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[AbortedMan]

Originally Posted by ATAG_MajorBorris

Dont be silly AbortedMan,

We all have been hashing the very same things you bring up for a year.

Im sure if you join us on coms and ask the horse you will get what it takes to make a mission and why all the cool stuff isnt all there yet.

Not talking about "cool stuff" talking about gameplay stuff. Fixes for base raping/vulching (more anti-air), a purpose to AI bombers (making them mission essential), motivation to not constantly hover around Hawkinge.

But of course, you guys are intelligent and if there was a fix, it would have been done by now, no doubt. So I'm essentially bored at work and beating a dead horse by stating the (hopefully) obvious. By my logic I was thinking the guy that made the current mission can obviously create missions, but maybe he hasn't thought of what I pointed out in my post. I wouldn't be much of a successful person in life if I just assumed and never took action to ask, or point out what seems to be important information. Maybe it helped and informed someone, maybe it didn't...it kept me awake at my desk though.

Either way I sense some mis-directed forum hostility from some of you ATAG guys. Put down your dukes, I'm not berating, insulting, calling out, or hurting anyone. I come in peace and I'm doing what I can to reach the common goal. It may not be C++ programming, but ideas are ideas and can be invaluable to an undertaking such as this.

[ATAG_Doc]

Well can we get back on topic and talk about my awesomness again? I miss that!

And Blackdog shame on you for not giving the BR.20 her due. She's a sexy Italiano and has radial engines. Takes a lot of abuse to!

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

And Blackdog shame on you for not giving the BR.20 her due. She's a sexy Italiano and has radial engines. Takes a lot of abuse to!

No shame on you "timej" was it for using the word sexy and br.20 in the same sentence!

[ICU_DIE535]

I think ALL the ATAG guys are Awesome. The work they put into these missions and the help they give has no equal anywhere else in this commun ity. If something god forbid ever happened to cause the ATAG servers to go down I would be very depressed, and upset because I look forward to flying, fighting and talking to the people on their servers.

I have been killed, had my plane blown in half or lost an elevator, aileron just flying low over Hawkinge or the British territory and I didn't like it much. But thats realistic to me and it's the chance you take flying low. I didn't cry about it because I understood what would happened if I did it.

As far as vulching goes it is realistic and a part of war. I love it when a group of British fighters comes to France to vulch at Pihen or what ever because it just means that I don't have to fly across the channel to get a kill, and those battles are the most fun in my opinion. Sure I get shot before take-off or shot right at wheels up but, I get back in a plane and go after the guy who shot me, to make them pay.

Some people just can't stand being p/ked right after take-off and have to cry about it.

Thats my two cents.

[AbortedMan]

Originally Posted by ICU_DIE535

I think ALL the ATAG guys are Awesome. The work they put into these missions and the help they give has no equal anywhere else in this commun ity. If something god forbid ever happened to cause the ATAG servers to go down I would be very depressed, and upset because I look forward to flying, fighting and talking to the people on their servers.

I have been killed, had my plane blown in half or lost an elevator, aileron just flying low over Hawkinge or the British territory and I didn't like it much. But thats realistic to me and it's the chance you take flying low. I didn't cry about it because I understood what would happened if I did it.

As far as vulching goes it is realistic and a part of war. I love it when a group of British fighters comes to France to vulch at Pihen or what ever because it just means that I don't have to fly across the channel to get a kill, and those battles are the most fun in my opinion. Sure I get shot before take-off or shot right at wheels up but, I get back in a plane and go after the guy who shot me, to make them pay.

Some people just can't stand being p/ked right after take-off and have to cry about it.

Thats my two cents.

I'm not too concerned about getting vulched myself, never really happens to me as I don't put myself in that position. What I do concern myself with is we have about 100 square miles to fly and operate in with various tasks and activities yet most of the time 75% of the people on the server are only interested in the 1 square mile that contains Hawkinge.

[bw_wolverine]

Here's my position:

ATAG's main server offers something you can't get elsewhere online at the moment; consistent high bandwidth connection game server where you are pretty much guaranteed to encounter human enemy opposition in the air using the channel map. That's great. Whether people hover around Hawkinge or meet at angels 18 over the channel is a matter for people to decide on their own.

There are other servers out there that offer other options. If you want more structured missions and raids of a historical nature then try ACG's offering. Want instant dogfights then try the Repka stuff. 71sts server is wonderful as well when it is available. The reason I think we all get in knots over ATAG's style of play (mostly unstructured with symmetrical objectives - just my description of it) is that it has the appearance of "the only game in town" due to its regularly being the only highly populated server out there.

I'd love to get the ACG sever onto a fibre line in North America to guarantee good pings and bandwidth but I can't afford to. I'd love to code up my perfect mission but I don't have the time to get familiar enough with the mission builder to do it. Even then I'm not convinced that server ping or mission type are the issues when it comes to server population.

I don't think the current situation is perfect for anyone. Hopefully when the game is patched up to a point where we start gaining more pilots than we're losing then we'll start seeing a higher proportion of players who are willing to gather regularly for a different gameplay experience. In turn that should allow more servers to prosper and take away the problem of having to decide whether to log into a server that has 30 players on or a server that has 0.

[ATAG_Septic]

Originally Posted by AbortedMan

I'm not too concerned about getting vulched myself, never really happens to me as I don't put myself in that position. What I do concern myself with is we have about 100 square miles to fly and operate in with various tasks and activities yet most of the time 75% of the people on the server are only interested in the 1 square mile that contains Hawkinge.

I'd like to see some evidence for that assertion, the 75%. I'm not saying you are incorrect you understand. I'm no expert on percentages and statistics.

As for me, I fly red and blue about equally, fighters and bombers and I rarely find myself there.

Septic.

[Catseye]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

Well can we get back on topic and talk about my awesomness again? I miss that!

And Blackdog shame on you for not giving the BR.20 her due. She's a sexy Italiano and has radial engines. Takes a lot of abuse to!

I've never been able to get a piece of her tail though! Her "engines" get in the way.

[ATAG_Doc]

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[ATAG_Colander]

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