I started playing AW in 94 or 95, it's 2008 now and things have changed but not that. There was a time over the lake in the DA that you could expect a decent 1v1 till finished but even those days are gone. The only place you will be comfortable knowing no one will jump in to save a countrymen or steal a kill is in the DA on 1 of the secluded duel only areas...and even then you might have some jerk come in to your area. How many 1v1's are there in Koth? How many in FSO, AVA, how bout offline?
Strafing i met you many months ago and you were a hell of a base taker and team player. Why the change? ...or is it the company you keep that has changed you? The only thing thats changed from when you started is your experience and attitude. Lighten up bud and start having fun again or if it bothers you that much give it up for a month or two.
Salute
I have nothing against base takers, heck I used to do it myself and every once in a while I'll up a m3 or a goon even today. Overall though I always have liked to fight more than capturing bases, capturing bases was just something I did to change things up, but honestly I find it boring most of the time.
In fact while I will poke fun at the NOE land grabbers, I still love upping at the bases they attack, because it gives me a bunch of low alt cons to go shoot at. So if it's just a NOE attack here or there they don't bug me so much, however there are some nights that it's nothing but NOE hoard attack one after another. If you happen to bust their mission they run off somewhere else and it's like playing whack a mole after a while that does get irritating.
Overall the biggest complaint I have with the land grabbers, is when they start screwing up good fights. IE like dropping the hangers at a FH, or sinking a CV that wasn't really a threat just stuff like that. For example this morning, we had a good fight going, with a CV off the sore of a Abase. Wouldn't you know it their team killed our FH's and then our team killed their CV just seconds after.
lol it was kind of funny in a way because the fun Nazis on each side ended up killing it for both teams..
On the flip side, I don't think of myself as a furballer either in fact I the furballers irritate me much more than the landgrabbers. Quite simply because in most cases furballs are gang and pick fests and promote that kind of flying No matter what people like to say, furballs aren't much about "fighting for kills" but rather more about "opportunity to get somewhat easy kills".
I don't care what some like to say, but being in a big horde with lots of green guys close by is a very easy and safe way to get kills. I personally can't stand it and it's why you will rarely see me in the middle of a furball. The only furballs I actually like are the low alt fights with a CV offshore attacking your base. I enjoy those fights because it allows me to fight with my K4 on the deck under 3k with out much worry of high alt BnZers.
Overall I just like to fight and I could really care less about kills. I'd be just as happy landing 1 kill from a good fight as I would be getting killed by the other guy as long it was a good fight. Landing 5 or 6 kills isn't what I'm after, I'm here to find good fights which seem to be very rare these days, specially when the whole games seems to revolve around land grabs and how many kills you can land while flying in the horde.