Originally posted by Dalmont

Originally posted by toonttm  

As far as Nazi goes in Germany, didn't the great Tom Cruise just film a movie there using Nazi symbology (still can't spell)? and Iceman didn't show up? (Goose didn't turn up cause he died, boohoo, great balls of fire?) (go see youetube: hitler plays darkfall for a laugh)

  Thats a far more reasoned and intellegent comment :) I'll retract any 12 year old reference :P The reason why I mentioned 12 year olds is that is generally how pre-teen or early teens act. Someone doesn't like me so I'll pester and destroy them. The problem with the internet is that people act in away (hopefully) that they don't act in real life.

Would you square up to a bouncer in a club because you were ill on the sofa and they threw you out? Or would you tell a librarian to go book herself because you decided that day you would rip up a few of the books you didn't quite like..

These are the kinds of acts people do online but don't realise it.

On WWIIO I tried to play it once but couldn't get it to work :(

As a matter of public law, the post-war German law codes prohibit the display of a swastika in any form or fashion, even if used satirically or as part of an anti-Nazi political statement.  Those movies you speak about either have the symbol removed/shot cut etc. for showing in Germany or do not show there.

As far as  - On WWIIO I tried to play it once but couldn't get it to work :(

Well that is one of the basic problems with the game.  Players constantly need to tweak their computers to get optimum play.  While this may be acceptable for visual effects it is not for FPS or simply getting into the game.  Many time after a major patch I would find myself looking for a tweak in the forums to make the game more stable or to get into the game at all.  Since day one this has been a major problem with this dev group continually making excuses about oh it is so complicated that you fix one thing and break another.  Once the patch deleted important Windows files if the directories were not preset into the game.  The devs forgot to code a check for a certain folder and if it was not present Windows just deleted files in your main windows directory forcming many unhappy customers to reformat their entire drive.

That asside though the game was continually made more and more enjoyable with more and more variation in what you could do.  If you got tired of shooting guys on the ground you could bomb them.  If you got tired of that you bomb factories.  If you got tiered of that you could even do a little navy action with limits.

The limits of the naval factor is probably one of the most dissappointing factors in this game.  In the Air or on the Ground the you can play both local single person action and join the Hight Command (HC) to be on the strategic side.  You can either provide manual supply or you can move forces to try to out manuver the enemy High Command (HC).  For the navy something that was very active in English and North Sea during this phase of the war there has been no developement.  The Devs have taking the view that a Naval game can provide no benifit.  Personally I believe they are dead wrong and have given up on the opportunity that would add a very deep variation in the game that would make the game rival EVE ONLINE in player numbers.  Naval Wargamming has a huge huge following and always sells well in stores yet this game has put in an eclectic development effort that has no linking factors to the real effort or even real WWII naval vehicle physics.  Basically they have no interest

Dude,

    Very simply put DON'T BE A SMART ASS! no one wants to play with one! and usually you get your mouth smacked! You don't make the game fun for anyone! You got what you deserve. stop being a greifer. and maybe...just maybe you will get some friends. doubt it though.

The Server is suppose to be able to handle 10k players no zone. ONe reason they dont advertise is money, they adviertise in a ww2 magazine but major mags cost  more money than they have. No one will do reviews if done once..unless you are WOW, then the mags fall all over themselves reviewing. WW2OL suffers from the bad lanch like PCs suffer from the 80s crashing in Mac commercials.

Originally posted by hardcase

The Server is suppose to be able to handle 10k players no zone. ONe reason they dont advertise is money, they adviertise in a ww2 magazine but major mags cost  more money than they have. No one will do reviews if done once..unless you are WOW, then the mags fall all over themselves reviewing. WW2OL suffers from the bad lanch like PCs suffer from the 80s crashing in Mac commercials.

For 10 years they have the same excuses.  Maybe it is time that some of the fanbois realize that it will never be anything of consequence.  It is very very close to Warbirds that took almost 9 years to get to Warbirds 2.0 which was not very much better.  Aces High that has tried to mimic WWII Online ever since launch.  The Warbirds backgound has created that business model.  The dev team is full of more people doing player relations and production than programmers.

The unfortunate part it is still the only WWII wargame on the net.  It's ability to carve out that niche market has been notable.  Maybe someday people will tire of the click shoot a rat type dungeons and dragons thing and decide that Wargamming is more interesting.

(Having tried the star war galaxy and eve online free trials I am astounded how simple minded and incredibly mundane online gamers must be.  Despite my conflict with the slowness of developement in this game for whatever reason the most complex and thouroughly  tactical and strategic wargame every developed has to be WWII Online.)

Don't play mmo to make friends, lol - play to outwit and kill people, nice use of CAPS...do you have anger issues? (lol, i just read your byline, "that which doesn't kill us will make us stronger"? maybe you need a new tag?)

Re: swastika etc in Germany. The movie (Valkryie?) wth Tom Cruise was filmed mainly in Germany, and buildings, vehicles etc were adorned with the swastika etc. I believe there was even la number of swastika adorned planes flying over some part of Germany. Obvioulsy the movie was released there with posters etc showing the swastika.

The Germans did get upset at the movie, but over Tom Cruise's involvement in Scientology, not the swastika thing.

Ever wonder why WWII Online does not charge 7.25% Texas Sales tax and Aces High does? 

And you believe everything you read?

Hehe, we showed them Rats the importance of naval warfare a long time back.

My squad was one of the first to invade England (before it could be capped... darnit!)

6 hours boatrides, with our pilots on constant aircover, keeping far out of lands view, in case of some curious allied airboy.

One of my finest times in WW2OL, and one of the reasons I dun play today(save from burnout ofcourse)... Need more boats!

(Sidenote: I was also the first norwegian to set foot..or wheel on Norwegian land in WW2OL... 2 attempts ofcourse, first one I fell asleep on the stick and crashed on the Danish coast.

Originally posted by wolfmann

Hehe, we showed them Rats the importance of naval warfare a long time back.

My squad was one of the first to invade England (before it could be capped... darnit!)

6 hours boatrides, with our pilots on constant aircover, keeping far out of lands view, in case of some curious allied airboy.

 

One of my finest times in WW2OL, and one of the reasons I dun play today(save from burnout ofcourse)... Need more boats!

(Sidenote: I was also the first norwegian to set foot..or wheel on Norwegian land in WW2OL... 2 attempts ofcourse, first one I fell asleep on the stick and crashed on the Danish coast.

I sailed a Destroyer to Norway travelled the Fjords.  It is even beautiful in that game.  The Rats need to edit some tiles though the Oslo harbour and the Stavanger area have some land tiles that should be water.

Originally posted by angriff

Originally posted by wolfmann

Hehe, we showed them Rats the importance of naval warfare a long time back.

My squad was one of the first to invade England (before it could be capped... darnit!)

6 hours boatrides, with our pilots on constant aircover, keeping far out of lands view, in case of some curious allied airboy.

 

One of my finest times in WW2OL, and one of the reasons I dun play today(save from burnout ofcourse)... Need more boats!

(Sidenote: I was also the first norwegian to set foot..or wheel on Norwegian land in WW2OL... 2 attempts ofcourse, first one I fell asleep on the stick and crashed on the Danish coast.

 

I sailed a Destroyer to Norway travelled the Fjords.  It is even beautiful in that game.  The Rats need to edit some tiles though the Oslo harbour and the Stavanger area have some land tiles that should be water.

I crashed my 109 somewhere near Trondheim I believe, found some flat land and tried to put her down. Sadly at the time, the land tiles were not completely solid, and after one bounce(Who said I was a good pilot?!) I fell through the lands and burned.

I guess, today I could do the same trip, but insted in a JU52, and jump out.. If I still played and found a crazy pilot hehe.

But being a panzerhead converted to boat buff, my dream is a S-boot patrolling the norwegian fjords hehe.

"As a matter of public law, the post-war German law codes prohibit the display of a swastika in any form or fashion, even if used satirically or as part of an anti-Nazi political statement. Those movies you speak about either have the symbol removed/shot cut etc. for showing in Germany or do not show there."

Thats not 100% true, in movies or documentations shown in the TV or cinema it is allowed to show the swastika in germany otherwise such movies like das boot or stalingrad would be prohibited, but they are not and all other documentaries. It is also allowed to show the swastika for historical documentation in books.

There are some strange situation i.e. just a while ago someone had some coins from the third reich on ebay and got charged by the prosecution for showing the swastika on the coins. But i think this is just redicoulos and so far i read the trial was stopped, you can go in every stamp or coin shop and see the same coins in the showcase. Maybe one young prosecutor who just wants to make a faster career.