If we are talking "real life" I can understand the above statement, but where's the fun in ALWAYS fighting with the advantage? This is a game after all, why run away to reset a fight you lost an advantage on....if you even had one to start with. Is it smart to dive in on 3 bad guys, no, but its a heck of a lot of fun to beat all three.
For some reason, you don't seem to apply the same logic when a fight happens between a
lesser-skilled average joe vs. a
l33T vet.
Here's the fact, Fugi - by definition a better-skilled player is inherently
ALWAYS fighting with the advantage. I mean, these guys neutralize alt-advantages, can outmaneuver you even with a bigger, fatter plane, can hit you from d600+ when you can't hit the broadside of the barn from d200, pull all kinds of blind-lead shots, and sometimes even beat numbers odds.
It's like a cat complaining to the mice,
"...Hey, fighting these odds can sometimes be fun, so why avoid the danger and run from me? You filthy mice always gang up on me, and then run away when things go bad. Its bad form... "Woo-hoo, from the mice's point of view, the cat being the cat is bad form from the start.
If you want to circle at 20k, and ONLY make a pass at a guy while he's busy, or your coming out of the sun, or your wingman has him roped, you are selling yourself short. The top "cartoon pilots" (not the bozo's at the top of the scoreboard) don't have any special codes, or planes. They have a ton of practice under their belts and know the very edge of the limits of not only their planes, but the ones they are fighting. There are guys flying this game that can run up 50 kill runs with-out a death and NEVER go over 10k ! By limiting yourself to 20K BnZ runs and disengaging everytime you "think" you have lost the advantage, then that is ALL you will ever be able to do.
So? Ever consider the fact that perhaps they don't need, or want, to do anything else?
The vets say they don't care about winning or losing, and all they want is a fun fight.
In that case, they are welcome to form a "squad of doom" or something, and always up from bases directly under attack from the enemy horde. I mean, upping from vulched bases, fighting against 5~10 to 1 odds, survivng the onslaught.. who cares if the K/D falls below 1.0 and you are shot down every 30 seconds? Would this not be the ultimate test of skill, wits, and luck? I mean it's got everything - evading enemy attack, neutralizing alt advantages, single-handedly killing multiple enemies, the vulchee breaking the vulch... wow! The ultimate adrenaline rush.. no boring alt grabbing, the fight begins the moment you spawn!
If they really like the "fun of combat", then they shouldn't have any problems enjoying a fight they are destined to lose, right?
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Well, for some reason the vets (especially the vets) don't ever seem to show their face in a fight like this.
In the end, this is a competitive game, and the purpose is to win.
It's only fun when you have a reasonable chance of winning, and the vets saying, "I enjoy the pure fun of combat" is basically bullshi*.
What they are really saying is, "I enjoy the pure fun of combat (
even with a few handicaps... I still have a very good chance of winning since I'm l33T, and whatever 'advantages' those bone-headed n00bs secure can be easily nuked. Besides, I can humiliate their existence by beating them with those handicaps, as long as they stick around long enough for me to slap them silly... except these damn fools won't let me kill them.. grrrrr)"
If I run away from a fight I certainly DO NOT believe I won the fight, however if I make someone run away from me, I believe I have won the fight, they have forfeited the fight to me.
You don't win unless you shoot me down, and I don't lose until I'm shot down.
End of story.
(Besides, it's wierd ain't it? If you consider it a win when the enemy runs away, then what's the problem? You've won the fight! Yay! Why complain?)
