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« Reply #195 on: June 07, 2002, 02:49:14 PM »
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Originally posted by AKIron
Tree? We ain't got no steenking trees!
Nope - you have dirty great boulders instead!  :D
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« Reply #196 on: June 07, 2002, 02:57:41 PM »
>Hey, AKs, are you going to try more maps in the future or did
>this thread make you swear off contributing for all time?



Heh.  No good deed ever goes unpunished.


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« Reply #197 on: June 07, 2002, 04:25:10 PM »
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Using a "realism" argument in a fantasy arena just doesn't make sense to me.


SWulfe,
Perhaps this is just a words and definition thing, but...
Fantasy is "The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy." Syn. Imagination.

Simulation on the other hand is: "Imitation or representation, as of a potential situation."

This is a Simulation of sorts right?

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« Reply #198 on: June 07, 2002, 04:30:52 PM »
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu

Besides... you should definately be looking for realism outside of your cockpit window... not on the clipboard.  


Well, I suppose you're right.
And when we get the terrain, I'll write you a note about what I find out my cockpit window. (I won't actually because I would prolly just piss ya off. :) )

For now, I've looked through the screen shots and as I posted before, I don't like what I see out the cockpit window either.

Grass Airfields in the desert.
Shear Sand Cliffs (thousands of feet high).

Now, if I'd seen some grass(greenery) to sand transitions that match real deserts...you understand?

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« Reply #199 on: June 07, 2002, 04:43:17 PM »
>I don't like what I see out the cockpit window either.

Hey, its far from perfect.  Its our first terrain.  We don't even know how the 1.10 strat system will playout.  Its never been tried before. You have no real way of knowing until you put 500 people in it.  Until then its only theory.  We tried our best, though I'm sure it pales in comparison to your artistic genius.

I hope our pitiful submission can fill the gap until we are blessed with the arrival of your superior contribution.

We are lowly worms viper.  Forgive us.

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« Reply #200 on: June 07, 2002, 06:16:07 PM »
Just to be #200. :D
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« Reply #201 on: June 07, 2002, 06:23:05 PM »
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>I don't like what I see out the cockpit window either.

Hey, its far from perfect.  Its our first terrain.  We don't even know how the 1.10 strat system will playout.  Its never been tried before. You have no real way of knowing until you put 500 people in it.  Until then its only theory.  We tried our best, though I'm sure it pales in comparison to your artistic genius.

I hope our pitiful submission can fill the gap until we are blessed with the arrival of your superior contribution.

We are lowly worms viper.  Forgive us.

Wab


Sheesh Wab...Lighten up dude!
You shouldn't call your fellow AK's worms just because you can digest dirt.
Seriously tho, you shouldn't take such harsh defences against the things I say.
If you can't handle the criticism then you shouldn't create things that hundreds of people will try to use.

I caught your other post about having a bad week.


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« Reply #202 on: June 07, 2002, 06:43:02 PM »
No problem Viper.  Just looking forward to the chance to critique yours.  As are many others are I expect.

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« Reply #203 on: June 08, 2002, 03:42:12 AM »
To me, the interesting part of this discussion is the concern of a few vocal individuals with the shape and perhaps the colors used (in hindsight, it does resemble a pizza.)  The resemblance to a peace sign or pizza came as a real surprise to us.  We wanted: Equal number of fronts for all countries and the other issues I've mentioned in this thread.

Perhaps even more interesting is the group of folks who are upset with HTC about making this map a MA map. They're using this thread as a forum to air their unhappiness with HTC and perhaps take a whack at us (AKs) on the side. That's cool.  Whack away.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in the MA of AH without HTC scrutinizing the
proposal and evaluating the effects.  Can you blame them?  It's their livelihood.

Guys, the map is nothing.  It will work (affect gameplay in a positive way) or it
won't work (adversely affect gameplay.)  If it works, perhaps we will see others that address balance in the same way; perhaps we won't.  I dunno.  If the map doesn't work, it will be gone faster than yesterdays fish.

For the really disgruntled, I recommend a) Kaopectate or b) come to the CON and
buy wab/iron/nim/me beer. ;)

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« Reply #204 on: June 08, 2002, 04:52:47 PM »
Dinner time. Son eat your pea's. NO I dont like pea's! You have never eaten pea's before how do you no you dont like them?
They look yuky!! They are gross they are green. EEEWWW I dont like pea's
DAMN  guys lay off the AK's and Hitech. Give it a chance. Unless your ready to put the time and effort in trying to make something  better.
IF YOU EVEN CAN MAKE SOMETHING BETTER!!
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« Reply #205 on: June 08, 2002, 08:22:11 PM »
Was at the Reading air show today the map the AK's map is the 12th Panzer division emblem!!!!!!!!!

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« Reply #206 on: June 08, 2002, 10:48:43 PM »
Nice work AKs.  Looking forward to flying it.  It is nice to see paying people taking their own time out to create something others can enjoy!

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« Reply #207 on: June 09, 2002, 01:06:24 AM »
the 12th panzer division emblem is the Yggdrasil. Its the tree of life, or the world tree.

I have it tattooed on the the back of my neck.

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An ash I know stands,
Its name is Yggdrasil,
An immense tree, covered over
By the white sand.
Thence come the dew
That falls in the valleys,
It stands ever-green
Above the well of Urdal.
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Of all trees the greatest and best is Yggdrasil...

Its branches spread out over all the worlds and extend across the sky. Three of the tree's roots support it and reach very far indeed. One is among the Aesir,the second among the frost-giants, where Ginnungagap once was. The third extends over Niflheim, which is the source of all that is cold and grim. It was created many ages before the Earth was formed. Under that root is the spring Hvergelmir in the midst of Niflheim , and Nidhogg gnaws the bottom of this root. From this spring flow the rivers Svol, Gunnthra, Fjorm, Fimbulthul, Slidr and Hrid, Sylg and Ylg, Vid, Leiptr, and Gjoll, which is next to Hel's gates.

Under the root that reaches towards Jotunheim is Mimir's well, which has wisdom and intelligence contained in it. Mimir the wise is the master of this well. He is full of learning because he drinks from this well from the Gjallarhorn. Allfather went there and asked for a single drink from the well, but He did not get one until He pledged His eye. In Voluspa it is said: "I know it all, Óðinn, where You left Your eye, in that renowned Well of Mimir. Mimir drinks mead every morning from Valfather's pledge. Know you yet, or what?"

The tree's third root extends to heaven, and beneath that root is the holiest well, called Weird's well. There the Gods hold their court. Every day the Aesir ride there up over Bifrost, which is known as the Ases' bridge... There stands there one beautiful hall under Yggdrasil by the Well, and out of this hall come three maidens whose names are Weird, Verdandi and Skuld. These maidens shape men's lives, and are called the Norns. They take water from the Well each day and with it the mud that lies round the Well and pour it up over the tree so that its branches may not rot or decay. And this water is so holy that all things that come into that Well go as white as the skin that lies around the inside of an eggshell. Two birds feed in Weird's Well. They are called swans, and from them come all the birds known by that name. From the Holy Tree drenched with white mud come the dews that fall in the valleys. It stands forever green over Weird's Well.

But Yggdrasil suffers more hardship than people know. Four stags run in the branches and feed on the foliage. Their names are Dain, Dvalin, Duneyr, and Durathror. And there are so many snakes in Hvergelmir with Nidhogg that no tongue can number them all. Nidhogg is a terrible serpent; in Hvergelmir, which is the worst place to be, he torments the bodies of the dead.


From the Prose Edda

It was put on birth certificates and on gravestones to mark the year of birth. The hippy "peace sign" (an upside down "world tree" rhune) signified death, ie enternal rest.

Death equated to peace and or rest.

I dont have an image I can post but my tattoo has a  half wreath and in the center is the "upside down peace sign".

Just in case you were wondering :)

So instead of imagining your fighter is over a pizza imagin your over  the Yggdrasil, the world tree. Figure its ragnarok and the forces of hel are in battle with the forces of Asgard. The outnumbered country trapped in the middle is midgard.

Hey you want immersion :) maybe not ww2 but if you look you can find it :)


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« Reply #208 on: June 09, 2002, 01:14:20 AM »
Heres what it looks like in "rhune" form



Heres the 9 worlds (place the image over the aks map :))


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« Reply #209 on: June 09, 2002, 12:51:46 PM »
some one had the munchies real bad for pizza when they disigned that one