Author Topic: What To Do When Nothing Works (Read 1361 times)

StSanta · « **on:** August 20, 2000, 08:24:00 AM »

Alright. There you are, loaded up and ready to go. Tle last week has been good to you, with many kills and few deaths.

First sortie; totally miss a target from d200. High con comes in, you are very low to the ground. You crash while checking six.

Second mission; repetition of mission 1.

Mission 3-6: one or two kills, then no 6 call and a pork u nails you.

8-12: same as 3-6, only you're closer to friendly field, ya help out a friendly in trouble, only to find yourself abandonded and out of options.

12-16. No excuses. You have alt, you have numbers, you end up dead.

16-20. Evenly balanced. SA shot to hell, porkU kills you with two pings.

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAH!

I upped so many times yesterday it was ridiculous, trying to beat The Slump. To no avail. I wonder; is there another way of dealing with it than just going ahead? Relaxing one day didn't help it for me.

<sniff>

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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"If you died a stones throw from your wingie; you did no wrong". - Hangtime

Hamish · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2000, 08:35:00 AM »

Drive a tank for a few days.

Hamish!

Ghosth · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2000, 08:46:00 AM »

Time for a change like Hamish said.

The bigger & more drastic the change, the sooner you'll walk out of the slump.

Forget any & all expectations, just go have fun.

Forget score, K/D, and all that jazz. (this one still sneaks up on me every so often)

Grab a zeke, go see how long you can stay alive in a furball.

After a day or 2 of that jump in a plane you've never flown (or don't ussually fly)

Start from scratch in it, ONE kill at a time.
Plan to get one kill then RTB.

Good luck, slumps suck!

LLv34_Camouflage · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2000, 01:55:00 PM »

Been there, done that!

That's one reason I flew a bomber last night. For 4 hours straight.

After that I grabbed my G-2 again and got a 4 kill sortie.

You just need to "reset" and the magic is back.

Camo

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Brewster into AH!

"The really good pilots use their superior judgement to keep them out of situations
where they might be required to demonstrate their superior skill."

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2000, 02:42:00 AM »

I recently decided to just completely ignore the score. I've started trying JABO stuff and I'm finding that's a lot more fun that constantly counting how many kills you got in a night. For me I have little time available to play AH, so I often fly into areas that I wouldn't dream of going into if I had all the time in the world. Trust me, just ignore the score, you don't get any special privledges by having the highest K/D. I suppose if I wanted too I could probably get a super high K/d by flying at 25k and then bouncing a 5k con, then flying home. I can't see how this is fun (realistic maybe), and after all this is a game. Usually anymore I'll just dive into the furball and see how many cons I can take with me.

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StSanta · « **Reply #5 on:** August 22, 2000, 04:54:00 AM »

yeh bloom, I know what ya mean. But my slump comes from going into a furball and coming out dead without kills, instead of with three of 'um before they get me

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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"If you died a stones throw from your wingie; you did no wrong". - Hangtime

Swager · « **Reply #6 on:** August 22, 2000, 07:05:00 AM »

Sounds like a normal Swager day to me!

TailLights · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2000, 12:21:00 AM »

hmmm

A fine AH/WB pilot I knew of, once told me about 'guidelines for no-slump'.

It sometimes worked for me, well, othertimes, I could not follow the guideline

First, don't fly hard fights when you cannot concentrate. (rest, or drive a tank, truck, c47, or whatever

Second, for first reason(concentration), do not fly more than 3 sorties at a time.(!!!oops)
Third, Not losing is half-winning, don't go into desperate fight. Winning in a furball is just a pure luck. Just say no

4th, Don't haste, Don't get mad, eat much, sleep much.

hmm

I've forgot his handle, He was a great K/D ratio keeper in my WB days. anyway, I'm sure each and every of us already know these guidelines for survival, but

you know, we sometimes get mad and going up in to a furball with some haste and , eh.

Was it Robert Johnson?, or Cunningham?, who once said,
he would not fight any fight when he thinks he cannot win.

(btw, to 'select' a fight, we must have a faaast plane..

that's why I like 51/109g class fighters,

JimC · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2000, 06:42:00 AM »

DEATHS..now theres a word I personaly can relate to, that other word...what was it?..KILLS!..yea thats it..I don't seam to know what that one means anymore.
I "got away from it" for a little too long, and it never came back. I never have had the touch here in AH, but then again I have not had much time to play ether. All work and no play makes Jim a Dull boy!
You can walk away, Just don't stay gone too long.

Jim

Wanker · « **Reply #9 on:** August 23, 2000, 07:24:00 AM »

LOL Swager, ya beat me to it!

This happens to me about every other week, Santa. What I usually do is switch to a different plane for the next week.

I've been flying the N1K1 "George" this past week, and have been doing much better. What a sweet ride that is!

I'd definately try driving some armor for a bit, or flying a completely different plane(even a buff).

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XO 308(Polish) Sqn "City of Cracow" RAF

Multi-Frame Events Team Lead, Aces High Scenario Corps.

"Look at me when I HO you!"

[This message has been edited by banana (edited 08-23-2000).]

skeet · « **Reply #10 on:** August 23, 2000, 09:31:00 PM »

Go offline.
Get a plane you think you can fly well.
Find a nice little pice of terrain.
My favourite is a shallow valley which gets gradually steeper at the eastern end and has a steep mountain at the western end. (Lies between the top of the 'A' and the '1' of A1, runs WNW to ESE approx.
Practice extended cuban eights.
It's a short valley, so if you don't fly well you'll lose to much 'E' and find you can't continue.

Eg. Spit IX. run down the valley at 240, pull up, over, roll, dive, level gather speed & run to other end of valley, repeat and repeat.
Watch speed, height gained, final velocity before next pull up.
Work to max them all - achieved by smoothness and accurate flying.
How much height can you gain at the top?
How smoothly did you execute?
How accurately did you execute the 3/4 loop? (ie. did you stay in one plane).
And doing everything perfectly can you build and build the final velocity before pullup
up to 300+?
You soon find all the 'E' sapping stick moves, poor loop execution, failure to keep the wings level, difficulty of switching between external views and relating it back to your position and attitude..
And you also find all the subtle changes in rudder and aileron at different speeds to make it a sweet, rhythmical and relaxing experience.

Any other offline practice sessions folks?

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StSanta · « **Reply #11 on:** August 24, 2000, 03:42:00 AM »

Bah.

Yesterday was worst day for several months. No enthusiasm, no interest in staying alive, no precision in maneuvers, no interest in SA...

Think I'm gonna tank/goon/buff for a bit til fighters are fun again

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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"If you died a stones throw from your wingie; you did no wrong". - Hangtime

Pongo · « **Reply #12 on:** August 24, 2000, 10:24:00 AM »

Fly in the TA for a while. Help the guys there and forget about results.
Make a post here as to why the game is broken in some way that causes your slump.
Dont fly with good wingmen! that happens to me flying with Zig, Dogftr, Soda and Cave there is nothing left for me!