When in dogfight free for all and I take off with plane behind me I got shot by an ahole behind me before I cleared the runway Wth. This game has too many design flaws. I do beleive thats another type of spawnkill. Not getting points also. WTH! No chance in free 4 all with planes buzzing around airstrip where I'm spawning. This game is one big POS!!! F off spawnkillers.

Hey jimz,

It's a cheap shot to nail a noob that way. For everyone else, straight-out takeoffs are not safe! Brakes on, rev up, brakes off, jump into a short field takeoff and bank & crank hard!

Sorry to hear about your points issues. I posted to Zup on the moderators thread, hopefully he will respond.

Also, I moved your post to Gossip instead of Aircraft.

Manfred

Thanks. I gotta learn to brake and scoot. Bunch a ruthless bleep bleeps I spent about $16.00 last few days and got most of them. I told zup I'm not really concerned about the money just game flaws. Got one more speed upgrade for albatross then good to go. I ran into kindergarden last night testing ingame points and I didn't realize marshall planes could hit ya further away . He's good. Before I could get a good burst off I'm in a parachute .Gotta zig zag to get closer. He got bored of us noobs and left. My test showed that points didn't register till the next day. Thanks for input Manfred.

I've played against you (when I was incognito) and you are definitely getting better. I don't think the upper planes can shoot farther. On Noob Day, a bunch of folks selected the lowest planes, and it was surprising how well those planes did. The speed was slow, but they turn on a dime, much smaller radius than a top plane. I learned that mid and upper planes turn differently when throttled back a little, and I now use that a lot in a chase. As for head-on shooting, those noobie planes are awesome, because, armed with a bomb, they are not flying so fast that they are jittery.

For head-on, it takes concentration to get that teeny little blip (or your assumption of where the blip is, before you can see it) dead in the middle of the aiming circle. Or with a slight lead one way or the other. It is Zen-like concentration. If you've played any golf, it's the same swing thought as "Be The Ball."

And in some games I can't miss. Then there are the rest, when Zen escapes me. But it's all me.

Generally in this game, if I am getting killed, there is something I need to improve. There are a few unfair situations, like tank spawnkilling, multi-plane camping/spawnkilling, and parking in front of spawnpoint. Other than those, we as pilots have tools and skills that we can develop and use.

See you up there.

Manfred