Saturday 27 February 2016

Newbies and noobs


Newbies are new players who are inexperienced and haven't 'automated' their actions yet (akin to a driving student who's already overburdened while slowly driving without listening to music or having a conversation at the same time).
I help them once in a while, with tips about instructor/speedcap, rope a dope, boom and zoom, combat flaps, victory conditions, battle rating management, optimum angle of climbing, choice of ammunition, gun convergence and so on.

Noobs on the other hand aren't the same as newbies at all; noobs aren't new, but resistant to improving. Some noobs have level 60-100. They tailchase an Il-28 just as stupidly as they tailchased B-25s. They seek head-on fights against superior fighters, fly their bomber straight while under attack without using manual gunnery, spawn in wrong spawnpoints, park their tank behind your tank when you predictably need to withdraw backwards soon, bomb minibases instead of tanks, fight in the streets against superior red tanks instead of waiting behind a building for a flank shot on an advancing red tank, drop lines of nine 500 lbs bombs obliquely to a convoy of AI tanks, dive into an overwhelmingly red furball to join the turnfighting there in a BnZ fighter, spawn PBYs in air domination, join ground strike missions with torpedo loaded in their bomber and so on.

Noobs are shit. Their only justifications for their existence are that they are fodder and decoys for good players and some noobs help fund the devs by buying stuff with real money.

Thus I hope you will help newbies.
Meanwhile, punish the noobs.

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