Yes you’re right I tend to be condescending in text (maybe in general, shrug) towards players who fully exploit the MA’s facilities to avoid fair combat and risk, even if it is (was) damaging to the game and player-base, driving others away. Just boils my piss.
And then in the next breath, you allegedly don't want people to "play your way"... Do you not see the issue there?
About my Robert Shaw anecdote: I met him in the DA, then bought his book, then worked through it annotating with further study and disregarding sections until eventually discarding it. From this a couple of you seem to have read: I deluded myself that I took him to the DA, schooled him on how Top Gun and Newtonian physics was all wrong, tore out sections of his book and used it for toilet paper before having a fake Iron Cross fashioned for myself out of a Mercedes 190 sump-plug so I'd look good in my next Photoshopped self-portraits. Wow. And you guys are entirely without fault.
LOL bit defensive over that, eh? I said none of what you're stating, I am simply responding to what your actual statements were and the underlying tone with which they were given.
None of my activities in game reflect the personality you are trying to paint me as. Even in this thread I was trying to contribute a constructive thought before you decided you didn't like my tone. If I could get a fight as fast in the MA as I can on the forums...
And you make certain with every single post to mention it. You even help people on the
enemy teams! What a benificent, giving person you are!!!
That anecdote was intended to illustrate how anyone, who’s willing to do the work, can get very good in the frame of reference of the title ‘Aces High’ and how this was the case to the point that some players were doing stuff not even in the reference texts.
I’m bemoaning the loss of that knowledge and activity on a community-wide level, including myself in that community (not above it) and my possibility to continue. Refer to my signature which has been untouched for several years and I meant it.
Violator is bemoaning the fact that he can't apply the leverage of his superior ACM against weaker opponents at a higher hourly rate (although I do like him).
Funny old world.
From the first time a person starts playing a game, a timer starts counting down. The timer is longer or shorter for different individuals, but eventually everybody's reaches zero and they stop playing it. Compared to most other games, this one keeps some people for an astoundingly long time.
The game mechanics aren't helping, but most of the issue is the average rank and file players simply aren't interested in training to become a top 5%er, regardless of how the game works. The game used to be filled with aviation enthusiasts. It's now filled with gamers who want to win.
Wiley.
