Ah, Dejavu... I see we will agree to disagree... As for your fighting style comments about me, well, I have no idea how you managed to dream that up. I'd hate this to be a duelling arena, I don't even like duelling to tell you the honest truth in the sense of the word. I do tend to get caught lower in the altitude bands than you though since that is where most of the important strategic aspects of the game happen, not at 25K. If someone comes in high and BnZ's me, well, they don't tend to have a lot of success as long as my SA is working. Bled out 3 or 4 straight cons who tried it the other day before they ran away. Often as a side effect of the game though you end up with some sort of duel since there are definite alt bands that some people work in. If you meet half way inbetween bases with an enemy con, quite often they are basically Co-Alt unless you made a point (or they did) of climbing a little higher. Either way, you usually don't end up with a straightup fight at merge for many reasons.
I never said/meant bombers weren't a problem, I just didn't include them in the stats because I've seen all kinds of bombers in the main arena of all types. There are lots of bombers in the air still, although the ground game is reducing that number a bit now that the option is available to drive an Ostie. Still, I think that's healthy in a way. I've seen and shot down/been shot down (at least I think I have), by all the different bomber types, that's why I didn't include them in the discussion. This was about fighters, not bombers. As for the "I'd kill the bomber first" comment, well, it depends on the situation. I might also, if it strategically is more important, if not, I might let the bomber loaf and deal with the fighter first since it is the one that is more dangerous. Like I said though, It depends on the situation.
My original comment listed 3 planes and the Ostwind as the principals, sure, now it is 4... woo hoo, I've also noticed more variety in the air lately, good. That was what I hoped would happen. You've notedly managed to shoot down some 190's towards the latter parts of this tour, as have I, so that just supports the diversification issue later in the tour vs early. I did focus on deaths too, I added them in, but at the time you printed your stats you hadn't died to ANY of the planes I listed as rare. You just had a whole lotta zeros so to my way of thinking it meant you hadn't seen any... either that or you ran away from C202's when you saw them to avoid conflict.
I can't claim to have gone up and ONLY seen 1 or 2 aircraft types in a furball or pack, but I have gone up and seen a pack of 5 N1K's or 5 F4U's (couldn't be sure I checked every plane for type) or 5 Spits (again type not totally known)... never a pack of 5 C205's. The most C205's I've ever seen together is 2, I know because I looked on it and said "wow, 2 C205's neat" There might be one C205 low, or maybe a Zero, or a Yak... but there are 3 or 4 N1K's high.
I just still haven't gotten the gist of your argument yet, you include bombers to prop up your point when bombers were never discussed as a problem. You talk about my/your fighting style, again, to each his own, but not a determining factor in what you see. Even if it was, you fly high, I fly lower, between the two of us we should have both covered. Neither of us had killed 4 or so different plane models at the time the stats were first taken, maybe more. The only things that fly higher than 30K are bombers
... oh, and Citabria chasing bombers that high. To comment that you've never gone up and only seen 2 or 3 aircraft in a furball, I bet a lot of people would argue if you allow them to discount the 1 yak (insert semi-rare plane here) that was floating low scooping up the guys that are driven to the ground. There will also always be guys who fly their favorite kite every night, you in this case a F4U-D, bonus, and I see you've done well in it. But remember when you look at overall kills/deaths in a plane like that, 1 guy is supporting the stats for a dozen pilots who have K/D ratios around 0.2. Thus the reason your plane doesn't have a kill ratio the same as your stats.
I like the shift I'm seeing with more planes of different types coming back. Still, if you want an effective ride, there seems to be a couple of select planes that can get an average pilot better results and thus there are more of those types around. I never once whined about how people chose their rides, I choose mine my own way too.
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