Originally posted by lazs2
e23576964 I am sorry but... there really is only a couple of ways to capture fields... sneak or whorde. To compare what the strat girls do here to chess is an insult to anyone who has ever played chess.
As you so often do, ignore the clearly spelled out point and throw an insult instead. I expected no less.
The only legit comparisson is that it can be slow and tedious. In a furball... you have to think much more quickly and you have to judge the e states of multiple enemies while knowing yours along with the performance parameters of all the planes involved.
I disagree with your assessment. If you are in a fast and furious furball, you are not thinking, but rather acting and reacting. If you stop to "think", you get picked. I'm sure it took you a long time to get there, but you instinctively know what to do and just do it without thinking. Good for you. But for me, simply acting and reacting is not my kind of entertainment. The "rush" wears off for me after a while.
When planning / executing a base capture, you don't have any idea what you might or might not run into. The uncertainty builds suspense/tension. Maybe no one ups to defend, in which case the capture is routine and boring. Maybe another squad ups to defend, and it turns into a 45 minute back-and-forth fight. When we play base defense, will we outlast the attack, or will we get overwhelmed? We don't know. That is what is fun to me. In Fighter town, you know what you are going to get - lots of planes to shoot at and who will shoot at you. Again, fun as an occasional diversion for me, but not enough to keep my interest forever.
Why bother to have so many planes in the game if you were only going to do strat? You would only need to know basic things about each and even less about how they compared.
You truly show your ignorance here regarding plane use in the world beyond the furball. No need to elaborate. Besides, if this was truly
your goal, you would chose a plane that does nothing particularly well so you could put that knowledge to the test. Instead you usually fly the plane with a tighter turn radius than the majority of the planes you find in FT, then stay low and slow inviting others into a style of fighting in which you have the advantage. Pot meet kettle.
It just seems laughable that the strat girls and timid B&Z types all strive so hard to convince themselves and others that they are doing something that takes skill and some kind of machiavelian ability.....
Continuing with the show of ignorance. There are plenty of good fights and good fighters in the "wider world". True, some aren't willing to fight and run, but then, those usually aren't playing the base-capture game. They're vulching and score-whoring, which is different. And how would the "timid B&Zrs" differ from the cherry pickers found in the furball? What is the "Machiavellian" skill required to furball at all? Another pot meets kettle moment.
The one skill that is required for the base capture game is the ability to work with others. Usually this means being civil toward them - something you show here on the BBs that you are not interested in. In the furball you are free to do whatever you want regardless as there is no goal that requires cooperation to achieve. Fine for some, others prefer interaction beyond shooting at targets. It isn't an "earth shaking" ability, but one you choose to ignore. Again, you limit yourself while accusing others of the same.
Time has shown that all these people eventually abandon those pursuits because... they are boring.
Your opinion, many have a different one -- something for some reason you are unable to accept.
The fight is the thing.... everything else is an excuse to get into a fight.
But you don't even need the excuse, which to me is one-dimensional thinking. You enjoy the "action flick" of the furball, I prefer the "suspense thriller" of the base capture. You enjoy the world against yourself, I enjoy the cooperation with others toward a common goal. To each his own -- room for all.
Again, why you can't accept that is beyond comprehension.
But, I don't even expect you to read this, let alone expect you appreciate there are opinions other than your own, so this is my last post in this thread. I doubt I could make any of this any clearer, so no point in trying.
