Originally posted by moot
Inhale, kill, exhale.
http://www.jabostaffelhq.netprism.netthat has been the JB motto since back in AW, just an FYI ; )
as far as gameplay, i think it is a bunch of factors. some posted here:
Lets face it, if you are flying one of these birds, and are of average skill level (by definition most of the players) and allow yourself to get low or slow (god forbid both!) you are dead meat
as a generalization yes. you can be doing great, taking a dora down to full flaps, and really tearing it up, but there will always be that la7 or spit IX to come cherry pick you
The unmitigated gall of some people amazes me. BnZ'in in a BnZ fighter? Everyone should turnfight everything. That's the way it was in WWII.
along the same lines... it is annoying to be a spit or in my case a 109E and have that la7 or pony just zoom down, then back up like a misshaped yo-yo on a giant string.
on the flip side of that it is more annoying for that spit / 109e to complain to you in the fast plane that you don't "fight" you ARE fighting, to the strengths of the fast plane, not it's weaknesses. if i wanted to take a 262 and hover @ 160 on the deck, you;d say i was flying it dumb. if i were to take a spit5 to 25k and chase jugs and ponies around you'd say im flying it dumb.
the biggest problem i think is the instant reward society we have been designing in the world. people are getting greedier, more demanding, and easier. they want things their way, or they get upset. it is in the liberal ways of parenting nowadays. it is better to give the child what they want than to possibly "emotionally injure" them with dissapointment.
there is no "fat kid on the bench" in youth sports anymore, because he has to be allowed to play, even though he might be more worthless on the playing field than a lump of manure. that gives that child a false sence of ability, no matter what the activity is, and then that child expects to be able to do all things as well as everyone else.
flash forward to years later, this lump of a person actually thinks they can do anything, and have been given "help" and artifical accolades for so long they think the real world will be as nice. when someone comes along and does a task better than them, making them look bad, they get upset, and demand to be given the same respect / reward as the other person who can do "it" even though they can't.
this has also rubbed off on the parents, and much of society. gimme gimme gimme, now now now. i want my dinner instantly, and i will cause trouble at mcdonalds if my food isn't instant, and perfect. if a company doesn't make me a healthy food that is instant, i will sue the food makers for making me fat. it CAN'T be my fault, because i have been told im "special" and "perfect just the way i am".
with mentality like that propagating, everyone want's everyone else to fly "their" way, and of course everyone else is "wrong" in the way they play the game.
even the people who dont believe this new age crap get sucked into the world of it. here's voice A B and C whining up a tornado about how their gameplay or whatever is "right" and "the best" now voice D has to speak a little louder just to be even heard. of course with the dissenting view brough out, the tornado becomes a hurricane trying to drown out anything else, because they have been taught if they make more of a fuss, are louder, and more demanding, eventually their opposition will just give in to shut them up.
anyway i rambled on here, but i think you understand what my thoughts on the topic are.
it's not the gameplay per say that is the root problem
