Well… I just figured out how to fire a missile… and you’re all jerks for telling me to read the manual instead of taking a moment to help me. It would have taken less than 2 minutes of anyone’s time to walk me through it to discover the problem. But no… hot head armchair pilot-wanna-be’s claim this is a forum for help and we’re a community that contributes and a whole lot of other self-righteous horse$1it.
The fact is, only about one in ten of the members here actually want to help… You know who you are… and I say Thank you for providing what help you can.
My problem had nothing to do with reading the manual… I could have memorized the manual word for word and it still would not have fixed my problem.
Somehow, when I first loaded the game and was poking around seeing what’s what, (or maybe it wasn’t my fault, I don’t know), but somehow within the settings and keyfile (or whatever its called) the space bar was no longer assigned as the fire button. Best I could tell, there was no fire button…
Now… had someone taken just a couple minutes to type out some quick and dirty directions just to get a missile to leave the rail, the problem would have been discovered quite quickly…
Funny how most, not all, but most of you will spend your “precious” time to write a long berating argument about how I need to learn this or that. read the manual, read the manual… they’re telling you to read the manual for a reason… but you won’t take a couple minutes to check to see if that really is the problem.
The behavior I have seen in this forum does not lend one to believe this a “community here to help and learn” and enjoy the game… Its more like a cult where outsiders aren’t welcome until they’ve somehow earned some badge of acceptance… Notice I didn’t say honor because the behavior and attitudes I have experienced here are certainly not honorable… they’re childish, high-strung, and selfish.
The fact that this forum has a feature where users can thank another user for a post, and the fact that such feature is used much more commonly to show a unionized or gang member type of solidarity rather than its true intention to show appreciation, is in itself an indication of the common blue-collar behavior characteristics and attitudes of the members. (not all, but most)…
And to think one of the moderators of this forum changed the subject line of my post… Images of the southern end of a donkey come to mind.