I have been away for a few months and perhaps my experiences thus far, upon my return, are merely anecdotal but:
I was cruising at about 8K(too lazy to grab much higher) towards a friendly base under attack by cv planes. As I fly past the cv I spy an enemy con,grabbing off the cv, at about 5k. The enemy is almost directly in my flight path. I nose down and vector for intercept. Right before I get into gun range(for my poor aim that's 400 yards for a fighter) the corsair sees me and tries to evade by a split S. I chop throttle, roll onto my back, and pull for the shot. The hog goes out of sight under my nose(relative to the nose, we are inverted) but I felt I had good lead so I pull the trigger. BOOM, kill. The dead guy then gets on a 200 rant how it was a cheap pick and is "that all I 've got?"
That was a pick?
Scenario 2:
Alone I fly to an enemy base where bad guys were upping to vulch a nearby firendly base. I arrive at about 7k, spy a 110 on the deck who is heading for a friendly cv.(no uppers at our cv). I drop down and he gives away his evasive very early by tilting his wing left. I cheat to his left as I approach and sure enough, he breaks hard left to avoid. Easy shot, BOOM, kill. I zoom back up, and arrive at the base in good shape back at almost 8k now. Several bad guys have upped and are in assorted positions but all below me. I am the only friendly in the sector. A fight ensues where several cons try to kill me but I kill them all, holding My E. all except the smart one in a 109 who flies away to grab as I am engaged. It's no less that 1 vs 7. In the mean time, with the vulch busted, friendlies finally arrive and the fight is now over the bad guy's base. I get one more kill and then land at the cv, out of ammo. One guy says: "Nice picks, you can't do anything else."
I was alone against these guys.These were picks?
I've noticed in the arena that very few of the masses seem to understand the value of E retention. After merge, with the requisite HO attempt, they either keep going or go into a hard break turn. Naturally, my counter is to go up and then have my way with them. I've had more than one person tell me I'm picking when I do this.
This is now considered picking?
In the past, the definition of picking was killing a guy who was already engaged with one or more other cons. For instance, Scca's thread. His story is a clear sotry of a pick, IMHO.
Has the definition changed?
