Game is reaching new lows.

[uptown]

  oh the arrogance of some

[Urchin]

There has always been lame behavior in the MA, but it was formerly mostly the province of the noobish, the desperate, etc. It is my observation that it is now being applied in a refined (I will not use the word "skilled") and systematic manner. Honkin' on the stick and HOing is a primary guns defense for the planes which have the turn rate and firepower. "Runners" aren't just some poor guy in a P-51 diving away from 3 Spits anymore...it is any and every plane heading for ack and friends at the first hint of trouble, really no matter the matchup. I mean, there seem to be great numbers of players whose whole purpose is not to engage the enemy themselves and get valid kills at all, but simply to drag individuals to gang bangs or ack-ack guns. Most planes now seem unwilling to leave their horde for a 1v1 against a singleton, if they do follow you far enough, they often try to run at the first sign you will put up a decent fight, no matter the maneuverability situation. (I have seen an La7 run from an FW-190. I kid you not.) These things have gone from being exceptions to the rule, IMO. I have lost respect for perhaps the majority of pilots playing. I'm beginning to suspect the MA culture not only isn't a majority of the old guard ACM types, it doesn't even respect those values. The monkeys have taken over the temple.

I will actually fight it out from a neutral situation, confident of the win until proven wrong. I used to think that was the bare-minimum, bottom rung standard. But apparently that standard actually puts you head and shoulders above the "pack" these days.

You are just getting burned out.  I can practically guarantee that gameplay hasn't substantially changed since I stopped playing and that was about 4 years ago.  The same behaviour you are complaining about now is what tired me of this game all those years ago.  The game hits new lows every single day, but unless you are getting burned out on it, you never notice.

[pervert]

People can intentional ram people in game as Grizz has proven lol, most of the rams in game are the result of people trying to squeeze in every last second of ho/front quarter shot they can I don't believe these rams are intentional however for some reason I always seem to go down be it lose a wing an engine etc the other guy gets at worst a smoking engine.
Its not one of those things that 'evens out' over the course of time I would say 95% of the time in a collison I go down while the other guy flys off whats the point in that its like super deadly puffy its just been an annoying waste of 10 minutes of my time. I would bet if it was set up that a collison resulted in both planes being destroyed you'd see a lot less of them.
Regards the OP and hoing why not ho them back? look for what they do on the first merge see tracers? the ho light is on  I went for years never hoing I found out anyone nobody really cares tbh they just want to shoot you down as easily as is possible. Why drive yourself nuts with an honor thing that the hoer doesn't care about 

[dedalos]

Why drive yourself nuts with an honor thing that the hoer doesn't care about 

Its not that mach the honor thing.  It is what you mentioned earlier.  A waste of 10 minutes of my life.  Have it done 3 times in a row and there goes 30 minutes.

Here is what the ho ho ho I fly like a real war pilit crowd does not understand.  There is nothing realistic or smart about what they do, and there is no penalty for it.  If this was real and you did die for real, would any of these heroes have the balls to pull his nose towards a 110 while he had alt and numbers advantage?  I don't think so.  Here you get zeros and Hurri 1s going for it.  It is just stupid.  On top of it, they get really worked up when some one tells them <nice HO> and they claim high deflection shot.  Really?  would you have even thought of trying it if the chance of caching a 30mm in the head was real?

[thorsim]

 why waste your time and give it away for free crutch 

just direct them to where they can buy the books 

"toontown" 

after 10+ years, I have a pretty good idea what works and what doesnt in a given situation.

a fight in anything but the dueling arena is NOT a duel and assuming it is just plain dumb.


it takes great deal of smarts to know when you CAN run from a fight once that fight has started and once you have lost the advantage you run away until you regain the advantage.

[dhyran]

the Game reaches a new level of Fun to me,

- if someone tries to ho me, i roll him out
- if ones runs away, i accept it
- if some ackhugging, if their free choice, ok for me
- we got pretty good updates the last month, i enjoy the new graphics realy
- ah offers so many different options to play, everyone find his seat
- when fighting with my squadmates many vs many, its great fun!
- winging up for some short sorties is double fun
- talking on TS about all and everything is great friendship
- flying scenarios is big fun
- doing long distance cover flights is great too
- when thing happend , thing work out as the were planned is a great pleasure
....

this can be a long list, but please stop this bashing AND whining soup, if the game is that bad, stop playing! If not, have Fun!

P.S. the sign up date means not one has never flown before another mmo sim before.......

[RTHolmes]

the Game reaches a new level of Fun to me,

- if someone tries to ho me, i roll him out
- if ones runs away, i accept it
- if some ackhugging, if their free choice, ok for me
- we got pretty good updates the last month, i enjoy the new graphics realy
- ah offers so many different options to play, everyone find his seat
- when fighting with my squadmates many vs many, its great fun!
- winging up for some short sorties is double fun
- talking on TS about all and everything is great friendship
- flying scenarios is big fun
- doing long distance cover flights is great too
- when thing happend , thing work out as the were planned is a great pleasure

Q.F.T.   

[Dadsguns]

There has always been lame behavior in the MA, but it was formerly mostly the province of the noobish, the desperate, etc. It is my observation that it is now being applied in a refined (I will not use the word "skilled") and systematic manner. Honkin' on the stick and HOing is a primary guns defense for the planes which have the turn rate and firepower. "Runners" aren't just some poor guy in a P-51 diving away from 3 Spits anymore...it is any and every plane heading for ack and friends at the first hint of trouble, really no matter the matchup. I mean, there seem to be great numbers of players whose whole purpose is not to engage the enemy themselves and get valid kills at all, but simply to drag individuals to gang bangs or ack-ack guns. Most planes now seem unwilling to leave their horde for a 1v1 against a singleton, if they do follow you far enough, they often try to run at the first sign you will put up a decent fight, no matter the maneuverability situation. (I have seen an La7 run from an FW-190. I kid you not.) These things have gone from being exceptions to the rule, IMO. I have lost respect for perhaps the majority of pilots playing. I'm beginning to suspect the MA culture not only isn't a majority of the old guard ACM types, it doesn't even respect those values. The monkeys have taken over the temple.

I will actually fight it out from a neutral situation, confident of the win until proven wrong. I used to think that was the bare-minimum, bottom rung standard. But apparently that standard actually puts you head and shoulders above the "pack" these days.

Where have you been? This has been going on for a looooong time.  Rooks are and have been notorious for this.  Your just seeing more from all sides doing it now....?  Hence, rooks land more kills I suppose.

[oTRALFZo]

Where have you been? This has been going on for a looooong time.  Rooks are and have been notorius for this.  Your just seeing more from all sides doing it now....?  Hence, rooks land more kills I suppose.

What you need to do is get out of your shell and fly other the other chesspiece. Or would that be blasphamy?. This has nothing to do with what country you fly. Ive seen Rooks, knits and bish use lame tactics. IMO..2 things that ruin this game is 1) Rank/Score: people feel the need to be #1 so they dweeb the game down by vulching their first few sorties of the tour in fighter mode, camping spawns in their shermans and bombing strats at midnight. Its said that the best guys to fight are the ones between 100-500 range. Most of these guys will up capped feilds and get down and dirty in knife fights.

Second..(and I know Im gonna get flamed.).is landgrabbing. Fighting for land and fighting for your cartoon life have completly different dynamics. IMO, this game lately has been a race to reset rather than just having fun.
Dynamics in landgrabbing: Send a horde to some undefended feild..110s on town, typhs take down vh and any GVs that got out ( hope that you dont auger).Niks gaurd the goons and spray anything in the face that takes off on the runway...simple. My point is, playing for real estate puts players in this mode that its all or nothing and doing so creats a gamey playing enviroment.

There is a certain honor between airmen that was recognized even during the great wars by their adversary. You can say its very similar to our cartoon life here. The most respected guys here are ones that 1) know the aircraft they are flying and its capabilites 2) know your a/c and its capabilities 3) know the situation at hand and try to get out and triumph even during overwhelming odds.  ITS A GAME, you have cartoon lives, you can try again and again and soon enough youll learn from your mistakes and improve.

[Dadsguns]

What you need to do is get out of your shell and fly other the other chesspiece. Or would that be blasphamy?. This has nothing to do with what country you fly. Ive seen Rooks, knits and bish use lame tactics.

Are you slow?  What does me flying in another country got to do with what I said?  
When I said "Your just seeing more from all sides doing it now....?" means that I cant beleive he is just seeing that all sides use lame tactics.  

Besides, if I switched to another side, that means I cant shoot you down anymore.  

Be sure to lick your mess off my sox when your done with my ankle....... sugerplum

[oTRALFZo]

 

Besides, if I switched to another side, that means I cant pick you anymore.  

THERE fixed. I was hoping you switching sides will lessen the fist pounding baby tantrums you throw on 200, but I'm guess it wouldn't be.

[Dadsguns]

THERE fixed. I was hoping you switching sides will lessen the fist pounding baby tantrums you throw on 200, but I'm guess it wouldn't be.

When you get elected as the AH mayor, let me know.

[oTRALFZo]

When you get elected as the AH mayor, let me know.

[BiPoLaR]

Why would I fly with you? I squelch you everytime I see your online so I dont have to listen to your screams.

You got that film yet? 

huh? what film?
squelch away kid, think im going chalenge hunting tonight

[zack1234]

Where's our Biplanes!