If you call the players that hang around the furball area running and picking the DA community, you're right as I'm not part of that. As for the other "fact" you put forth, I'm actually there quite often though in the DA area as I prefer 1v1 fights. You and I also live in different parts of the world, you're usually not on when I am so that also probably accounts why neither of us see each other in the DA.
You also seem a tad touchy, those AH withdrawls must be something fierce. All I asked was who he was, I've never heard of him and was curious to know why he was considered to be one of the "best spit pilots ever". My post wasn't meant as an insult of a jab of any kind, just curiousity.
And this whole "P-38 jocks" stuff is sheer nonsense. No one brought on the P-38 thing until you made your comment when you got your panties in a bunch over Shuffler's post. Shuffler never compared the Spitfire to the P-38, he's just of the opinion that the Spitfire is a trainer plane and one should 'evolve' so to speak once the player has moved beyond training. He'd have that opinion if he flew a Yak or a La5, not just because he flies the P-38. He's hardly alone in this opinion, just look at the myriad of threads on the subject. Personally, I have a different opinion on the matter but will whole heartedly agree that the Spitfire is a very easy and forgiving plane to fly and it shouldn't be any other way since that's pretty much how it was in real life. I subscribe to the "as long as you're not timid and have fun, I don't care what you fly" school of thought. But that's just me.
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i agree totaly ack,
yes i fly spits a lot mainly the 9 right now, in the da i fly the 16 and run into wingover a lot, hes pretty good but i wouldnt say l33t as i have managed to win a few times. of course im just as likely to up a 38 or f6f in there but mainly its the 16 or 8 spit.
i fly everything pretty much except for yak and la's even do a few a20 sorties even though i know nothing about fighting in one its nice to kill tanks in.
i hardly ever fly the pony or 190 but ocasionaly.
i tend to think that i have gotten pretty good at this game over the last 2 1/2 years, and all that stuff about "well you fly this plane so you must be a dweeb" i tend to ignore.
i also tend to fly more for the fight than the landgrab/horde one guy/ pick till i get bored kind of game.
i look at it like this "if your having fun, then that is all that matters", and if you dont wanna hear people crying on 200 cause u picked em/hoed em or just the fact that your flying a plane you love, just de tune 200 and cut the crap right there.
seriously some people need thicker skins around here.
i will say this, in ANY plane there is some requirement of skill to fly well and kill efectively, i would not berate someoen for flying a plane that gives them some good advantages at the trade off of a little speed. just as i would not berate a player for energy fighting in a pony as that is where it does well. or berate a player for taking a 38 into a vertical fight against a plane that cant hang with it and some that can as that is where it does well.
but i mayyyyy complain about the guy buzzing through at warp speed picking a furball and running out of icon range before coming back as that takes very little skill and tends to be very boring in a 1v1 for the guy who can easily avoid his passes.
i wouldnt look at the spit as a trainer but it is a great place to start if not the best place to start learning acm.
well i sort of forgot my point or even if i had one so ill shut up now
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