First of all: Since this became a lenghty post (at work - bored), i just wanna say that "Fester's allright"

I have met him in a few "staged duels" in MA on a slow day, and he was very friendly (I lost). However, if he feels the need to gripe on ch 1 or in private, I hope he leaves the newbies alone.
Through the last year I have met the likes of NathBDP, "Seth" and a few more, where each bullet landed on their plane resulted in a ten fold return of nasty accusations and stupid excuses on CH 1. The first time this happened to me I was put off AH for a couple of days, with a sour taste in my mouth. Now I have started to enjoy it, an angry remark from a guy in a chute is almost as fun as seeing hitsprites on a N1K.
When you really get caught up in this game and scores and kill/death-ratios become more important than fun you end up on a declining path of personal enjoyment. I tried to keep a positive K/D ratio a few tours back, but the dissatisfaction of dying far outweighed the joy of a good fight, making me short tempered and resentful when I was flying, (usually trying to regain "lost ground").
Luckily I tried H2H for the first time back then, and I found out that if i kept my competitive fights confined to the H2H arena, i was able to enjoy MA once again.
I have no trouble being blown up repeatedly
in MA - after all, crap (and vulching) happens there as it did in real life, and if u just hang around long enough easy kills come your way.
If you have a problem with untimely deaths (afk or wathever) or think that a kill-spree in MA says something about skill, please challenge someone in H2H and prove yourself.
MA is about teamwork and eating that bullet to see your team's C-47 make the drop, not hanging around at 25k in your P-51 waiting for kills to improve your K/D ratio.
thats it! I'm not gonna post for a while now
