For those of you who dont know about Bodie, Ca well let me fill you in. Bodie is a ghost town in the eastern foot hills of the seirra nevada mountians from back in the days of teh california gold rush. It was know as one of the most god less towns around, one lil girl even wrote "Good bye God, Im moving to Bodie" when she found out that her family would be moving there. It was well known for drinking, gamlbing, and prostetution. To put how much into perspective, well 7 brewries worked round the clock to ship in whiskey 100 barrels at a time several times a day, there were 8 respected casinos at its hight, and there were around 60 well know potatos.
Now bodie wasnt only known for its godlessness but also its vigilany justice. A perfect example is a story I remember, a miner was badly injured in a mining accidnt which caused him to become very mentally slow but also landed him a huge payoff form the mining company. Well a local potato procedded to mary this many to get to his money. So one night this couple was down at the local saloon when a young frenchman proceeded to ask this woman to dance, so she asnwered yes and they proceeded to dance very dirty much to the dismay of everyone in the room. The frenchman proceeded to take said woman home with him much to the dislike of her husband who confronted them outside the saloon. Well basicly the frenchman got his gun out faster and shot the poor fellow. Both him and the woman were quickly picked up by the local sheriff and put in jail to await trail. But this wast good enough for the local townfolk, they went down, marched in to the jail and snatched up the two prisoners then dragged them down to an emptey lot which just so happened to be next door to the saloon where it all went down. The mob proceeded to go into the saloon and voted that they would hang them both, the man for shooting the husband, and the woman for commiting adultry (almost). Well within 15 mins of this descission they had rigged up gallows and the two were swingin dead.
The point of the story is that the mobs that used to do this vigilanty justice were called 601s. 6 for 6 feet under, 0 for no judge, and 1 for 1 rope. Basicly they would hang a bunch of people for anythign from the serrious story i just told you to petty things like injuring a horse or stealing. It got so bad that they would look for minor things to catch you on so that they could hang you. And this has got me wondering, is that what we are doing today with all the shade killer stuff? Dont get me wrong I dont like that people shade kill, but what comes of it, yes they get a highger ranking, but what do you get with a higher rank? NOTHING! The only practicly use for it is cv control, and even thats not even that important, yes there is prestige that comes with it but according to master sociologist weber: prestige is only an idea created by society to compensate for something that lacks the two other major "p's" (property and power). Yah they get perks, but the people that are doing this are mostly flying high eny planes and only flying against thier shade, sounds like no use to me. So what they shade killed, all this means is they wasted thier time not killing or preventing you from doing what you want to do, they wasted thier time! And so what if they bump down your rank a notch, frankly i consider myself a good pilot for any month that I can end up in the top %10. So why worry about it, why waste your time and effort sorting through a ton of pilots just to find these guys, thats not what the new stats page is about, nor this game for this matter. The same people I see yelling on 200 about peopel gaming the game so they can get a higher rank are the same people on here yelling at those who shade kill who when eliminate gives the figer pointer a higher rank, does this mean you just gamed the game....yup.
Folks, keep it real, this 601-witchhunting garbage has got to stop, instead spend the time going online and flying, youll be much happier and their wont be that much hate int he community
