The funny thing about this, is that most of the veteran pilots also fly timid, when the situation requires them to do so.
Sure, they say how they never back away from a fight and how they can manage a so-called "BnZ" plane in angles fight.. except I've never seen them do that when the odds look bad.
So what usually happens is when they see a one vs one opportunity they'd bravely (and admirably) engage the enemy in an exciting battle. But when things start to look bad, they don't hesitate to run away.
They call it "SA" - except the unfortunate thing is when other, lesser pilots also use their own "SA" to run from a fight it's branded as cowardice.
I mean, for instance, I know I'm a sucky pilot. So what's a sucky pilot gotta do in a situation he feels that he cannot win? Should he stay around and get shot down, and offer the enemy a chance to gloat? Is that the "right way" of flying?
Or is this "SA" stuff something of a double standard?
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Another funny thing is, I've been around for years and have seen many types of people come and go. One thing I've learned is when people say "I want a fight", it usually, actually means "I want an easy fight so I can win in it hands down, and gloat about it".
Do people really want fights? In that case, there's always a fight. Usually in some other corner of the frontline there is always a place where it is vulched, or being pushed back by hordes of enemies.
Except, you never see "I hate timid flying" group of people near it. Near a really hard fight where good pilots are needed more than ever.
I ask for help, and they say they fly AH for fun, and there's no sense in trying to hold a line against bad odds.. how such "hordes of enemies" is "bullshi* gameplay"... and how they aren't gonna care about strats or war situation, and just wanna go have fun by themselves...
Oh well that's just fine and dandy.
But why not once in a while come by in a front where their skills are really needed? If they can always shoot down any enemy without flying timidly as they claim, then the more of them we have in those hard situations, the better chance we will have to hold the bad guys back - and at the same time, the sheer number of enemies would also mean more targets to shoot down!
But you know what, when they do sometimes come in those places, they don't hesitate to choose a "superplane", and they certainly don't fly angles fight with it. I mean, its only natural - what kind of a stupid would want to fight like that in such bad odds?
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Yup, that's what this is really about IMO. They want others to fly stupid, while they themselves want to fly smart. They want to knock down every "superplane" in the sky with their inferior planes, to show off their prowess - except, when the "superplanes" use its speed to run away, they don't like it. Hey dudes, nobody forced you guys to fly in your slowpoke mid-war fighter, remember?
So if most of the people don't fight the way they expect them to(which is, namely, the way which they are duped and get shot down) - they get upset, and start ranting on Ch200.
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Don't get me wrong. I personally hate BnZ.
I also heartily agree that ACM and E fights are more than just "Bore and Zooming".. and I also agree that a neophyte pilot who uses nothing but BnZ, will become a half-wit pilot who is decent in offense, but sucks in defense. And I also agree that such pilots will ultimately never see the true fun in A2A combat, and always will have to rely on a certain plane type to pull them out of tight situations. That's all true.
However, I also think that's the norm. I don't expect everyone else to become superpilots or even just good pilots. Like I myself am average, I expect most others will also be average. And average people, need all the edge they can get to survive. Its a means of survival - flying timidly, that is.
And personally if I'm not in a plane that can catch the timid runners - heck, nobody forced me to use a slower plane.
Like everything else in aircombat gaming, ultimately, its my poor choice of planes that allowed the timid flyer to run away. I could always have chosen the same superplane to drop them out of the sky, but I did not. I chose a more difficult plane to get more satisfaction in killing stuff. That should also mean that in certain situations, there would be things I cannot do in such a limited plane - perhaps the most common such situation being that I cannot catch a running La-7 in a lesser plane.
So it's basically all my fault - isn't it? Shouldn't that what a logical person think?
Ahhhhh.. indeed, no matter how much wise-cracks they spew, at the heart the 'veterans' aren't so logical people afterall. The unfortunate part of all this is that skill level does not always coincide with wisdom, or even basic manners.
They want others to fly more and more stupid, never use their speed advantage, and get shot down hopelessly in a battle they cannot win - while they themselves will do anything possible within their grasp, to survive.
Vulch, gangbang, altmonkeying, cherrypicking, spawncamping, running away, extending, endless climbing... you name it. I've never seen a "dirty trick" that a dweeby "n00b" does, that a veteran himself does not.
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I don't mean to drag this down into "hypocrisy" accusations. But I honestly believe that no matter how a pilot is good, he is still human. Everybody is.
So, if a certain good pilot has a high K/D and high chance of shooting others down, there's gotta be some more reason behind it. And I dare say that it is because they never fight a fight which they cannot win, or hope to win. In other words, in heart, every macho guy in town is just another sissy when it comes down to bad odds. First thing they do against bad odds, is figure out how to escape with their planes intact.
So in the end, who's calling who timid?
ps) Ofcourse, there are other types of skilled people, who literally don't back away from a fight. And ofcourse, in a sound sequence, they'd eventually get shot down.
All's well that ends well - if they can keep their mouths shut. But alas, they just can't stop commenting on how retarded others are, and how they would have killed everyone if it was a 1vs1.
Dudes.. this ain't the Medieval ages. You charge in like a lone head-strong knight into hordes of peasants armed with pikes - and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out you'll get slaughtered in the end.
