What you really mean when you say "Gangbanging sucks" is "My SA sucks rocks and I hate when I get killed for it." When I get killed by 5-1 odds, I can ALWAYS think back a bit in the fight to a time where I should have disengaged and grabbed E, or extended or checked the map at least. Dying to being greatly outnumbered happens because you lose your SA, or you don't take the right steps to correct the situation when you are getting in a bad situation. If you don't want to get "gang banged", don't fly into those situations. It really is that simple. The most you have to do to engage in the gangbangs is switch to an E fighter or something with some speed and fly it properly. Then you can always work the furball, and extend and grab altitude when you need to and come back.
The radar works both ways. It is just as much a tool for SA to help you avoid bad odds as it is for others to find you and gang up on you. No inflight radar would just mean you couldn't find a fight easily, and that wouldn't be as much fun IMNSHO. It would also mean you could fly into very lopsided odds without knowing about it, and get gangbanged with no way to avoid it. Personally, I think taking away the in flight radar would make gang-banging ever worse.
The inflight radar is the BEST tool to AVOID getting gangbanged. Just look at the damned thing from time to time. If you see a tiny green bar in the sector you are entering, and a HUGE red bar, you are very outnumbered in that area. If you are willing to fly into that situation, don't whine about getting gangbanged. If you don't want to get ganged up on, the don't enter the area. It's REALLY simple.
Do what I do. Grab a BnZ bird, climb to 25k, and roll into that big blob of bad guys. Pick off the top one or two, and extend back towards your base. Sooner or later you'll drag a few to your side of the front, and the odds will even out or turn in your favour. Failing that, just fly smart and pick an appropriate plane, and you can work around the top and edges of a large group of enemies without too much trouble. Try it in the Pony, it excells at just this sort of work. If your a Loosewaffle type, the D9 or G-10 will do the same.
It's a mega-player game guys. There will always be situations where you are heavily out numbered, it's part of the game. The trick is to either avoid those situations or deal with them and do the best you can. We have to tools to do it.
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