Just to keep off our minds from the serious stuff for the time being, I found some interesting reading into the type of ace pilots as defined by contemporary media and literature. So without further ado, here they are:

Piloting Styles Preferred By Aces

Steamrollers
- are aggressive types who favor in-your-face frontal assaults, raining blows on their enemy to keep them off-balance. Experienced pilots can almost always dodge a frontal attack, but if you keep pressing the attack, sooner or later they might slip up and take a hit.

Bushwhackers
- are cunning, devious pilots who eschew easy-to-evade frontal attacks in favor of taking potshots from the rear or other blind spots. When engaged in a duel, they try to wriggle out of it and drop out of the enemy's field of view so they can come in from another direction and catch the foe off-guard. Frequently, bushwackers will sacrifice spare weapons as decoys, distracting the enemy so they can ambush them from behind.

Snipers
- are similar to bushwackers, but lack the skill to escape a duel. Instead, they hide behind asteroids and colonies, (clouds and terrains for terrestrial combat) popping up to take potshots at their targets, and try to avoid close combat and running from battles at all costs.

Pluggers
- for want of a better term--are defensive players, who manage to stay calm and collected even under continuing attacks from bushwackers or steamrollers. By continually dodging and deflecting enemy attacks, they can tie up otherwise dangerous foes in time-wasting sparring matches, and may even be able to sneak in the occasional counterattack.

Which of the four do you think you fit in or who do you think fits any of the 'categories' above?

Info from: allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/Ace_Pilot

Bushwacker,read the pheonix theory

pheonix22 wrote: Bushwacker,read the pheonix theory

Thank you for the feedback but based on what I've read so far, what you've written is more of a summary of your idea as to how the various Dogfight matches should be played or at least a guide to beginner players who either just entered the big-boy server or just started their DF career... which isn't a bad thing...

Yes but the sneaker dropper thing comes from my exp as being a "bushwacker" just diving from a high altitude and appearing behind them will set them off balance

pheonix22 wrote: Yes but the sneaker dropper thing comes from my exp as being a "bushwacker" just diving from a high altitude and appearing behind them will set them off balance

Hmm.. good point there.. minus the sneaker dropper thing.. If I understand you correctly, you drop and then sneak... that will certainly land you into trouble if you do so in an uneven match with a numerical advantage... even then, it's currently considered as bad form...

Not in the noob server,I like the noob server alot better

And I meant dropping and sneaking at different times,like dropping and flying at not full throttle then pushing it up can be effective,and sneaking and the seeing people call for help,just dive to 1000 feet and if you don't see anyone go up again,if you do,attack them from behind,you may have to drop though. And a sneaking dropper can be good if there is a sneaker in the red side

Bushwacker/sniper

Lol,did you read my theory as well blaze

Sniper/Plugger

I'm a steamroller, and a proud one.

Im definitely a bushwacker

None of the above! I'm a killer that's what I do its my thing! Lol

I'm the kind that gives those kinds a bad name.