Honor Code for AH ?

[miraj]

I have been playing for nearly a year now , and hear of an Honor Code, but cant find specifics.

My guess here, please adjust accordingly:

 No intentional collisions.
 Don't shoot chutes.
 Keep radio and voice talk relevant.
 Answer noobs questions correctly, or not at all.
 Don't steal kills.

 I understand understand we only fly cartoon planes , but Honor is an essential part of good character, and the more we practice it in life , the better we are for it.

 What needs to be added to this list?

[Adonai]

Originally posted by miraj
I have been playing for nearly a year now , and hear of an Honor Code, but cant find specifics.

My guess here, please adjust accordingly:

 No intentional collisions.
 Don't shoot chutes.
 Keep radio and voice talk relevant.
 Answer noobs questions correctly, or not at all.
 Don't steal kills.

 I understand understand we only fly cartoon planes , but Honor is an essential part of good character, and the more we practice it in life , the better we are for it.

 What needs to be added to this list?

Honor code is an honor code, there isn't a set "code" for Example if I see a lone plane thats hurt trying to RTB, I will ask on 200 and if he responds, leave him alone, ive done this before and had someone let me go home.

but those are pretty much right, I follow those rules but have a few more, I dont intentionally Ho unless someone fires first, etc I won't pick someone trying to land, but alot of rules like this arn't really looked at.

[Urchin]

Lol.  Thats funny.

People don't give a **** what you think about em, and they only have an "honor code" when its them getting cherrypicked or gangbanged.  

Hell, the vast majority of them think they are flying "smart".

[Adonai]

Originally posted by Urchin
Lol.  Thats funny.

People don't give a **** what you think about em, and they only have an "honor code" when its them getting cherrypicked or gangbanged.  

Hell, the vast majority of them think they are flying "smart".

Yep no rules in War, and the days of a honor code are done. What started out in World War 1 died when the first plane had a gun.

[Redlegs]

Originally posted by Adonai
Yep no rules in War, and the days of a honor code are done. What started out in World War 1 died when the first plane had a gun.

So what was this?

[crockett]

It's really useless to post because in the game no one cares..

But I'd say..

If you see two cons alone fighting. Don't come in trying to cherry pick.  If it's in a furball well then you get what you get. But let a 1 on 1 fight go on, if he kills your countrymen. Well guess what your countryman can get a new plane and then you can fight the guy.

If there is already two guys fighting a con... Don't be the 3rd.. 4th and 5th.

Don't run away from a fight, then come back and try to cherry pick the con you originally ran away from.

If you do join in on a fight, ask your countryman if he wants help prior to trying to jump in and steal the kill he's worked on.

If you must vulch.. don't be a dweeb whom dives in from 20k trying to vulch a guy landing his kills.

If a guy comes to your base and kills you a few times, don't up an LA7 and run him down when he's out of ammo or has a wounded bird. Accept the fact that he beat you and let him fly home and give him a

In other words don't be a tard and show a little respect for those you fly with.

[Flatbar]

Chutes are a valid target. They have the ability to not only send base damage assesments but check 6's also. They may whine on ch200 when they get killed under their virtual silk, but that just makes ch200 all the more entertaining.  

[FiLtH]

Ive learned to just play the game. I may do something honorable today, and real tacky tomorrow. I'm a freebird...Lord knows I kaint change.

[Alien490]

I have 3 that I will follow consistantly.

1. Don't Shoot Chutes.
2. Injured Fighters will be left alone./Bombers will Die!:D
3. Let 1 on 1's continue.

I will however straff a field when one is landind or taking off, I have seen far to many times kill a con only to have him reup and kill me. In RL it's a different story, but when you can up and kill again, that does not apply.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by miraj
No intentional collisions.  

Try that sometime when you get a chance.

Don't shoot chutes.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????? Nothing prettier than the explosion of the little silk lined meatballs.
It`s fun for the whole family.

Keep radio and voice talk relevant.

Don't steal kills.

Kill stealing is a national past time.

[rabbidrabbit]

As I just posted in another thread..

Right way to play = Whatever way the poster currently plays or wants others to play to make it easier on them.

Code = This is a variable. Some won't vulch or will let damaged birds try to get home. For many others its don't HO me back or I'll call you out on 200 or the boards. Oddly, this entails accusing others of "breaking the code" for vulching them and bragging about vulching others and stealing kills off of someone else and complaining about the same when it happens to them. There are many masters of this skill who we all know and love both here and 200. For the most part, see "Right way to play" above.


I'll vulch if I'm trying to help take the base.
I'll sometimes let a damaged bird go.
I'll almost always ask before joining a 1 on 1
I'll take the HO if its my only real option but avoid otherwise.
I don't dive bomb in lvl bombers.
I'll purposely screw with dirtbags, generally go easy on newbs and give respect to a known good player.

[DamnedRen]

Originally posted by crockett
It's really useless to post because in the game no one cares..

But I'd say..

If you see two cons alone fighting. Don't come in trying to cherry pick.  If it's in a furball well then you get what you get. But let a 1 on 1 fight go on, if he kills your countrymen. Well guess what your countryman can get a new plane and then you can fight the guy.

***I disagree. I ask the guy in the fight if he needs help. If not, I tell him I'll park overhead and wait to cover his 6 while he gets on with business. If he calls for help I get in and help him finish the job. If it's a game where I am on one side then I plan on help my side out***

Don't run away from a fight, then come back and try to cherry pick the con you originally ran away from.

***I disagree. Extending away and up from a bad situation then turning it into an advantage is merely a tactic. If the enemy plane can't figure out he is about to get shot down then it's his problem. Staying in a fight that you know you will lose is just plain stupid.***

If you must vulch.. don't be a dweeb whom dives in from 20k trying to vulch a guy landing his kills.

***I disagree. An enemy plane in the air is an enemy plane in the air. If he's flying then he is fair game. Because he chose to land at a field under you is his choice. He lives with the outcome.***

If a guy comes to your base and kills you a few times, don't up an LA7 and run him down when he's out of ammo or has a wounded bird. Accept the fact that he beat you and let him fly home and give him a

***I disagree. If the guy is good enough to beat you in whatever he attacked you in then he should be good enough to fight you in whatever plane you come back in. If he doesn't know when to exit that's his problem.War is Hell. He came to shoot you down. Should you do anything less to him?***

In other words don't be a tard and show a little respect for those you fly with.

***People who attempt to call others tards do so because they list all the things that got them killed then ask everyone else not to do it. Perhaps they think they might be able to play their way without dying. That's the same thought process as taking off from a capped field. If you do it then you do it at your own peril. You miss the whole point. If you take off in a fighter, intent on doing harm to someone elses toy plane, then don't complain if you don't happen to make it home when you run out of ammo. It's no different than German Snipers on D-Day. They shot up a lot of guys on the beachs. When they got surrounded, ran out of ammo, and stood up with a white flag they were shot out of hand. Fact of life.***

**Because someone flies smart and doesn't allow 10 alt monkeys to jump him merely means he'd rather go land his kills and make the other guy take off again. A major change that amazes me more than anything else is a few years ago the "rooks" were called alt monkeys because they wouldn't come to a fight unless tthey came overhead at 20k +. I was amazed last night when masses of knits came into rook land at no less than 16k for most of the night. Then 90% of those guys tried a HO or ran like a scared baby unless they had a horde with them. Amazing. I don't think you can make a film in the MA without 99% of all fights beginning with some dude trying a HO. I had a fellow in a 262 turn into me for some reason. He appeared to be going for a HO but I noted his line of flight was parallel to mine which would bring him coming down my left side at about 30 yards or so. I stood on a rudder and skidded by, raking him from canopy to tail. He flamed and died. HO? You choose. There is a difference and I gotta ask why would someone in a plane that can walk away from my plane turn into me in what appeared to be a possible HO? I moved to avoid his possible HO but killed him in a skid. So, as long as there is the "I have a 50/50 chance of winning (or dyin) a HO" mentality then I wouldn't worry so much about honor in flight because all those dudes are doing is playing a cartoon game. With that in mind, anything goes.**

****If you want an honest opinion from an old vet. Give a good fight, help your countrymen where you can, stay alive, give no quarter and expect none, land your kills. And geez, don't shoot chutes or flaming planes. They guy is already done and you're wasting ammo that might keep you alive later.****

Ren

[BaldEagl]

Honor?  

[hubsonfire]

Chutes must always die.

I don't care what other standards you may set for yourself, chutes must always die. It's not enough to win- someone else has to lose, and that means the meatbomb dies.

[Urchin]

See Ren, I gotta disagree with you here.  

One of the most common, and most infuriating things, about the way most people play this game is that they are scared.  

Just plain scared.  Afraid to fight.  Afraid they might lose.  I don't know why.  You can be in a P-47 loaded down with bombs, rockets, and DTs, and about 85% of the people who play this game will come in with a 5k alt advantage, make one lazy bore n zoom pass, run like hell if you so much as bank, then wait till 2 or 3 friendlies show up before they sprout some balls.  

Its disgusting.  I'm so disgusted with the people that play this game that I understand now why Nath was the way he was.  I am actually a little sad at the state this game is in.  I used to be able to log in and ENJOY the game.  Now?  Now I log in happy, and leave pissed off.  When I first started playing this game, I WANTED to meet the people that played it.  There were individual players, with individual personalities.  It was nice.  

Now?  The game is populated with a horde of skill-free, faceless, nutless twits.  They suck, they know it.  And whats more, they are PROUD of it.  

"If you piss someone off, that means U did GUD!"  

Thats the attitude.  I've only been back for like 6 weeks.  The gameplay has NEVER been worse than it is now.  The average skill level has NEVER been so low as it is now.

The game used to be full of people.  Now it is full of faceless chicken****s.  So yea, any talk of an "honor code" is laughable at best, a mockery of what this GAME used to be at worst.