My point is from being on the receiving side of killshooter. Many time folks hit others not because they were particulary stupid but due to warpages or some hero doing something stupid to get hit. You rarely hear from someone saying "I was shooting directly over the head of the guy in front of me to steal the kill and he pulled up into it" do you?
My point is how a percieved injusticed is handled. You will hear a lot less from folks over losing their ammo than taking damage or getting shot down due to this. In reality, losing ammo will cost the KSer more time out of the fight but folks will see it as more fair.
There is no 'injustice'.
SA applies to everything that's happening around you. Keeping track with the relative positions of friendly aircraft is as important as keeping track of enemy aircraft, both in real life and in the game. All the more in the game, since the MA, whether or not someone should say differently, is basically a 'team game', and the absence of fear of death often exaggerates one's motives and movementsto a higher peak.
Every KS is avoidable. Even if some salamander jumps in front of you, if you were keeping track of him it could easily be foreseen. You're given with a choice either to hold back the trigger and resolve and coordinate things out with your friendlies nearby before any such "accidents" happen, or blindedly trust the general consensus shared by MANY people but never ALL people.
KS happens when either end, or in many cases, BOTH ends of the KS were doing something wrong. I have NEVER seen an "innocent KS". Friendlies don't come out of hyperspace in front of you. Failure of SA, and failure of coordination is what causes the KS and both sides are equally to blame.
And like straffo says, failure in SA, and accidental shootings, demand repercussions. Like Karnak or SlapShot mentions, such failure should result in some sort of immediate death/damage, as it should in real life. And, like I replied to Naytch, once the KS loses its lethality it basically loses all meaning in regards to what is keeping the minimal situationary discpline and coordination alive amongst multiple engagements.
It is already fair. What you are suggesting is 'unfair', as it means cutting slack for people who clearly did something wrong.
