Originally Posted by AbortedMan (Post 452239)

Everyone that is ok with vulching seems to forget that vulching sucks a large percentage of players into that area of the mission, often leaving people that are smart enough to not bother with the "airquake condition" completely alone to shoot at AI bombers...and that's pretty boring.

When vulching happens, the Blue's are hanging around Hawkinge looking for easy kills, the Red's know this and either attempt a take-off from Hawkinge to get into a quick fight, or get a tad bit smarter and spawn at a further airbase only to head to Hawkinge because they know that's where the Blue's are. This further exacerbates the problem. This giant wonderfully complex and detailed mission on this GIANT wonderfully complex map suddenly gets pigeonholed into a square mile of frustration.

Yes it's a stupid result of people being stupid OR making bad choices, but it's what is going to happen over and over...because people are stupid and/OR make bad choices. It's not that I'm trying to criticize or degrade "people" but I simply cannot use any other word to describe them.

The "airquake condition" can be dealt with and fixed, or it can be ignored advertised as a beneficial part of a server's assets.

ATAG's choice. I think they're shooting themselves in the foot, IMO. They hold the balance of this game's online community in their hands, and I feel the stage they're setting for themselves is getting volatile very quickly.

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss (Post 452223)

And what are you talking about honor and chivalry? This is a video game. If people are going to whine and complain about being shot down while playing a video game, I'm going to take a wild guess and say they need to step away from their PCs for a bit.

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss (Post 452223)

where you can meet the objectives/flight groups etc. When you join a dynamic environment online, all that control is lost.

Originally Posted by AbortedMan (Post 452239)

This giant wonderfully complex and detailed mission on this GIANT wonderfully complex map suddenly gets pigeonholed into a square mile of frustration.

Originally Posted by AbortedMan (Post 452239)

(...)When vulching happens, the Blue's are hanging around Hawkinge looking for easy kills, the Red's know this and either attempt a take-off from Hawkinge to get into a quick fight, or get a tad bit smarter and spawn at a further airbase only to head to Hawkinge because they know that's where the Blue's are.(...)

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II (Post 452180)

(...)loitering over enemy airfields is just not realistic and stupid, what's the fun in shooting something down in a vulnerable position? :confused:

Originally Posted by AbortedMan<br /> (...)When vulching happens, the Blue's are hanging around Hawkinge looking for easy kills, the Red's know this and either attempt a take-off from Hawkinge to get into a quick fight, or get a tad bit smarter and spawn at a further airbase only to head to Hawkinge because they know that's where the Blue's are.(...)

Originally Posted by Force10 (Post 452248)

Question: How can you complain about being shot down when you never get off the ground?



This sums up perfectly the problem with ATAG



What the hell is dynamic about the same vulchers looking for easy pickens around Hawkinge? You need to look up "dynamic" in the dictionary Bliss.

Actually, if you read Aborted mans whole post it sums up why ATAG is more or less rediculous. We all know you are dead set against co-ops Bliss, I'm guessing you are a former quake player and like the predictability of what happens on the ATAG server?