Air Combat Flyers are Aggressive Attitudes

[nearmiss]

Air Combat Sim Enthusiasts far the most part are very aggressive attitudes.

I learned very long time ago, on the Ubisoft boards you can pick a verbal fight very quickly with air combat flyers.

If you want to have good conversations you have to always remember to re-read your posts a couple times before submit and maybe even wait a bit.

No question about it, I don't think you can hang around air combat forums for very long without making some trouble with others. LOL

IMO, air combat sim community is awesome. I expect this would not be the great community it is without some flaired nostrils and someone making a fist. LOL

We always have a venue for our anxieties... ONLINE FURBALLS.

So, if you read these forums and you are temperamental and sensitive remember this... your demeanor and temper will be tested.

Don't lose your cool!

[Bearcat]

In many ways Air Combat enthusaists are like the men they emulate. There is a saying about fighter pilots..

You can always tell a fighter pilot.. you just cant tell him much.

[Feuerfalke]

Agreed. I'm active in several game-forums, but the combat flightsimmers are a real special group.

IMHO they violate their own rules:
They boresight on a specific thing too often, instead of pulling out to get the full picture.

They rather pick a fight with limited awareness, limited energy and limited chances, than drawing the consequences and leave the battle before it begins.

If they won a fight, they think they are right, no matter if it was pure luck or superior knowledge. And usually the ones fighting a Red Baron won't give up, even if they have to fire with a revolver from the burning wreck on the ground.

And if they lose a fight, they are always convinced it's cheating.

And this is true for game and forum behaviour.

But the conclusion is too often also visible ingame: They rather want to kill that enemy fighter instead of thinking it logic: A wounded fighter is out of the game for the whole time he needs back to base AND the time back into combat, while you still get the points. A killed plane immediately can restart.

As you correctly put it: Too aggressive and too little situational awareness. Just join the furball and fire those comments, er, guns.

[IceFire]

The problem is twofold.

To be interested/good at being a virtual fighter pilot and to some extent a bomber pilot or attack pilot you need to be smart and aggressive (this can be played out in a variety of manners). Not unlike the real ones.

Unfortunately that doesn't translate well into the forum envrionment. Or even the in-game chat.

[Abbeville-Boy]

aggressive attitudes! why you want some trouble i can give you some trouble

[KG26_Alpha]

Attitude can begin with the persons forum name or signature/avatar (like mine).

Some instantly take offence even if what you have posted is 100% correct, helpful, informative or funny, you will be dismsised and even your post ignored until some one with a sympathetic name, sig, avatar, posts a comment then thats acceptable to them.

Its almost a form of racisim

[rakinroll]

Keep goin Alpha!

[LEXX]

Bear::

In many ways Air Combat enthusaists are like the men they emulate.

Nah, any real pilots like these gamers would get washed out, and if not, they would be killed off by the enemy, or by their squadron mates or ground crews, kinda self-cleansing.

The snot faced gamer behavior that brings down combat flight sim forums is not self cleansing.

[LEXX]

Well to be honest, that really applies to some of the more snotty behaving members of gaming forums, not the majority of potential customers.


FF::

But the conclusion is too often also visible ingame: They rather want to kill that enemy fighter instead of thinking it logic: A wounded fighter is out of the game for the whole time he needs back to base AND the time back into combat, while you still get the points. A killed plane immediately can restart.

Poor game design. The server has to motivate historical behavior, but that can be difficult if the developer is focused on a more arcadish online dogfight. I would not blame the "arcade" gamer, but the arcade game developer.

[robtek]

Sadly for the simulation Fans the market for a ww2 Airwar - SIMULATION is so small that it doesn´t matter for a company that has to sell to survive.
So, for the majority of the customers, the arcade part has to exist too.
What we can hope for that one can set the server - settings to full real, including for example the 1 death per map rule, to enforce the aim for survival - and of course enough simulation fans to populate those real "Full real" - Servers.