I got killed over and over Tuesday night because I kept upping from a CV that had Axis birds airborne just a couple of miles away. It wasn't the Axis pilots at fault for killing me over and over. It was my fault, I had little time to spare and didn't want to up from another location because I just wanted to fight. I was easy pickings and I don't blame them at all for taking advantage of it. There's nothing wrong with caring about the kill more than the fight. There's nothing wrong with caring about the fight more than the kill. However if you care more about the fight and lose... It's not the other guys fault and caring about the fight more than the kill doesn't make you superior to the guy that wants to kill you. It's a game based on WWII air combat. NEWS BREAK!!! There was very few good fights in WWII aerial combat. The majority of the kills were because somebody bounced a guy who didn't see them or somebody made a mistake and the other guy took advantage of it.
I think most of you guys mean well and want a good arena where you can have fun and enjoy the game. Your positive attitudes are a great thing. However don't overdo this attitude that you're a better person because you place value on the fight itself over winning the fight. If there's no winner there was no fight. If there's no fight there's no winner. The vast majority of the time if you lose you made a mistake, you were not paying attention, you made a bad decision, or you simply got outflown. That doesn't make the guy that won the fight evil or less of a person than you. One of the things I dislike most about the Main Arenas is the amount of complaining people do when they get shot down. If dweeby behavior shot you down then your flying isn't up to par with dweeby behavior. I got my clock cleaned over and over the other night I was out numbered at times low on energy and alt because I'd just taken off and I died over and over. I didn't get on 200 and complain or call out anybody's tactics as dweeby or underhanded. Because each of my deaths were my own fault. There's a big difference in this arena compared to most. It's called historically limited planesets. Usually both sides have a distinct advantage and disadvantage. People should use your advantage against the other guy's disadvantage. Don't be afraid to embrace the kill, it's the icing on the cake to the fight you enjoy so much. Above all don't make this arena one where winning the fight is something to be frowned upon. This isn't a mamasboy soccer league where there's no score and everybody goes out for ice cream after because both teams won. It's competition and it's okay to win. 
what i was getting at, is that we like the fight. i know you do too, as you kilt me many times diving into situations you shouldn't have. i got you a couple of times the same way. it's the fight....not the kill.
last night, i only had one fight in the time i had. it was against grumpy. he kilt me, but that was irrelevent, as the fight itself was a blast(pun intended).
us hypocrites(
) have been in that situation before, where we'd get people anxious to fight us, and merging with little speed and even less alt. we backed off. did this more than once. that was in mw and lw. a few of us here in ava have done that too.
last night, they were killin grumpy over nd over...and when it was mentioned, they landed their kills and logged.
i don't care that i die a horrible cartoon death. all i care about is that i'm allowed to have a fun fight with you in the process. that's all i'm trying to get at.
as said before....i'm still not blasting them, nor will i berate them on open channel. i will do my best to try to help them assimilate into this playground that you guys work so dam hard to give to the rest of us. i don't want to chase people away, but rather i'd LOVE to bring more fun fights into the arena. that is why i gave them a clean slate in my mind when i read the "new intelligence" thread.
i still will.
i'm actually a pretty nice guy, although i do come off as a sarcastic dickhead sometimes.
