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[FLOOB]

What's the difference? Scenarios are supposed to be better than the MA?

[Zacherof]

Scenarios are supposed to model historical and what if battles in a historical manner.

[Butcher]

I haven't used this command in a very long time, its really not needed once you flown long enough the damage is in front of you.

[FLOOB]

I wasn't asking what scenarios are. I was asking why is one GUI feature good for scenarios but not the ma and vice versa. Because I've heard the statement, "it would be good for scenarios, but.." before and it's never really made sense to me. Are players starting to think of the main arenas as relaxed realism arenas like in aw?

[perdue3]

I can see this in events, not in MA.

[FLOOB]

I haven't used this command in a very long time, its really not needed once you flown long enough the damage is in front of you.

Yeah, there was a time in AH when the gaminess of the feature was excusable because it wasn't so easy to tell. And getting rid of it may encourage more individual interdependence, which is what keeps players coming back to multiplayer games. In other words, community.

[FLOOB]

I can see this in events, not in MA.

See what I mean?

[Arlo]

See what I mean?

But do you see what they mean? 

[FLOOB]

But do you see what they mean? 

I wasn't asking what scenarios are. I was asking why is one GUI feature good for scenarios but not the ma and vice versa. Because I've heard the statement, "it would be good for scenarios, but.." before and it's never really made sense to me. Are players starting to think of the main arenas as relaxed realism arenas like in aw?

[Arlo]

That quote means no, right?  

[FLOOB]

Of course. Read the thread over again and you'll see that nobody has answered my question. Yet you ask me if I see what they mean. 

[Zacherof]

Scenarios are supposed to model historical and what if battles in a historical manner
 

historically your are correct in you had to rely on views and others to asess damage.
Just stating how it would be acceptable in events like scenarios

[Wiley]

I wouldn't say the MA is like an RR arena, I would say it's set up to be more of a 'do what you feel like' arena, with the ability to be able to find something to do and be mostly self-sufficient or to work together.

Wiley.

[FLOOB]

I wouldn't say the MA is like an RR arena, I would say it's set up to be more of a 'do what you feel like' arena, with the ability to be able to find something to do and be mostly self-sufficient or to work together.

Wiley.

I agree with that, and not just because it supports my contention.

[Arlo]

RR in AW was lack of blackouts, spin, stalls and such. I'd venture that many players (not all, mind you) wouldn't know what 'AW' or 'RR' means. However, players who seldom or never venture outside of the MA are probably quite comfortable with the environment there. To them, the realm of wishes tend to revolve around asking for more 'LWMA' planes (A-26 Invader, P-61 Black Widow, Gloster Meteor) or graphics that are Battlefield Bad Company-like (because, well, since BBC has it AHII certainly can ... what with the games being so similar) or FPS (because .... uh ... if BBC can do it .... ) and submarines (because it would draw players who are into sub sims and because if SH5 can do it .... ). Erg.

Now, having said that, do you participate in events or AvA regularly and fly in the LWMA, as well? What have you noticed?

No, I'm not really favoring one over the other. There are plenty of LWMA players that don't do events but aren't against them.
There's plenty that participate in events. But there are pa-lenty that would not appreciate the comfort zone being compromised
by the whim of a smaller segment of players who think a lot of that comfort zone involves crutches those players would be 'happy'
to be rid of. It just doesn't work that way. The fine art of retaining a player base may well involve compromises that most can accept.

So, yeah - if it helps, think of the LWMA as 'RR' (but in reality, think of it as the arena with the most players having fun without regard
for historical immersion or non-essential real pilot environmental detail.