posted 02-03- 06:10 PM               

I think "Newbie" is a term that just became vogue on the internet and has become trite now. As for the time of a "Newbie Night" it was probably just a time picked by the originators of the concept.

If there is anothertime that fits your schedule, I'd like to try to accomodate you. I haven't noticed your pc speed to be too slow the few flights we've have flown together.

posted 02-03- 09:32 PM            

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's game. Time will be 1:30pm CST so its not a problem for me now, but my schedule does change from week to week.

Starfire, I can appreciate your dillema and hope it works out for you in the future.

I'll probably need a session or two or three or...more as a "newbie".

posted 02-04- 01:15 AM               

I have been following this sim and this board for over two years now. If what you say happened, that you were told to leave a lobby or a mission because you were a newbie, then I am really surprised.

Over the last two years there have been dozens of, if not a hundred or more, posts by newbies who have been very grateful for the help they received. Your complaint is very rare. I can think of only one or two like it and those were early on when we had a lot of "visitors" on line and not the hard core group that flies now.

I can't speak from personal experience because I fly offline, but I can read what everyone posts and 99% of the time the online experience is a good one.

Please don't think that your experience is typical and swear off flying with these guys. It's a great group. The fact that they even set up a newbie night is an indication of how helpful they are. It's unfortunate that it conflicts with your ministerial duties but I think the guys setting this up are in Europe and so are building it around their time zone.

By the way, the term "newbie" is not derogatory. It's just flight sim jargon. It just means beginner and is just as innocent a term. It probably evolved because most of these guys can't spell beginer...beginnar...begener....whatever.

When I get my new system and have the horsepower to fly online, and the disk space to have both an online and offline version of SDOE maybe I'll run into you (literally LOL).

posted 02-04- 01:20 AM               

That does not sound like the SDOE I know- but I have not been able to get time to go online for months now. I guess I will be a "newbie" again too.

I would say to try again, maybe you fell in with some bad sorts- there really shoold be very few bad sorts in SDOE... I wish you better luck next time.

posted 02-04- 02:57 AM               

Sundays, from about noon California time onward, there is generally lots of activity at California 12 lobby. It is standard PP6 and N2, I believe, and you should be able to get into games most any time during the day. JG3 is usually very much in evidence, and a better group of pilots and people you will never meet.

Once you get used to it, you are welcome to add Spoon's loadouts and join in on Saturdays. It is a small file, quick download, and easy to install, but you really need 2 aircraft folders, so that you can have one standard and one with loadouts. You just rename them as needed.

If anything I said or did was inappropriate, please accept my apologies. It was not intentional, but meant to spare you the frustration of trying to learn something new in a short period of time.

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