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Post by deviousdevil on Jul 27, 2007 9:59:10 GMT -5
Actually, ping without sound can't be bad. I've played for most my time with all sounds off and it hasn't been an issue. This has been the case after the SAM infantry deafened me and scared me nutsless one too many times. WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH GRACKLE!
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Post by whiplash on Jul 27, 2007 11:19:53 GMT -5
Hopefully that's fixed. It used to freak my dog out.
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Post by deviousdevil on Jul 27, 2007 23:49:50 GMT -5
Hopefully that's fixed. It used to freak my dog out. Think it is. Actually played some teamers, and the same old problem of too many people dying to single units lamely. But, this is made worse by the pinger not only not making a noise, it doesn't give any location finders at ALL! This needs to be improved.
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Post by cryptococcus on Jul 28, 2007 8:35:23 GMT -5
No ping sucks and makes the game very frustrating. Anyone who disagrees shouldn't play teamers.
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Post by Arvcran on Jul 28, 2007 13:27:37 GMT -5
Due to my old tech Vid card I set my graphics to low and turn off as mych as possible - I do not even see the pings!
They also removed the button glyph from the interface. I am guessing this is by design?
There is really no substitute for the lack of this feature. It was a very useful feature to those who used it appropriately. We need to convince Firaxis to put it back if they are planning a patch release.
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Post by MMV on Jul 28, 2007 14:49:12 GMT -5
TeamSpeak
Yahoo Voice
etc
etc
etc
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Post by cryptococcus on Jul 28, 2007 20:26:44 GMT -5
Y teamspeak, great. Try explaining every spot your talking about.
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Post by MMV on Jul 29, 2007 0:26:42 GMT -5
well - bottom line is I guess players will have to become more independantly proficient in the game and not need a "guidance ping" with every breath.
*PING* the rock the rock!
*PING* look at my great land
*PING* look at your great land
*PING* BUILD knight, no - BUILD stable, no - BUILD eles, no - build workers for farms, no - build workers for farms, no - build settlers and expand!
*PING**PING**PING*SEE WHAT YOU DID, I lost a city because you did what I said, I just couldn't make up my mind - FFS, I quit, find a sub!
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Post by emperorpenguin25 on Jul 29, 2007 0:55:13 GMT -5
we all used the "grid map" - a simple teamer post like "watch C6" was called TEAM communication. uh D-5 hit or miss? what this game is not battle ship!!! I DEMAND THAT THE OLD PING CAN BE USED IN OPTIONS SO EVERYBODY IS HAPPY!!!
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Post by MMV on Jul 29, 2007 1:10:08 GMT -5
demand as much as you wish
your demand and 5.27 gets you a number 3 combo meal and McDonalds
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Post by venceslas on Jul 29, 2007 2:38:10 GMT -5
MMV, bicycle was an excelllent means of transport, however we have invented the automobile ;D
chris.
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Post by MMV on Jul 29, 2007 5:58:13 GMT -5
MMV, bicycle was an excelllent means of transport, however we have invented the automobile ;D chris. And now firaxis has finally put a muffler on their ping, lol
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Post by whiplash on Jul 29, 2007 7:18:27 GMT -5
demand as much as you wish your demand and 5.27 gets you a number 3 combo meal and McDonalds Regular of SuperSized? If they wanted to get rid of the annoyance factor they could have just made the audible ping optional. MMV is right; Firaxis won't be jumping through any hoops to please 2% of their customer base.
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Post by Arvcran on Jul 29, 2007 10:52:07 GMT -5
well - bottom line is I guess players will have to become more independantly proficient in the game and not need a "guidance ping" with every breath. *PING* the rock the rock! *PING* look at my great land *PING* look at your great land *PING* BUILD knight, no - BUILD stable, no - BUILD eles, no - build workers for farms, no - build workers for farms, no - build settlers and expand! *PING**PING**PING*SEE WHAT YOU DID, I lost a city because you did what I said, I just couldn't make up my mind - FFS, I quit, find a sub! LOL - to[o] funny! But sadly true - so funny ;-) So what you are saying is that some of your posts are like pings? But seriously: I like the fact that I am reminded how useful a feature the ping was despite it's being grossly missused by a few players. Because quite simply their is no substitue for the lack of it. Voice communiqué comes close but fails to pass a floating location icon/button to your team mate for them to warp to the tile in question. Perhaps they needed to add a feature to prevent or ignore a player from pinging to you or silencing their ping or something. In other words a more intelligent solution other than removing a feature that was well designed [glow=red,2,300]and[/glow] for a good reason.
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Post by emperorpenguin25 on Jul 29, 2007 11:47:06 GMT -5
finaly somebody who agrees with me. mmv are you allergic to great ideas or what?
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Post by MMV on Jul 29, 2007 12:31:35 GMT -5
finaly somebody who agrees with me. mmv are you allergic to great ideas or what? no - just haven't read one today
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Post by Arvcran on Jul 29, 2007 12:34:56 GMT -5
Ping?
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Post by grilla on Jul 30, 2007 8:33:47 GMT -5
anyone for PINGPONG?
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Post by marr on Jul 30, 2007 8:59:53 GMT -5
Excellent Idea, *Claps*
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Post by Arvcran on Jul 30, 2007 11:38:09 GMT -5
Silencer Ping ( a Chinese Solutionist )
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