But not determined by a minority of players who assert that everyone must see it their way otherwise they are deviant players. At least concede that people don't agree with your philosophy and see things another way. Trying to force your views on others is disrespectful, elitist and a little disturbing.
Again, you completely misunderstand my point, almost to the exact opposite.
I have no wish to subject my views on anyone else, and I readily admit that others have different philosophies - I've never debated this. However, when someone comes in and claims that "Well, the 'proper' way is to do it this way" (I'm paraphrasing the argument that the MA is about fights and honor), then I will always point out that they are, in fact, arbitrary and deviant. That was my only point.
Yet again, the irony lies in the fact of others claiming we're asserting our philosophy, when in reality it's really them arguing how theirs is correct ("you could've given him a
good fight, but you didn't!") when it, objectively, is not. It might be their preference, and I recognize that, but the validity ends there (see below).
If you have evidence to substantiate your claim that score-based play is the way the game is intended to be played / least deviant way then please post it. Otherwise it is as I say YOUR subjective interpretation.
Tour winners are determined based on stats. In fact, the homepage says, quote, "Latest Tour
Winners." The winners are determined based on kills, rate of kills over time, accuracy, etc. Turnfighting vs BnZ, honor vs quick and easy kills - none of those are considered. Similarly, the MA is won/reset after X bases are captured. It doesn't matter who flew the most efficiently or had the most effective bombing runs - the team with the most captured bases wins.
The game is meant to be played based on completing objectives. How one goes about completing those objectives is up to them and them alone. However, for one player to complain or otherwise chastise another player for completing those objectives simply
because the player in question is disregarding arbitrary ideas of honor, fun, and so on, is quite illogical. Put another way, it's the complaining players' attempt to try to force another player to abide by their arbitrary rules.
Attacking or otherwise pursuing a player who quickly kills another, without giving the other a fair chance, goes against the very basis of objectivity. The goal of the game, and the scoring mechanisms, are based around killing the other guy. How one player might kill another is irrelevant, but for a player to complain that a kill was not "honorable," "fair," etc., that is indeed deviant.
Then you're saying that you don't exploit those who fly lower, slower, TnB or fly in lesser co-ordinated numbers?
I think you're implying that there is some sort of unfair (or otherwise unchallenging) "exploitation" going on of BnZ vs TnB, when in reality it is nothing more than a logic problem. You can offensively fight BnZ with BnZ (correct called energy tactics), but you can't offensively fight BnZ with TnB, you can only go defensive and hope to turn the tables. We don't exploit it, we simply know the weaknesses of TnB and therefore we avoid it as a primary tactic. It's not our fault if others choose the TnB spectrum of fighting - they have the option of the same aircraft and tactics that we do.
That said, following Robert Shaw's dictum, a true energy fight should devolve into a rolling scissors. Provided there is no clear winner of the rolling scissors, the fight will then devolve into a TnB situation. You seem to imply that once a BnZ fighter encounters another, it's game over. The truth is far from that, and many times the best turnfights evolve from energy fights where neither aircraft can gain an energy advantage. We're not opposed to TnB at all, it simply has a very specific use.
Regarding engaging lesser numbers of aircraft - I'm not sure where you drew that conclusion from. In most cases, we're either evenly matched or actually outnumbered. Sure, there's situations where we outnumber the other guys, but we don't look for lesser numbers anymore than we look for any other kind of fight. We simply look for the biggest dar bar and head for it.
