New players are baby seals looking for some fun

[flippz]

That would lead to the newbie being gang banged as soon as he/she entered any contested area. Each and everyone of the older players would go for the free kill..

That’s why I said only to friendly country men. And honestly I don’t think a lot of guys here “club” seals. I see on 200 many times folks saying he rooms help xxxx out I think he’s new. Or so and so may need a little coaching on the troop drop.
There are many many good guys in here that go out of there way to help new people.  It’s just a few times that I have heard and not even seen new guys being mutilated. I hear on country a lot of times 5 guys helping newbs get air borne and answering questions for them.
I would like for a new guy to have a insignia assigned to them that only friendlies see and also have the aim calculator on for two weeks or so. I would give up a few deaths to a new guy if it meant hooking a new player. I let Yamamoto shoot at me all night one night in the MA to get him hooked.

[bustr]

How does Hitech tell the difference between a real new guy and a returning vet making a two week account getting the short term lead comp sight? And the same if the requirement to get the short term lead comp sight was opening a new subscriber account?

He would do better to introduce a 140Mil ghost ring on a toggle like the ladder, that lights up when the current target is at an angle inside of the 140Mil ring for average lead solutions. While inside of the convergence you set for that plane. Most reflector plates equal a 140Mil lead ring while the radius of a 140Mil ring is about a 30degree lead at 600 for 30cal, 50cal, 20mm. Include a horizontal line 18Mil below the gunsight center which acts as a visual plane reference to your own wings. Slip it in line with the target's wings, then hold lead and shoot. Offline it's a 100% guide while online due to player maneuvering and the Internet, it's a superior reference to the new and inexperienced than a ring and dot. In most cases while you lead or even chase 6, you also elevate by about 18Mil to throw rounds where the con will be in .4sec. How many years does it take the average casual player to even guess this when the majority put the dot on the con's tail every time?

If you want something that makes it fair for everyone, Hitech should have made this the "default.bmp", it works as a gunnery aid for all the fighters in the game. It's the lines of Precession and bullet drop from the K14 gyro compsight. It's up to your eyes and brain to be the active component, which would keep Hitech from having to enable the lead comp sight in the MA.

[Vraciu]

It’s the what?   

[bustr]

Vraciu,

It's the angular position path of a gyroscope controlled reticle as you pull a low angle off constant speed turn with your target. The K14 mirror projects a reticle behind the harmonized centered point on your reflector plate so that the gunsight is calculating your hold over for a shot as your turn effects a gyroscope. You keep the plane in the turn while holding the gyroscopic precession oriented reticle on top of your target. The effective area of use can be described in static vector lines across the reflector plate. It's not a K14 doing all the work for you but, it's close if you understand the basic 100mph ring reticle in most WW2 fighters. One radius of lead for every 100mph your target is traveling 90 degrees to your path at 1200ft. I thought even jet age military flyers were expected to know these basics as part of their fixed air to air gunnery training.

You have a 140Mil ring for up to 30 degree off with precession vector lines covering 45-70. The 18Mil horizontal line covers bullet drop to 1200ft inserted inline with the target's wings. Except for the fact the lead comp offline site won't lock up and quit under high G maneuvering like the real K14 suffered. Playback of offline films with trails enabled shows how the vector lines and horizontal line emulates the K14 as an analog aid. You still have to put in some effort offline with the drones to see how the sight relates to the drones. And if you aren't being your normal perverse cuteness to setup being offended, and really don't know all of this already being a military aviator. It will probably just confuse the heck out of everyone else. The historic sights I made for AH3 usually do for most players I've talked to. Sadly the 100mph principal works perfectly in this game.   

[Shuffler]

It’s the what?   

In short... it's the dohickey.

[flippz]

In reply to busters book,  we are a very small community. We can tell by how guys fly if they are a returning under a new name. I know that don’t help with a lead computing sight but he would be judged very hard for a stunt like that and dowsed accordingly to that manuever.
Most new guys can’t get off the ground in this game you think they can use a 140mil sight with angular drop? 
Today there was a new guy on I asked on 200 for the rooks to help him three times. I have no idea if any did but I saw him alone in about every encounter. On the other hand there was returning player with a new name that in two turns you could tell he was a seasoned player so I see your delima. This a very dangerous ocean for new guys, we all made it but we do t have the mega squads and trainers any more that’s willing to take in new guys and teach them.

[GrandpaChaps]

I never understood the logic that bases changing hands was a bad thing.  That is activity.  The worse problem is everything grinding to a stalemate.

And maps changing.... I never understood how that was bad either.  And, yes, stalemates and a map dragging on and on and on.... we have two extremes (at times).  Small maps that go fast and large maps that take forever to change.

Sorry, don't mean to "hijack" the original discussion, but I think it's a difficult place for HiTech.  You have to find middle ground for your customer base.  Can't please everyone.