[Lexandro]

Yup many pilots do suck, I myself already noted this and made mention of the fact a while ago. However what you have to bear in mind is the "general level" as it were, of the playerbase.

As anyone here will point out, most of the online gaming is Arcade or Realistic levels. "Flight Sim" is a Niche genre and always has been, where as arcade based flight games have a much larger audience. Don't get me wrong, Ive no problems myself taking out B-17's, or any aircraft in the game to be frank. I also play flight sim games on my PC, so I have plenty of experience in that respect. However, BoP is now a console title so allowances have to be made.

What it basically boils down to is that console developers have to cater to the widest audience, and that includes all the crap players you get on a console. And they outnumber us good pilots. Now the current amount of players online is such that people are having problems getting to play a game. As it is now, many players will simply quit a game with a B-17 in it because they feel it is far superior and extremely difficult for them to take on. Making it anymore effective in firepower could force many more out of the game making the airfract effectively pointless to choose.

*EDIT* would also like to note that when I mentioned the autofire of the turrets it wasnt about how they can actually take you out. It was rather in the respect that when playing online players try to sneak up on an enemy before getting a killshot. Due to the current blind spots of the B-17 this is possible to do. With full turrent coverage this would be next to impossible.