Salute Gents,
Actually I think you guys are the ones that don't get it, if I were flying a plane I would swivel my head around smoothly to keep track of an enemy plane. Snap views are a POOR substitute, and mouselook is a much better one. I can move my head about the cockpit easily to ANY angle to keep track of enemy planes using mouselook.
As to the external views that wasn't a gameplay issue but would be nifty for taking those cool screenshots. Padlock is what you would do if you WERE concentrating on an enemy plane to destroy it. I surely didn't intimate that one would do this to the exclusion of looking over one's shoulder to make sure someone else doesn't have the same thing in mind for you. Situational awareness is a must in any combat flight sim.
Another issue, I didn't post here to be flamed by immature people that disagree with me. I may disagree with your opinions but don't deride or degrade you for it. I may disagree with you for what you are saying but you certainly have the right to be heard, please afford me the same courtesy.
Lastly I flew online the last couple of nights learning the controls and behavior of the planes, multiple times I was attacked while minding my own business in the TRAINING server. I thought people were supposed to be learning something there. How to get shot down while you are reading your map ala "MSN Zone" is not the lesson I was trying for.
If your method of teaching is vulching people while doing touch and go's it isn't going to endear them to the service. In addition if you need to attack people without inviting them into a duel, then I may suspect that this is the only way you can get kills. Racking up a huge score against unsuspecting opponents is no way to behave, and certainly not a tribute to any piloting skills.
From now on I will be doing my flight tests offline until some maturity is manifest on the training server. Multiple times I was flying straight and level, having declined to duel with someone since I was on autopilot and setting up my joystick in flight, and was shot down anyway.
A couple of times they didn't even bother to wait for an answer, "Ready, GIJeff?" BOOM! Don't even bother trying to tell me that THIS is the way you learn to fly. It isn't. It is the way you learn to behave dishonorably, and I have no use for it. If you can't respect the people you are flying against or with, you may soon find yourself without anyone to fly against or with.
JG51_GIJeff_<<+
