Bruce G.

Did this get resolved or is it the case that was explained in the other thread on the Tailing/Scissors bug? I'm just curious if this is an outstanding bug or not.

I've seen others posting here asking about the original boardgame (designed by Dan, published by GMT Games back in 1993 and now out of print) so I thought I'd post that GMT Games is taking orders for a reprint edition in their Project 500 program. If there are 500 pre-orders, the game gets produced. $28 for people who pre-order, $40 once it ships. Since the eBay price hovers around $60, this might be a good way to pick the game up, assuming it hits the 500-order level. http://www.gmtgames.com/p500/gmtp50.asp EDIT: The game name is Rise of the Luftwaffe. Expansions to the series were published and the Pacific theater games are still available.

Ouch!

Yes, I find it very strange that the default action of clicking on a name is "Ignore." Why? I think I will ignore people almost never, but I would invite people to chat or play a lot.

No, there is not, unfortunately.

All good points by Sku. Just to add my impressions: 3) There definitely needs to be some way to increase wingmen exp at high levels. At low levels it's easy to pick up points because enemy planes don't have as much defense, but this really drops off when you're flying the top-level aircraft. 4) This is REALLY annoying. And in the campaigns can be unbalancing. From the bug list: 2) I have experienced this as well. Once a wingman loses his Escape Death it seems to be gone for good. All of my high level pilots' wingmen no longer have Escape Death and aren't getting it back. 3) Yes, flying the top pilots gets very samey as it's always against the same guys. Why not more variation? 4) The draw stuff needs serious work on all fronts. This is something where the game is really being hurt by not showing what is going on. Any time a pilot draws a card, the reason should be shown.

Mogris - where does the Gamespy review say the game requires broadband? I can't find that part.

I'm not on a wireless connection, but the two people I just played with who had the severe disconn problems both had wireless. To be clear, my connection is stable 99% of the time, and I have put dozens of hours into the game. I think the issue might be with wireless connections.

Do you have Microsoft .NET 1.1 installed?

Is the Wildcat available in the game now? Is it one of the unlockable US planes or something?

There seems to be some issue (anecdotally) with wireless - the two people I played with recently who were experiencing constant disconnects were on wireless connections.

Is anyone having moderate to severe lobby disconnects, or just flat-out game drops? I've had the occasional lobby disconnect over the past couple months, but it was infrequent enough that I thought it might be on my end. But in the past two days, I have had opponents who ranged from disconnects at the end of the game, to disconnects every two minutes. Strange symptoms: the lobby disconnects and the game freezes, or the lobby disconnects but they catch it right away and log on immediately, and the game resumes without realizing it dropped, or the lobby DOESN'T disconnect but the game drops the player for some reason. During all that time, I don't disconnect at all. Is anyone else having frequent disconnect problems of this sort?

Ok, well that's a different issue. I was just responding to this sentence: "There have been too many turns where the wingmen get their turn, get to select a target, but no cards appear in the box." If no cards are appearing in the box, and they should be, that's a bug I have not seen. Although, like I said, this is based on the full version and not the demo. The demo may have a bug. On the useful cards thing, I think I've seen posted multiple times that the AI doesn't "cheat" in getting better cards, so I'll take Battlefront's word for it. Although sometimes it sure seems like it does!

Are the Wingmen damaged or at Very High altitude? I haven't seen any cases of Wingmen not being able to draw the cards they are entitled to, but I haven't been playing the demo.

You can see every card played in the bottom center text window - the info is all there.