SiMPLE | Forum

I don't remember seeing that name before.  He may have been smurfing, because the name was already gone when I went back to the game right after I posted above.  IP addresses in the logs might reveal more if anyone wants to track him.  It was only a short disruption, but it seemed pretty blatant given the situation, i.e. very start of the game far from any enemy units with the shots spaced well apart.

I watched last night, I think about 01:00 EST to about 01:30 EST; I only looked at the clock after I came back in.  We had very clear skies, but some light pollution from the neighbors, plus I let some tree branches block part of the sky so I could avoid some of the light pollution.  I had a pretty good view of the part of the sky I think I needed to watch, though.  The clear skies made it nice because I could look at the stars while I was waiting to see meteors.

Toward the beginning I saw a fireball, then a little later I think I saw a streak out of the corner of my eye.  Later I saw another streak, then some time after I saw I think a fireball, but what struck me about this last one was how far across the sky it went.

Thanks for letting us know!

Found my Logitech M525 while cleaning behind the desk today.  I tried it a couple of games tonight and think I can get used to playing with it.

Hmm, does that have the added bonus of preventing unwanted tooltip activation?

As I mentioned in my original post, I've seen SgtBilko or a similar name in games before the incident I reported, and never noticed any problems.  I think it's possible that it was someone else using that name during the incident, but I'll leave that up to the admins to determine.

I play on a Forgotten Hope (BF1942 mod) server with a rule against bailing without a chute, because they have special "Pilot" kits that are the only way to get a chute (the only weapons in that kit are a pistol and maybe a knife).  I can't think any case on standard games that a pilot wouldn't have a chute, though.

I do agree some pilots might bail without hope of survival, out of spite.  However, there are reasons a pilot might bail to his death unintentionally, and I can give examples of them happening to me.  I've bailed when I didn't realize I was too close to the ground, and also have bailed and been killed by my own bomb.  And sometimes my chute just wouldn't open, no matter how many times I hit the "8" key .

I just posted the following on a separate thread, but MrLeo seems to have posted first so I deleted my thread and will just add it on here:

Playing Kursk on USA server, game ending just before 22:50 EDT.  I kept hearing people complaining about a player named sss-a who was attacking the Axis (my team's) main base.  I didn't actually see it myself until late in the game, when I chased a player named Darvin or something who decided to base attack too, so I ended up at my own main with about a minute to go.  At that point I saw sss-a bomb someone on our main, and then with a few seconds to go he came back and bombed me too on the main.  With all the complaints I heard about him and my own experience late in the game he may deserve a ban, especially since he ended up with the high score by doing this.

I voted 3olan, because it's the only one I don't think I've ever played.  You left out Pixel-Fighter, which hosts Forgotten Hope games.  It dies down pretty early in the evening USA time, but it can still get more than 40 players.

I may be mistaken, but I was pretty sure I saw a (yellow?) chat entry for someone "banned for glitching" during the Kursk game, and thought I remembered it  being Maxwell when he opened this thread.  I noticed it because I had been one of the casualties in his bombing raids on the uncap, so I remember thinking something like "I guess they got him for something else."  I certainly wasn't accusing Maxwell of glitching, just trying to offer some information, but if I was mistaken I'm sorry for causing confusion.

I was playing last night (Kursk on USA server) and saw a message that Maxwell was banned for glitching.  Other than that I didn't see what was going on, and I don't know who the admin was.

I use a mouse pad at home, but at work my desk surface works very well, especially if I use furniture polish on it once a week.

Silent Heroes is at http://www.silentheroes.se.

I think it's this one: http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/6 … se-Pad-016.  Not 100% sure, but it looks the same and is the same price and place I got it in-store.

It works well for me.  I just got it a couple of months ago, but I had the same problem using the old mouse pad, so I don't think it's the cause.