I like logging on, finding a good base to fly from and staying in the same plane as long as I can, I take off full of fuel and try to intercept whatever I can find, moving around the map from rearm pad to rearm pad!
Some days that works well, others,,not so much! It just seems more realistic to me to have to do it that way,, I'll assign myself a job, protect the strats or keep up a fighter sweep of a certain sector.
When I GV, I'm just looking for the best fight I can find, I don't care about the base captures or winning the war, I just want some good competition , it is nice to find a few players that are good enough to send me to the tower more than once,,I hate the GV drivers that have to go get ords and bomb a good GV fight or capture the base ruining it, so I try to not do that myself, if I get bombed to many times, I'll up a fighter and fly cap over the GV fight, looking for heavies coming in.,, Just my 2 cents
On another note,, Salute to Nordman today,, Darn fine shooting in your M-4, I don't run across many as good as you in it!