Pyro,
No major offense intended. For me it's been more a debate about the problem this is a symptom of: marketing everything to death.
But collecting personal information for private gain such as how people spend their time and money outside of AH
AND are not sharing the results is what I am criticizing. Plenty of other companies use public polls on their websites which allow you to see the results without building the poll into the game. I am expressing my personal preference (and long winded reasoning for that preference) for that format over the one you have chosen. The website poll may not get everyone that plays, but only because that is their choice: to be oblivious to your marketing needs and simply enjoy playing the game. They obviously know where the website is or they wouldn't have been able to download the game. I prefer to have the choice and don't see why anyone outside of HTC itself would be opposed to that.
Poll questions about what people would like to see in AH... i.e. planeset and feature clearly benefit me as a user directly. I would still prefer they be asked on a webpage and the results posted publicly. But, given the choice between compromising my anti-marketing attitude and not voting for the P-40B in AVG colors... I would have to answer the poll
That is what I meant by willing to answer some poll questions.
Originally posted by muckmaw
Why do I have the sinking feeling Streak is counting bullets, and booking a flight to New York?
Does my profile say, New York? I need to clarify, I live on the NEW side of York, England. 
1) I don't have to count my bullets: I have 11 x 30 round AR-15/M-16 magazines that are always topped off and since rounds come 20 to a box, it means there are 10 leftover. I have 10 x 7 round 0.45 ACP mags plus 3 x 8 round 0.45 ACP mags that are always topped off and since rounds come 50 to a box, it means there are 6 leftover. The 600 rounds of 9mm are leftover from my dad's police issue which he transferred to me since I have a nice arms safe to store all of our weapons and ammo. I was the small arms petty officer on USS Dolphin and pretty much maintain my own weapons the same way I maintained the Navy's.
2) As a law abiding citizen, I could never actually bring my rifle to the New England area since most of the states there have decided that black rifles with plastic handguards and stocks with medium firepower are just too dangerous compared to the large caliber super accurate hunting rifles that are still legal. There is a federal commerce law that guaranteed my right to transport my legal weapons in one state to another legal state even though I had to travel through states where they were illegal. Since the California laws (where I was stationed) listed weapons specifically by manufacturer and model number, my "Colt Match-grade HBar Sporter" was legal there whereas as the nearly identical "Colt AR-15A2" was illegal (funny pointless laws). Of course my rifle was made just after they removed the bayonet lug to try to appease extremists opposing sale of "military grade" firearms
So much for historical accuracy.
3) Use of deadly force is only justified in response to actions that a reasonable person would know or should know could result in death or serious bodily harm, the theft of hazardous items such as weapons or explosives, or in defense of national security. A difference of opinion and calling me liberal pinko-commie names is your right as a US citizen, not anything that would set off a gun toting psycho like me.
4) My IQ is high enough that if I wanted someone dead, it wouldn't happen in any way that would be traceable to me. What's the point of killing my enemies if I have to go to jail or be executed myself?
5) Anyone else that contributes to keeping AH alive can't possibly be someone I would feel too much ill will towards unless they are liars or criminals. I really do love AH and hope it continues to be the best air combat flight sim. The only thing that really pisses me off are liars. Salesmen tend to be liars. Marketing polls are tools of salesmen. Therefore marketing polls tend to piss me off.
6) This thread keeps getting larger and digressing like almost every thread I participate in... help, I can't stop typing and posting... must keep arguing... I contradict therefore I am
