Cricket wrote: Quite a bit of talk about "honor", lately. Here is my gift to those "honorable" players:
.. Oh, and welcome to the new MOMs!
Funny you should mention it, Chuck. Just last night I was in one of the most hilarious missions I've played in months. I and a very game low ranked blue (sorry now that I can't recall his name) were pitted against my Dogfight BFF, TheonlySoos and a full crew of reds. Soos was busting a blood vessel trying to taunt me and had me L-ing O L so hard it was all I could do to separate the little darling from its/his/her face about 60 times, fully half my kills in the mission, before he suck-quit. Eventually it was just the two of us left. Soos fell back on his/her/its favorite screed, about how "jealous" I am. "Jealous of what?" says I..."Of you dying?" This entire exchange, which lasted easily fifteen, maybe 30 minutes, took place with me describing lazy circles overhead while Soos fumbled and failed to find a way to get my goat, from the safety of his/its/her carrier deck! The kicker? According to the poor jilted cheerleader "u r humilating yourself by shoting me in the back". And I'm "too stupid to relaize it lol". You can't buy that kind of comedy!
Shortly thereafter I got ranted at by a noobish mid-ranker called BlueStreak something-or-other because I was committing the unforgivable transgression of killing him - after giving him every courtesy in terms of time to take off, drop, circle, circle again and get around to making the conscious decision to engage - and he couldn't kill me back. Same mission, different clown, similar outrage. "YOU ARE A HORIBLE PERSON WIG". "U R PROBLY A WIMP WITHOUT A REAL LIFE". Ouch. They really know how to hit you where you live, don't they?
This sort of protestation happens more and more lately. It's as if they think the game is called "Fly-straight-and-hold-still-so-I-can-shoot-you-in-the-face-fight". I have to wonder what Charles Nungesser, George Guynemer, Ernst Udet, Raymond Collishaw or Albert Ball would think if an opponent said, "Hey, stop moving around so much, cheater!" How crushingly dull to have nothing in your skill arsenal except a head-on attack. I wonder further how Joaquin Grech feels about his game being treated like an arcade toy versus a flight combat simulation featuring, y'know...
flight combat. I think I'll ask him.
I think, too, I'll suggest that he change the game's name to "One-Trick Ponies Over Jonestown", in (dis)honor of my wingmate, Cricket. You "horible" so and so.