Does a persons physical condition make any difference to their ability to play online combat flight sims ?

I think we can probably take it as read that if you are drunk or dead it might have a significantly detrimental effect but what if you're just approaching your senior years or not very fit ?

You are more than welcome to humour me, I'm just trying to find excuses for my poor performance (before you ask, not in the bedroom department, I've got little blue pills for that

I'm 53 and I can tell you my reaction time is way down from 10 years ago. Also when younger people are playing for hours everyday and I can't it is going to make a difference. Another thing is if your in a server that allows out of cockpit views, I have always stay in my cockpit because realism is more important that score to me.

I'm 72 and my reaction time is .22sec. That's the average of a 25 test grouping. My best is .19sec.

My reaction time is......., sorry, what was the question again.

I'm also 53 and my abilities with the various games I play are still getting better. Maybe change your diet?

I'll be 78 next month. My reaction times are still good but my concentration is down. That's because chronic heart failure means a very low blood presssure so the blood doesn't get to my brain as well as it used to. Wife reckons my brain was never that good to start with. I have all the time in the world to fly but I get tired of it after about an hour. I fly full realism except for plane icons as eyes are not now so sharp.

Its neat to see how this sim appeals to such a wide age range.

Rob

Im 34 means Im still sharp but I noticed Im less concentrated than before and more tired because now I have a family and a full time job. Its not easy because my free time is at late night (when the kids are sleepin) and its limited.

Yup same here. Not my diet but I could lose a few pounds
Curious about a reaction time test.

Daze,

There are various reaction time tests available on the web.

I'm 41 and much much slower than I was ten years ago. Starcraft II has an build-in counter which measures your actions per minutes. Compared with my Warcraft III numbers from eight or nine years ago I lost ~40% of my speed [that's adjusted for the different apm counters already]. Compared to friends in the same age group who rarely play, that's still lightyears ahead. I can't be sure however if my reaction times are generally better or just those measured with mouse, joystick or gamepad.

Looking at flight sims specifically, I feel factors like orientation in threedimensional surroundings and to a certain extent strategic thinking come into play, which tend to level the playing field across different age groups, much more than lets say in fps games.

"A fire that burns twice as bright burns half as long" and we flight simmers have burned oh so very brightly.


I'm 38 and my reaction time for flight sims has remained unchanged. At least unnoticably.


However, I've become less tolerant of RTS games that I find to be major "clickfests". I don't know if that is due to me having a lower reaction time or me just being less tolerant of RTS games.

OK took online reaction time test. Averaged 275 ms certainly not great. but not terrible. I must suck in MP for some other reason

One thing I've noticed about these tests - if I spend too much time on one session and keep banging on, trying to improve my average, my reaction times eventually start slowing down.

I've never been able to get into games that came across like this to me. Even when I first started PC gaming back in the mid 80s I thought it was just plain silly that you had to click as fast as you could and get all hyper and what not trying to play a friggin' game, and there's nothing wrong with my reaction times due to a lifetime of martial arts training, it's just that I couldn't get into that sort of mentality. I guess that's why I have always gravitated towards more "cerebral" types of games and flight sims. That's what is fun to me but I've always known I'm an oddball.

If she's naked my reaction time is still pretty good at 44 y/o.

In RoF I try to play to my strengths. I think BnZ gives you more time to plot your tactics than turn fighters which depends more on reaction time. My aim is still pretty good.

Chef

I will be 80 in December and feel pretty much the same as when I started flight simming in the late 1990s and just as ready to mix it up as always.
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At 50 I have multiple sclerosis with 3 of 4 limbs affected. My left leg and foot are shot, my left hand is mostly shot, my right hand seems fine and my right foot moves fine but has constant neuropathic pain. I'm very left handed so my unaffected right hand still really can't do handwriting.

My reaction time is fine. in fact I pretty much stayed away from ROF all spring, April through early September, using my energies to fly micro R/C airplanes, which I fly from a parking lot a mile away from my home that I reach in the power wheelchair I'm confined to. In hundreds and hundreds of sorties, I haven't had one single crash with both my simple Aeronca Champ and my faster and much more maneuverable T-28 warbird.

Online, I win some, I lose some...if I practiced more, I'd win more.

It really torques me when people yap about how you can't do well at all online in ROF if you don't use rudder pedals. My left foot and leg are useless, and I get by fine using the twist rudder in my Saitek X-52 Pro. Pedals are certainly desirable for authentic flying and as a good input device, but people assuring newcomers that they MUST get them are hopelessly full of crap.

=MFC=Gunloon

I'm 80 next month,And fly all the good flight sims(WOP) is my favorite now.I have ROF and uninstalled it twice,and just re installed again----but still the same ICAN'T FLY THE ****IN! PLANES!!!,and everyone on line is flying full or near full real.Ican fly good with ALL the aids on and its great,but theres no games like that on line.Even the noob gameis hard to fly for me therefore "NO FUN".And if I host one with "FULL EASY"...no one comes in(I've flown around for hours admiring scenery and waiting.Surely there must be others like me who want a bit of fun?It's not that any of us are going to be WW1 pilots huh?
Anybody agrees with me (or not)..you can send me a PM.............

Hey BadBud ...me 80 dec 14th whens yours?