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RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:28 pm
by Treetop64
ORIGINAL: wdolson
I suspect he left the forum. He hasn't logged on since his "I quit" message.
I never like to see anyone leave in a huff, but this game is not for everyone. He may have been getting frustrated with the pace before he quit and losing the CV battle was just the last straw.
I tried introducing a friend who was very into WW II to the original WitP and he just got overwhelmed and quit after about an hour. I couldn't get him to even consider a second look. His favorite game is flying an air combat simulator. He plays little else.
Bill
Maybe he was just scared of time vampires. The look scary.
...and their breath is bad.
...and they don't know what non sequitor means.
Seriously, though, it is too bad. WitP is definitely not for everyone. Kinda like advanced math classes. Room full with 30+ people at the beginning of the semester, only for five or six people to stick it out to the end. The others complain that it took too much work to figure out, I guess because they figure those who are comfortable with math never had to work their backsides off to learn it, right?
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:40 pm
by Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Treetop64
ORIGINAL: wdolson
I suspect he left the forum. He hasn't logged on since his "I quit" message.
I never like to see anyone leave in a huff, but this game is not for everyone. He may have been getting frustrated with the pace before he quit and losing the CV battle was just the last straw.
I tried introducing a friend who was very into WW II to the original WitP and he just got overwhelmed and quit after about an hour. I couldn't get him to even consider a second look. His favorite game is flying an air combat simulator. He plays little else.
Bill
Maybe he was just scared of time vampires. The look scary.
...and their breath is bad.
...and they don't know what non sequitor means.
Seriously, though, it is too bad. WitP is definitely not for everyone. Kinda like advanced math classes. Room full with 30+ people at the beginning of the semester, only for five or six people to stick it out to the end. The others complain that it took too much work to figure out, I guess because they figure those who are comfortable with math never had to work their backsides off to learn it, right?
I didn't [:D].
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:18 am
by Trugrit
Symon,
You win.
Not only are you scary smart but you are very literate as well.
In the future, I’ll have to remember that you are just too smart
For me to match wits against.
Here is another departure scene not as famous as Shakespeare:
Leaving WITPAE behind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7_MqWAnN-w
K
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:59 am
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
Looking for Sympathy?
You’ve Come to the Wrong Place.
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:38 pm
by Banzan
Or to quote the great "World of war" series: "If you look for sympathy, look in a dictionary between shit and syphilis"
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:52 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: General Patton
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
There was a historical battle (forget which one) where the Enterprise was operating with another CV (in the same hex in game terms) but was hidden by a squall when the attack came and the other CV took all of it.
Midway, I think....GP
No, it was during the Solomns campaigns. Santa Cruz I think. There was a thread not too long ago where this was discussed. I can't recall the name of it or anything, my memory is lame these days.
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:29 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: AFIntel
You guys kill me!
Someone posts about hating the game because he lost a CV group, and within a day, y'all are discussing the archeology of computers.
It reminds me of a line I once read:
"I hate Wikipedia! Yesterday I used it to look up the history of Tammany Hall, and a half hour later I'm sitting in front of my computer thinking, "Why the hell am I reading up on the origins of Swedish Death Metal music…'" [:D]
He obviously left, so we might as well take it wherever.[:D]
Edit: For brain to keyboard disconnect.
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:31 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: CrackSabbath
Back in the day my pappy told me you can find sympathy in the dictionary between s**t and syphilis.
I was gonna bring this up, but I already made a post that someone else had made. I figured I'd just keep reading, and here it is.[:D]
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:39 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: Trugrit
Friends, forumites, countrymen, lend me your ears;
chazz came to abandon WIPAE, not to praise it;
The evil that some video games do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with WIPAE… The noble chazz
Hath told you WIPAE was a time vampire:
If it were so, is it a grievous fault?
Yet chazz says it is a time vampire;
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what chazz spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all do love WIPAE, not without cause:
What cause can withhold you then to speak for it?
To go off topic?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is with WIPAE,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
To play, or not to play: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous carrier fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of task force troubles,
And by opposing - end them?
To sink and then to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand dive bomber shocks that flesh is heir to,
’tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d?
Yeah?
Classic... pun intended.[:D]
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:53 pm
by rustysi
And the rest of you guys too, with your quotes and parodies.[:D]
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:56 pm
by rustysi
Seriously though, the game is a time vampire... so!!! I have my own love/hate relationship with it. I doubt though, that unlike my ex-wife, I'll ever divorce it.[;)]
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:02 pm
by Aurelian
I'm just getting starting with it. Bout time too, being I bought it when it came out.....
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:18 pm
by rustysi
Welcome aboard. Be patient, IT WILL TAKE TIME!!! If you're into it though its great fun (and at times pure frustration). I've been at it hard for about a year and a half (I'm a slow learner these days) now and I'm just about there. I started at the deep end of the pool though. Japan, GC. Learning the economy is an effort as it can be broken. That's not saying the game is broken, it just there's so many things that can go wrong if you don't know what you're doing. Trust me I broke it, but hey I learned. My current game (#4 I think), the economy is fine. The last thing I'm working on is the A/C R&D, and doing this wrong will break the economy.
Read the forum, ask questions, check the tutorials, you'll get there. Enjoy.[8D]
PS: Download the patches.
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:38 pm
by Aurelian
Already updated:)
Yeah, I'm going to start in the deep end of the pool. I played 1 GC as the Japanese PBEM in WiTP. But somewhere along the line it just died. But I can never forget the epic save of the Akagi by sending a repair ship to meet it at some podunk harbor before it sank.
Converting those various ships looks daunting. But I'll get there. Play a few turns, screw up, start over..... Good thing I'm retired
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:19 am
by rustysi
Yeah, wish I was retired. Can go now, but need at least a few more years to build up the bank. Anyway just remember AE is not WITP. Its a whole other animal. I played WITP too, not the same.
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:39 am
by Jorge_Stanbury
ACT V SCENE IV Another part of the field.
[ Alarum: excursions. Enter GORN and forces fighting; to him WITP-AE forum moderator ]
FORUM MODERATOR: Rescue, my Lord of Gorn, rescue, rescue!
The king, Chazz III, enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger:
His carriers are slain, and all on surface he fights,
Seeking for the AI script in the throat of death.
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!
Alarum. Enter KING CHAZZ III
KING CHAZZ III: A carrier! a carrier! my kingdom for a carrier!
FORUM MODERATOR: Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a carrier.
KING CHAZZ III: Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die
I think there be six AI scripts in the field;
Five have I slain to-day, instead of him.
A carrier! a carrier! my kingdom for a carrier!
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:44 pm
by geofflambert
Lord Gorn: Brrraaaaaaaap (a farting sound)
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:58 pm
by crsutton
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is faint of heart to enter the kingdom of Japan." Matthew 19:24
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:53 am
by LoBaron
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Lord Gorn: Brrraaaaaaaap (a farting sound)
RE: I'm done with this ridiculous time vampire of a game.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:25 am
by JeffroK
ORIGINAL: rustysi
ORIGINAL: General Patton
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
There was a historical battle (forget which one) where the Enterprise was operating with another CV (in the same hex in game terms) but was hidden by a squall when the attack came and the other CV took all of it.
Midway, I think....GP
No, it was during the Solomns campaigns. Santa Cruz I think. There was a thread not too long ago where this was discussed. I can't recall the name of it or anything, my memory is lame these days.
Coral Sea