So what if no one looses their life by going balls out in every situation and we should all have no fear because you say so Moot. Who made you god to judge in this game short of your personal EGO need to denigrate players or people in general for not living up to your fantasies of game ideology? Your statement is an old canard which sets whole groups of PAYING CUSTOMERS in a group class below your self anointment to GOD of Aces High2 morality. How they play the game is THEIR expression of $14.95 a month. You have now relegated their hard earned money to be worth less than yours. Has HiTech ever publicly, privatly, or other wise given you the right as a HTC spoksman to denegrate paying customers for their game play choices?
Do you ever see HiTech denigrate whole groups of paying customers the way you freely do on this BBS, especialy now that you are a member of the Aces High Traning Group? I've always had the impressing the HTC Trainers were chosen for having their EGO's under control.
These discussons seem to devolve into the complainers and game play officiondos wanting only those who are worthy of thier ideals playing the game or suffering red badges of cowerdness and scorn. What a nose bleed blue blooded special place they want Aces High to be. And I bet Moot has never taken HiTech aside and spoken in a heart to heart manner about how the game is being ruined by all the panty waste cowards and riff raff............
Dude what are you talking about.. Too much incentive to survive will make players fly more timidly. It's a real trend even now. Look at the score guys. It's got nothing to do with me or my ego or anything in your rant. It's simple fact, nothing more and nothing to do with ideology. There's nothing denigrating in my posts. Just plain straight to the point arguing of the facts.
Heck.. Look at WWII. Look at the squads that fly historically. It's about surviving and picking your fights. You might be in the middle of a real hand-wetting fight, and have to bug out of it because making it home is a higher priority. That means combat takes a back seat to landing safely. I don't see how it's denigrating to point this out.
And FYI (and I'm being completely forthcoming here) I wouldnt complain to or try to convince HT that the game is going down the tubes because of cowards, or whatever strawman you imagine. The first thing I'd talk to him about are the physics of the FMs, pick his brain on the strat mechanics of the game and air combat... And ask him about using the CT AI to give players 24/7 practice on pretty much anything feasible.. e.g. bring up the clipboard and click on "offensive practice > barrel roll", and then set the AI difficulty to "slightly better" than the player... so that it would adapt to the player and force him to push his best that bit further. And then when either AI or player is shot down, click on "replay", and instantly the player is zoomed back to the start of that lesson/practice session. That would be excellent tool for players. They could have the AI flying any ACM in the whole encyclopedia of air combat, just a click away.
That's the type of thing I'd bend HT's ear on because I like taking stuff apart and putting it back together. I like systems. I like analyzing stuff. If that makes for incisive debunking of erroneous arguments on the forum.. It's not out of ego or ideology or anything. I just have a knack for debate and shaking things down. It's not personal.
