Just a thought:
If one's own enjoyment depends heavily on what other player do, one will have a hard time enjoying this game. We all are just game pieces to each other, but much more unpredictable ones than AI. That is what makes it interesting.
If one concentrates on doing what he enjoys despite of what others do, one may have fun.
Couldn't agree more.
Just the other afternoon, I logged and bootleg and I ended up upping from the same base that we saw had some kind of con coming into it and ended up chasing him down and got him (he didn't mind fighting both of us), then while RTB'ing we spotted a CV just off of the base. Well, I upped some bombers, bootleg a fighter I think, and I got some hits. I didn't sink it, but then a major fight ensued. After only having about 2 or 3 of them there, there were somewhere around 10 to include a few LVT's here and there. After broadcasting for some help, there ended up being 3 or 4 of us with PDMJ on the ground headed to the town. It was a great fight, I'd up, get shot down, and come back. This happened multiple times and it was fun. The only thing that irked me a little was the fact that when it was 3 or 4 or 5 to 1, I kept getting face shots while trying to outmaneuver which I did for a lot longer than expected. I never once complained about oh, you guys have 4 or 5 to 1 it's not fair. No, that doesn't matter. You know going in that you're probably not going to make it, and if those guys want to team up to take the base, give them a fight and if you lose it, oh well,
THIS IS A GAME Now I understand some of the people playing for a while have their points on the skill level going down. Well, maybe if some of those folks quit complaining about that and like people have said time and time before, took some of these people under their wing even if they don't ask for it, things may be better. How about offering help instead of waiting for someone to ask you. I understand that there are trainers who have their thing and that's great, it's a wonderful tool. But, some of the guys that complain and say that they help people, have probably never offered help, they just sit back and wait for someone to ask them to bloat their ego up just a little more. There are way too many people wanting their name in lights, I agree with that. I also agree that "the fight" is more important than anything. What Whiskey and lazy said are both right, the Knights in MW usually have the numbers in the afternoons and evenings, but one night the other week when I wasn't tired, I got on in the wee hours of the morning to find that the bish did and were doing the same thing the Knights did earlier that day. There will come a day when the people that are playing now that hang around for 10 years are upset about how the up and coming players play the game as well, it's going to happen. Nobody will ever agree in this game on what tactics to use, whether landgrabbing, furballing, GV'ing or whatever is better. Just like Blauk said if you concentrate on what you enjoy doing, forget what the other guys are and have fun. There's times when I want to do any one of the aforementioned things, and I go do it and have fun. Can it be frustrating when the eny is through the roof or there's no hangar to leave from? Yeah, but you know what, I get over it and find a way around it, I either switch sides which hasn't happened much recently, find another plane, or find another base to leave from. Someone is always going to HO, Pick, Vulch, spawn camp, sink the CV, drop the hangars, gang, horde, and any other unimaginable blasphemy that can be committed in this game. The only thing you can do is shake your head and go about your business. As far as the MW squads being large fish in the small pond and not making it in the LW arenas, I have to disagree. The squad I'm with now does not get on much besides FSO's, so I'm not saying that it can happen. I do know that a few of us went into LW the other day and didn't do too bad. Some of those MW squads would probably do halfway decent, but that's the usual mentality you see and it has been brought up plenty here about people coming over to MW to find out that the guys that are there aren't that bad. What have I seen coming from LW to MW, a lot more people using different tactics some of them I don't agree with, but I get over it but from the time I spent in LW with another squad a while back, those were the tactics you had to use to survive. If the fields were not meant to be captured, they would all be outlined in little red boxes or there would be no troops. If the key is to have mainly air combat, which I'm sure that's the majority as it is now anyway, there wouldn't be VH's at every base. Ok, I'm done ranting for a little while, just had to get all of it that was saved up from the weekend out of my system.
