Originally posted by mars01
Ohh Cable you couldn't be any more of a noob. I threw out a perspective, I did not say it was law or the end all and be all of "The way it is". But your newbness jumped down my throat with your naive drivel.
You can cease the dramatics at any time; all I did was offer my opinion on my own game play and why it doesn't suit me to play as you or Laz does with an emphasis on furballing unless the bases are too far apart. You seem very closeminded about anyone else's view - such as mine - and you try and justify your own by tossing out terms like "NOOB" and such that you think must disqualify my idea of how *I* want to play.
While it's true I haven't played as long as you have here, it doesn't mean I'm incapable of trying a few things here, a few there, with emphasis on what I like to do. That's exactly how I play. I get a little better at each as time goes on and I practice them.
No I just threw out a perspective that many do go through. I did not fit that mold, but nice assumption skills.
Well, I can only go by what you wrote, and what you wrote suggested to me that my game play was somehow faulty because I didn't go out and furball enough. That's what I got out of it; if that's a wrong interpretation, sorry. Your comment came on the heels of Laz's who also seemed to say that, and I took your comment as confirming his view. Is that correct?
Again reading is fundamental, comprehension is completely necessary if you are going to reply and keep your foot out of your mouth.
Then try making your point a little clearer... I'm a NOOB, remember?
Ahhh so here is your mold. Did it ever occur to your jump first, think last brain, if your statement above is true that you do not fit the group of noobs that do run?? Hmmm maybe your not the only person out there LOLH 
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See, a comment like that I take to be that you consider your vast experience in this online game somehow coinciding with wisdom, something you have, and no one else with a different opinion has. Tell me, why does it bother you so much how ANYONE else plays, to the point where you start making all these crude comments? Did it offend you that I said it appears you have a mold others must fit in?
Ahh the true noob comes out. "but it's my experience", that's the problem, while your entitled to your opinion, your don't have enough experience to keep your opinions from being wrong.
Ahhh, so here is the crux of it. You're smarter than everyone else because you've PLAYED longer. Okay, I get it now. I don't know how I want to play because I haven't been here as long as you, that it?
If you did you would know, I prefer 2 or 3 on 1. The only good fair fights are when you are up against some one that can actually fight past the third turn and yes those are rare. 
Maybe when you get to the point where you can survive a 4 or 5 on 1 your experience will allow you to see this "all that superior fighter skill time investment is essentially out the window" is completely wrong and totally a noob perspective. Just because you platued, much like I mentioned you would, doesn't mean others have not gone to the next level.
More power to you if you can survive 4 or 5 on 1. Best I've ever done is 3 on 1, and that only once, and I didn't really enjoy that, to be honest. For one thing, I play to relax, and frankly that kind of work requires, as I'm sure you can well attest, a great deal of focus and concentration, quick reflexes, and constantly moving eyes - all ten of them.
If I played in that kind of circumstance all night long, I'd have cancelled my account long ago. I don't need to come here and stress over a game. So I play in a way that to me is a lot less stressful, more fun, and the guys I fly with are a great bunch. We don't sweat how this one or that one plays, of how "NOOB" they are, or whatever; we just fly and try to have a little fun, that's all. If we never get some amount of kill or death ratio number, who cares?
LOLH so tell me, how is constantly improving your ability to fight in a fighter be less important in the overall scheme in a WWII Fighter sim?
It's less important than improving my gunnery skill in a bomber if bombers are what I like to fly. AHII is NOT just a "fighter sim," it's a lot more than that. Guy with your experience I'd figure would know that.
LOLHROTFF . See that is exactly my point. You have given up getting any better in fighters. You said above that you can't handle anything beyond a fair fight and that when the enemy numbers outnumber you, your skills are maxed.
I didn't say that; I haven't given up doing anything. What I said is that I'm not willing to give up parts of the game I like better only to focus on building ONE skill to some kind of supreme level. Let's just say for purpose of discussion I graduated the Mars School of Dogfighting Excellence, and as a graduate I had the skill to routinely handle 4:1 dogfights or whatever. What good is that going to do me except in the rare cases I fly fighters to dogfight? What I
think you're going to tell me - and I could be wrong - is that once I achieved this level of proficiency I wouldn't want to do anything else except dogfight. Well, I would disagree. I spent a lot of time back in the AW days playing full realism arena and I was pretty good, had consistent high rankings and did fly fighters a lot, but then I got tired of it. It wasn't a challenge any more, even flying not so hot planes, and it certainly wasn't fun anymore.
That has a lot to do with why I don't want to limit my own gameplay into just one area of focus, whether that means I'd get better faster or sooner or whatever.
Ummm, it seems that is all this game has to offer these days, fly with potatod or up from capped fields. What is your point??
My point is that I don't view the game that way. I'll just go find something else to do that's fun or challenging to me if the conditions aren't very good for what I planned. You know, I can always go drive a tank somewhere, or bomb a CV or take a good hi-alt bird up and see if I can shoot down some bombers. Anything that's good fun to me.
Congrats LOL, well see where you are in 4 years...
Yes, we will. My hope is to still be here playing in a way that's fun for me, whatever that happens to entail. What I don't want to do is end up like a lot of guys who've played for a long time and complain constantly and belittle anyone who doesn't think like them.
Happy Flying.
