Maybe so, but does the squad really look at switching sides as cheating. From cutter56's post he makes it sound like switching sides is just as bad as killing a shade.
I will never understand the asinine chess piece loyalty some people in this game have. Switching sides is not cheating and in fact can be good for the game.
the game is designed to encourage side switching to balance numbers. i.e. the eny. the fact that some squads take issue with playing the game as it is designed to be played and trying to keep the sides balanced for the maximum challenge and fun for the majority of players seems to me not only counter productive to game play and flow, but just down right retarded.
so i guess that any squad with a standard that allegations of shade shooting (supported by the record and eye witnesses) must be contemplated by the powers that be within the squad to see if it reaches the level of disgraceful behavior worthy of squad action, but side switching for game balance and fun is an immediate actionable offence by the squad, just shows the level of standards of gamesmanship held by the squad in question.
when a squad or an individual has standards that, to the general public, are so distorted and unfathomable, then it is clearly a waste of time and effort for anyone to consider discussing the matter further with the squad in question.
so for my part, in protest to this unfathomable behavior of both Alpini13 and the SD's at large, i will continue with renewed earnest to switch sides as often as possible and prudent for fun and game play, and to continue to deny the urges i have to open up multiple shade accounts so that i may use them to up planes and vehicles that i would shoot down and pad my score with.
sorry to all who would disagree with me, but although they may not be very high, i must maintain some level of standards.