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Offline DREDIOCK

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #60 on: June 07, 2015, 08:35:35 AM »
Sometimes running to ack is indeed the prudent thing to do. Other times leave one scratching their head though.

Such as one of the more common ones I see that crack me up. The "One pass and runt to ack" pilots.
 You're flying around at 10 K and a high pony comes diving in guns blazing, misses, and instead of using all that E advantage to regain alt advantage and set themselves up for another pass,dives to his base and circles the field ack.
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #61 on: June 07, 2015, 08:38:25 AM »
One big advantage of a P-38 is that players get so fixated on trying to kill the 38 it makes it easy to drag them through ak fire, and fun too.

My solution to this is if Im going to follow you through ack. To kill the ack or neuter the wirble as I go.
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #62 on: June 07, 2015, 09:21:00 AM »
  most of the "hot shots" do not stay and fight when the odds get turned on them

Good point Cobia. Of course this is coming from the one who can fly the A20 like a brewster.  :devil  :salute

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #63 on: June 07, 2015, 01:25:36 PM »
One big advantage of a P-38 is that players get so fixated on trying to kill the 38 it makes it easy to drag them through ak fire, and fun too.

Yeah man, yall were doing a good job the other day when we were attacking yalls base. There were 2 of you trying to up to defend and I'm sitting here like "why is the dude upping to defend in a P38J lol".  Sure enough some how y'all finally got some E going and I wasn't trying to play in the ack. Both of you ended up chasing me for a good bit before I had to do a swirledoodle and force a over shoot. But it definitely worked out for y'all this time and this is really the only preferable way to utilize the ack in a dire defense position.
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #64 on: June 07, 2015, 01:31:14 PM »
. . . I had to do a swirledoodle and force a over shoot. But it definitely worked out for y'all this time and this is really the only preferable way to utilize the ack in a dire defense position.

I remember that for sure.

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #65 on: June 07, 2015, 05:23:10 PM »
if you dont think a persons true character shows thorough in a video game..... especially an online one..... then you are ether blind or foolish....



I state facts.....

 sorry if some of you cant handle the truth.


but dont get your panties too tied up.....it cuts off the circulation :old:

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #66 on: June 07, 2015, 05:28:01 PM »
Ink, dude. I've always liked you. Still do. But I think what some see as a character flaw .... isn't necessarily so. I guarantee you my managing to escape with my cartoon plane and pilot intact when handicapped by a PW was probably seen by an opposing pilot as pure panty pee. I'm not all that concerned. There really is more than one challenge in the game. :)

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #67 on: June 07, 2015, 05:29:22 PM »
Ink, dude. I've always liked you. Still do. But I think what some see as a character flaw .... isn't necessarily so. I guarantee you my managing to escape with my cartoon plane and pilot intact when handicapped by a PW was probably seen by an opposing pilot as pure panty pee. I'm not all that concerned. There really is more than one challenge in the game. :)


when did I ever say going home RTB with a PW was a bad thing.... :headscratch:


I am not talking about the guy that leaves lo fuel..lo ammo...or even guys that are into the war aspect of it(and dont engage but hit DAR)....I am talking about the guys that play a combat sim who are dogfighting...lose advantage and run away to friends and ack....who will not no matter what try to over come in a silly game...where no one dies...

people think because I say you are what you are in game and in the real world I am taking the game "too serious" that is completely wrong I am the one that DONT take it serious and play to truly just have fun fighting...live or die it does not matter to me....

the guys who wont fight at a disadvantage or wont even try to overcome bad odds... are the ones who take it too seriously....and I guarantee they live there life the same way they play this game. 
 
it's kind of hard for some people to take advice for getting along in civilized society from someone who had to be removed from it because they didn't get along.

this is why i wouldn't confuse the real world with games.

games aren't mini versions of the real world. they are playtime.. recreation.  i tend to think there may be something wrong with people who take them too seriously.


maybe you should actually know what you are talking about before you spout off.


or you could just assume whatever it is that makes you feel better about why my words hurt so.
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #68 on: June 07, 2015, 05:41:07 PM »
You guys think too hard.  No one really dies, planes are free.  Go ahead and fight.  That is the point of playing against other players last I checked.

All this bs about strategy, tactics, resetting the fight, this is how life is etc is just a cover for folks thinking that getting pixilated by someone else in thier cartoon airplane is a reflection on them as real people.

Turn around and fight it out.  You might even have fun  :aok

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #69 on: June 07, 2015, 05:43:32 PM »
You guys think too hard.  No one really dies, planes are free.  Go ahead and fight.  That is the point of playing against other players last I checked.

All this bs about strategy, tactics, resetting the fight, this is how life is etc is just a cover for folks thinking that getting pixilated by someone else in thier cartoon airplane is a reflection on them as real people.

Turn around and fight it out.  You might even have fun  :aok


this is exactly what I am saying...I guess I just didn't say it as nice. :o

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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #70 on: June 07, 2015, 05:50:45 PM »
You guys think too hard.  No one really dies, planes are free.  Go ahead and fight.  That is the point of playing against other players last I checked.

All this bs about strategy, tactics, resetting the fight, this is how life is etc is just a cover for folks thinking that getting pixilated by someone else in thier cartoon airplane is a reflection on them as real people.

Turn around and fight it out.  You might even have fun  :aok
I will continue to choose when where and how I die in game if I chose to extend to get separation to reset the fight cause I don't want to turn fight a zeke with my 109 then I will. .I won't play to my opponents strengths and my weakness of that aircraft. ..screw that you want that kill on me earn it. .I'm not going to commit suicide for you
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #71 on: June 07, 2015, 05:52:11 PM »
How bout this....
Instead of "advising" someone else how to play or get into their heads just have "your" fun. You have your fun however you see it, I will have "my fun" however I see it and see that guy over there, yea that guy in the Iron Maiden  shirt....let him have "his fun" as he see's it. There now everyone is happy. You guys are like a bunch of religious fanatics trying to convert others to your beliefs.
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #72 on: June 07, 2015, 06:01:08 PM »
How bout this....
Instead of "advising" someone else how to play or get into their heads just have "your" fun. You have your fun however you see it, I will have "my fun" however I see it and see that guy over there, yea that guy in the Iron Maiden  shirt....let him have "his fun" as he see's it. There now everyone is happy. You guys are like a bunch of religious fanatics trying to convert others to your beliefs.
note to self. ..MUST KILL PIPZ! ! :D :rofl
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #73 on: June 07, 2015, 06:08:22 PM »
note to self. ..MUST KILL PIPZ! ! :D :rofl

Huzzah!!!!!!!!!!  :aok
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Re: So what is the mentality behind ack running?
« Reply #74 on: June 07, 2015, 06:14:44 PM »
Huzzah!!!!!!!!!!  :aok
I'll be hunting you down in my fifi! ! PIPZ lol  :banana:
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