A very bad learning tool.....

[Jumoschwanz]

Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead

Well then you've proven my point, haven't you? You fly on different servers, and I bet you got a lot more dogfighting practice on the ones with easy settings, I know I did.
I fly on a closed-pit war server, dogfights are extremely rare there.

Woke, your logic and thinking is still flawed.

Anyone can set up a dueling or fast-dogfight server with either easy or realistic settings. If you duel with easy settings you will learn less than those who duel on hard settings, very simple.

If you practice with unlimited ammo for instance, you will spoil yourself and not learn to get as much done with a limited amount of ammo, the list goes on and on.

I started out flying realistic settings right off the bat, I was lucky, and it is why I don't need unlimited ammo, icons, outside views or "wonder woman" to cut it in any sort of combat.

As to Alphas comments that "it is just a game", sure it is to some, those who fly easy settings for sure. But a lot of people want a simulation, those who fly realistic settings. If you want to eliminate all public debate on the subject this forum is set up for then maybe you should just close it and change it's format to simple pages of information?

As to real WWII pilots having super eyesight, you can read ANY first-hand account of WWII combat pilots and they will be talking about how some of them could see far better than others, and how with time some of them cultivated the ability to know where to look for items of interest, this exact same thing happens in IL2 on hard settings, everyone has different hardware and different eyes so it simulates the variety found in real life. Some pilots in WWII were smarter than others too, and that gave them better use of the information before their eyes or where to find it, same with IL2 pilots.

I know IL2 pilots with very new computers and huge monitors, but they are not as smart as others who have lesser hardware and get shot down all the time. It is exactly like a pilot crying that his plane is not as good as the guy who shot him down, when in fact you can read Chuck Yeager's book and see how he says that it is the guy with the most experience that will win, hardware means nothing.

So if you are having fun flying Easy settings on IL2 and you are happy then great, I was never talking about you so go un-bunch your panties and take your ego back home. I was simply stating that those who DO want to learn to fly realistic-settings will learn best by flying realistic settings, those are the guys I am talking to, the simmers not the "gamers".