Suggestion to deal with the ack huggers

[Imowface]

ever been flamed in a zero taking off from your own CV  

[DREDIOCK]

i never had this happen to me you think if the field ack was less accurate, more deaths to ack huggers would happen?

Me either. And yea I agree

[DREDIOCK]

The problem with the ack idea is that even though friendly ack can hurt you, it is aiming at the bad guy.  So, it could not only hit a friendly by accident or if I am in it  

Exactly. And as mentioned above. if friendly ack were that dangerous to friendlies. given the sheer amount of ack at the fields these days. We would and should see alot more planes getting shot down due to friendly fire.

I remember getting hot by my own ship ack exactly once in the almost 10 years I've been playing here and never from my own field ack.
Given the thousands and thousands of times I must have upped over the years. If the ack was so lethal. I should have been nailed much more often

[grizz441]

Yea if given enough distance from the feild

Bah!! youve just been extremely lucky. 

Meh, don't fight right on top of their base.  That's not fair to begin with, if that's what you are looking for.

[Yeager]

There is an aspect of this game that allows players brave or stupid enough to follow cons into their friendly protective field of fire whence they get shot down.  As it should be.  

A request to have friendlies killed by their own ack?  eh...I dont care.  Do whatever floats your boat.  Wont stop the whining.  Some of these guys piss and moan strictly because they enjoy it  

[DREDIOCK]

Meh, don't fight right on top of their base.  That's not fair to begin with, if that's what you are looking for.

Where most of your fights fought Grizz?

Your like me. You go where the fight is. Sometimes its over our own bases. sometimes theirs. Sometimes inbetween.
I've seen you with equal frequency at all those places.

[grizz441]

Where most of your fights fought Grizz?

Your like me. You go where the fight is. Sometimes its over our own bases. sometimes theirs. Sometimes inbetween.
I've seen you with equal frequency at all those places.

LOL.  Of course I do, heck I usually fight my way to the base then circle as my prey hide in their ack.  I don't cry about it though.

Like I said, if you are looking for a fair fight, then don't fight right on top of their base to begin with.  I'm not looking for fair fights in the MA.

[Jayhawk]

1. This sounds like an issue of perception to me.  I know it happens, but with a lot of problems people complain about, I think it's a matter of thinking it a problem, so one only perceives it when it happens and ignores the other fights.

2. Similar to grizz's point, this is the MA, don't assume everyone is going to play your way.  Heck, I hate it when someone chases our bombers 100 miles into friendly territory just to try and get a vulch on landing, I think that's lame, but it happens, we deal with it and continue to have fun.

[Yeager]

I hate it when someone chases our bombers 100 miles into friendly territory just to try and get a vulch on landing.

That's a great move!  had it happen to me recently and the guy came on private afterward and tried to apologize.  I told him "great move, I would have done the same thing."

[715]

I don't understand this thread.  At first I thought the OP was asking for the auto ack to deliberately target friendlies who don't have their gear down, which is ridiculous.  The standard military approach, which I always use for landing, has you come in right over the field at high speed and then kill your E in a tight break turn, then drop your gear.  But the OP is apparently asking for the auto ack to accidentally hit friendlies in the process of targeting enemies.  Yet multiple people have repeatedly mentioned that it already does that now.  I can confirm that: I've even had my GV hit on an airfield by my own autoack as it targeted an enemy plane and I've been blown up by my own CV puffy ack while trailing an enemy it was targeting.

[waystin2]

If they run to ack, then i'll de-ack the field so there is nowhere to hide. 

[Ack-Ack]

i never had this happen to me you think if the field ack was less accurate, more deaths to ack huggers would happen?

It probably happens with the same frequency as friendly puffy ack deaths.

ack-ack

[The Fugitive]

Well we know how I feel about it.... see Cartoon #12.

As for what can be done, I'm thinking nothing. It's much the same as some guy bombing the FH's just to kill a furball. It's how some people want to play. Sadly I don't see a solution. While I'd love to see the community ridicule people who run to ack, or go out of their way to end furballs and GV battles, I also see it as being a bit over the top.

[oTRALFZo]

baiting them into thinking they can saddle you, or heck, even letting them saddle you, before initiating a reverse that will force them to get very slow.  And then killing them before they can evade and escape.

Kappa, Del and Soulys have this down to an artform. When I know its them that Im chasing, they tease me like a drunk prom queen then shut me down like a virgin cheerleader

[321BAR]

It probably happens with the same frequency as friendly puffy ack deaths.

ack-ack

not really. ive noticed the puffy blocks are easier. ive never been pinged by my own base ack