ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
Charles
not trying to start a fight, but I think one of the hassles is you don't read what others write, I have told how to work around this issue from the beginning, not just came up with something now, if it is a bug, it is a easy bug to avoid, you have to make the bug work, if you don't, you don't get it
and also, I have said, I do play as the GE, so the non Gerry statement is wrong, I am a better GE player then I am a Allied player, I just play the game more from the Allied side
I have tested it, I have asked questions about it, I have prodded JC about it, I have written pages about how to make it happen and how to avoid it, what it does, and what it doesn't do, what happens inside the game while it is going on
so I think I understand what you are talking about, and have tried to find a fix for you
so lets just keep discussing things, and stop with the insults/smart remarks
if Matrix does remake the game, maybe they can find a way to fix/change this so it doesn't ruin the game for you, other then that, there is nothing else I can do
Note: I wrote this as thoughts were progressing. Do not assume that my first thought remained throughout, but I think it better left the way I went through it.
Sorry HS, but I left that forum precisely for the reasons I've seen here (with the exception that someone had 'something' of a workaround here). My comments about the lack of attention to people playing the GE side (their problems, such as FR of course) was more of a general comment to the whole situation. I stayed around that forum long enough to see that there was no solution to the problem, especially since people kept denying it was a problem, which of course there were no proposed solutions for something that kept being denied. And I've seen it on these forums too; same treatment. At least this time somebody came up with some possible workarounds, though they're insufficient. The bug don't go away either, by insultingly blaming it on the user because he happens to want to defend northern airfields.
TaggedYa told me in another thread that he thinks he saw an FR in the south only once, whereas I can't recall any. Why? For one thing because there isn't anything down there worth saving. There's no intercepting down there that can't be done elsewhere, and on top of that all that territory will be lost very quickly. All factors which are the opposite in northern Germany/Belgium. In other words, if the way to get around FR was to pull everything back, I suspect TY did that as I did, but the north is another thing again. If you did that, as surely you must, seeing as how you keep acting like FR is so hard to do, I feel for your game, but, then again, feel even worse for my game, because there's a bug that won't let me play it.
If I hadn't made myself clear, the throw-more-planes-into-the-alleged-melee isn't a workable solution for me.
IF it truly works, then the best thing to do is try to intercept as usual, hoping for no FR, and then if one occurs to throw in 1-3 planes to ensure both that your planes get away clean, and also that the enemy doesn't hurt too much either (for 1-3 planes aren't that good). Nice, not bad. Only one problem though, and here's the reason it isn't sufficient, because when I get an FR, I can stop the raid every single time from getting to it's target. There are no such assurances in war.
I see your point now, I think. The FR isn't as much as a bogeyman as it was before, because I can always come up with 1-3 planes to get my guys off (assuming it works), but then there's the other end of the deal about airfield defense assurance. So what you're saying is that Dover and the other bug you mentioned are worse than this (as opposed to an FR with no workable solution, which is where I had been seeing you)? Well maybe, but FR is still junky even if it isn't the worst bug, assuming the workaround works.
