Originally posted by Oldman731
Funny, perhaps, but generally true.
FWIW, I'm with Sakai on this, as most of you already know. If you simply want to run up your kills, seems to me the MA is the best place. If you want to have good aerial fights, you won't find them if your opponents are all getting killed on the runways.
- oldman
That all depends on what you're looking to achieve. It also soley depends on your own decision and action.
If you're wanting to help capture a field (be it just you and another or a whole gaggle of yas) then making sure nothing ups from that field's runway is a pretty smart and efficient move to make. It assists in your goal. If the the pilot being vulched keeps steadfastly trying to up unsuccessfully and doesn't like it and types in channel one (and even later posts in the forum) that he doesn't like it then that's really not your problem. He may rationalize, he may make an emotional appeal, he may take a stroll down memory lane (whether it's selective memory or not) - that doesn't change a thing.
If you're the one getting vulched at a field that has enemy cons all over it (even if that IS all they're doing and they have NO interest in capturing the field) then upping there repeatedly while chastising, pleading or attempting to appeal to their sense of honor on the radio (and possibly later in the forum) isn't really the wisest choice of actions, IMO. You, of course, have every right to do so but I wouldn't expect it to lead to an all around conversion of CT players to play by that self-imposed standard. I'm pretty sure it ain't gonna happen.
If you're looking for some air to air fights this is what I would do to achieve that. Don't try to up from a field that has several red dots over it (or a major darbar if the radar's been hit and you tried to up, not having looked out the tower window for a few seconds first and you got to look at the runway for maybe 4 seconds before you died). Up from a field that "looks clear" then fly to the dar that "looks even." It works 98.7% of the time.
I like yas from way back OM. Sakai too, for that matter. I just find the two of yas both unrealistic and not firmly based in "CT reality" when either of yas get in this "What happened to the good `ol CT where everyone fought with chivalry?" like.
Oh ... and yes ... I seldom take bingo or winchester calls seriously (unless, perhaps, the subject and I had just had one helluva sweaty dogfight ... and perhaps I'm low or empty myself). I don't give such calls either. I'd much rather keep my poor SA to myself, if that's the case. Or maybe I'll help a friendly more if the enemy con(s) still view(s) me as a threat. Guess it's all in how you percieve things.
If the CT was a boxing ring I'd be much more tempted to see the "Marquis of CTbury" rules or sumpin. Hell, OM ... do you, of all people, really think rules (in the virtual world even) just spontaneously form and are adhered to by the general public? Nope ... HTC is the law here and every action complained about short of tos violations are 99% of the time ... a waste of mine.
