I'll make it personal so dig those teeth in and pick-pick it to death...
My favorite part of the old DAR system was going on NOE missions as escorts, never knowing whether the NME would get wise (or spy) and bounce on the bombers. It was upto the NME to look for fields flashing and investigating. And up to me to make sure they made target
25ft between tree tops and alarming nme is a tall order for any bomber pilot over rolling terrain. With this fact, NOEs will be rare except across water. With the this element made rare, much of the exitement has already been removed from me, as low Bombers on dar are worm food... Yes you can still NOE blah blah blah, but not in a numerous NOE close support escort needing way. The race against GVs getting to town and the race to intercept uppers for me has been diluted.
I dont have all day to fight over 1 field capture, I want to be able to make a difference to the 'war effort' in the short time that i have. Squad up, mission up, gain ground upon the NME makes it worth while. The NME counldn't adapt to the NOE stategy so they the rules changed for them, forcing us who enjoy the exitment of NOEs to hypacritically;
Adapt or get off the pot.
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I personally dont like fighting higher than 5k (the only reason i fly higher is because i have to adapt to the threat of BnZers), and anyone thats shot me down will know that i'm one of the 1st to go in when the numbers are against me, just for the fun of it. I am a lower ability pilot and have only ever been Top pilot once on a snapshot, i can't BnZ and it takes much/all of my consentration to turn fight.
Fights don't worry me, stagnent furballs over and inbetween bases does. The DA is for ppl that want to fight and be all macho over how they flew and shot the other guy down, I want to be with my squad doing what we do best, having fun taking bases, winning the war. For me there is no payback.. no objective.. for furballing and BnZing, but those aspects are in the game and i adapt, i can adapt to these changes but having a choice rather than having the decision made for me is a better compromise. Now i have to fly high in the sky escorting bombers on porking runs, chasing off the nme and running back to the bombers... It's a role, but i'd rather in the thick of it on the deck turn fighting with the defenders every 10-20mins than waiting 30mins for the bombers to get to alt and then go in. Not very fulfilling doing a few 30-60min porker escort runs and base shut down runs then having to get off.
Making assumptions leads to the mother of all screw ups... And i didn't want to type a essay over it.