Are you skilled - or just gaming the game?

[Midnight]

How many of you so-called 'skilled' players are actually gaming the game to get your high scores?

One example of 'gaming' is used a lot to either force overshoots, or prevent your plane from overshooting your target. Those of you who do it know what it is.

I try to fly my plane within the limits of what I understand to be physically possible with the airframe I have and the capacity of a human pilot.

So the question is, do you 'play it to the max' and game the game, or do you try to fly your plane in a way that is closer to how it could have actually been flown?

[ra]

It seems that you are implying that there is a way to slow your plane down in AH which can't be done in reality.   How is it done?

ra

[Apache]

Nope, I leave it on all the time...in flight anyway. Oops, you said high scorers. I'm disqualified.

[vorticon]

i fly the plane in a way as wich i do not turn into a rather nice ball of fire while making others suffer that fate.

[ygsmilo]

Sounds like Midnite got spanked by someone,,,

[moose]

i think that killing your engine in flight is about the least of the 'gaming' you can do in this game.

if you know what you're doing, it helps, but then again there were ways in WWII that you could do roughly the same thing with pitch control.

and for those aren't very good to begin with, all it does is make them an even easier target.

you can't paint a broad brush and imply that it helps you that much.

[Fariz]

Originally posted by Midnight
One example of 'gaming' is used a lot to either force overshoots, or prevent your plane from overshooting your target. Those of you who do it know what it is.

I personally use lot of different methods to force an overshoot, can you be more specific?

[muckmaw]

I'm not sure what you mean, but does'nt the flight model limit what you can do in a plane based on the actual data?

The only things I use to force an overshoot are accepted methods of ACM. If there is something I can do to remain competitve that I don't know about, I'd sure like to hear it.

[Voss]

Just this morning Panman and I were attempting to capture V6 from A7 (NDIsles). Just after I launch from A7 Panman calls over the radio (buffer) that a 262 is in the area. Very shortly after that I see the con on dar, but he quickly disappears (he's under dar). So, I grab up to 500 ft. The 262 comes straight at me for an HO. I dive to his left and cut back into him, so he overshoots. He is very fast, and very nearly disappears, but reverses and makes another pass. I offset in a grab, rather then stay pointed away, and again force an overshoot by diving toward the terrain and turning toward the 262. This is repeated six times, until he finally heads off east to investigate another Bishop, which (despite radio warnings) he must have killed. I arrive over V6 and drop the drunks and here comes the 262 again. Again, I play evasive and he makes three passes on the drunks, but misses everytime. Finally, the base is ours and he runs to A5. Had Panman not stayed in the area, I would not have been able to pull this off, as he (the 262) was forced to stay fast.

So, which of us was more gamey?

No, I don't shut engines off, unless I'm in a GV or listening for GV's from an aircraft.

[muckmaw]

If going evasive in a goon is gamey....then I am as Gamey as they come.

Sorry.

[Pongo]

Yes but the troops would be unable to drop after living through loops in the back. If they were alive..
But its lots of fun....

[Kanth]

I game the game, but I'm terrible at it so I have a low score.

So my answer doesn't even count..

do I owe you any money now?

[Ripsnort]

LOL Midnight!  Your posts crack me up! I can just see Gunther Rall accusing one of his adversaries saying "You were gaming the game, but doing a combat manuerver that your A/C was capable of doing!"  

LOL!  Ohh, the arrogance...I cracking up!

[Turbot]

I regret only 1/2 the troops show up in this shot.   Evidentally AK's placed several "interesting" vehicle spawns in the AKDesert (aka GV's R' Us) Map.

[Fatty]

Cool, a conspiracy theory.