That sounds like heaven!
Until someone comes in and kills the guys who are turning with extreme ease, and than the said turnfighters come in here and cry (which is why this thread was created). Yet, they somehow fail to recognize that if their style was as good as they say it is, they wouldn't have died so easily. Irony.
Further, turnfighting exists for a specific purpose in ACM. Over-using it is just as bad as over-using your flaps or any other air combat mechanic, and it has real consequences (such as being easy prey for energy fighters).
Yet again, what is the problem with this? You keep trying to assert your position that the majority likes to play a certain way without addressing the fact that if they like to play that way, they should find ways to make their playstyle work (instead of complaining how other people play). If your style of playing is so fragile that it can't stand up to someone else's well-executed playstyle, then your playstyle should be revised, not theirs.
If it sounds like heaven then why aren't you still playing at Warbirds or FA where there are only a few guys BnZin each left?
Again, your point of view is the only one that matters. Latrobe who has been here for years couldn't possibly know what he is talking about, nor could Junky. Who are these clowns? So obviously the OP couldn't know what he's talking about as you can't find him on the score page.
I believe you have completely missed the point of the posts. What was posted, that in this big old sand box it no longer lends it self to turning and burn/knife fights like we had years ago, and that were for the most part the norm. We, well I'm not complaining, just stating a fact.
A few years ago it was hordes. Those have been easing up but I think that is more due to the general numbers being lower. The "new thing" is these guys who think being at the top of the score board is cool. What ever, this too shall pass. The point is that while everyone says "the game hasn't changed!" explain why we can't hit 300 players on a good night any more instead of the 1000 players we were poking at a few years ago? Something has changed.
Good old knock down drag out fights are pretty much history in this game where it use to be an all night affair. We use to log back in the next day only to find half the guys we were flying with the night before were still at it .... and only a little bit more drunk. Not any more. You log off for some dinner and when you come back it's whole new crew. There is a lot less combat in this game which is sad as it is suppose to be a combat game.
Sitting up on your perch, diving down and picking guy after guy isn't fighting, it's picking. It takes little skill and a half decent aim. Taking bases with 30-40 players isn't fighting, it takes very little skill and just a wiliness to die a lot. I'm not telling anyone how to play the game, and never have, I'm just pointing out how much of the game they are missing. It's like playing poker where all the cards are dealt face-up on the board. No skill, no challenge.
The OP has some points, whether you agree with them or not doesn't really matter. He felt he needed to get it off his chest. He remembers the game a bit differently, as many do....or so it seems. The point is the game has to change. Many see it it on the edge of extinction, not only here, but you hear it in the game as well. Numbers continue to drop. New players are chased away by loudmouths on 200 or on their own country channel and yes even directly on private channels. Something has got to be done, if not what we have WILL continue in the slide it IS in. If everything was "OK" the numbers wouldn't be dropping, they would at least stay stable.
