Just wasted a few minutes of my life reading the 'why does Shane play an online game at all' thread.
I can't understand a lot of the complaints that people have about unequal fights. They are a fact of life. I don't mind dying - it's a Game. If the only engagement i can find is one where i'm outnumbered, then fine, i'll just do my best. I regularly get slaughtered of course, but in an engagement like that i don't complain about how 'unfair' it was - i appreciate the fact that it was actually 'realistic'. That's the way fights are in the real world. If i want perfectly balanced odds and e states, with chivalrous players, I'll play an offline game.
Similarly, if i up in the CT and the only fight i can find is lower, slower and outnumbered, i'll go in there and slaughter him. If he evades long enough or well enough, he gets an . The only thing that would stop me is the possibility of winding up low'n'slow when his mates arrive. The numbers are too low to wander around looking for 'duels'.
Plus, a lot of the planesets make flying in numbers a sensible, and realistic, option. This hurts me a lot as i'm not in a squad due to time constraints on my flying, but i'd be dumb to whine about it.
As for vulching, please, spend five seconds in the tower and you know the radar state of your field, you know if there are cons in your area, you know that you have no excuse for complaining if you get your bellybutton handed to you. 'Vulching' is field capping. There are other fields to take off from. It is a game. Accusing someone of vulching or milkrunning is laughable.
I don't want this to be a whine. I'm just saddened when i see other people whose bloodpressure is adversly affected by something i find enjoyable, and yes, even when i get shot down. Using expressions like milker, ack-runner, vulcher, ganger, lamer, alt-monkey or whatever is just a pathetci way of saying you can't cope with the unpredictability and self preservation of Real enemies....
