You guys have fun with what you do, I admire that. But ask yourself at what expense and whose?. Your actions seem to be justified because your think your playing within the "parameters" of the game and as long as you do that..your all good. The community sees these as dweeby tactics because it does affect their fun and what they like to do.
How does this affect your fun and what you like to do? If 40 guys are attacking a base and you don't want to get mixed up in it... just ignore it and up somewhere else where the action is more to your liking. It's not like you'll ever run out of other bases to fly from, and it's not like it's hard to tell where the huge mission is (hint: it's the sectors with full dar bars).
Or are you saying that everyone who logs in has an obligation to entertain you in the manner you find most pleasing, and if they don't, they're spoiling your fun? If that's the case, why aren't you spoiling
their fun by playing a different way than they'd prefer
you to play?
Horde missions are the
easiest form of "dweeb" play to avoid, which IMHO makes them the least offensive. Now, if someone could teach me how to tell from the map which sectors are being dominated by chicken$@*# alt-monkeys who spend half the night climbing to 35,000 feet, make a few passes, and then run away as soon as they no longer have an enormous e advantage, or if HTC would fix the game so Lancs, B17s, etc. can't release bombs when the nose is pointed more than 20 degrees down, I'd say those were much more needed improvements.