[condorz38]

I never crash on purpose, but I never keep my plane in the air for an opponent to get a kill either. I fight to keep my plane in the air to get another shot at someone. I believe in the warrior ethic, I am going to fight no matter how bad my plane is until someone shoots me down or I uncontrolled crash. If my plane will stay up, I am trying to shoot someone down. If you can kill me fine, but don't expect me to make it easy for you. I fight to the end. This is one reason I dislike limited ammo/fuel. Number one, in 10 or 20 minute matches, no plane should realistically run out of fuel, most were made to fly 90 minutes or more with their fuel load. If you run out of ammo, I face a dilemma; crash or bailout for more ammo (I do not like to do this) fly until shot down (suicide) or fly off the map and wait the match out. I play to fly, so I do not like to sit the match out, so what do I do? The other problem with limited ammo is in CTA. Flight sticks are great, but no brakes, so to slow down, you have to fire your guns to have any chance at capturing the airfield; you are already handicapped with a stick, since if you and another player land, if he plays with the control pad he can use brakes and stop quicker. So you fire your guns and capture the airfield, and now you are out of bullets. Same dilemma, what do you do? So actually, limited fuel and ammo encourages crashing; everyone wants to fly, but you need bullets to have any kind of chance. Limited fuel and ammo should not be use for this reason; even if you shoot very well and sparingly, you run out of ammo and crash to get more. The point I am making is that crashing or bailing out are the same thing, you do it for more ammo. IF a really good pilot kills 7 planes in limited ammo and has a lot of time left in the match, he is going to bail out or crash for more ammo to shoot down more. So limited ammo encourages crashing. With all the complaints about crashing, one would think that anything that helps people crash with a clear conscience would be frowned on at the very least. The only argument I see for limited ammo is that I won't get killed by a lucky shot by someone who keeps shooting. It is hard to tell if someone crashed for ammo, but unlimited ammo means if you purposely crash, it is to deprive someone of a kill. This makes it easier to tell who does it and who to avoid.