Because to improve and to teach others to improve, you have to isolate the concept of skill. It's akin to refusing to study Hitler's political brilliance because he wasn't "honorable," therefore dooming society to fall prey to the next crazed political genius who comes around, all because you didn't "respect" Hitler as an opponent. 50,000,000+ people didn't need to respect him to find out he was very effective at killing them. That's the issue we have here.
When discussing skill and attempting to teach pilots, you have to focus purely on objective skill and ability. Muddying it with anything else results in a lessened, biased learning experience that falls short. It's would be like trying to teach someone what a spoon is by always including it with a bowl, because they're commonly used together. Do that, and the learner will never recognize the spoon as an individual object that can be used with any number of other objects, which will limit their ability to use it for what it was intended for in the future.
That's clearly the case here, and is quite rampant throughout the community with cries of "HO'ing," "lack of honor," and so forth. It's blatantly obvious few here have learned or practiced ACM purely for what it was designed to do, and even fewer recognize that. Instead, everyone tries to preach their own opinion of what they think flying should be about, instead of teaching pure ACM and letting the pilot decide for themselves what it should be about. It's even more obvious in this thread, where posting a single list resulted in attacks from players who want to add their own interpretation of what air combat should be about. It's this mentality that prevents players from learning, because they never learned to be objective enough to split their bias from the subject matter.
Also, you cannot impart character, nor is character tangible. You can only teach someone skill and hope they have the character to use their skill wisely.
Anyways, back on topic.
I agree, I'm sorry if you misunderstood me, I have problems putting my thoughts to words.
But I wasn't referring to the idea of teaching someone any sort of thing to increase their skill. It makes sense what you said, but...
What I was saying was that as a person, it is best to have both in order to fill that cup that is otherwise half full, in the case of this game. When I first posted, it wasn't in context to the rest of the conversation which concerned learning ACM to better one's self - but instead to target the idea of THE ideal person and their character in comparison to the "cup".
It was just my idea of it. Hope that isnt too rough to understand.
