Once again, for those of you who choose to ignore what I'm saying, and to repeatedly make this about any one country, or any one person, or any one plane. Read carefully.
The ENY limit rarely affects me and when it does, I fly another plane. Not a problem for me. From a personal enjoyment standpoit I DON'T CARE. It is NOT all about me, or my favorite plane. I don't have a problem with flying the TBolt or the Corsair. As much as you'd LIKE for this to be the case it is not. Get over it. I'm just as bad in one as I am the other, and I don't need this game to stroke my ego.
This is not about the Rooks being "persecuted" no matter how much you'd like that to be the case. It IS about any player on any side who happens to like a particular plane, and is forced to either abandon that plane or switch sides, neither of which he WANTS to do. I really don't care if he's a Bishop or a Knight, or a Rook. I don't even care if it is a person I have a personal dislike for. He's playing a GAME because he WANTS to, because he ENJOYS it. I don't give a damn WHAT he flies, he can have it. It's part of his fun. More power to him.
The absolute worst he can do to me is shoot me down in virtual reality. Big fat hairy freaking deal. And I'll still fight him if he has an ENY 5 plane and three buddies with ENY 5 planes, and I'm alone. I'll fly out of my way and specifically go there to fight him and his buddies, even alone. I do not need a silly GAME as a yardstick to stroke my ego or prove my manhood. If I'm in the mood to play, I'll take any fight, against any plane, and any pilot. I'll go look for a better pilot who always beats me, and fight him over and over, and don't care if I lose every time, so long as I most often make a decent fight of it. If the odds get too bad, I'll either log for a while, or move.
I don't want to see anyone face overwhelming odds every time they log on. But I have yet to see that happen to any one side on a daily basis for even a week. I log on at least five out of seven days, often more. And despite all the Bravo Sierra to the contrary, I've seen the Rooks outnumbered and down to 1/3 or less the fields of either of the other two countries as many as 2 or 3 nights in any given week, and if you divide 7 days by three countries, you get 2 1/3 days each, so that ain't too bad at all. I've logged on and found Rooks to be in the hole on just about any night of the week but Sunday, and a time or two I've seen it then. I've seen Knights or Bishops with the upper hand 1 or 2 nights a week a piece most every week. To hear a bunch of people around here tell it, the Rooks have both countries down to 3 or 4 fields and getting vulched to pieces at least 5 out of 7 nights every week. That's the biggest crock of crap I've heard since I started flight sims 6 or 7 years ago.
I'm going to go and celebrate my daughter's birthday, and then fly. I'm sure I'll here plenty of whines tonight about numbers and altitude. I'll ignore them because they are whines. If you are looking for someone to give you a level field or to come at you with no advantage, quit playing against real people and go find an AI game. Enjoy yourselves, I know I will.