Originally posted by Pongo
Caldwell
if it bothers you so much to be missinterpreted, you should be more carefull what you say.
Personally I think I understood you perfectly.
you croaketh...
"The G.55 certainly deserves to, but fat chance for it to ever get there. Italian a/c just aren't "sexy" to most casual WW2 aviation buffs, a group which AH seems to be increasingly aiming for..."
yup. pretty clear to me.
AH just is not after the quality of player that would be interested in the planes that you are interested in..
sorry it bothers you so much to be seen as pompous.
Yeah right. My mistake was disagreeing with you and pointing out how stupid your comparison between a G.55 and an MB5 was. That was VERY silly of me
. Personally I couldn't give a rat's backside what you think - life's too short. However, since you appear to be slow on the uptake, I'll give it to you again.
AH needs to attract the more casual player to survive, not just
"experts" like you who trawl the AH BBS arguing about things you know jack-s**t about (like the difference between a prototype and a pre-production machine ). Most casual players know little to nothing about Italian machines. They've heard of names like "Spitfire", "Messerschmitt", "Mustang", "Zero" . The reason is they simply aren't exposed to Italian a/c. They do NOT see them in boxed sims which most casual players would have played before ever going near AH. They don't see documentaries about them on the History Channel et al, and they don't see old war movies from the 40s, 50s, and 60s which include Italian a/c.
Exactly just what part of the last paragraph do you disagree with? You think the average Western "casual" player has a great interest in Italian (or Romanian, or Polish, or even Soviet) a/c ? Why do you think almost all sims are based in N/W Europe with combat taking place between British/US and German a/c? My reasoning is that, just as US film studios downplay the intelligence of US movie audiences .(one recent example was renaming "Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone" ,as it was known in the rest of the world, to "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" for the US market), sim developers do the same to their own potential audience and play it safe by producing sims that are set in N/W Europe between the same old suspects.
When I said that most casual players don't find Italian a/c "sexy", I meant exactly that. What I didn't say was WHY I believe they don't find them "sexy" .You apparently then took it to mean that I said they don't find them as such coz they are FR dweebs who don't have the knowledge or class to know any better. Man, it's absolutely amazing how you were able to divine the exact meaning of my words. Most people can have difficulty discerning someone's intent when they are speaking to them face to face and are able to see their body language and hear the inflection in their voice and , yet you assert that you *know* just what I meant.
Sheesh, grow up, dude.You are pissed that I made you look like a twit by pointing out the lack of logic in your prototype argument . What a mistake that was . I'll just agree with your every statement, no matter how ridiculous next time. Then again, since you seem to be incapable of distinguishing between an operational a/c that was built in small numbers yet saw (fierce) active service to a prototype that saw no active service at all and that saw 2 airframes built, I may find it difficult to keep my mouth shut...
