Author Topic: Plead to Htc Perk these planes (Read 3151 times)

YUCCA · « **Reply #120 on:** May 12, 2006, 07:22:58 PM »

Slapshot you are too kind my friend! Flyin jug can be difficult, makes it frustrating when flying against good spit16 pilots. But you for the most part are faster than them. They out climb/out accel/out turn/ out roll the jug. But one thing it can't do like the jug is slow down like it hit a brick wall and throw out massive firepower at long ranges.

Spit16's retain E pretty well so it's quite easy to make them overshoot. If you tease them in and just make it so they avoid the shot and they blow by you going 10mph faster they'll almost always scissor the wrong way and fly into 50 cal.

If they try to split S you can cut the turn by slowing down even faster, cutting the angle and achieving another deflection shot. Trick is to always watch where they're going. Most of the time i know where they're gonna go before they do

LEDPIG · « **Reply #121 on:** May 12, 2006, 10:21:35 PM »

Tried the AVA Arena the other day got into some great fights, good teamwork and the action seemed a bit more historic. Sometimes it seems in the MA the action is a bunch of engagements with no particular purpose just a bunch of people gangbanging each other flying the same planes with very little tactics. I guess i enjoy the 1v1 engagement where i can engage in the intricate balet of aerial combat. I also enjoy employing the various tactics just to see how they work. In the Ma sometimes it seems like a roiling mess of activity with everyone beating up on each other and employing very little tactics. Seems like a lot people vulching each other and caring little about anything but score and doing anything to put up numbers and step on peoples toes and fun. My original intent of the post was to call attention to this and my hopes that this sim didn't become a sensless arcade game at which point AH would stop being what it is. That withsaying i think the MA should stay as it is and instead there should be seperate areas or arenas each simulating different periods of WW2 history. Such as Europe 1939-42, 1943-44, Pacific 1941-42 -1943-44 etc each with their respective plane sets so that anyone who wanted to fly a certain era could and could fly the plane they wanted against thier era's opponents, and the MA could be used for all out craziness, just a thought.

Bronk · « **Reply #122 on:** May 12, 2006, 10:59:26 PM »

Led hook up with a squad that flies squad ops.
I am quite sure you'll enjoy it.

Bronk

LEDPIG · « **Reply #123 on:** May 12, 2006, 11:04:50 PM »

What's that Bronk?

Bronk · « **Reply #124 on:** May 12, 2006, 11:24:00 PM »

You have a PM ledpig.

Bronk

ujustdied · « **Reply #125 on:** May 12, 2006, 11:40:06 PM »

the only plane that really needs to be perked is the la7. i kill spits all day and night. easy kills IMO but the la7 that plane has perk writtin all over it.
now i dont die from la7s as much cause i know how to deal with them but still that plane IMO is that exact same thing as a f4u4 it cant turn as good but the guns make up for it. when ever i come across the LA it seems that it can climb forever. im just saying IMO perking the LA7 would make the game more fun.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #126 on:** May 12, 2006, 11:49:49 PM »

Kinda nice when I can just cut and paste what I said in the last thread about this

The planes aren't the issue so much as that which gets recognition in the arena.

Regardless of how they're shot down, folks notice the "so and so landed 14 kills in an LA7 of the 'Vulchers are Us' Squadron", followed by a chorus of "attaboys" from the crowd. Landing a bunch of kills for your 'attaboy' is what becomes the drug for the crowd. As long as that is the measuring stick for recognition, the crowds will fly what they think will allow them to Ho, vulch and escape.

Personally I could care less what the other guy is in at this point. But then again if I can survive actual air to air fights and land a couple halfway earned kills now and then, I figure I'm doing OK.

I'd prefer that what I fly is my choice and I'd have a hard time with someone else dicating my choices. I'll probably be in a P38G for the going to their place for a fight and a Spit 8 to defend my place, but again it's my choice as I have fun in those birds.

If the other guy wants an LA7 that bad or a Spit 16, so be it.

I still say unperk em all and let the AH gods sort em out.

RumbleB · « **Reply #127 on:** May 13, 2006, 03:38:01 PM »

perk everything but hot air ballooons with mounted 40cals.