Ho's and ropes

[Steve]

Since I started flying the LA7 this happens to me alot, I am only alive 75% of time after this said shot going down into them lol.

Timing is everything, young padawan.

[StokesAk]

Not a HO as sadi before, when ever i am roping someone they usually are the the point of stalling and manage to shoot back and rip my wing off.

[Belial]

Sometimes I like to rope someone into trying to stall me out also LOL, this seems to be the only way I ever kill an UBER pilot.

[StokesAk]

That means that aren't UBER. They would live every time if they were.

[Belial]

That means that aren't UBER. They would live every time if they were.

Jesus your quick strokes if you flew as good as you sneak in a forum reply you would be untouchable!

[CAP1]

dam!!n read the title, and thought i was gonna see a post about something kinky.
 

[Cajunn]

Sometimes in a Rope you just can't hang up there long enough for them to stall, and 9 out of 10 times there already shooting hopping for that lucky hit. So its not a Ho its self defense.....that's my story and I'm sticking to it

[RumbleB]

Roping is a delicate skill. If you do it perfectly you're coming down on your opponent when they are just flippin over and losing their guns on you. Coming down on them while they still have gunsight on you even if theyre just hanging is just sloppy
Either way, it's the guy hanging n spraying on his prop pretty much unable to adjust a shot that is looking like the chump here.

[A8TOOL]

no ...enjoy...u earnt it        

+ the rest

[pervert]

Its a HO it doesn't change just because your in the vertical although for some reason there seems to be more tolerance towards HOs of this kind.
Its obviously a lot harder to judge the state of control the guy your roping has whether hes run out of E or is trying to avoid ramming you.

Some people believe just because you won't play chicken with them ie you break from guns first to avoid a collision that its fair game for them to have a 'frontal shot' on you because it is technically not a HO. That kind of behaviour is as lame as a HO itself.
At this point they'll try and justify it with "but your trying to get an angles advantage on me by not playing chicken!" well of course I am you should be too! Even if you wait until the last second to duck or go to one side some people still blast you 

[RumbleB]

I just had a funny encounter where I decided to keep E-adv then rope n was subsequently accused of HOing:

http://www.4shared.com/file/102800191/1f55c6ff/thesuckho.html

text not in the film "i blind rumble?" lol.


yeehaw nice ho..

[bcadoo]

Conversely it would not have been a HO if he'd shot you in the face on your way down...

[Saurdaukar]

This is something that I (for some reason) got concerned about. When roping a plane and you loop back over the top, and he's still on the way up, but obviously not going to catch you - would that count as a ho?

The old "vertical HO" (I call it that, but its really not a "HO") is one of the most dweeby things you can do, IMO. 

Its nothing more than an act of desperation and is guaranteed to get the player whacked, regardless of whether or not he can land any lucky hits.

[Reaper90]

I don't know why everyone is so concerned about HOing, apparently it's accepted practice. I just logged off irritated after being killed 5 times in not so many more flights by cheap shot HOers, 3 of em by the same guy on initial merge. Chickensheet non-flying HOers.

 

[RTHolmes]

if you both got guns on each other then of course its a HO. which is fine, like all HOs its reasonable to do if you've got a significantly better chance of a killshot than the other guy. if you time it right and he's flopping around on the edge of stall while you're settled into a dive it should be an easy kill with little chance of being shot. if hes still climbing and has a stable gun platform, then its more like the classic level 50/50 HO, in which case avoid it and get advantage another way