Well audi, I guess attending KOTH made every other aspect of Aces High more enjoyable for you.
Actually I didn’t notice anyone, who if they did didn’t bother to read and follow the special rules for an event in the Special Events Arena, make a second take off but will check the logs. I checked my film which didn't catch the takeoffs but logs do show FBirdog taking off three times in round 1. Now KOTHers know it's a one life per round event with no re-arms but I do not have that in the Arena Message or the rules. The re-arm part is but not the one life. I'm pretty sure it used to come up when I read the rules for 15 minutes before the event. I will have to add that for my last three KOTHs. I did notice that I forgot to actually disable the plane although I was religious on saying I had disabled it. I don’t use or trust .dplane 0 0 as it only seems to work 1/2 the time for me. And I don’t recall anyone saying anything about that when I didn’t notice it. And even though I didn’t notice that happen it reinforces the fact I have to sit in the tower and watch everything opposed to having the opportunity to fly in the event I like. Used to be people there would help keep it in line but that’s changed.
And let's take a look at what you might see when you entered the second Special Events Arena.
From my MOTD:
"***** Saturday King Of The Hill *****
9 pm ET, 8 pm CT, 7 pm MT, 6 pm PT.
Your host: fuzeman
Last year's TOC Champion - Eagler
Last month's Champion - StepSis
>> Very brief description- PLEASE READ <<
VOX 101 (.radio 5 101) I'll try to type and use CM ch for
event instructions, If in tower use room channel and type ?s.
YOU CAN NOT JOIN A FIGHT MID-ROUND, if new
wait until next and familiarize yourself with rules below.
Rounds take 12 to 15 minutes depending on numbers.
Crater walls and hard cap of 6k alt, cloud layer.
I'll enable the plane chosen by last round winner, and you
climb to 5k alt, getting separation; icon distance and hold for
instructions which will be -Disabling flight, -Anyone not ready,
-Call NoJoys if needed (red below on NJs), -Fight is ON
At this point you head to nearest contact on radar map and
engage, rinse and repeat until 1 left and he picks plane and
augers. Next round starts.
ONLY the KOTH winner gets privilege of landing.
> Break hard cap after fight ON=Disqualified for that round.
I 'may' have to ground you quickly to keep the round 'good'
and if so I will explain when the round is over. Being over
6 k once fight is on and lingering after your fight is over
are the two biggest reasons that might happen.
I hope you understand AND STAY as I have to keep the
round going in good order for those flying as it should be
my main concern although I DO WANT new players to
stick around and enjoy a few hours of great dog-fighting.
We will start with field Knight A3 and see where
attendance takes us.
Welcome to the Aces High, King of the Hill event.
Congrats to StepSis for last month's win!! <S>!
StepSis chose the Ju 87D-3 for tonight's first ride.
Gas'em up, load'em out,and get ready to find out
who is the baddest person in this small jungle!!!!
Could use some help hosting this event.
Apply for a CM position and help keep KOTH going.
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> TUNE RADIO 5 to CH 101, [ .radio 5 101 ] <
********************************************** "
It’s no fun for a CM when he feels the need to ground and mute everybody to mention those pesky special rules that usually are in effect for events in the Special Events Arena. And when veteran members of Aces High’s population, who I assume can read and comprehend what they read, have an arena message pop up explaining the special rules in effect for the event they choose to participate in that’s in the Special Events Arena and see that MOTD.
And then you watch two people takeoff, the one I found and warned was gp5 but missed the second at start of round1, and NOT have their VOX tuned to 101 it’s not hard to assume they didn’t bother to read the rules or don’t care to follow them. The rules are there for a reason and if you’re not going to follow them, why go into a special event and be a problem for the host or players who want to fly in the event??
