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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Yarbles on October 08, 2009, 05:03:28 AM
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Its probably the time of year but also I have noticed a few people leaving the game. Anyway I used to lazily look for newbs in bombers and find a fare few in fighters to massage my score and make me feel like I was better than I am.
Now everyone I meet seems to be at least competant and few are looking for or taking the odd head to head, HO or close angle shot. It makes me embarassed if I do where in the past 9 times out of 10 I expected them to try a shot most seem to be looking for a proper fight.
Had about 3 nice fights in the ma yesterday and I cant find any easy kills anymore. One fight was f6 vs Spit 14 and in one merge I hoed him a bit which I felt bad about but it wasnt significant to the fight. In the end he had allot of pings on me but I got a good broad angle cannon burst in and took him appart. He wouldn't salute me though and from the time the fight lasted he must have been a much better pilot than me. I would think an F6 no match for a 14 so he had nothing to prove. I gabbed E advantage and kept trying for a rope or a bnz like you would expect and he put up a better fight than I could ever have managed. I asked him if he wasnt happy but no reply. I suppose he thought I should have fought in close but that is ust not the spit 14 way surely:frown:
But above all better players now and better standards of play and I reckon it will raise my game :salute :aok
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Hey as long as I'm playing you'll still get easy kills I'm usually making a cup of tea taking a whizz rolling a smoke or generally not paying the amount of attention required for a small fee I'll even let you vulch me! bargain! :lol :lol
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People are learning its more fun to actually fight...... :noid
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People are learning its more fun to actually fight...... :noid
Agreed but its a tough learning curve if all you do is die:
My experience was I only got kills from Ho ing in the very early days with a K/D of about 1:20. Then I got my first proper kill shooting someone as they were coming in to land when they werent looking behind them. In those days I had barely a 50:50 chance against a goon :lol
Then I got a trainer :rock
K;D 1:1
Now with allot of picking and cowardice I can get 2;1 but not in a regular fight so I am back in training again and learning my ACM'S etc BUT i feel like I am in the game.
Twin tail called me "Feeble Yarbles" last night and I thought there are allot opf people I dont stand a chance against still but at least I can now begin to appreciate what it takes. Its fun learninG new stuff especially when something new actually works :x
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school has started back up. game play will go downhill again when the long holidays roll around.
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Agreed but its a tough learning curve if all you do is die:
My experience was I only got kills from Ho ing in the very early days with a K/D of about 1:20. Then I got my first proper kill shooting someone as they were coming in to land when they werent looking behind them. In those days I had barely a 50:50 chance against a goon :lol
Then I got a trainer :rock
K;D 1:1
Now with allot of picking and cowardice I can get 2;1 but not in a regular fight so I am back in training again and learning my ACM'S etc BUT i feel like I am in the game.
Twin tail called me "Feeble Yarbles" last night and I thought there are allot opf people I dont stand a chance against still but at least I can now begin to appreciate what it takes. Its fun learninG new stuff especially when something new actually works :x
funny i consider TT an easy kill :devil
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funny i consider TT an easy kill :devil
Ive never fought him but from what he was saying on 200 he sounded like a top ace in the game :frown: :D
I hope this isnt going to end in me getting embarassed in the DA :uhoh
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Standards Rising
We've upped our, so up yours.
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Ive never fought him but from what he was saying on 200 he sounded like a top ace in the game :frown: :D
I hope this isnt going to end in me getting embarassed in the DA :uhoh
The DA with TT is a lose lose anyway.....if you lose the fight well you lost the fight... but if you win he will just go complaining about a HO
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The DA with TT is a lose lose anyway.....if you lose the fight well you lost the fight... but if you win he will just go complaining about a HO
Yes when I ran into him last night he had just been vulched by a squaddie and was whingeing about it on 200. I suggested he should stop crying about it and up from a nearby base to try and break the cap. That is when the insults started ;)
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After not playing for a month or so I logged on a few days ago and got HO'd by the first plane I met so instead I tried being the only one brave (or stupid) enough to up at a fully capped field for the vulchers a few times then logged off.
Yep... big changes. :rolleyes:
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After not playing for a month or so I logged on a few days ago and got HO'd by the first plane I met so instead I tried being the only one brave (or stupid) enough to up at a fully capped field for the vulchers a few times then logged off.
Yep... big changes. :rolleyes:
If there is a capture in progress it makes perfect sense to me to vulch otherwise its nonsense of course. Upping from a capped base never makes sense to me but I see the game from my perspective only and if I was a furballer above all I would see vulching as just unsporting. :)
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After not playing for a month or so I logged on a few days ago and got HO'd by the first plane I met
The way it reads to an experienced player: you HO'd the first plane you met.
Dont get mad, or be embarrased. Just accept it for the truth that it is.
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People are learning its more fun to actually fight...... :noid
In what arena is this observation being made?
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In what arena is this observation being made?
We're not telling you...you'll muck it all up :devil
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Been fun except for Tuesdays. My computer is acting up because of a chip fan out. I'll be taking that one offline and putting another on this weekend probably. The stutters are about to drive me truely crazy. lol
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Standard can't be rising in LW arenas because
- I'm still here &
- I fly Tempest this tour.
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He wouldn't salute me though and from the time the fight lasted he must have been a much better pilot than me. ... I asked him if he wasnt happy but no reply. I suppose he thought I should have fought in close but that is ust not the spit 14 way surely:frown:
Probably got ignored because you were flying a spit.
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Probably got ignored because you were flying a spit.
Spit 14 is a spit in name only ;) :D
I think he didnt salute cos I hOed him early in the fight which iregreted though did no damage. I hoed him because I though he was Hoing me which was still foolish as I should have pulled right.
Anyway it came down in the end to he stalled it a couple of times and the second I dont think he recoverd in time to avoid a beam on atack and I think he sulked becuase he was being repeatedly bounced and I wouldnt turn with him. Why should I turn fight in an unstable plane with a monster climb rate. He twice avoided the dive and followed me up and lost control is how I saw it. Probably the film will come on and show how deluded I am though but to me it looked like a fare fight.
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Spit 14 is a spit in name only ;) :D
I think he didnt salute cos I hOed him early in the fight which iregreted though did no damage. I hoed him because I though he was Hoing me which was still foolish as I should have pulled right.
Anyway it came down in the end to he stalled it a couple of times and the second I dont think he recoverd in time to avoid a beam on atack and I think he sulked becuase he was being repeatedly bounced and I wouldnt turn with him. Why should I turn fight in an unstable plane with a monster climb rate. He twice avoided the dive and followed me up and lost control is how I saw it. Probably the film will come on and show how deluded I am though but to me it looked like a fare fight.
No, I'm serious.. you were probably ignored because you were flying a spit.
I ignore spit and LA-7 drivers. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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No, I'm serious.. you were probably ignored because you were flying a spit.
I ignore spit and LA-7 drivers. I'm sure I'm not alone.
What do you fly?
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The way it reads to an experienced player: you HO'd the first plane you met.
Dont get mad, or be embarrased. Just accept it for the truth that it is.
No. Actually I spotted the guy and was fumbling around looking for a key on my keyboard and when I couldn't hit it I looked down for a second and as I looked back up the guy was HOing me. I tried to evade but by then it was already too late.
I didn't have any intent to HO and was surprised the guy was actually flying straight at my 30mm.
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Nothing solely.
Been toying with the P39 lately.. having fun with that.
Mostly heavy bombers.
Val or TBM when I'm feeling onery.
SBD is fun..
IL2
F4U and P47 when I need some American iron fix.
P38, of course..
And a whole lot of 5".
I pretty much ONLY fly a spit when the squad takes them.. and, even then, I'm starting to balk at that. Same with LA-7.
<edit> Oh, yeah.. and when I'm in buff-hunting mood, I grab an FW.
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No, I'm serious.. you were probably ignored because you were flying a spit.
I ignore spit and LA-7 drivers. I'm sure I'm not alone.
Compare Seafire to A6M5 and Spit 9 to 109f4. Try flying the Spit 14.
My point is the 16 is probably La7 easy to get kills in but not the other 3 above I fly or even the Spit 8.
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I ignore spit and LA-7 drivers.
seriously? you wont return a salute from a spit pilot?
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seriously? you wont return a salute from a spit pilot?
If someone gives a good fight I'll salute them. It is just rare to get a good fight from spit pilots. I think it stems from the fact that so many new folks fly them.
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seriously? you wont return a salute from a spit pilot?
People have strange prejudices I judge someone by how they fly not what. But if I get a good slow and low fight from a 47 I am more likely to salute that one than a zero.
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If someone gives a good fight I'll salute them. It is just rare to get a good fight from spit pilots. I think it stems from the fact that so many new folks fly them.
Perhaps with the exception of the 16 people overestimate spits. I think the pilot I beat in the f6 was never going to let me beat him in his mind because I was in a spit. It particularly exposes the prejudice in that I was in a 14 ;)
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I would think an F6 no match for a 14 so he had nothing to prove.
Don't think so fast.
:salute 11
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seriously? you wont return a salute from a spit pilot?
Never say never.. but almost every encounter I've had with them wasn't a salutable encounter.
Normally, my response would be 'which of the 5 spits were you?'
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Don't think so fast.
:salute 11
Well if it is match and I beat him then he may have been sulking and that is what I suspect calling me a Hoing spit dweeb even though I was flying a handfull and the kill wasnt a Ho.
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Should be no problem as long as you didn't Ho or try to Ho.
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I'd salute a good turnfighter before I salute a bnz Tempest.
I guess some people think it's more sporting to pick from 18k, but no one has to worry about a good fight from me, LOL.
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In what arena is this observation being made?
not really an arena thing just seems the community might be finding this out, I think the tourneys BE is having are helping it :salute
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Should be no problem as long as you didn't Ho or try to Ho.
Yes well I did early in the fight :o :o :bolt:
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