I’m just f**kin pissed the game’s going down the toilet and this sticking of heads in the sand has been a contributory factor. In retrospect a good dose of bitter honesty shoved down the throat farther upstream might have saved this game.
None of you actively posting have actually paused and given some thought to why the MA is the only populated arena have you? Why AvA is essentially a sideshow, events nearly extinct, The duelling / Match Play Arena like ghost-towns, DA lake removed. Anyone, no? No profound insight into the significance of that? Course not. Even the OP initiated the tedious, inevitable, numb-skulled undercurrent of "well, if you don't like it, leave it".
You are not in the game yet you still try to destroy it.
I still fly and have served enough time and come far enough to make informed comment. You just don’t like things that Fugitive and I are saying and would say anything to shut out the noise. I've lost count of the number of players - new and old - I've trained, sometimes for months on end and at the cost of hours per week for years. Some are even in this thread. And I was not motivated by recognition as has been suggested, it was to try and
keep equitable gameplay alive. This is commensurate to wishing to destroy the game? You can point your finger elsewhere.
Numbers are rising despite folks like you.
You have to be pretty desperate to confuse small clusters of returning players with new players. Ask lots of questions do they, how to set up controllers, how to turn without stalling, who can help them with ACM? Sounds of squeakers filling the airways, no?
The MA is now the only arena with any noticeable activity left and is now as thoroughly inaccessible to new players as it could possibly be. It is replete with selfish, shortsighted Charlie Sheen-replicas, not particular skillful at dogfighting but absolutely tiptop at risk assessment and when to run to save their planes / scores / egos (well, that’s what they did in the war). Oldman isn’t even anything remarkable in his self-centred view of all things AH, he’s pretty standard now.
All the diversity of gameplay has been driven out of AH replaced with an RPS bolstering to resolve the imbalance between an inability to learn against an unwillingness to accept limitations. And on the forum / 200 week in, week out all you hear is how Millennials are the problem with their (nonexistent) need for instant gratification. Projection, in its purest form.
Realistically Arlo - I've noticed you've been doing your damnest to try and troll me since I've dropped back in - I'm not interested in arguing with you. I just don't particularly care what you say or think and your motivation is transparent. If you really want to have a go at me then your only option for a meaningful contest would be to come into the MPA and fight 1-on-1. You can even fly an F4U-4 if you like. No perks in there (happily extend the offer to anyone else offended by anything I say or have said). This will afford you the opportunity to find out what my motivation for playing AH actually has been.
Why don't you PM me for an appointment.
