The FW-190 series is the most poorly flown plane in the game

[Anaxogoras]

LOL!  I'm sorry but clueless statements like that just make me chuckle.

It's a regular defensive tactic for a number of 38 jocks, even well known ones... save your invective for something else.

[Anaxogoras]

There's a reason why RPS suck and why it's not in the game.

They suck because of the variety they offer?  I admit that AH would need a more robust early-war planeset to implement an RPS, but I loved it in WB.

[832725]

U saying the 190 is lame?

[Bronk]

They suck because of the variety they offer?  I admit that AH would need a more robust early-war planeset to implement an RPS, but I loved it in WB.

How is WB doing.

[Anaxogoras]

How is WB doing.

Non sequitur.

[Mustaine]

it gets on my nerves I get lumped into a group in posts like this all the time... but knock yourself out and stereotype all you want.

[Bronk]

Non sequitur.

lmao ... WB having a rolling plane set and the lack of people left playing have nothing in common? Keep telling yourself that. Wanna take bets when HTC will implement a RPS in the MAs. I'll take never ...you?

[Rebel]

Non sequitur.

dude, are you STONED? 

The rolling planeset, the want for historical matchups, and the polarizing of elitist realism zealots vs guys who just wanna have a good time friggin' RUINED that game.   The community splintered on forced change, and it has never been the same.

Ever see the numbers difference?  When AH went live, there was a massive, MASSIVE exodus from WB's- and rightfully so.  I stuck around thinking that maybe wild bill would pull his head out of his assets, but it was not to be. 

Now they barely maintain enough revenue to keep the lil' green light on the servers blinking, much less develop anything new. 

Believe me- if you wanna see the number drop  hard core, force a RPS on this player base.

[Bronk]

elitist realism zealots

Very descriptive... but of whom?

[Anaxogoras]

A RPS has nothing to do with historical matchups or increased realism.

[Ack-Ack]

It's a regular defensive tactic for a number of 38 jocks, even well known ones... save your invective for something else.

Anyone that pulls a negative G turn in a horizontal turn fight in a P-38 is just asking to be killed.  I doubt many of the better P-38 sticks use it with any regularity, I know I don't pull that nonsense.


ack-ack

[Bronk]

Anyone that pulls a negative G turn in a horizontal turn fight in a P-38 is just asking to be killed.  I doubt many of the better P-38 sticks use it with any regularity, I know I don't.


ack-ack

By comparison... how many "falling leaf" 109s do you see? Or how many 190 neg G pushover into land trout?

[Anaxogoras]

Anyone that pulls a negative G turn in a horizontal turn fight in a P-38 is just asking to be killed.  I doubt many of the better P-38 sticks use it with any regularity, I know I don't.


ack-ack

It's not in a turn fight, it's when they are bounced from above high 6 o'clock.

[Krusty]

A RPS has nothing to do with historical matchups or increased realism.

Er.... We're totally way off topic here, but it has EVERYthing to do with those. The entire POINT of an RPS is to roll out planes historically over a very compressed timeline as they would have in the real war. The planes that would have historically fought each other would be the ones engaging in combat. This yields both historic matchups AND (in theory) increased realism.

However, increased realism isn't always "fun" -- folks pining for an RPS generally seem (to me) not to have been around to witness its mediocrity from past failed attempts. One of those "Gee, that'd be cool!" moments without ever having seen first hand that it wasn't really all that cool.

[Rebel]

Er.... We're totally way off topic here, but it has EVERYthing to do with those. The entire POINT of an RPS is to roll out planes historically over a very compressed timeline as they would have in the real war. The planes that would have historically fought each other would be the ones engaging in combat. This yields both historic matchups AND (in theory) increased realism.

However, increased realism isn't always "fun" -- folks pining for an RPS generally seem (to me) not to have been around to witness its mediocrity from past failed attempts. One of those "Gee, that'd be cool!" moments without ever having seen first hand that it wasn't really all that cool.

Exactly- the RPS was the beginning of the end for WB's.  It's a great idea, until you actually put it to practice.  I think Hitech nailed it on the head when he made the mid and early war arenas.