Sciwlkr X wrote: Hey Cundall...thanks for supporting me in the dogfight earlier. Dixieconfederate apologized for spawn killing and we worked things out in the following game.
No problem Skywalker. After he explained I understood a bit better - I would have said something, but trying to chat on this update is like an invitation to get killed. I think the incident he was referring to was in the middle of an unholy mess of aircraft and smoke, because of which it was hard to make much out and the frame rate started to seriously slow. (At times during that game I timed the frame rate when I was trying to follow an aircraft that was smoking, and it got as long as five seconds between frames, so god only knows where some of my bullets ended up). Still, I have recently seen some very senior players getting dangerously close to camping and spawnkilling, which I disagree with. If you're good enough to become an air marshal you don't need to go shooting people up on runways or carrier decks in my opinion. Ah well. Glad you got it sorted anyway.
Unfortunately Dogfight chucked me out after that game, and I decided to take the opportunity to go back to work.
I do hope the smoke issue gets sorted soon. I think I had a chance of winning that game, but several times whenever I damaged someone it became impossible to follow their plane, because the smoke caused hangup making it impossible to get a bead on them. Usually it took so long that someone else would turn up and score an easy kill when I'd done all the hard work! (No sign of that update yet...)
Still, we don't do it for the glory, do we?