RR vs FR

[Westy]

"Pardon me for looking into the thread and seeing someone apparently caught up in their delusional past and dragging out their favorite old argument (now moot btw) here for the world to see."


Woo hoo!  Right on Arlo.   I owe you one!  

[killnu]

point was, for me "the learing curve" to play FR and RR were about the same.  was asking why people thought that FR was such a steeper one.  that was the question.  RR is dead, as ive stated, and i really dont care that it is gone.  although i did enjoy my time there.  spelled out enough?  
~S~

[Westy]

Kind of like arging about the time back in preschool and how some could spell thier names out loud while others had it tougher and needed the little painted blocks to do it

[killnu]

not arguing, was a question.  i guess different for everyone, i only now how it was for me, hence the question.
~S~

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by killnu
was being serious sik, my opion only.  

I was making a joke about the only other person i remember trying to make this point: Oldmn.

For my part, I think that it all has to do with Variables. In RR, you didn't have to contend with stalls, spins black/red out ect. Offensively, you just needed to be aware of the e-state and sustained turning radius of yours, and your opponents planes. In FR there is a lot more to account for.

So learning FR in that aspect is, imho considerably more difficult.  For me, FR taught me how to play RR.

I flew in AW for years and constantly sucked... bad. From 1993-1998 I could be found stinking up an RR arena near you. Then one day, I got the idea in my head that I wanted to fly a Jug in an upcoming scenario. So I went offline and started playinig around with the P-47 in FR. It changed everything about how  flew.

Flying an AW jug in FR was a tutorial in Energy conservation and awareness.  I was never an 31337 sn1p3r or anything, but it after my FR experience I turned into a decent E-fighter. That Jug experience in AW still determines how I fly the Yak in AH (with the noticeable exception that the Yak can get itself out of trouble if I **** up on the deck )

-Sik

[loony1]

I went for some R.R. at the B. A. R. in my C. A. R. it wasn't to F.A.R. does that count.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by killnu
point was, for me "the learing curve" to play FR and RR were about the same.  was asking why people thought that FR was such a steeper one.  that was the question.  RR is dead, as ive stated, and i really dont care that it is gone.  although i did enjoy my time there.  spelled out enough?  
~S~

At least for me it took me a couple of weeks to get used to the new flight model when I switched over from AW.  After that, with a lot of help from Leviathn and Shane, it took me a little over a month to get back up to speed in the P-38.  I did notice that there were quite a lot of ex-AW RR flyers that seemed to have no troubles in transitioning over to AH.  Those RR flyers that kept complaining about how hard it was were the ones that pretty much were 'gaming the game' type of flyers.

ack-ack

[Hornet]

RR-FR? bah halftime pilots pwn