You're Gaming the Game if you *don't* kill your engine in flight

[Samiam]

At least if you're an N1K1 pilot:

Quote:
"The N1K1 was, however, not without its faults. Operations were plagued by frequent undercarriage malfunctions, the complex double-retraction landing gear causing lots of problems. Aircraft availability was frequently limited by insufficient maintenance crews and by logistics problems. The Homare engine was rather unreliable and was a maintenance headache. The wheel brakes were so bad that most pilots chose to land their Shidens on the grass alongside the runway in order to shorten the landing run."

So if you fly dozens of N1K sorties and never kill your engine in flight or never crash land with gear up or land on a paved runway then you are taking advantage of a gameplay feature that fails to simulate the real-world with aircraft reliability and maintenance issues and are not flying the aircraft in the spirit of a real N1K pilot; thus gaming the game.

Or so the arguement in previous threads would say.

[sling322]

Well...I guess when we get an N1K1 in the game then this will apply.  Until then.....quit toggling your engines ya dweebs!!!

[FDutchmn]

Originally posted by Samiam
At least if you're an N1K1 pilot:

Quote:
"The N1K1 was, however, not without its faults. Operations were plagued by frequent undercarriage malfunctions, the complex double-retraction landing gear causing lots of problems. Aircraft availability was frequently limited by insufficient maintenance crews and by logistics problems. The Homare engine was rather unreliable and was a maintenance headache. The wheel brakes were so bad that most pilots chose to land their Shidens on the grass alongside the runway in order to shorten the landing run."

So if you fly dozens of N1K sorties and never kill your engine in flight or never crash land with gear up or land on a paved runway then you are taking advantage of a gameplay feature that fails to simulate the real-world with aircraft reliability and maintenance issues and are not flying the aircraft in the spirit of a real N1K pilot; thus gaming the game.

Or so the arguement in previous threads would say.

Samiam, go back to your books and compare the N1K1, N1K1-J, N1K2-J and what we have on AH.

[Samiam]

By gum you're right! I never fly the thing, but everybody calls it a "Niki" so I fixed it in my brain that it was an N1K1.

Golly, then shouldn't it be perked?!?

[FDutchmn]

It should be referred to as "George" or "Shiden" if it was N1K1-J, "Shidenkai" for N1K2-J.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Samiam
By gum you're right! I never fly the thing, but everybody calls it a "Niki" so I fixed it in my brain that it was an N1K1.

Golly, then shouldn't it be perked?!?

"Niki" was the Air Warrior nickname for the N1K1, for the obvious reasons.  


Ack-Ack