Cherry Picker

[Anaxogoras]

So far as I can remember, the epithets "cherry picker" and "pick" were not used in Warbirds years ago.  The only thing comparable were common phrases like "bad SA," or "clearing a friendly."

Is it an AW term?  Where did it come from?  Has it always been part of the AH lexicon?

[BlauK]

It is also interesting that this term is used mostly in a negative meaning, whereas a true "cherry picker" is someone who has eye for, and bothers to pick and select only the best and most delicious cherries. I suppose it has degenerated to mean also picking just the easiest cherries.

A common noob here calls anyone, who shoots him down while he "is engaged" with another enemy, a cherry picker ... and thus actually calls himself an easy target

[NoBaddy]

... and thus actually calls himself an easy target

Been tellin' the dweebs for years.......if you are dumb enough to fly like a cherry....someone will make pie out of you. 

Cherry=virginal=newbie

Hence picking cherries if killing folks that fly like newbies.

[ODBAL]

So far as I can remember, the epithets "cherry picker" and "pick" were not used in Warbirds years ago.  The only thing comparable were common phrases like "bad SA," or "clearing a friendly."

Is it an AW term?  Where did it come from?  Has it always been part of the AH lexicon?

Which begs the question... What is a "lexicon"? 

readysetgo

[NoBaddy]

Which begs the question... What is a "lexicon"? 

readysetgo

Here you go.......the vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc.

...and you thought is was just another car company!!!

[ODBAL]

Here you go.......the vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc.

...and you thought is was just another car company!!!

I just thought it was the negative part of a car company, I was getting busy listing the Lexipro's....

[Dawger]

We didn't have such a thing in Warbirds back in the day. If you died in a multi-bandit environment it was because you lacked the situational awareness necessary.

But I suspect it isn't game specific but more a product of the generational differences between the online gamer then versus now. Maybe on how you came into online flight sims.

Most of the old crowd came to it from a background of interest in aviation and air combat and to many newer players its just another game.

I'd preach about self reliance and personal responsibility versus entitlement and victim culture but that would be a little too much for a game

[waystin2]

I'd preach about self reliance and personal responsibility versus entitlement and victim culture but that would be a little too much for a game

Well said Sir.
It may be too much for some folks to admit, but not too much for the game and/or players to aspire to.  I rely on squaddies, but in the end it comes down to my plane and whether I am aware of what is going on around me. 

[Bronk]

Everybody who tools around above/at the edges of a fight looking for an already engaged pilot raise there hand.

Ohh wait.

[Rino]

     I must have missed all those noble self deprecating WBs types while perusing the Channel 200
Whaaa Whaaa fest.  Could it be that only AW types are sore losers?  What a concept!

[AKDogg]

My rule of a cherry picker is people who always fly's tiffy's, tempest, 190's, p51's etc. (planes that don't turn well slow) and always fly's them into a crowd and kill people alrdy engaged with 2 or more.  As soon as they lose any adv, they run to the nearest help, whether it be ack, flak, or another plane.  They only fight if they have help, etc...

[1pLUs44]

right?

[Guppy35]

We didn't have such a thing in Warbirds back in the day. If you died in a multi-bandit environment it was because you lacked the situational awareness necessary.

But I suspect it isn't game specific but more a product of the generational differences between the online gamer then versus now. Maybe on how you came into online flight sims.

Most of the old crowd came to it from a background of interest in aviation and air combat and to many newer players its just another game.

I'd preach about self reliance and personal responsibility versus entitlement and victim culture but that would be a little too much for a game

I'll put my interest in WW2 aviation up against anyone's but  I don't think it has anything to do with it, or being an old timer.  I started flying AW in 96 and it didn't take long to learn which guys spent there time hanging above the fight only coming down when they could find a target that was already engaged.  They had all kinds of excuses for not fighting then too

I don't recall the first time I heard the term 'picker' but those type of players have been around a long time.

[TheBug]

Pickers that shoot me down, don't bother me at all.  I found it always best to just blame myself for every time I find myself sitting in the tower. 

But it's the friendly pickers that really bother me, not that I do much about it.   

 Pisses me off to have done all the work, possibly even reversing a guy to have some yahoo come zipping in to pick him off just before I can get my guns on him.

[Treize69]

<-- Cherry Picking Alt Monkey. And proud of it.