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I’ll wait a month or two before making my purchase of AF. It looks pretty good, but I’ll wait until there are a few more XDC bods with it and we start putting the maps into circulation more frequently.
I’ll also make some amendments to the list of XDC members (and hangers on) who have BF2, EF, SF and AF.
Discussed this wit WET the other day and he will come along later, after hes finished his cousins family do. I guess it will kick off any time after 6pm until whenever, so no hurry to get there.
Are those more pictures from the 1stBW madness pageSOIA?
I guess we’ll have to ask what everyone thinks, but I thought it was going alright. We still have people changing teams to play the Europeans, but if there are enough admins on the server we can soon piss on their chips.
Maybe I should put a poll up and see what folks think?
@Ronathon wrote:
But then again none of you are playing in the world cup are you, well from your armchairs maybe….
Fickle bunch 🙂
I was going to play in the World Cup actually, but as I’m getting some double glazing done, somebody’ll need to let the workmen into the house and I don’t trust my neighbours. My GF’s also doing long hours at work at the moment, so going to the World Cup would be an unnecesary hassle.
Luckily I found out about the double glazing a few weeks back, so I didn’t waste any money buying some football boots and shin pads that I wouldn’t have been able to use.
Well, I reckon we’re better leaving Euro Forces on the server for Tuesday/Thursday play and planning a SF night in advance (advertising it on other forums etc). I reckon playing SF on the XDC server one weekend might be a better bet.
Re: Armoured Fury – I don’t think they’ll be enough people who’ll have it on Tuesday to fill the server. I’d give it a few weeks and then put those maps into rotation. I reckon if we run armoured fury, we’d be lucky to get many people on the server before 10pm, once everyone’s downloaded it.
Besides, I thought the plan was to keep playing Euro Forces until all the regulars have it and we can sneakily slip the maps into rotation?
@Ronathon wrote:
Stat whoring / Badge whoring = same thing or not?
Same thing, especially as your stats can be viewed and there’s a leaderboard of sorts. Get rid of that and you’ll reduce the kudos of having a high score.
But at the moment the highest rewards go to people who can kill the most, which skews the game.
Uh oh. This has now become a semi-serious debate…
I agree that these stats make people act like ‘tards, but so do people in other games that don’t have stats. I think the problem with BF2 is the way that they issue you points and what you have to do to get them.
e.g. Chopper whores and how everybody wants to be their co-pilot. People rake up massive numbers of kills raping bases in choppers, and that ain’t much fun for the rest of us.
In my opinion they should make the way you get ranks, badges and points slightly more opaque. I know I have to shoot x number of the enemy to get x badge, so that’s what I play for. But if instead to get my basic infantry badge I needed 5 kills, 1 flag grab, 1 flag defend etc then it becomes slightly less obvious. Plus if you take away the kill count during the game it makes it harder to know how you’re doing.
Plus they should have other points awarded for better team play. Here are a few ideas:
Following orders:
You capture/defend a flag as requested by the commander – 1 extra point.
You blow up/repair a target as requested by the commander – 1 extra point.
Teamwork:
51% of your team are present during capture/defence of a flag – 1 extra point.
End of game player has no TK or team vehicle damage – 1 extra point
Basically they need to reduce the awards for getting kills or and increase them for not playing like a ‘tard.
@=xdc=zigzag wrote:
Guys..it was a joke…lighten up 😯
It’s too late for that now Zigzag, a line has been drawn and it’s time to sort out who’s right and who’s wrong, using the only system I can think of to decide:
We all compare our BF2 stats and the person with the best ones is the winner.
NeonSamurai
Global Score – 149,684,017
Rank – Imperial Overlord on the World
T00thy, when I’m at work all my time is free time.
Well, except the 20 minutes when I have to do something called ‘work’.
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
guess your right there neon, i shall retract the word courage and replace it with determination….. 😉
And in case there is any doubt, i too think there is no need for that statue in Trafalgar Square and at the risk of getting shot down i will go so far as to say there is no reason to have a statue of Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square either!!! Why should we have a statue of some guy who has no association with the UK ? So he done fine by his Country, to some he’s a convicted terrorist, to others a freedom fighter………the same could perhaps be said of Martin McGuiness or Bobby Sands!
WeT dons flame proof suit and awaits his fate! 😉
Oh my dear WET,
That wasn’t a rant at you but and the faceless PC brigade, and probably a little bit at my emergency boss Anne, who managed to offer to help me with a PC move and then proceeded to double the amount of work I’d need to do. Gawd bless her.
I agree with the Mandela stuff too.
Uh oh. I’ve found another website dealing with Heroic Stories
But wait, let’s see what Heroic Stories are about:
HeroicStories do not have to be about life-and-death struggles! In fact, most aren’t. Heroes aren’t just people who dive into rivers to save others: they’re regular people who go out of their way to help someone else without expecting something in return. Or, as the first story below shows, they’re very very busy people who still have time to help someone else!
WTF? Heroes ARE just the sort of people who dive into rivers to save people, if you go out of yourt way to help somebody else, then you’re a nice, kind, decent person, not a hero! Bah!
I feel a fit of rage coming on for little or no apparent reason. GRRRRRR! Curse my lack of sleep!
Erm…
I charge at people with the knife and then go prone in front of them, stabbing like a teenager in a history lesson, to help avoid being shot. I then get up run some more and do the stabbing dive. Is that what you mean? 😳
This is just one of many incredible women who served without any thanks during the war……..i agree with hippo, whilst that lady has shown courage to face her disabilities, its totally shadowed by what these women achieved at a time of real oppression.
I agree with you guys about the war heroines, but I’m going to have to disagree about Alison Lapper.
When I was at school we got involved with that ‘children of courage’ thing, when they hand out awards to brave children. For our assignment we learned about two ‘children of courage’ who’d lived in Sudan and their parents had been killed. They left their country to live in the UK and recieved and award for being ‘children of courage’.
I got told off in class because I asked what they’d done to be so brave, and when I was told they’d lived in a country at war and their parents had been killed I asked if all kids from Sudan were children of courage?
So are all pregnant pyhsically handicapped women ‘courageous’, because there’s an awful lot of them? So what makes Allison Lapper so special?
In my opinion that statue in Trafalgar Square isn’t about ‘courage’, it’s about pity, just like those ‘children of courage’. Most were just children we felt sorry for. Incidentally, another child of courage was an 11 year old boy who saved his brother from being mauled by an alsatian dog by wrapping a bike chain around its neck until it let go. But clearly he wasn’t ‘courageous’ enough for us to do a project on at our school.
The kind of courage I think we should be celebrating is when you put yourself in harms way to save or help others, the kind of thing the emergency services do everyday. With these ‘children of courage’ or handicapped people, we are calling them courageous or brave or heroic for simply existing.
Check out this website My Hero. See how many heroes are there who you think deserve to be called ‘heroes’. Oh BTW, one of the heroes is Heather Mills McCartney and another one is Adam Sandler and also Peter Jackson. The man who directed ‘Meet the Feebles’ is on parr (heroically) with Ernest Shackleton (one of the few people there who deserves the title).
Most of the people on the site have done selfless things to help other people, but that doesn’t make them heroic, it makes them pretty fucking wonderful people, but not heroic.
Like they say the film ‘The Incredibles’, “if everybody’s a hero, then no-one is.”
“And so ended Neon’s long, ranting post that seemed really bitter, mainly because he’d only just got home from work and was probably tired. But it was 13 hour shift with only one break, and that made him a hero.”
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
He was starving himself for 40 days or summat.used to get get caught in the traffic over tower bridge every time i had to cross it for that fucking numbnuts!……….i wish someone had pissed in his drinking water! Drink it up David boy you dopey retard! 😈
Blaine in a Box was quality! I used to go and have a gander during my lunchbreak to see what new ways of torturing Londoners him could think up, my favourite being happy meals attached to radio control helicopters. Brilliant! Then there were the golfers, the burger vans underneath him, eggs, loud music at night and the guy with a laser pointer who was OBVIOUSLY a sniper (yeah I’ll just attach a laser to my Galil Sniper SAR, that’ll make it work better).
But David shamed us all when he said he’d never again return to London to perform one of his ‘amazing’ tricks.
Well when I say ‘shamed’ I meant ‘pleased’.
