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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Wingnutt on January 03, 2009, 01:41:54 AM
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I seem to have hot and cold periods with different aircraft.. I will fly the jug with nothing but success for a week or 2, then as if somebody threw a switch, I cant hit anything, I become a con magnet. Im good for little more than serving as the local bullet sponge..
switch to the P38.. good times again.. for a while.. then same thing happens with that ride.. switch again, maybe back to the jug, maybe to a F6F, or a G2.. and so on and so on etcetc.
I see quite a few folks who spend, perhaps not all but the VAST majority of their time, in one plane.. which makes sense, the longer you fly a particular aircraft the more proficient you will become in it.. doesent seem to work that way with me... If i just sit there and FORCE myself to stay in one ride I will just get worse and worse. Im guessing its all psychological.
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Im guessing its all psychological.
It is.
I'm suffering from the same disorder. I have about a dozen planes that I prefer, but couldn't bear being stuck in a single type for more than a tour... and even that would be more "work" than fun.
So many planes, so little time ... ;)
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Im guessing its all psychological.
i would say it is psychological
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It is.
I'm suffering from the same disorder. I have about a dozen planes that I prefer, but couldn't bear being stuck in a single type for more than a tour... and even that would be more "work" than fun.
So many planes, so little time ... ;)
:rofl :rofl :rofl Wow I didn't know there any other planes than the f4u1a. I really need to expand. Use to fly the f6 alot but the spixteens put a dampner on that. Still like the f6 though. Great mission plane. How Greebo does it I really don't know. But I'm watching.
Flew the dora for the first time ever last camp and the a8 for the first time a few month's ago. Flew the TA152 a bunch about 6 camps ago. Fly the pony every so often.
Back to the subject. Well I have my ups and downs in my favorite plane. I usually think what did I do wrong. Today I augered in an f4. How do you auger in an f4!!! Doh. Oh well!
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I seem to have hot and cold periods with different aircraft.. I will fly the jug with nothing but success for a week or 2, then as if somebody threw a switch, I cant hit anything, I become a con magnet. Im good for little more than serving as the local bullet sponge..
switch to the P38.. good times again.. for a while.. then same thing happens with that ride.. switch again, maybe back to the jug, maybe to a F6F, or a G2.. and so on and so on etcetc.
I see quite a few folks who spend, perhaps not all but the VAST majority of their time, in one plane.. which makes sense, the longer you fly a particular aircraft the more proficient you will become in it.. doesent seem to work that way with me... If i just sit there and FORCE myself to stay in one ride I will just get worse and worse. Im guessing its all psychological.
I notice when i switch to a another plane type that I focus on my task more. I also fly slightly more conservatively. Once you get used to a plane you get bolder and pay less attention. Once this happens I tend to take foolish chances.
Helm ...out
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When I'm doing bad, I take up a C-Hog get 5 or 6 kills, then land it. I don't think I got killed at all during the December tour in the C-Hog.
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I seem to have hot and cold periods with different aircraft.. I will fly the jug with nothing but success for a week or 2, then as if somebody threw a switch, I cant hit anything, I become a con magnet. Im good for little more than serving as the local bullet sponge..
switch to the P38.. good times again.. for a while.. then same thing happens with that ride.. switch again, maybe back to the jug, maybe to a F6F, or a G2.. and so on and so on etcetc.
I see quite a few folks who spend, perhaps not all but the VAST majority of their time, in one plane.. which makes sense, the longer you fly a particular aircraft the more proficient you will become in it.. doesent seem to work that way with me... If i just sit there and FORCE myself to stay in one ride I will just get worse and worse. Im guessing its all psychological.
Well, the plane doesnt change. :)
I get this too sometimes, but more less in different nights. One night I'll go 20 and 1 and the next night I'll go 1 and 20.
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i get this all the time. for a few weeks i can not miss then i can't hit anything at d200.
I'm convinced that this is hard coded in2 the game !!!!
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Nutt,
You need to start all over, clear your house of old things and begin new,,,,, start with getting rid of that cat.... :lol
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Nutt,
You need to start all over, clear your house of old things and begin new,,,,, start with getting rid of that cat.... :lol
DasCatt does not appreciate your sarcasm :mad:
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I'm with you! I may be too supersticious but i see that exact phenomenon... I even find it easier to get kills ranked under 100??? Ok maybe thats in my head! I do definitely see the flight model changing just as you observe. Right now the 51 and 109s are everywhere and doing unbelievable things. The easiest thing to change for HT is the power the bullets have and/or the damage a model takes. Its a number in the program... change it and you change the game considerably. Makes sence to me as everyone has a favorite plane and what fun would it be if it sucked all the time... everyone would be flying either the best Z&B or the best turn fighter (i'll let you pick the models) in short order. They have to... its up to us to find the tricks. :cool:
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See Rule #4
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Ive experienced this. One night, everything I look at falls out of the sky in flames, I can't miss. Then other nights my bullets are made of air, every single ping I recieve removes something real important and I have to log before my blood pressure reaches critical levels. I think it's a connection or latency thing. The other night I had NKL5 hanging in a P38, D 200, right in front of me like he was saying "here is my gift to you, just shoot me". A second day noob could have made this shot. Opened up with a big grin and.....Nothing, he flew away unscathed and reversed. As a counter point, the other day I took an A8 appart with .50s from D800 with just a short burst. Weird crap for sure.
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I too see the same thing: some nights I cannot miss, other nights I cannot hit a thing. I am sure it is just chance, but I always explain it to myself as my position in the servers que. Afterall the server has to handle someone first and someone else last ;) I presume that good days I'm near the head of the que, bad days I'm at the bottom. That's my (spurious) excuse anyway.
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I too see the same thing: some nights I cannot miss, other nights I cannot hit a thing. I am sure it is just chance, but I always explain it to myself as my position in the servers que. Afterall the server has to handle someone first and someone else last ;) I presume that good days I'm near the head of the que, bad days I'm at the bottom. That's my (spurious) excuse anyway.
Skyrock owns the servers! :rofl :rofl
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Skyrock owns the servers! :rofl :rofl
No I DO :rock
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I clearly have good nights and bad nights. On a bad night the plane (any plane) feels slow and clumsy and unmaneuverable. On a good nigth the same plane can do wonders. I have even began to suspect that there is some randomizer in the game which gives you better or worse FM when you log in :noid
It is just weird... a bad night does not get any better regardless of how hard or how many times one bangs his head on the wall :)
Maybe someone should do a doctorate research on the subject.... or maybe it is all about Csikszentmihalyi and the Flow :cool:
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I think it is a slow progression from being intent and focused to ...not so much.
I get in a ride and do very well for a while then I find my focus wans and then I start making decisions I shouldn't.
switching to a different ride "resets" the focus switch and I'm good again all of a sudden, rinse and repeat
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I have tried to fly one plane and get good in it.No luck here. After about week and half i was getting picked off by zip codes lol. My problem was not the plane but me,i was trying stuff the plane was not capable off and engaging other fighters which were far superior to mine.Now I got about 10 favorite ones i rotate and choose for the type of fight i think i might be in. It seems to work for me now.
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I too have been suffering from the can't hit nada days. Going on day four now. This morning it finally was enough. It seemed as if my bullets were literally going through the planes without flashes/and causing damage. I re-installed game but haven't played it at all today so taking the day off from it. Hopefully by tomorrow or Monday, it'll be back to normal and I just miss little bit more less.
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This is one of those things I too am affected with I have great days and very bad days so I rotate aircraft around a bit . Or I'll try doing different stuff and sometimes even grab a P-40 for a roll or too . If it gets too hum drum I end up sitting in the tower somewhere and stare at the hanger a while . I had written a post a while back and got good help from lots of the community for help on this , it was lots of remedies so I tried them all and most of them worked to a degree .
But I still fight this problem , but the game is still fun most of the time so I play .
Nutte :uhoh
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It's not the plane so much in my experience. As a shootist what throws me off is changing weapon systems in a variety of ways:
1) Whenever I switch between purely wing mounted guns to a nose or cowl mounted system it messes up my aim for a long time. There are very different mental aiming routines that are changed. This in turn makes you devote a lot of your task loading resources on thinking about your aim when you're engaged.
2) While not as pronounced the same can be said for switching between planes with a single gun/round weapon-types to one with various primary and secondary banks of guns that fire very different rounds. Again task loading is a factor as you must micromanage then when/if/how why to use which set or not.
3) More to do with the plane is something I will mention until the day I die. NOTHING is more important for an aircraft than a great nose-low view over the visually obstructing engine cowling. I actually measured the distance in AH for all forward firing aircraft to determine the best.
I pruned down my planes the the top 10 nose low deflection planes that seem fun to fly also. I really don't think people are fully understanding the significance of excellent gunnery view. It increases everything offensive: minimizes blind shots and opens up a huge repertoire of shotmaking not available to the remainder of the planeset. This is important in that those playing with the nose low planes will improve their gunnery five time as fast as those confined by forward view plane geometry to only 2 or 3 basic shots...
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On side note. I'm open to learning new planes but being there are quite few, hard to decide. I know alot of former pony dweebs like to fly the P38 but I would like to avoid that since its common place already. I wouldn't mind learning the 109s but don't think my patience would serve me well with it. Any suggests on planes?
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On side note. I'm open to learning new planes but being there are quite few, hard to decide. I know alot of former pony dweebs like to fly the P38 but I would like to avoid that since its common place already. I wouldn't mind learning the 109s but don't think my patience would serve me well with it. Any suggests on planes?
Something you gotta work at to get kills.