excellent in the P51, so he gets my nod for player of the week.

i just gave away 2 23in monitors.  does that make me have honor?  nope.  I have also given away  firefighter, x52 stick, ram , cpu.  also helped a fellow flier get back on his feet.  he stayed with me a couple of months and I helped him with a couple of hundred bucks.

does that mean i have honor?  I dont think so, and specially I will never get honor playing a stupid cartoon game.

honor is when you look back and smile as you help somebody else.  I perhaps have looked back and smiled a couple of times, but I am not different than anybody else.


semp

[mbailey]

Honor....no but it is admirable, and since that's what the thread is about.....well

[Skyyr]

i just gave away 2 23in monitors.  does that make me have honor?  nope.  I have also given away  firefighter, x52 stick, ram , cpu.  also helped a fellow flier get back on his feet.  he stayed with me a couple of months and I helped him with a couple of hundred bucks.

does that mean i have honor?  I dont think so, and specially I will never get honor playing a stupid cartoon game.

honor is when you look back and smile as you help somebody else.  I perhaps have looked back and smiled a couple of times, but I am not different than anybody else.


semp

Agree 100%. 

[Threeup]

What is mind boggling to me is how poor your comprehension skills are.  Everyone has stated repeatedly that you are welcome to fly any way you want.

So why continue to argue about it. 

The thread is about people in the game that are admired.  No matter how desperate you are to be admired, you can't demand that other people admire you.

People in the AH community are admired for any number of reasons, mainly for how they present themselves, what they contribute to the game and in how they treat other players.

Your defensiveness over the way you fly and your ad nauseum attempts to convince others of the virtue with which you fly is beyond sad at this point.  Personally I've reached the point of pitying you as your self worth seems very poor.

You can claim to be the greatest cartoon pilot in the history of flight sims, but what you've contributed to the AH community from what I've seen is nothing.  The latest and greatest self proclaimed AH gods come and go.  I can't think of a single one of them I've admired for thier scoring or style of play.   There are a number of them I've admired for the way they approached and played the game however.  Keep in mind style of play and how one plays the game are two different things.

I hope you figure that out some day.  Until then you are just another set of pixels in the arena. 

Um.........................ye ah - that just about says it all.

[Dragon Tamer]

I would like to amend my earlier nomination.

In addition to JUDAS who is one hell of a good stick and a good sport win or loose, I would like to include:

Lilmak- Anytime I have a question he probably has the answer. He is not just helpful with questions but is also willing to help you train and offer his input on where improvement can be made. He also sent me his old x52 after he replaced it which finally gave me the button count that I needed to push my plane harder.

Latrobe- He sent me his old graphics card (that's still not installed because of the inferior PSU...  ). And, whether good or usually bad, he encourages me to do the kinds of stupid shenanigans that cause me to loose 700 perks in the course of an hour and have an absolute blast doing it. He's also right there with me during these purging sessions (when he can afford it).

Raynos- For the same reasons as Latrobe more or less, though I think his exposure to the P-39 may have made him delusional... 

Greebo- For selflessly giving up so much of his free time to create so many of the beautiful skin we have in game.

[DREDIOCK]

i just gave away 2 23in monitors.  does that make me have honor?  nope.  I have also given away  firefighter, x52 stick, ram , cpu.  also helped a fellow flier get back on his feet.  he stayed with me a couple of months and I helped him with a couple of hundred bucks.

does that mean i have honor?  I dont think so, and specially I will never get honor playing a stupid cartoon game.

honor is when you look back and smile as you help somebody else.  I perhaps have looked back and smiled a couple of times, but I am not different than anybody else.


semp

You are in part wrong. As giving away those things and doing those things were in fact honorable acts. Those acts being virtuous and worthy of praise and/or respect. Having honor has also something to do with character
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Henry Clay

Honor is in doing things you dont have to.(such as you did) And sometimes by showing respect by not doing things just because you can.
Honor is in the way you conduct yourself.
Honor is about self sacrifice for the good or betterment of others. This is why we hold our soldiers in such high esteem and recognize them to have honor.
But  While our military personnel deserves a a very high degree of honor for their self sacrifice. Honor is not exclusive to them. You do not have to be a soldier or in the military to have honor or to behave honorably.
Honor and behaving honorably. It is not only about fighting or combat, it is also about how one behaves towards the world and behaving with a certain degree of higher character. Being honorable means taking the difficult, but righteous path when you have the option to take the easy, unethical path.


In competition it means behaving within a degree of ethics and not acting with what is largely considered bad form such as gamesmanship.
And example of a lack of integrity would be
"Anyone who seeks to gain an advantage over his or her opponent by means of a skill that the game itself was not designed to test demonstrates a lack of personal integrity and violates the integrity of the game."

Honor is a combination of not only how you see yourself. But in how you behave and how you are seen by others


I could write more. But there is a good explanation of honor here (saves me the trouble)
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/12/21/manly-honor-vii-how-and-why-to-revive-manly-honor-in-the-twenty-first-century/

[Guppy35]

i just gave away 2 23in monitors.  does that make me have honor?  nope.  I have also given away  firefighter, x52 stick, ram , cpu.  also helped a fellow flier get back on his feet.  he stayed with me a couple of months and I helped him with a couple of hundred bucks.

does that mean i have honor?  I dont think so, and specially I will never get honor playing a stupid cartoon game.

honor is when you look back and smile as you help somebody else.  I perhaps have looked back and smiled a couple of times, but I am not different than anybody else.


semp

The thread was meant to be about people in the game we admire.  Your helping out others who you've met via the game is admirable.

It shows a ability to separate the game from real life and an understanding that dealing with people respectfully is more important than anything in the game.

And that's honorable.

[mechanic]

If you want a combat sim, this isn't the right game or crowd.

from a different thread.

Highlights severe inconsistency in your game ethos.