Stupid things you did or fell for when you were new

[Someguy63]

Was doing hangar fly-throughs and decided to go through the indestructible. The look on my face when I saw the other end...
 

[JunkyII]

I was told as the newest member of POTW I had to deack the field with a Spit 1 for the tour 

[DubiousKB]

I thanked the check six voice for almost a week.

 

Didn't know where the check 6 was coming from for along time! Did the alt-F4 before my brain remembered what the command actually was for... Attacked friendly CV's.  Dropped supplies instead of troops a few times. Learned about weight and hills close to bases with heavy buffs taking off...

The one that really catches me (STILL) is if I attempt to type with no text buffer up, I accidentally turned off "mouse-look" using the "H" key.... Took me forever to find that command... Only JUST learned the difference between range and room... Had stall limiter on for longer than I care to admit, which led into the combat trim off at low speeds. 

There's alot of subtle little things that take awhile and some involvement to learn. 

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the only thing that comes to mind for me...is in DA no one uses 200....for a very long time I thought everyone in DA was salamanders and just didn't want to talk to me....

had no clue about channel 1

[mbailey]

In my first few sorties ever I had no idea that friendlies on the same channel as you would have a different colored icon. I thought they were enemies so I killshot myself on them for the first 10 or so sorties before I realized they weren't enemy! 

I did this exact thing, only took a sortie or two until someone pointed it out to me. LOL

[MrKrabs]

Crabby said to join a mission type .country 1 into chat so i did and was sent to the bish......... , also saw a CV off of our base upped a b5n2 and tried to launch torpedoes after torpedoes none of them hit so i upped an SBD and dive bombed it several times finally someone asked me what i was doing and i said "trying to sink the ship" he replied " Its ours you idiot ". I have plenty more to share...

Good times... good times....

I wonder how many people I've gotten with that... I think I solely fueled the lemming vTard farm when they reached the mid 70's.

What's even funnier is I got FBDred with that trick even though he's been around since the beginning. That was a fun day...

[Spyro of Warfang]

Lessons learned from Tails4--lead your targets, don't get in too close, and whatever you do... Don't type in chat and fly in battle at the same time!

[Rich46yo]

I fell for all of them and did every stupid thing possible. This was the first computer game I ever played.

[JOACH1M]

I used to think different skins gave the plane different capabilities over others... Lol I also still think that. 

[Krupinski]

As soon as I had enough perks to fly a 262, I spawned in one near the HQ... and still managed to get vulched on takeoff by a P51. 

[glzsqd]

I used to think different skins gave the plane different capabilities over others... Lol I also still think that. 

Agreed. Italian 109 skins have more accurate tators

[MrKrabs]

I used to think different skins gave the plane different capabilities over others... Lol I also still think that. 

What? You must have noticed how flying the pink-skinned spitfires makes you more manly instead of shriveling up?

[JOACH1M]

I used to think the "you don't have enough points to fly this model" thing was about the points in fighter score lol I would freak out seeing my fighter score points higher than what it cost to fly a 262.

[JOACH1M]

Agreed. Italian 109 skins have more accurate tators

no way

What? You must have noticed how flying the pink-skinned spitfires makes you more manly instead of shriveling up?

the bare metal spit is the best. It's naked

[68ZooM]

I played with my stall limiter on for 5 years lmao never even knew there was something you could check and uncheck, once I realized my stupidity I changed it.