wat ever happended to pilots with honor

[Ardy123]

I don't fight? Ok. Glad we got that sorted out.

you still haven't answered my question...

[1Boner]

Heard we might be getting the "King" Tiger Tank!!!

[Wmaker]

you still haven't answered my question...

Not worth answering to...bit like your quest at finding something wrong from a flight model without basic understanding of aerodynamics.

[oneway]

The bigger picture governs; this thing has nothing to do with this game.

It is symptomatic of a cultural shift or evolution

Anyone who has been doing laps on this rolling rock for more than 30 years has seen it.

The culture within the game only reflects the culture we have created and live in today as a society

Nothing is going to reverse it, here or outside.

Sad but true and inevitable

Oneway

[Delirium]

When I first log in, I try and look for the 1v1s or 1v2s but time after time it turns into one bandit that dives on you while 4 others stay high and wait for the right opportunity. After a couple fights like this, I try and work the fringes of the fight until that also fails. After this I give what courtesy I can while not giving out free kills. It is made doubly worse by entire squads winging up in the MA, imho, the MA is not the place for a squad of 12+ guys to wing up and work individual cons to death.

Nothing will change the above behavior unless HTC changes gameplay in some fashion (zone ENY, disabling scoring, decreasing point awarded for too many cons on a single fighter, etc). Either accept it or quit and move on, nothing is going to change.

Hitech grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to put up with the bullcrap in the MA;
and the ability to shoot down one horde monkey at a time, without end.

Amen. 

[Ardy123]

Not worth answering to...bit like your quest at finding something wrong from a flight model without basic understanding of aerodynamics.

Ahh, despite your superiority complex, we have something in common then, ch1tty jokes!

You wear out your stuffed Brewster that you take to bed every night?

.. and I don't want to know why you made a hole on the underside of it

[Wiley]

imho, the MA is not the place for a squad of 12+ guys to wing up and work individual cons to death.

   It's the arena with the largest numbers...  Where else are squads supposed to practice on multi v multi engagements?  Scenarios, and only scenarios?  I disagree.

I can't get over the ridiculous amount of whining some people do over logging into a free for all arena and finding... a free for all.  IMO what makes the Main Arena fun is the fact that it's unpredictable, and the only thing stopping people from beating you is what they can do, and what they can't.  Numbers on all sides ebb and flow, sometimes you've got the local air superiority, sometimes the other side does.  How do you expect people to only try to shoot you down in ways you find acceptable in that kind of chaos?

How is it reasonable to dive into a crowd of 5 enemy planes and expect only the one you're trying to shoot at to engage you?  Please, someone explain this in concrete terms to me.

Wiley.

[shermanjr]

well i have been playing for last 3 years and noticed less and less honor here everyone just wants their 2 sec of glory when they land

[Debrody]

well i have been playing for last 3 years and noticed less and less honor here everyone just wants their 2 sec of glory when they land

Sorry sir. Dweebs/more dweebs rule the skies.
Youre not alone, i hear you.

[vNUCKS]

I've been flying online flight combat simulator's since Air Warrior in 1996, and I've not noticed that pilots today fly any less honorably today than they did 15 years.  On the other hand, I've noticed that a small minority of the community has become substantially more outspoken, critical and insulting to their fellow gamers.

These insults are really the only dishonorable behavior I've noticed, but in fairness it was already there (to a much lesser degree) in 1996.  The big difference today vs. then is that the rest of the community has grown weary of chastising these outspoken whiner's, which in my opinion has emboldened them.  In my experience, treating others with respect is a prerequisite for being honorable.  The day you log on to the forums, or sign into the game, and use that time to degrade or insult your fellow gamer is a day that you have chosen to squander your honor.  In any contest I've ever been in, there have only been 2 means to measure my opponents honor.  That being whether they follow the rules, and display good sportsmanship.  

In my opinion, criticizing or insulting an opponent is poor sportsmanship, and detracts from the fun that all hope to find from Aces High.  

[hubsonfire]

Take off your rose colored glasses, stomp them into shards, and then jam those shards in someone's face. The AH community has about as much honor, as it has proper spelling and punctuation.

[Tupac]

Take off your rose colored glasses, and stomp them into shards. Then proceed to jam those shards in someone's face. The AH community has about as much honor as it has proper spelling and punctuation.

Fixed I think

[hubsonfire]

If anything, that's worse. I threw an extra "and" in there, so the folks who have to read out loud wouldn't be confused.

[dhyran]

still there, we had some great sorties and fights with even numbers, ppl asked on a flyby if someone is in trouble, numbers was even so we denied.
Got great fun the last days, nothing to discuss, it all about what you do about it

Salute
dhyran

[Silat]

Bottom line is the only one I can control is me.  Accepting that fact and playing the game in a way that I believe is respectful of other players is all I can do.

That and not getting worked up because someone doesn't play it my way

Guppy is my puppet............