I may or may not fight at a disadvantage. I don't do it like an automaton. I create separation when able and the try to get an angle. If you must fight at a disadvantage the objective is to level the field. Those who recklessly attack disadvantaged are either fearless, brainless, overconfident, or extremely skilled. I am the former but not the latter three.
if you were "fearless" then you wouldn't care if you die in a "game" that is based on COMBAT....
actually it would be the exact opposite....
a quick scenario......I am flying alone...headed towards the biggest dar on map.....I see 6 cons.....all around my ALT....a couple slightly higher a couple slightly lower.....
I head right to them.....and engage...
I get a PM from one of them he says....."we saw a lone con headed towards us........That's JETSOM..... we knew we were in for a fight"
now let me ask you this...if I would have tried to get better ALT on them...or not engaged at all.....
would that PM ever been sent?
if I flew worried about dieing the last 7 years (I started my flying in 04 never before even owning a computer)
I would not have been able to take on those 6 cons....and giving them a serious fight....
I know guys who fly like its "real life"...they have been flying for decades....and yet they are very easy to kill.....if trapped I would say in the "DA" but they wont go to the DA and come up with some lame excuse..........something aint right with that....and proof positive that fighting is the only way to learn to fight.....just like anything in life....
you say you go to DA...that is good...but in reality it is only good (unless you fly at the lake all the time) for learning the basics of fighting it doesn't teach you how to take on multi cons...again if you are just 1vs1ing in the DA...
the lake is great for learning to fight the gang....the GANG is a huge thing in the MA....
personally I would rather fight red guys for my kills then green...I know I will have to face multi cons pretty much every sortie....I would think it would be wise to....... practice....practice...practi
ce.......
I don't know....you can fly how ever you want that is true......I just think its sill to "worry" about a cartoon life....and the ends some will go to avoid dieing just baffles me...I cant imagine what it would be like to live with that mind frame.
I wont try to explain it anymore then this....peace man and good luck
You can fly any way you want, were are just trying to help. Look at it this way, lets go bowling. You always roll the ball on the second arrow from the right with just a twist of your wrist so that it curves neatly into the pocket. After all that is how to get a strike. Even if you miss.... too much wrist, dirty ball, fresh oil on the lane, what ever do you throw the next ball the same? Same arrow, same wrist flip? You'll never get the 7-10 split like that!
See what I'm saying? If you always do the same thing.... in this case extend 5K ( a bit excessive in anybodies book) You'll never learn to chop throttle and rudder hard for a snap shot, or do a tight barrel roll to force an over shoot, and so on and so on.
Were not criticizing your flying so much as trying to help you learn to get better. But hey, it's your $15
Extend means I do not reverse at 1.5K. I get to at least 5K then turn into the bad guy.
Running implies I dive away and never come back.
Also, you make the same mistake as he did. There are other ways to fight besides advantaged and disadvantaged. It is not either/or.
Why am I defending myself against you people any way? Play it the way you want. When you get flamed be sure to read the buffer: Vraciu shot you down.
The rest of your post is noted, with thanks.