Posted By: Nowi
Why I Cheat: A WOFF Manifesto - 12/03/18 02:34 PM
Why I Cheat: A WOFF Manifesto
1) I play WOFF for enjoyment, not to torture myself. I get up in the morning, have breakfast as I watch the news, and then I crank up WOFF and fly five sorties. The first sortie I fly from takeoff to landing. After that, I start in the air and end the mission when I reach my base and begin to circle. I’ve learned that if I fly more than 5 sorties, my concentration fades and I get careless, and get killed. Your concentration peaks at 40. For me that was almost 30 years ago!
2) I use accelerated time. Most missions take 80 minutes, in real time. That’s often all the time I have during the day to fly. Using acceleration, I can fly my 5 sorties in the same time it would take me to fly 1 in real time. I don’t want to take four years to complete a career.
3) I’m old—67. My eyes aren’t what they used to be. I’m also color blind—blue/green and red/brown. (I now understand why air forces do not accept color blind pilots.) Sometimes, when EAs are blow me and I’m looking down at the ground, I can’t see a thing. Nothing! If it wasn’t for the brackets, I’d be lost. Often that’s all I see: brackets moving across the terrain. If the planes have a blue underside, I have the same problem if they’re above me.
4) I use the radar circle, or whatever it’s called. Why? Because if you’re tooling around at 12x you must, and I don’t have the time to not tool around at 12x (see #2). I do keep it to visual range, 4 km or less. I know it gives me a huge advantage. But if I turn it off, and fly at 12x, even if you check around constantly, which I find realistic but annoying (see #1), you can get surprised before you can react. With the circle on, I spot the EA, can pause the game, cycle time compression down to 1x, place my feet on the rudder pedals (if I fly with my feet in the pedals all the time, my lower legs go numb (see #3), issue my attack order, turn off autopilot, and take charge of the fight.
These are the reasons, not excuses, why I cheat.
1) I play WOFF for enjoyment, not to torture myself. I get up in the morning, have breakfast as I watch the news, and then I crank up WOFF and fly five sorties. The first sortie I fly from takeoff to landing. After that, I start in the air and end the mission when I reach my base and begin to circle. I’ve learned that if I fly more than 5 sorties, my concentration fades and I get careless, and get killed. Your concentration peaks at 40. For me that was almost 30 years ago!
2) I use accelerated time. Most missions take 80 minutes, in real time. That’s often all the time I have during the day to fly. Using acceleration, I can fly my 5 sorties in the same time it would take me to fly 1 in real time. I don’t want to take four years to complete a career.
3) I’m old—67. My eyes aren’t what they used to be. I’m also color blind—blue/green and red/brown. (I now understand why air forces do not accept color blind pilots.) Sometimes, when EAs are blow me and I’m looking down at the ground, I can’t see a thing. Nothing! If it wasn’t for the brackets, I’d be lost. Often that’s all I see: brackets moving across the terrain. If the planes have a blue underside, I have the same problem if they’re above me.
4) I use the radar circle, or whatever it’s called. Why? Because if you’re tooling around at 12x you must, and I don’t have the time to not tool around at 12x (see #2). I do keep it to visual range, 4 km or less. I know it gives me a huge advantage. But if I turn it off, and fly at 12x, even if you check around constantly, which I find realistic but annoying (see #1), you can get surprised before you can react. With the circle on, I spot the EA, can pause the game, cycle time compression down to 1x, place my feet on the rudder pedals (if I fly with my feet in the pedals all the time, my lower legs go numb (see #3), issue my attack order, turn off autopilot, and take charge of the fight.
These are the reasons, not excuses, why I cheat.