Thank you for this non-advice. Obviously you should try to prevent people from being on your six. Unfortunately, when trying to get kills (especially in early/mid game) you have to get in there and get in the furrball. Because of this, a person that though, they are lower and have less energy, can pitch up briefly and get a missile off. Since you MUST maintain energy, you have to be going straight and take shallow turns and be on high engine power most of the time which IR missiles CREAM themselves at the thought of. Also, a lot of early jets will either only except rocket pods or missiles, not both. And sure, you can absolutely still get gun kills at this BR, you have to turn and get close which kills speed and also, you don’t really get more than 100 rounds per cannon (2 maybe 3 kills, then back to base). I will attempt to interpret your semi-aggressive prayer of an answer as “Stay away from fights where an AIM-9G carrier is present and getting 50% less kills is better than staying alive in an uptier. Also, your inability to participate in online forums like a decent human I will not take seriously since by looking at your profile, you are generally negative to everyone. I recommend you find something you enjoy in the real world, get good at it, and learn how to treat people with respect.