Question to the Aces High Community!

[fbWldcat]

IF I could use the manual bombsite, I wouldn't mind manual. I just never got around to learning it. Hence, I do not fly bombers in the AvA. I really should learn...

[Ghosth]

Anyone who is reasonably competent can learn either or both methods.

As for using it in the AvA, well Rolex nailed it. If you have a slightly spiking stick, your going to have fits with the manual method.

Its been used often in FSO, usually with an attendant flurry of requests to setup the TA so people can practice it.
(gets to be a pain in the posterior for trainers)

Personally I liked it, as there were a couple of things you could do with it once mastered, that are not as easy with the other.

[fbWldcat]

Anyone who is reasonably competent can learn either or both methods.

As for using it in the AvA, well Rolex nailed it. If you have a slightly spiking stick, your going to have fits with the manual method.

Its been used often in FSO, usually with an attendant flurry of requests to setup the TA so people can practice it.
(gets to be a pain in the posterior for trainers)

Personally I liked it, as there were a couple of things you could do with it once mastered, that are not as easy with the other.

My stick spikes often, this explains how even when I knew how to use manual, I would always be off target. 

I need a new joystick.

[Blagard]

I have not flown bombers in a long while.

Way back it was real easy, just put your X on the target.
Then came the calibration and accurate flying for speed and alt - I loved this, I thought this was as near to the real thing as you could get in a game.
It changed from that so I have not bothered since - I was under the impression it went back to an easier type.

Noted Rolex has given a reason for it, all the same, it is a shame that this day and age cheap sticks (sorry for an offense) have an influence on the gameplay in what I regard as a better quality sim/game.

I doubt the type of bomb sight will have any effect on the arena you chose to fly in. It certainly would not to me.

[dedalos]

I like the manual one like it was in AH1. when it actually took some skill to bomb, instead of now you just hold a button for 3 sec and then thats it. i liked having to setup on the target, put your crosshairs on the target, click on the target to get the alt, hold the crosshairs steady and all that. thats what made bombing fun and thats what seperated the skilled from the average little kid.

That one extra click on the target to get the alt did it for me.  I could never figure it out.    Are we serious here?  Some how a few extra clicks made it skillful or harder?

[BowHTR]

That one extra click on the target to get the alt did it for me.  I could never figure it out.    Are we serious here?  Some how a few extra clicks made it skillful or harder?

it seems like it did for me. the manual way you have to take th time and get it all set up. if you dont setup correctly you have to start over and do it again. the auto way, if you dont set up correctly, you just press 'u' and then hold 'y' for a couple secs and then press 'u' and and boom, your set and done within 5 sec. therefore i would think that the manual way would require more skill to be precise.

[Grape]

Manual for sure. That might get me into the AvA for a few bomber sorties.

[Shuffler]

My bombsite is always the same.

[YGSM]

I like the manual one like it was in AH1. when it actually took some skill to bomb, instead of now you just hold a button for 3 sec and then thats it. i liked having to setup on the target, put your crosshairs on the target, click on the target to get the alt, hold the crosshairs steady and all that. thats what made bombing fun and thats what seperated the skilled from the average little kid.

That is what HTC is trying to do.  Make it easy so they attract more squeekers to it.  Sorry but it is true.