Any perception that the game or player behavior has changed in a year and a half is false. Players in competitive online flight sims have exhibited the same dweeby behavior for decades. Why do you think they wrote the "Book of Dweeb" in the Warbirds community 10+ years ago? The only thing that's changed is you.
Steve wrote:And the mystical 1vs1 duel that you're failing to find is largely caused by impatience and a desire not to see the main arena as the big complicated symphony that it is.
no, he's right..it has changed. i've been flying here for about 2 years or so.
i used to be able to find fun furballs, or 1-1's or 2-2's or 2-1's etc., all the time. now, i might get into a fun 1-1, and we're dancingf round trying to get the advantage on each other, and almost without fail, SOMEONE takes it upon themselves to save my assss.....or his.........
furballs, we can still get started. usually when there's a cv nearby. but then some dork comes in and sinks the carrier. furball over.
the land battles used to be fun(although i super suck at them). now, though 9 out of 10 times, if you show any resistance, the attackers give up, and go to another base with no resistance.
i've seen nights where the bish horde, and the knight horde are having real slugfest. then the bish give up, and go fight the rooks. why? because although bish and knights have even numbers, there's onl 3 rooks on.
it has changed. it's not HT's fault, and i think there's nothing they can do about it. i don't know the solution either, so i just keep moving round, and sometimes changing sides to find some fights.