It was impossible to not know what was going on. Text buffer was full of <S> VEGA's as well as the memorial flight's location being called out on 200.
Not true.
Aces high has many players that have very little, or even no command of the English language. We have many players that are'nt only not tuned to 200, but simply log on, takeoff, go afk and come back to shoot whatever is in front of them without looking at the text chat at all.
I'm not defending anyone deliberately attacking that mission...
But by organizing that event in the MA, on a TT, and flying just overhead A1,
the default starting field for everyone on that side is kinda proving the disgusting events I was witnessing yesterday.
It turned out exactly like I predicted. You can't make sure nobody will shoot, and once the bullets start to fly, behaviour goes downhill.
And it did. I saw "vets" in that memorial flight repeatedly typing out stuff like "I hope your mother dies". Truly a way to behave and show some dignity & respect that someone would expect. And don't come with "but they did it first!"
We had some great services like that in SEA in the past, with a huge turnout. All kinds of trouble are very easy to avoid there. You have an arena message, and you have mods that can easily remove anyone causing trouble without causing a stir.
Doing this kind of things in a battle hotspot like V2-A1 is just asking for that kind of trouble. That may be sad, but that's the way it is, and a lot of guys should have known better.