Sax,
I don't mean at all to imply that I think no tracers is in anyway a bug, cheat, exploit, or gaming the game. It is just a user-configurable feature of the game, and yep, I am sure there were more than a hand full of top pilots who flew without tracers in their ammo load.
And yep, I am trying it out too.
Probably the 'WishList' was the wrong place to post these questions, as I meant it to be a pros/cons discussion of the feature and its affects on new players in the game. The '?' in my subject was intentional.
I wonder how much of a frustration it is for a new player to be shot down by invisible bullets and cannon rounds. Is AH missing giving him the visceral thrill of tracers slashing by his canopy as others quickly find their mark and pulverize his plane?
That lead me to wonder if AH's implementation of the no tracers option as an undetectable stream of fire for all calibers and round types, is accurate and true to life. I'm not sure about that one way or another.