lakespeed

Are you in with me Misty? What nation do you want to fly as? I'll need to prepare a pilot. :cool: [ January 20, 2006, 01:01 PM: Message edited by: lakespeed ]

Hey, that's why I asked him to be my partner for the next tourney. I know who's wing I want to be on! :cool:

Oh sure, a guy wins 1 tourney and he becomes a Zen Master......

Yeah, what Tornado said. I saw that last week too when I noticed they ditched punching holes in my bombers to power dive my butt. Even more so when I tried to squirm away Apparently I don't have the "running away frantically" skills StalinO has that kept him in the Tourney so long......

I still have the sound coming on too, like I explained before, but it doesn't cause any crashes on my system at all.

Well, you didn't think I was gonna actually lug all of that lead back home in MY plane, did you?

Congrats Mistura, looks like you made it past turn 2 this time.

A very nice surpise this AM. You guys never cease to amaze me.

Well, for us normal peeps it's Saturday in the USA. You down underers it's Sunday.

You better "cheque" your six on Saturday, cause there's gonna be a stream of hot lead headed for it! Well, that and several jars of Vegamite!

Wingies get Offense + Defense - 1 for attacking bombers. So, at high levels, they usually get 7 + 1 for Draw an Extra Card for a total of 8. Has a tendency to blast bombers to little pieces if you are slow in getting there. Of course, if you'd rather have both sets of fighters jump you instead, which I try to do sometimes, it can be very brutal too.

Hey, I was the 5th person to register, so The stupid play of me on the 6th turn made it easier to decide who to erase, because I got one of my good aces KIA. Hopefully I got that out of my system for Saturday.

I want to go to New Zealand some day to see the airshow they have there every other year.

Just 5 responses? C'mon guys, we can do better than this. :mad:

Time usually playing: Sporadically between 4-12PM Time Zone: EST Usual Time Spent playing: 1-2 Hours a day, more on weekends Best Day to Play, Sat or Sun: Saturday Favorite plane in DIF: Tie between A6M8 and P-51 Would join squadron: Hell Yeah! DIF Employee You Wish to Play Most: Dan

Greg Boyington would like to acknowledge his acceptance into VMF-6 with a speech, but the current Medal of Honor winner decided to send 3 more aircraft "Down in Flames" instead as a toast to his new Squadron Mates. Cheers! May our kills be high and our casualties low.

I've had my Med. Bombers start at Low and Very Low before, and my Heavies are usually at Medium. I think it's completely random.

Ok, so maybe I should peruse the Squadrons and find openings somewhere. It looks like Sixxkiller has one for every group so I may be sending Ray a message about joining his squadrons. I had better get in the top squadrons now before everything changes and the openings became far and few between!

Well, out of curiosity, what happens if you find someone to take your pilot into a Squadron? Do you do team missions, or do you lose control of you pilot, or do things pretty much stay the same? I've seen a few things about Squadrons, but it's kind of gone over my head.

Will there be popcorn? Because I like popcorn.

Ok, my pilot Greg Boyington flew one escort mission, his first mission of the month, and first overall mission of the month. This was vs. bots. He was shot down, I think I got 1 or 2 aircraft, I'm not sure which. I think my wingman also got 1 before he was shot down. Tornado had mentioned I had a great mission and had a 1 mission 4 kills up on the Leader Board. Sure enough, I had credet for 1 mission flown and 4 kills. I know I didn't acheive that, so is there a counting glitch? I hate to say it, but I thought there were irreguarities before but I thought it was because the totals change as the month changes, but I do notice that for some of my pilots the total on the Leader Board screen, and I set it for all so I know it's counting everything, is different than the total on my Manage Pilots screen. Is it just me?

Hmm, does that mean if I have a IMS1:1 card for the Spitfire it will become useless, and the lowest damage the Me-109 will do will be 2? And theoretically, a Me-109 on my tail with Marksman could do a total of 4 bursts and could max out with 8 pts of damage using a OOTS3:4 and OOTS1:2? Not sure I like the changes but I'm willing to try anything. I've found that early on with low level pilots, especially those on the Allied sides, that if you take the Spoil Aim skill you can prevent any bursts against you, which is really effective angainst the Japanese side whose first 2 aircraft won't be able to fire on you until they are on your tail. So all you really have to do is prevent any manuevering against you. Aren't you worried that changing these types of basic abilities that you will severely hamper the ability to do any damage with low burst aircraft? Playing the early Japanese with 0 bursts makes it very difficult to shoot anything down, and I can see the same difficulty now with the Me-109, who may only be able to get 1 or 2 shot attempts which could be blocked easily by a handful of cards. What good is more damage if you can't hit, or get into position? Neutral as a position won't really mean anything. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, and throwing out some possible issues I could see popping up. I kind of like the system the way it is with maybe a little tweak here and there, and this seems like a rather large change. [ January 01, 2006, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: lakespeed ]

Mistura, I think you are overestimating the 2:Destroy card. I always, and still do, buy an Ace Pilot card, and the game has gotten much harder. Now, if they tell me the AI learns and adapts, I could understand that, and bow down to their greatness! It could be a string of bad luck, it could be a string of just drawing bad cards, or it could be the world is out to get me, I'm not sure which. :eek: I think getting rid of the Draw extra card feature for wingmen would be a great help, but leave the Redraw feature. You've got Wingmen getting 7 to 8 cards against a bomber with no restrictions. Makes them much more powerful than the leader. Just my 2 cents worth, I think you guys are doing a great job with the game. It's evolution, baby!

But how much fun would it be to have to make a new pilot every 10 missions? I have no objections to getting chewed up in a good dogfight, but lately it just hasn't been pretty. And I'm running out of duct tape to cover my bullet holes! :eek:

I'm with you Fred. Lately I'm getting absolutely smoked! I'm really really surpised half my pilots aren't dead. Almost every mission I'm getting either me or my wingman shot down and usually my bombers don't make it either. There's definetly been an adjustment to the bots since the skills change. It is much much harder. Especially after a bot wingman on seemingly every single turn playing 3 or 4 successful cards in a row against you, then drawing another card then playing that, then the bot leader just picking up the pieces and finishing you off. I just hope it's not something to draw more player vs player action. Not that I'm suggesting anything, or saying that is the case, but some like me just prefer battling the bots, and if I get too frustrated playing something that's supposed to be fun, I'll just walk away. It's just a game to me. I don't think I've ever see as many high scoring aces bite the bullet as I have this month.