First, I need to issue the usual disclaimers.
1. I am absolutely BAFFLED at the idea of anyone either valuing their (admittedly enjoyable ) AHII time so much or valuing their non-AHII time so little that they could possibly spend so much time in the MA as to wrack up, I don't know, 600-odd kills in a month. That's, admittedly, a values / subjective / opportunity cost of time issue. Hey, have at it.
2. I am, as self-identified in 1., a mere part time stick. I think I have 10 kills this tour for about as many sorties and am doing somewhere around 1:1 (thinking .78 counting the vanishing -denom defeating +1) - which tells you that my talent level is mediocre, at best (gunnery << piloting).
3. I get the desire to win using tactical play. I get the OODA loop. Hell, I play USTA. I can't tell you how many times I've walked away from a match feeling victorious but slightly unclean for harping on an opponent's obvious weakness and learning/improving near nil. That said, it's not the only reason I play. I have a copy of Shaw and have read badboy's dissertation on E-M with great interest.
4. I both get the "Skyyr Issue" and his answer. He vulched me last w/e. He's killed me when I'm on fumes. He's killed me from alt. I honestly don't think I've ever engaged him, in the 5 or 6 times he's killed me, in anything resembling a fight. It's usually more like, "high 190..." <check 6> "BOOM"... Tower. No fun - if that's what you're after. But - he scores. People play for different reasons. That appears to be his, full stop.
All that said, reading Latrobe, a guy I fought all of ONCE - and got owned, but only after realizing, at distance, that he was NOT allowing me to get an advantageous approach (shoulda begged off in my g6 against his Pony - but NOOO...), I was amused, in part due to the butthurt imparted by Skyyr, but also because I love satire and the use of the word "gay" with apparent impunity, but also quizzical: what did he do to you? Was there a battle of the titans of which I am unaware?
I think a Skyyr/Latrobe DA battle is a must to settle the skill question. It will not, however, settle the game question, to which I award grudging, if butthurt respect.
Butthurtedly yours, PJ_GZ - and beware... I may get hot someday and land a lucky shell.
