This doesn’t personally affect me much since I very rarely bail but I really dislike chute-shooting. I consider it the ultimate in poor sportsmanship in the MA. IMO, things which tend to gently guide players towards more sportsmanlike behavior, will in the long run make this a game that is more enjoyable for all.
I am not suggesting that vast improvements will result in AH if this gets implemented. This really has nothing to do with history or realism. It is just a matter of personal preference.
I know some people are going to respond here and attempt to justify killing chutes (i.e. he was a SPY <gasp> ). Frankly, I don’t care and you are not going to convince me that this is anything but crappy behavior that needlessly increases hostility in the MA and reduces enjoyment in what is a GAME.
Pyro, please consider adding some small risk or penalty for chute-shooting. One thing you can do is to make all chute Icons just a white word CHUTE; no friendly ID, country color or symbol. i.e. The intent is to make the nationality of a chute ambiguous (especially in the chaos of a dogfight). It would amuse me greatly to occasionally see chute-shooters suffer from Kill-Shooter. Secondly, perhaps kill-shooter could be randomly turned on for enemy chutes some portion of the time. If these two were combined, then someone who wanted to kill a chute might not be sure that it was enemy and further would know that they ran some risk of Kill-Shooter even if it was.
Hooligan
