Originally posted by Krusty
The only thing KOTH even resembles is DA dueling, and that's pretty darned useless as a skill indicator.
The only way you will ever develop any kind of ACM skill is to learn it dualing.
The MA does not teach this. 95% of all players in the MA will only engage from an absolute advantage. They fly up to 15k or 20k in a TYPH, LA7, or Spit16 and play BnZ. They wait above and pick targets that are already engaged. They will see a single bandit and every single one will chase in an attempt to be the first one to steal the kill. ITs pathetic. Five or more cons on one target. The vulchers circle a field that has no hope of being captured and just rack up wothless kills. They shoot dead planes for the kill. They use friendlys as bait giving no check six so they can get the kill without effort.
Most of the MA is nothing but Alt monkeys who will only engage if they have and advantage in speed/alt or with numbers. The first time they get reversed they run and scream help on the radio like a little girl.
This kind of flying is complete dweebery. There is NO SKILL involved.
Kill ratio has absolutly nothing to do with actual ACM skill. Take my score for example. It is .5 and has always been that way. Take it to the DA and I will kill you every time.
When you can up in the MA from a sacked field and land 5 kills, fly into a full sector or red dar at 5k or less and live to land then you have some skill. You will never, never, never get any skill flying the "MA way"
You will never learn how to do this by playing alt monkey in the MA.
The furball area of the DA is quite different. Although many choose to fly to alt there and then engage they actually have the goal of fighting. So the low con has a chance of neutralizing the alt and winning. The mentality there is to fight to the death. Not run to save their score. This is a great area for learning ACM. In fact it does help somewhat in winning fights in the MA because you learn how to engage low, high and co-alt enemys.
