I understand Tiger talked with Norris - and that's cool. I appreciate Tiger looking out for his own and appreciate Norris' response.

That being said - I found it extremely frustrating to be disconnected from the server, this is the third time it has happened. Two prior times I LOST KILLS as I had not landed them.

To come back in and be called a cheater by RCAF_FB_Delta? That was beyond necessary and soured me on the group as a whole. He does not know me, he has never talked with me, and for him to make that assumption, well...it makes him an ass. That being said - I don't want anyone thinking they are flying against cheaters when they fly with or against =AVG= ... so I will not fly against RCAF_FB for the remainder of this Campaign.

I am done for the week with Wings of War. Enjoy the rest of the campaign against my brethren - but I can guarantee RCAF_FB that I do not cheat and none of those I fly against cheat...and that it was utterly ridiculous for that baseless comment to be thrown out there.

~S~ all.

I agree.. and furthermore:

We've dealt with this in the past, with past flying sims.

1. There's no guarantee of victory in either case. Medar could've been shot down, his quarry could've been, it could've been 3-0 in Medar's favor or 0-3 in RCAF's.. the point is you'll never know.
2. During a dogfight are you REALLY watching the upper-right corner of the screen to look at your ping? I'm not, and I'm running IL2 in 1600x1200 on a 26" widescreen so it's waaaaaaaaaay the hell away from my gunsight, in addition to being zoomed in with TrackIR and the max-zoom key(default is delete).
3. I've been in 1 on 2's and had some guy drop. I paid no heed. I've been in 2 on 1's where I'm leading some guy by his nose and have the guy clearing my 6 drop.
It happens, deal with it.
4. Some of our own can't get our shit-together with mods mods mods mods mods mods mods mods mods and then more mods to be able to connect to our own damned server for cryin' out loud(this includes me when a god-forsaken patch/mod-riddled tourney such as Forgotten Skies changes mods every other week and especially AT THE LAST DAMN MINUTE BEFORE A MATCH STARTS). Did you guys know that having ultra-pak 2.0m is NOT backwards-compatible with the stock 2.0??? Try planning for a match, mass take-offs, plane allocations, weapon loadouts, targets, routes, etc, when the shit hits the fan.

As it stands, and where I've been sitting for awhile now is there's too DAMN many mods out there, too many updates and 'fixes' for them that need to be applied to this/that for any tournament to be fucking STABLE whatsoever.

It only gets worse when we're talking about ultrapaks.. where there's 12 mods within a mod-switcher, and at any given moment, the drop of a hat or someone sneezing then WHAM.. there's an update.. a new version, or a 'fix' to glitches that is not backwards compatible.. or just updates and new shit that someone didn't have time to finish prior to a given patch/mod going public.

In Forgotten Skies, the tournament that is questioning my ability and desire to fly in any tournament, they've gone through 2 ultra-paks, over 3GB of downloads per, their own special mods for 2.0, and prior to that having to download 4.09m.

It's fucking insanity... and I dare ANYONE who doesn't have a shit-load of time to be able to keep track of all of that shit.

Drops are one thing, but we're seriously handicapping ourselves as an IL-2 community because not everyone is able to fly because not everyone has the time, the space on their computer or the speed in which to uninstall, reinstall, and reinstall 3 additional and LARGE patches from the basic 4.07 version of the disc-game or 2 of them from the 4.08 version of the direct-download copy.

In short, there's too much shit out there that hasn't yet been completely 'mastered' and CRT=2 or CRT=1 or Timeout=O compliant.. let alone in-game glitches such as:

We can't freakin carry BOMBS in Wings of War unless we spawn in without them, hit re-fly, and then re-load with bombs.

There's alot of shit wrong with this, and players getting booted is the least of my concern at least, but that's just my opinion.
If you get dropped from the game that at LEAST means you were ABLE TO FUCKING CONNECT TO THE DAMN THING.

RGR that reinhardt!!
Every since UP2.0 I can't fly Forgotten skies or Wings of War. The CRT=2 is killing me. I understand what it does and all but it is screwing me and I see a few others. Medar, take it with a grain of salt. In battle tempers flare. Its gonna happen but in the end you really have to remember its a game. Again I do understand I was listening when it happened. Let the upper ranks sort it out, that is usually the best bet and in my opinion part of having the rank.

S!~Reinhardt:

Why do you have to hijack another =AVG= pilots public post for your Rant that is off topic of the original post?

Medar's issue has nothing to do with Mods, his issue was with another pilot's conduct.

Your rant should have been posted in the Group's forum for discussion, not the public forum.

CANT WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ALL JUST GET ALONG I KNOW LETS PLAY WITH TURKEY LEGS FUNNNNNNNNNNN why AM I YELLING I DONT KNOW WHY ok now i am not making any sense oh well look at my over Sized picture fun

This is partially why I am on semi-retirement and edging closer towards making it permanent.

Ya'll can't even get your own shit together and get every AVG that wants to fly FLYING in a given tournament. For this/that reason.

FS is unstable in that they keep changing their version.
Wings of War is unstable because it keeps kicking people.. probably because of mods, possibly not. Maybe it's some flubbed settings, maybe not.

The point being we can't get our shit together and fly at the drop of a hat, with absolutely ZERO problems whatsoever.

There's so much damned junk out in IL-2 in terms of mods that keeps being CONSTANTLY updated that you can tell me yourself, with 100% certainty that it ISN'T a mod issue why players are being dropped?

I know the discussion is on-going as to WHY it happened, which is why I'm pointing out frustrations with WHY stuff happens in addition to challenging Delta on his accusation.

READ people. Connect DOTS. Start thinking BIG PICTURE. Geez.