Stupid things you did or fell for when you were new

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I once joined bish when I was new. Can it get any worse than that? 

[SkyRock]

when I was new... I would take off, and slowly gain speed and then hear this horrible creaking sound and then finally a snap... then I always blew up trying to land... I later found out that I was ripping my gear off after take off because I didn't know how to retract them... 

[Spyro of Warfang]

I once joined bish when I was new. Can it get any worse than that? 

Nah, it can. Have you tried spawning while your runway's being strafed? I can vouch for that being one very good reason why you should always head to a closer base when there's vulching goin' down.

[Scca]

I remember the first time I drove a GV to town and started laying fire on the buildings.  The old view system was in place, and I didn't know about the zoom feature.  Apparently I had cycled through the ammo options, and was laying smoke all over town.  I had no idea since I wasn't zoomed, until someone started howling about me smoking them out.  I have to say, they weren't nice about it at all (pretty standard response around here it seems).  I didn't say anything I just 

[Slade]

People would say "dont fire until you are 300 out".  Heck I could never get within 1k of them when I started!

Also, I thought the LA was a terrible plane because it did not have as many rounds of ammo as say a P-47.  In those early days I'd start firing at 1k as that was "close range" for me.  More ammo meant a better chance.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

People would say "dont fire until you are 300 out".  Heck I could never get within 1k of them when I started!

Also, I thought the LA was a terrible plane because it did not have as many rounds of ammo as say a P-47.  In those early days I'd start firing at 1k as that was "close range" for me.  More ammo meant a better chance.

I still play like that. Press trigger, close eyes, hope for the best.

[mikev]

bringing supps to a town instead of troops.  and my most famous was getting up in bombers and falling asleep on autopilot waking up hours later and wondering where i was (off the map ) so i bail

[Butcher]

bringing supps to a town instead of troops.  and my most famous was getting up in bombers and falling asleep on autopilot waking up hours later and wondering where i was (off the map ) so i bail

Remingt or whatever was so excited about just having enough perks to get B-29s, that he went to nap on autoclimb, he came back 2 hours later out of gas and crashed. I did the same with a 262 run once, went on autoclimb then forgot I was going to call my friend, when I came back my Me-262 was out of gas and pretty much so far off the map that I wasn't getting home.

/I switched to reading books on climb outs after that, until one day some silly person "winged" with me while on autoclimb, and he was an enemy. He got a good 3 minute video of it somewhere, I laughed, he laughed, I got shot down. LOL

[Phoenix3107]

Using my two-week subscription early.

[hgtonyvi]

I started off in the H2H Arena lol. I didn't have any equipment to fly so I used my mouse. I never knew how to use rudders. I always went full speed. I did felt for the Alt f4 trick also lol. Slowly after things started to change when I met a squad called Honor guards and they told me a few tricks. There were more stupid things I did but i just can't remember them right now lol.

[Latrobe]

I still play like that. Press trigger, close eyes, hope for the best.

The old "spray and pray" tactic never fails 

[Tilt]

Diving into furballs blowing all my E and getting ganged ..........

[Latrobe]

But that's where the most fun is to be had!   

[fbEagle]

I had no idea there was a zoom feature. I remember it still. I was sitting on a base with 4 or 5 other friendly tanks and they were shooting at the enemy tanks up on a hill waayyyy out there. i thought they were awesome for getting all those kills! I mean, I couldn't even see them! turns out all I had to do was press Z 

[Tom5572]

I saw an easy P38 but get a field, so I upped my trust Spixteen. The 38 was Paws. He landed five or six beautifully executed ropes on me.