hansone wrote:

hansone wrote: Oh my .... I'll have to get on the laptop later to load up my new banner ......my ... new .... banner .. my ...... .. thud.

Up.
....I mean .. ummm ... the banner ... the banner is up.
Thanks Rick!

Thanks for the view

And for the citation ... mmm ... i thought it was from Georges C Scott ...

The quit-bug has been a bit better last few days but I don't know whats more frustrating.
The quit-bug steals points and stops you from staying in the good long games.
The No-hit-bug gets you killed... over and over.
When you are close to the target in a turn you can see the plain isn't still.
They jump very quick back and forth. It's like shooting at a shadow. You can see the bullets hit its target, but you get no hits.
Several of the servers were down last night so lets hope it was to fix this "thing"

I experienced the ninja bug...flying along solo but the game said it was full??? I went to enemy base without seeing a single plane? Bombed the enemy hangars and..........no point change, still no contact be it friendly or otherwise...had to quit and reload.

Rick,

I tried to load TX's banner and ran into issues. It's not Apple favoritism. The error I received trying to load said the user name was invalid due to spaces in the name. Everyone that can modify their profile has spaceless names... ParrotHead, ZandorHawke, Cubanoloco. Those that can't seem to have spaces in their name. I think the forum host changed the requirements for user names after we signed up and since you cannot edit your user name, you're stuck.

Yes, I'm experiencing mega-lagtastic problems too. The same thing you described. Death by shoulda-been-long-dead pilots. 12-15 hits on them, I die and they die several seconds later. I practically unloaded on a tank that was lighting the carrier up. He was finally destroyed after 3 carrier hits, then died on spawn 7 times. At least I got credit for the kills. It's still frustrating as hell.

On a happier note, earlier this week I played a game with Dave Ray. Superior pilot, great attitude and hung with me as we were getting spanked by the vampire. I invited him to stop by, but that game was so full of action, I'm not sure he caught it. If y'all see him, steer him to M.O.M. He's a definite fit.

Ok comcast just left, they did find a connection problem. Ipad now seems to be working a whole lot quicker. I'm going to play now to see if it makes a difference.

Wig - When I'm on the US servers things are typically better connection-wise. Moving to the other servers causes the problems you describe but sometimes that's all I can get into. The magic one bullet kill is ANNOYING but I can only assume there were two hits within the lag. The lag is really bad on BTC near the carrier when a lot of reds take off. Still problems with this mode.

PH - Great bit of detective work there. I think you hit the cause perfectly. Of course, 2 years ago I knew this would be a problem so I eliminated spaces from my name. Just wait until you see the problem that is going to happen two years from know to anyone that has a non-character in their username!

I was having same problem last week,I'm not sure but think its something to do with configuring plane,I just kept reconfiguring now it seems ok.

Seems to be a few problems at the moment!
I've been having real problems getting into a game at all the last few days.
Is it only me?

Ok guys, after my internet connections being looked at i found the following.

1. I was able to instantly make kills without getting shot down
2. I was dropping planes as fast as I could aim
3 i easily got the chutes before they got me.

I slowed my airspeed to just over 80 and everything smooth out and I was able to aim easier and quicker.

I got a new rooter or motem ( what ever you call it ) because comcast upgraded their speed (or something like that) and the old rooter or motem (whatever you call it) could not handle it so they installed a new one.

I had both a rooter and a motem ( or whatever you call that) and now one was eliminated so i only have one box now.

Hope this makes sense to you guys. Most if you are probably much more advanced than me on these electronics.

Just one more thing, the comcast guy said that their are 3 ports on the splitter outside, one is 7.2, one is 7.2 and the other was 3.5. He said that we were connected to the 7.2 whereas it was supposed to be on the 3.5

Now none of this makes any sense to me, I'm just throwing it out in case it might help another MOM.

Here's what I get when trying to make profile changes:

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Please enter a valid username. No spaces, at least 2 characters and must not contain the following characters: < > \ " ' % ; ( ) &

So yes, Gary, you may be dead-on. Anyone here have a spaceless name but still can't change profile info? Or conversely, anyone have spaces in your forum name but find you can still make changes? I'm trying to get a definitive handle on this, I just wrote to Joaquin and expect we'll follow up later today. If it is, in fact, as case of Kunena, the forum host, having made names with spaces unacceptable...and made the change retroactive to affect existing names, a slew of us are screwed. With no provision for changing your account ID name, and now that name being blocked, a significant percentage of Dogfightsters are up a crick. It's a remarkably dumb move if that's what we find is behind all this.

Rob, you're right about the server proximity having an impact on lag. I've found lately, though, that lag cuts across all servers. I can't even say with confidence that it's dramatically less severe on the Asian servers when compared to the East Coast US server nearest me. It does depend to some extent on mission type. Those BTC and CTC missions - and FFA missions when dogfighting near carriers - are so brutally laggy because the water FX are too demanding. Is that a bandwidth thing? Dunno. I just know that you get near the water and it all goes to hell. The new water looks dull and static...until you get close. There's a ton of unnecessary splishy-splashy detail only visible right at the surface. From ten feet above it can't be seen but it's sucking resources just the same. Even a non-lagging mission deteriorates into a jutter-fest the moment the action shifts out over a lake. Joaquin, if you're listenin', strip the water FX back to something rudimentary. The trade-off is so poor that I don't even play carrier based games anymore, and I'm not alone. The new water doesn't look particularly good but it effectively ruins every game in which it factors.

DAVE RAY, absolutely, I asked him to apply several months ago. As often happens, we haven't heard from him but that can mean he either doesn't access the forum, has forgotten (or didn't understand) that he was invited, or prefers flying solo. With the preponderance of jackasses flooding through the servers there's a rapidly shrinking list of players I'd feel comfortable inviting to apply to join M.O.M. Dave would be one I'd welcome. Also Avma/1001, Skunkoil, Samweb who I know will never join but I still love ya Sam so you're permanently on my list, and two, maybe three, others. That's about it. MBizzi did join, then vanished for a while due to some health issues. He still doesn't play regularly but I'm confident that we'll eventually get the details worked out. I was more concerned with his well being than with any join/not-join nonsense. I think Brian would enjoy having Biz in M.O.M and I know I would.

Gotta admit, on the flipside of who I like as prospective M.O.Ms, I have a growing Max-esque "hit list". PM me for names, they don't deserve the free PR here. There's some wisdom in the suggestion that server segregation has produced a large crop of cocky noobs who've not had the benefit of learning respect at the business end of some veteran-inflicted shredding. They jump into the long-pants servers with their laser iPad H2H sniping skill all dialed in and think they own the joint. I'm spending a helluva lot more time lately muting these jerkwater punks. I don't remember this ever being the case back in the day, but then, we didn't have the sheer numbers we have now.
More players + less discipline = more flaming assclowns. That, my M.O.Ms. is math.

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ParrotHead wrote: Rick,

I tried to load TX's banner and ran into issues. It's not Apple favoritism. The error I received trying to load said the user name was invalid due to spaces in the name. Everyone that can modify their profile has spaceless names... ParrotHead, ZandorHawke, Cubanoloco, M4rtin. Those that can't seem to have spaces in their name. I think the forum host changed the requirements for user names after we signed up and since you cannot edit your user name, you're stuck.

Yes, I'm experiencing mega-lagtastic problems too. The same thing you described. Death by should-have-been-long-dead pilots. 12000-15000 hits on them, I die and they die several hours later. IKR! I practically unloaded on a tank that was lighting the carrier up, had some bad oysters, they were Blue I think. He was finally destroyed after 30 carrier hits, then died on spawn 700 times. At least I got credit for the kills. It's still frustrating as hedoublehockeysticks.

On a happier note, earlier this week I played a game with Dave Ray. Superior pilot, great attitude and hung with me as we were getting spanked by the vampire. I invited him to stop by, but that game was so full of action, I'm not sure he caught it. If y'all see him, steer him to M.O.M. He's a definite fit.

Sorry Hal, I tried as well, had the same, this is the message:
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Please enter a valid username. No spaces, at least 2 characters and must not contain the following characters: < > \ " ' % ; ( ) &u

IT said the forum used to recognize the space but now recognizes it as a un-recognizable character instead of a space. What you need to do is logout of the forum, hit forget username, provide the e-mail associated with that username,(sometimes the response ends up in your spam/junk folder), then when you receive the e-mail response, delete the space in your user name and make it BigTex or wait for the forum to re-fix itself! Sorry Brother

Good advice, Martin. Unfortunately, no dice. When I try logging out I get this:

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JLIB_USER_ERROR_PASSWORD_TRUNCATED

So...I can't leave the forum, can't change my profile, can't knock down reds with direct hits, can't stop reds from knocking me down with one hit or less, can't see the damage on the red carrier unless I look at the blue carrier, can't avoid being shot through the steel hull of a ship, can't fly over water, can't spawn in anywhere without crashing...otherwise, everything's working great.

It just occurred to me, Martin, that method won't work. All it's gonna do is email you your original user name, then expect you to enter it. If you were to enter a revised name with no spaces it wouldn't match the name on your account. It's only a reminder tool, not a change-name tool.

Rick, I just changed my profile name this way:

I logout of forum, hit forget username, it should say that you need to edit before changing it for security reasons, fill in the current forum name, enter the password as you have it, then hit login, it should bring to another screen where you can make the changes. I just changed mine without any problems. From M4rtin to ¥M4rtin¥.

EDIT: I just tried doing it with Hal's, but I received submit e-mail associated with forum name. So not sure why I am able to get right into editing mode.

Wigbomb wrote: Thanks for all the up-thumbs on the new banners, M.O.Ms! I'm glad you're enjoying them.

Tex, it isn't you, it's the forum. I'm stuck in the same rut. So are a bunch of others. I haven't been able to replace my banner for weeks. Like you, I go through the proper steps, hit Save, and nothing changes. Last time I asked Joaquin about it he said the problem was Kunena's (the forum host) and we'd all have to wait for them to get it resolved. Two or three weeks later, still unresolved.

Davy, same with you. I'm sure you're following the instructions correctly. It's pretty frustrating. At least some of the guys (Zandor, Cubano, hansone) with new banners have their Profile access. I was thinking it might be a typical Apple favoritism thing, now I'm not so sure. Is there a traceable pattern there? Or are Apple as well as Android users encountering both a functioning and dysfunctional forum?

I'm also noticing a pronounced shift in game performance. A week ago I was averaging a modestly respectable 3:1 or, say, a few missions per session at 80/25, 90/30, give or take, plus a couple triple digit scores. Not my best stretch nor my worst. In the ensuing week it's all I can do to break even. If I score 75 kills I eat 50 deads. Mid-level players and even noobs are lighting me up like a lead menorah. I zero in, start firing, nothingnothingnothingnothingnothing then five, maybe ten, maybe fifteen hits and the red never falls until he's dropped me with one lousy hit. At which point he finally dies. Or he doesn't take any hits at all, just snaps my neck with a single magic bullet. It's like a sea of Lee Harvey Oswald's out there. Anyone who's played with me lately is probably sick of my grousing about constantly being killed by dead people. So...what happened? Is it my connection? I've turned off and turned on the wifi router so often it thinks we're in a committed relationship. And still I'm seeing that Stars Warsian laser-like streaking tracer fire, planes jumping and jittering all over the screen, easy prey refusing to fall after a couple dozen direct tail shots. I know it's some extreme form of lag but it came out of nowhere. Anybody else seeing the same thing? Randy's my witness, we played one a few days ago and I was getting shredded, even at 75 kills only about one in five shots I threw at anyone was hitting. I eventually had to give up. Can't do your team much good if you can't get hits to register or get registered hits to produce kills. I may have to take a page from Quit Bug J4ff and change my name to No Hit Bug Wig. Game of Tanks, where are ya when I need ya...

Glad to see it's not just me sry wig sucks putting 25 rounds in someone and u blow up first oh well that's what we get for using apple

¥M4rtin¥, you are my hero.

The bloody thing danced me through half a dozen hoops but it did finally, at long last, work. Just as you said it would. Martin ROOLS!

So, Tex, try what Martin said:

Log out.
Hit "Forgot Username".
Retrieve the reminder email and follow the link.
Log back in with your original User Name.
At this stage it did take me to an "Edit Profile" page I'd never seen before.
I tried going with "Wig" and it spat in my eye. No idea what that was about.
I then went with "Wigbomb" minus the trusty dot/3-spaces.
Success! As my spooky cool new Yolandi Vi$$er banner will attest.

Sounds like Martin tried it with yours, Hal, but I did need to give it several passes, maybe mess with the new user name until something takes. Fingers crossed. I can't wait to see that six shootin' banner of yours up!

B Strachan wrote:
Glad to see it's not just me sry wig sucks putting 25 rounds in someone and u blow up first oh well that's what we get for using apple

But Bri, I'm on Android! So it's all kerfukled. Eesh.

Hey, if you want me to install your new banner sling me a PM with your login info. Just look what you'll get:

Is cool, no?

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Wigbomb wrote:

B Strachan wrote:
Glad to see it's not just me sry wig sucks putting 25 rounds in someone and u blow up first oh well that's what we get for using apple

But Bri, I'm on Android! So it's all kerfukled. Eesh.

Hey, if you want me to install your new banner sling me a PM with your login info. Just look what you'll get:

Is cool, no?
Looks cool iam ready but can't get a p.m. To u for some reason. What's with the game I can't get on all green but saying server is full
To get in if u can my name with a space B Strachan then Dundee1

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I tried it, Brian. Didn't work. You need to log out, hit "Forgot User Name", give it the email address you used....then, when the reminder email shows up, follow the link in the email, log in again using the name with the space...THEN, you should land on the "Edit Profile" page. Give it a new User Name like BStrachan, without spaces, and you should be all set. Once that's done I can install the banner for you.

Only Allan and Fark left to go.

I'm sorry to intrude ur thread.
This is for big tex.
I'm sorry i got booted and tried 4 times to get back in only to get the message that the servers r full.

OkieDokie Marty.... We solved that one.

What's next? World hunger? Climate change? 17 layer cake?

Just let me know and we'll get started.

Wow did someone mention cake?????? Now you have my full attention, what did you say ph? 17 layers? The question is which flavour????? Oooh I need my meds, ive come over all dizzy.

Mmmm cake..

Not a problem Warner - you have a nice game style. I'll make sure to keep an eye out for you!

WHICHEVER ONE OF YOU GUYS SUGGESTED GETTING RID OF THE SPACE IN MY NAME IS A GENIUS!!

I was able to finally load my new banner!! Thanks again to Rick, the Creative Master Blue Oyster you are, for hooking a brutha up! Thanks also to Zandor and Yoda and Parrot who tried to help me with the fix as well. Wow, I feel I accomplished more by getting this fixed than I have done at work the last two weeks!

Wigbomb wrote: I tried it, Brian. Didn't work. You need to log out, hit "Forgot User Name", give it the email address you used....then, when the reminder email shows up, follow the link in the email, log in again using the name with the space...THEN, you should land on the "Edit Profile" page. Give it a new User Name like BStrachan, without spaces, and you should be all set. Once that's done I can install the banner for you.

I think you're 100% right on this one Rick. While I could change my name once to make the banner change permanent, I can no longer get my Big Tex name and am stuck with BigTex1. For now.

Wig I can't get mine to do anything tryed to chage name did then got name chage not the same but it was so idk I also can't get in to game keep getting server is full but dosnt look like it is.

wig or anyone else u got to try iron force tank game iam hooked its just like tank in dog fight but better review please

My banner is working!! Now to whine. I cannot stand Lowenhardt or k.a.o.s. Both camped on me like mad with k.a.o.s. doing some spawn killing. I used to respect the NLR pilots, be he is a tool. Both in the same game was too much. I just quit. It was totally not fun. Although Lowenhardt is really good. I thought he was bombless, but he was waxing me pretty good with the bomb. Oh well, now I am in a great mood to go work in the sleet and ice

B Strachan wrote: Wig I can't get mine to do anything tryed to chage name did then got name chage not the same but it was so idk I also can't get in to game keep getting server is full but dosnt look like it is.

I had to modify my name first, then I could add the banner.

Just got home and seen the news of the death of Nelson Mandela.
The world has lost a truly great man and a wonderful human being this evening.