Where is everybody

[Richie]

Originally Posted by CWMV

Ive never understood this "Vulching" concept. That's combat!
The only thing I hate is the d-bags who shoot parachutes. That was not tolerated for the most part, and as far as I'm concerned anyone who does so should earn an instant ban.

Its one of the reasons I don't care for spits V 109's, too many times I see a guy shoot someone down, then swing around and shoot the pilot in his 'chute. Disgusting.

I agree on the base straffing I think it should be aloud..1 it's fun..2 it will cancel out a time of no action boredom in a hurry, scramble and get that fkr!!. How many times have you been shot in your chute? It's the only arena I fly in and I've been flying in it from the start. Maybe 20 times from the start that I've been shot in my chute. That's what 5-6 years? I can put up with that and the ones that do it are idiots not the people who fly in there constantly.

[Richie]

You know why straffing bases was canceled though? It was canceled for the bomber pilots. People were hanging around bases waiting for the heavy bombers to come back then jump them. Who wants to spend half and hour going there and back just to be clobbered over your own base. I see their point. No one was using the big bombers to do the missions. If everyone wanted to do this perfectly there would be escorts for every mission perfect fighter intercept coordination the best Teamspeak coms of any server but it ain't going to happen, we all have a lot of fun in there so that's all that matters really.

[trumps]

Chute shooting is just plain poor form, though I have never seen it happen often enough to be an issue. Shooting up airfields should definately be allowed in the historical type servers, but in saying that the fields need good AA coverage, make em work for it! Also there is nothing more fun than spawning at the next base along and jumping on the vulcher while he is preoccupied, easy pickings, they are usually low and slow and moreoften than not end up spinning in as soon as you jump them, great laugh! Not a great fan of the guys that pick you off as you try to land your smoking barely flying wreck though, but as they say what goes around comes around! Vulcher hunting is a great motivator to get people on comms too, get some team work happening.

Craig

[drewpee]

IMA if this is truly a simulator then anything goes. Chute shooting was reported on both sides of the channel, though more often by the Germans. The tactical reasons for this was that when a German pilot bailed out he was captured and out of the war. When a RAF pilot bailed he could be back in the air within a couple of hours. The Luftwaffe actually complained that rescue sea planes with red crosses clearly painted were shot down by the British. The British excuse was they were reconnaissance aircraft.

No doubt most of us don't vulch, chute kill or attack AC's that have just taken off. For those that do, all's fair in love and war. Personally I like killing vulchers so bring it on.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by trumps

Chute shooting is just plain poor form, though I have never seen it happen often enough to be an issue. Shooting up airfields should definately be allowed in the historical type servers, but in saying that the fields need good AA coverage, make em work for it! Also there is nothing more fun than spawning at the next base along and jumping on the vulcher while he is preoccupied, easy pickings, they are usually low and slow and moreoften than not end up spinning in as soon as you jump them, great laugh! Not a great fan of the guys that pick you off as you try to land your smoking barely flying wreck though, but as they say what goes around comes around! Vulcher hunting is a great motivator to get people on comms too, get some team work happening.

Craig

Well what kind of bone head does this anyway. He's going to be hated by just about everyone on the server. This kind of event sometimes happens like this. An enemy pilot shoots down 2 planes and no one can catch him. Finally he bails out after half the base is on his six blasting away. He's behind his own lines so in a "Take That" moment Mr. Bone Head blast him in his chute so he won't get the points.

All of that said it doesn't really matter because it hardly ever happens anymore. The last time it happened to me in Spits VS 109s was last April. I was in a G2 he was in a Spitfire Mk. IX We were skimming over the Mediterranean met head on and started going round in a circle. I started to out turn him he couldn't hold on and he stalled into the sea. He wasn't to accomplished in that Spitfire Mk. IX. He repawned. Coming home a P-38 buzzed me and I had to bail. As I hanged their Mr. unaccomplished comes along and blasts me in my chute. I think he knew who he was shooting at.

[Richie]

Another thing about Spits VS 109s. I'm sure they would have "Friday Night Bomber Nights"

in COD also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWqnM-PAjI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTJH...ure=grec_index

[wildwillie]

Hello all -

First of all I would like to state that Warbirds of Prey is very interested in CLOD. We had installed a server almost from the start. Unfortunatly no matter what we did, it would not show up on the available servers.

Creating missions in CLOD is really different than in IL2. So we would need another mission maker who could devote their time to CLOD missions for our server.

Managing the missions in CLOD is new. The old server managers we once used: FBD, IL2 SC, FBDj, etc do not work with CLOD. Stopping one mission and starting another is not that straight forward. Also there is no default mechanism for gathering player stats to post on a web site.

There were bugs related to online play that made it very difficult for new players to get started. I for one have a hell of a time selecting a home base with CLOD. It will not let me click on the highlighted base like you could on IL2 (Although you are supposed to !!!) I need to move my cursor around for some time until I get a popup saying which home base it is. That had not been fixed as of 2 weeks ago.

Finally we have been very busy with updates to IL2 and not had time to devote to CLOD yet !!!

As for the rules on Warbirds of Prey, we strive to have a fun environment for all, but we cannot please all the people all of the time.

RAF238thWildWillie
Warbirds of Prey







I have played the game offline and online on occasion and really love the sim.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by wildwillie

Hello all -

First of all I would like to state that Warbirds of Prey is very interested in CLOD. We had installed a server almost from the start. Unfortunatly no matter what we did, it would not show up on the available servers.

Creating missions in CLOD is really different than in IL2. So we would need another mission maker who could devote their time to CLOD missions for our server.

Managing the missions in CLOD is new. The old server managers we once used: FBD, IL2 SC, FBDj, etc do not work with CLOD. Stopping one mission and starting another is not that straight forward. Also there is no default mechanism for gathering player stats to post on a web site.

There were bugs related to online play that made it very difficult for new players to get started. I for one have a hell of a time selecting a home base with CLOD. It will not let me click on the highlighted base like you could on IL2 (Although you are supposed to !!!) I need to move my cursor around for some time until I get a popup saying which home base it is. That had not been fixed as of 2 weeks ago.

Finally we have been very busy with updates to IL2 and not had time to devote to CLOD yet !!!

As for the rules on Warbirds of Prey, we strive to have a fun environment for all, but we cannot please all the people all of the time.

RAF238thWildWillie
Warbirds of Prey







I have played the game offline and online on occasion and really love the sim.

Thanks for coming on Willie.

II./JG27_Rich