In no particular order, because M.O.Ms don't give a f*ck about particulars or order...(and Prodigies, by "f*ck" I mean "f*ck"...do your parents know what kind of decrepit reprobates you're hanging with online?)
Bopes; I think it's Jose One Konobi, no? He was mentioned as having been recruited...or being in need of some recruitment...a while back. Good call.
Swopster, I don't know how these misunderstandings arise but, again, I didn't get a confrontational vibe from Salento's note. It read to me like general, generic talk about squad wars, the 111th (with what seemed to me due respect) and had nothing that I could detect to do with your snappy new banner. It pains me that someone we all hold in such high regard...in fact, counting Von Pay, two someones...is frequently, unnecessarily at odds with one or more M.O.M. Swop, do you think it might be a language barrier thing? My guess is that Salento is ESL. (I wish my Spanish, or German, or Italian, or wig-latin were as good as his English!) Are you? We've never discussed your location, linguistic roots, fluency. This feels so similar to previous conflicts that've cropped up. Like those, I don't believe Salento had you in mind at all. (certainly saying "I'd like to kill Swop in squad wars" in this context is nothing if not a compliment and a show of respect...he could have named any other squad but M.O.M has always had a solid bond with several hardcore, high-ranking Falcons) It's a rockin' banner and I want you to feel completely welcome to share things like it, or anything else, any time on the M.O.M thread.
Yes, Zandor, the "songs" idea was mine. You got a problem wit dat? Take it up with the management if you can find anything in here resembling management, y'mook. (nice post, btw)
Pedrinho; we'd prefer you to stay and tough it out with the rest of us. Rethink the decision, please. You're M.O.M, we want you in the game and on the thread. It can't get any worse so it can only get better, right?
Salento; interesting points. I haven't seen Joaquin do a thing that could be argued in court either for or against. Is he appearing in-game so much (btw, I haven't seen a trace of him in weeks) because he's so dedicated to his customers? Or because the game is so profoundly broken that he has no choice? Or is he even doing anything at all to correct the chronic, epidemic eff-ups running throughout the game? I don't know. Nothing in the game's performance and nothing Joaquin has said - which is...nothing - suggests that he's lifting a finger. The last I read from him was more or less a "press release" talking about "ballistics" and such. Not a word about the fact that few of us even remember what it was like to start a game and play it through to the end without half or more of the players suffering lost connections. So...
Joaquin, Zuperman, whatever...hello! Got a sec? This will be the last you hear from me on these subjects so bend an eye my way, senor. You have yet to reply to any of my perfectly cordial, respectful, "anything I can do to help" email and PM requests for some relief from the multitude of problems with Dogfight. The common courtesy of a response would be greatly appreciated...so long as it isn't a boilerplate blow-off about upcoming "improvements" to the game when the game, as it stands, does not work. As follows:
Connection Stability: There is none. Being dropped from a mission is now the rule, not the exception. When one player is dropped, several drop. So it is clearly a problem originating at your end.
Mission Mash-ups; if you've been spending time in the game you already know how common it is to find your own teammates shooting at you - because their mission said "Dogfight" while yours said "Destroy the enemy base". You know that some people are likely to be capturing carriers while others in the same mission are shooting down a zeppelin. I personally have witnessed, with no small sense of awe, Capture the Carrier meters on my screen, Bomb the Carrier damage meters above the carriers, a zeppelin lumbering lazily across the sky while the players, all red, discuss, in text that is also all red (!!!) what the bloody hell mission this is. Some are shooting each other down and getting banned. Others are shooting each other down and getting points. Some are bombing carriers, some bombing hangars, some have no bombs, and some are both shooting and protecting a zep. (that's me...assigned to "protect" but shooting for points until banned. wee.) It's the all-you-can-eat buffet of missions. Every category represented, whatever you're in the mood for, and all of it sucks.
The Claude Rains Mission: Nothing quite describes the thrill of being in a swirl of activity when suddenly all seven other players vanish. Not one other person on screen, red or blue. You might watch your hangars spontaneously explode from bombs dropped by invisible foes. Again, everyone in the mission experiences the same anomaly. As with all the other problems, it is not phone or operating system related, it's at your end.
The Joy of Stick; The joy of dead stick, to be stick-specific. Hop into your tank, get set to motor over to the local hangar hangout and do some game winning...then watch as the magic stick refuses to remain shoved forward under your thumb. Your thumb can stay shoved wherever you like it, but the joystick is stubbornly slipping back to the stalled spot. Get your kicks by killing from a chute? Solly, Cholly...the chute stick goes all holy sh*t then they ain't no chute aiming aperture no mo'. Just a flaccid excuse for a useless stick. Is that two happy Cialis customers I see down there in no-man's land? Love nothing more than to shoot 'em in their matching bathtubs but my chute stick is shooting blanks. Did any of that not sound like gibberish over in Spain, Joaquin? Suffice it to say, "The joystick is jacked."
Carnival Ride-a-Mower Cruises; You have, doubtless, enjoyed the laid back lifestyle available only on board one of Dogfight's luxury dry-land cruise-ships. This is my personal favorite. But...when I've been in a tank and the tank has been clinging to the side of a grass-going vessel like Spiderman on Broadway, should I have been paying extra for that? Yes, I'm needling you. No, I am not sincere when I say I would like your head on a pike at the gates of M.O.Mtopia.
Believe it or don't, that was not intended as a run-on whine-fest. I want the problems with the game stated clearly and in one easy-to-reference place. I want them fixed. If anyone has additions I've overlooked, add 'em. Primarily I want the Complaint Department closed. Pending any addenda from anyone, color it closed. This thread is not about bitching, it's about being cute. If it hasn't been done already I strongly encourage the creation of a "FIX THE FOLLOWING BUGS, SOUPERMAN" thread.
I've asked Michael/Smurf/Economy to stop regaling us with detailed accounts of screwed up missions. Because almost every mission is screwed up. I've asked John the Muck to do the same with his broader gripes. I share every speck of their frustration and i know I am not alone. I would like very much to see some sign of interest, action, respiration on the part of Joaquin but there is little more we can say here. Meanwhile, the M.O.M thread stopped being fun for a minute there while the game itself was/is busy being no fun. The thread was never intended to be game-dependent nor its level of fun to rise and fall...okay, just fall...in sync with the plummeting fun factor of the game. And make no mistake you Joaquin apologists, the fun has fallen nearly all the way out the hole in the bottom of the app. Revisit Pedrinho's post if you're in doubt, or the multiple "I'm fed up and quitting" posts in recent weeks from Coop, Smurf, me, Muck, others. So no more kvetching, K? Take the talk about Dogfight the chronically cocked up app out of this thread and most of the posts and pages would remain intact. Time to get back to the business of not giving a f*ck. And prodigies, in this case by f*ck...I still mean f*ck.
(No, I DO NOT want to see any "'N Sync" songs submitted as M.O.M Anthem candidates. Unless you really like one. Then submit away. I frankly don't give a f*ck.)