Well I must coincide with banana. After having to deal with some AGW stupid whiners here,your post is the clear proof that there is a lot of intelligent people in both communities. S! to you on the wonderful way you posted it!
now...lets see...
Originally posted by Obear:
It basically boils down to the dogfighting. It is not as enjoyable nor as fast and furious as WB's. You fly for what seems ages, you see a con and your up high, turn into his 6 and swoop down for the kill. Ok now he is better than you and manages to manoeuvre with minimal damage out of your line of sight. So you power away and swing in for another kill, again you over shoot, that's ok but the second time you come to turn the stall horn sounds like a dyeing whale and if you don't turn with the minimal of stick movement your sent spinning to the ground. BOOM
Umm well if you seek FAST action, like low level furballs and dogfights...well they dont happen too much in AH's Main Arena. But when they happen its a BLAST
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Anyway it is a matter of realism. in WWII pilots used to climb with their planes up to their combat ceiling BEFORE entering the combat area. So here uses to happen the same thing.
Your post makes clear that you are mainly a TnB pilot. Well then I must admit you will have serious trouble here until you learn the FM very well...why? because TnB is a E-wasting way to fight, while people here knows to keep their Energy up all day long
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so if you start Turning and Burning everyone in your, say, N1K2, you wont stay very long as an alive pilot
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What to do?...learn to fight with E-conservative moves instead pure TnB. That will make your life much longer, and funnier, I guarantee it
Now like i say, i know all about the aerodynamics of aircraft and i am sure that HI TECH and the gang know there beans when it comes to a realistic flight sim.
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you are VERY right
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HT is a damned fine pilot in AH ...and not too long ago he flew a REAL p51D. So hes knowledge in REAL warbirds handling and behaviour is far better than your's or mine's...
And Pyro knows a lot about planes, too
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(now if he only came with 190D9....
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But for myself, and i know many others, this is just no fun at all. It may well be the most realistic flight engine around, but that's just it, this is not real, its a game, and we have no input on our senses other than sight as to what our aircraft is doing.
There's no G force and although the sounds are far superior to WB's the engine pitch hardly changes weather your barley above stall speed or close to ripping the wings from your plane. Realistic maybe, but that's no good when your 1000 feet and have no bearings weather your going slow or fast. Yes, i know there is a speed indicator in the cockpit but who wants to spend all the time checking his dials when your in a dogfight. No sensory input means you need to make slight inaccurate changes in a game like this for everyone to enjoy.
Humm...define "fun". For me "fun" is to fly in the most realistic simulator on the market. you say that you NEED to make SLIGHT inaccurate changes in a game for enjoy? humm..did WWII pilots have range icons? and not-disturbed ballistics? did they whine about it was too much work to look to their dials when dogfighting?...
This is intended to be a REALISTIC WWII simulator...if you search those things ,give a chance to WB, EAW, or Jane's WWII.
you want my opinion?...stay here. It is tougher than anything out there in the market, agreed...but once you get the feeling of the FM it is just great. First of all get a trainer to help you (I'm not trainer but I'd love to give you some tips in TA if you want...email Ebringas@airtel.net). Then join a squad who will care about you, will make your experience funnier and will teach you a lot of things. and last, but VERY important, IMO, get a plane and master it.
Each plane is different,each one has its own strong points and weak points. By staying in the same one for 2 months you'll learn to "FEEL" when it is going to stall, how much can you zoom away before having to level, how to deal with the other planes...to put it in short words, it will become an EXTENSION of your mind, you'll feel it as an elongation of your own body.
I tell you to do that because all those things happened to me, when I first came here 6 months ago I wasnt able even to take off (no autotake off then). I had no damned idea of what was E, and "trim" was an unknown word for me. First of all some people helped me when they saw I was so hopelessy dweeb, then I joined JG2 (the luckiest thing ever happened since I came here), and then I specialized in Fw190.
NOw I suck, but at least I suck way less than what I did.
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I felt tempted to quit in my first days here, but I felt too that this thing was a REAL good one...and stayed. Now I am proud on doing it (although I have been through some hard times in the meantime
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Do the same or you'll regret it later.
Really.
<Braces himself for an onslaught of outrage by AH community>
as you see, your post was a REALLY good one ,and so we put here our thoughts and try to help you. No outrage here, as you did nothing to start it
S! again. And hold on and keep trying!!!!
Originally posted by Westy:
I myself find that some nights here I'm on golden wings. And others, like last night, I'm cannon fodder for anyone who sneezes.
-Westy
LOL Westy
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That poor sheep you trapped under your crashing P47's belly yesterday is calling for justice!!!
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Of course we all know you died in the crash
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Was a real fun run
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S!
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[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 07-21-2000).]