just want a simple answer from the AVA staff. Why is the AVA so hung up on they nonMA bombsite?
From its inception the AvA has always been a place that tried to be a little more realistic than the MAs. We have shorter icon range, for example (which, years ago, many AvA critics complained was what was keeping people away) (heh). We have lower-effect (and far more realistic) ack settings. Same thing with the bomb sight. Not only does it take a bit more effort to use, but it results in more realistic bomb patterns, rather than the the laser-guided munitions that the MA people have.
I don't fly bombers at all, really, but the other night when there was no one else in the arena I thought I'd see if I could work the AvA bomb sight with a Ju-88. As it turned out, I could. If I can, anyone can.
Watching these boards over the past few years, it seems to me that people who have mastered the AvA sight are proud of the accomplishment and don't want to go back to the easy version. So we've kept it.
- oldman