After reading countless numbers of these kinds of posts, I have come to a conclusion: the timid fliers just don't get it. The evil furballer doesn't want you to fly his way so he can kill you. That is the ultimate goal, yes, but what he wants you to do is take the situation you are in and exploit it to the maximum ammount of benefit, as he would. That's why these guys are so good, not because they are uberpilots or cheat or get lucky, because time in and time out they know how to exploit advantage or even weakness to its maximum potential. In the long run this is going to garner you many kills and get you out of extremely hazardous situations.
That means if you are an la7 driver or 190 fighting a slower lower foe, take the advantage in your situation and use it. I bet if you do without having to call your 5 friends in to help, these so called "whiners" will give you a big on ch200 when you shoot them down. I know I would.
You should equate alt and E to cash flow. The more of both, the more cash you have in the bank. But what's the point of having money if you're not ever going to spend it? I can't tell you how many times I've been in the P40 and I come across a lala dweeb in a 1 on 1, where he obviously has a massive E advantage compared to me. But what does he do? Tries to ho me (in a pitiful attempt) and then bee lines outta there as fast as he came in. Not even an attempt to fight. If I turn to follow, he keeps running. By the time he's 5-6k away I might find one of his buddies to tangle with. THEN he comes around, but only for another ho. Does everyone not see the fault in this? Unless I get lucky and force some kind of overshoot or I ho him back I'm a goner, EVERY time. But he refuses to use every single advantage he has, because why? I have no idea. I'd love to pick apart the brains of someone like Razor, Kite777, Metatron and countless others. My only guess is pure lack of confidence in one's ability to take advantage of the situtation at hand.
What they do is pure waste, plain and simple. They own the entire engagement yet decide its too dangerous because the guy might have a snowballs chance in hell of getting them. Yet, as Urchin pointed out, they still will go for a ho every time. WTF is with this logic? It would be like these guys were dealt a royal flush off the draw in poker, yet still folded because the other guy might have a higher numbered royal flush. Hell, I'd probably go all in on one pair lol.
Maybe the problem is the old vets in the game haven't been active enough in teaching the pups about how to fly and to fight, I don't know. What I do know is game play sucks, as every thread in the BB's points out, no matter which side of the fence you are on. Now, before you guys bash me and others who have already made statements in this thread, I will repeat what I said before, and I'm sure 99% of the guys who know how to fight will agree with me. It's not that we want you to fly "our" way, it's that we want you to fly and use every advantage you have. If you're in trouble, running is perfectly fine with me. But we aren't talking about that. We are talking about when you hold all the cards and have the barrel of the gun pressed up agains the other guy's head. In that situation, it's your prerogative to use all that you have in the bag to down the other guy, because if you don't he might go on to kill more of your countrymen or even worse your squaddies. So look at it as an opportunity to help your coutrymen and your friends. The less enemies left in the air, the less chance you or they will die. So get up, fly that late war hog, get in there and get the job done. Otherwise, you are doing a serious disservice to all who you fly with and call friends, because friends do everything they can to help one another. Running from a perfectly good chance to remove a threat is hardly helping.
