Apparently, I'm a "picker"......

[Bruv119]

don't sweat it Nish,

Just think Rambo 3 when they see the hordes of Russian's coming to block them from the border.   Re-load.

[Randy1]

If I see a green guy below me with a red crawling up his apple like a chigger, I am going to try to knock the red off.  A picker to me is someone that does that exclusively avoiding any other kind of fight. 

[VuduVee]

i used to really hate gettin picked. now it depends on the situation. for instance, the other day the knights were vulching a base but werent even trying taking it, they were just there to pad their scores. so, i decided to come in over the top from another base. and i find 6 or 7 guys up high, they see me but most dont have the e to beat me, so of course they run to easier prey on the base. a 152 is 5-6 away but not enough alt for me, hes lurking. but one guy does have alt and does fight me, i get in behind him, we lose a few k alt, and i had no gun solution. a few seconds later theres the 152 and hes in, and gets a shot off, takes my wing. ok fair enough. i get back up and over there and im looking for that 190 and i see him, he sees me, he starts going away, i shadow but cant catch up to him. hes running, bc he cant wait till im engaged to get me, he has to do it himself now. but, sure enough i see 4-5 other planes and a jug, the jug makes for me, we go at it, the other planes have no real shot for a few seconds, but soon enough they do, and theyre in too. now im at risk of gettin covered up by multiple reds. and like clockwork heres Bush in the 152 and picks me. he had a 1v1 chance and ran from it, but as soon as i was engaged he all the sudden wants a fight. he just couldnt stand to see a good 4 on 1 matchup, he had to be the 5th. i called him a picker on 200. he said im whining. i told him, if youre not taking the frkn base how about fight or let a fight happen? no response. he didnt want a fight, he wanted kills, so he can look like a FPH. but seems to me you should earn that sht. in those situations i say the picker is scared to fight, so they pick for score. some chickens like that, hang out in the furball and only pick bc they have no cajones. to me, thats when picking is lame.    

[Changeup]

Everyone has picked. Period.  No one should care.  Everyone hates getting picked because you earned the kill on the guy that got saved.

Thread over

[Triton28]

If I'm killing lots of stuff, and my meager skills seem to be working as best as I can apply them, I try not to pick.  Oddly, getting picked on one of these nights has little effect on me.  "Meh... no matter. I will simply up again and continue killing" says Triton.

But on those nights where I can't do anything right, my bullets never hit, and I can't so much as withstand a dirty look from a red guy, picking starts to make me rage.  I start to wish real life misfortunes upon those who pick me.  Not only that, but I begin to pick others like it's my job.  "Screw it.  I hate this game and everyone in it" says Triton.     It's usually those times where my wife walks into the room and tells me how stupid I am and if I wake the baby up she's going to be very mad.  My reply is usually something like, "OMFG, you don't understand, ________ just picked me. That *$!@)$%&#*%&!"

In short, I am a petty, childish man with a warped sense of reality.   

[Daddkev]

  Now its over! 

[ARSNishi]

Everyone has picked. Period.  No one should care. 

If everyone does it in game and it was the tactic successfully employed by American pilots to all but clear the Pacific skies of Japanese opposition.....
 Why then is there this seemingly concerted effort to attach a negative connotation to the term and disparage the practice so?

Back in FA I was rather proud of my 6 clearing abilities to the point where my standard reply to squaddies when they'd thank me for saving their bacon was "it's my job, it's what I do"    Here in AH I have seen more than a few savaged for it.

I think there is a consensus that 1 on 1's off to themselves should be left alone, but in the midst of and on the fringes of a furball ..... who's expectations are more realistic.... the picker or the picked?   While I don't want to misinterpreted as encouraging timidity, I'm not altogether a fan of castigating those who dash another's unrealistic expectation.    Make sense?

Nishizwa

[Sperky]

I've read that some 90% of all kills in WW2 were of planes that did not know they were about to get hit.

   then how did we get the story?

 

[Changeup]

If everyone does it in game and it was the tactic successfully employed by American pilots to all but clear the Pacific skies of Japanese opposition.....
 Why then is there this seemingly concerted effort to attach a negative connotation to the term and disparage the practice so?

Back in FA I was rather proud of my 6 clearing abilities to the point where my standard reply to squaddies when they'd thank me for saving their bacon was "it's my job, it's what I do"    Here in AH I have seen more than a few savaged for it.

I think there is a consensus that 1 on 1's off to themselves should be left alone, but in the midst of and on the fringes of a furball ..... who's expectations are more realistic.... the picker or the picked?   While I don't want to misinterpreted as encouraging timidity, I'm not altogether a fan of castigating those who dash another's unrealistic expectation.    Make sense?

Nishizwa

I always understood.  The bottom line is this: 1/2 love the immersion and try to live like they were WWII pilots with something real to lose and others play it like its what it is...a game and the game is about aerial and mechanized combat where actually fighting reigns supreme.  It will never be solved

[katanaso]

The only time I think it is lame is if you pick a 1v1 that is far from any other combat.

Probably my only real gripe with the way people play is this.  When there's a 1 v 1 going on, with nobody else around, and you're 5K+ away, just let it play out, unless your teammate asks for help.  (Not you, Nishi, I mean the general population, but certain folks notiously do this.)

You killed me the other night in a 6 v 1, but it wasn't a pick.  My own bad SA got me there.   I did make a comment on Vox about a high 190 diving in to become the 6th plane as I was trying to run away from the first 5, but it wasn't you.