No, its really very simple and was a real breakthrough in my development when I realized that no matter how many times I upped, flew around doing all sorts of neat fighter combat stuff and shot down 4-5 guys, I almost always died eventually. Just a matter of time before the recycling of everyone who dies eventually gets back up with enough energy, and I everntually lose enough energy and get whacked. God it was a blast for years, furballing like that, learning the spits, the FM2s, all the neat little turn and burn rides but it just got boring. In order to stay interested I got into a 51 squad and flew with a great bunch of guys for a few years. Learned the planes strengths and its weaknesses and managed alright in it for the most part. Somewhere in there I realized, that for me at least, landing the damned sortie actually had some value. A benifit of the smaller MW arena is that there are enough people in there to make the fights interesting but also provide enough chance to get back to the field and land the kills I sometimes managed to accumulate.
Thats where Im at, and have been for the last few years.
Interestingly Ive recently become interested in the Brewster. Thanks to a good collection of sound files its actually motivating to fly the little BrewHAHA. Of course, I can go up in it, T&B three spits into flames, knock the wing off a F4U.....kill a overzealous 51 and land it and all I typically get on open channel is what an overmodeled pig the brewster is. Oh well, this is where I make the point that what is most important is that I enjoy what I am doing.
