Originally posted by DoKGonZo
AH (and games like it) is not about hand-eye coordination. It helps, for sure, but doing well requires SA. Buckets of it. So many games make the player the center of the universe and that doesn't prepare them at all for something like the AH MA where they're just seals waiting to be clubbed.
Nor do most "video games" require the kind of research, decision making, and practice that a game like AH does. Just think about how much knowledge and how many decisions an AH player uses and makes from take-off to landing for a typical flight.
Doc ... so very true, but these guys adapt to any game with ease ... point being ... they have lots of experience in the genre of video games.
I think that you are only enforcing what I really was saying ...
A 6 year old will/would not have the where-with-all to aquire the SA needed to kill 6 planes on her first sortie.
If my kids, who have a hell of a lot more "video gaming" experience (abeit not Air Combat Sim), can't fly for more than 5 minutes without having the first con they run into pwn them ... then she sure as hell isn't too.