Ever let them kill you on purpose?

[Latrobe]

If I get into a fight with someone who keeps running then sometimes I turn and let them on my 6. Then I fly around letting them shoot at me, it's good practice for them. After a few turns I'll reverse on them and get on their 6. I don't shoot though, I just hope they see what I did to get on their tail and learn a little. Then I let them back on my 6 and continue until they run out of ammo or one of us runs out of fuel.

I really hope those 5-10 minutes of flying with them aren't wasted, I want to see them in the skies again getting into fights rather than turning and running.

[Acidrain]

I will let someone kill me just to find out who they ware when they are the lamer type that gets bested in a 1v1 then runs til a friend shows up , then as I engage  their buddy they reverse to try to kill me 2v1. I kill the buddy as the 1st con re-enters the fight and pings me attempting to pick  , then he runs back to base again and I auger so I can mock him on 200


-Tallywho

[wil3ur]

To avoid the HO or giving up a shot doing HO avoidance, I'll turn my 6 on targets a lot of times and let them attack from the rear.  This gives me opportunties to work on my rolls and overshoots and snapshots.

[mtnman]

Isn't going into a multi-on-one basically "letting them kill you on purpose" (even if they're not successful)? 

Or letting them have the high ground? 

Or flying a spit?

I look at it like leading a horse to water.  "You can set them up to kill you, but you can't make them kill".

[PFactorDave]

I don't think I have ever let anyone kill me on purpose, but I have on several occaisions bailed to make sure that the guy who did the work wearing my E down and saddling up on me got the kill instead of the 5 other retards in P51s and 190s screaming in at warp speed from outer space to clear the poor guy's 12 o'clock.

[Bong40]

  High Bombers... I generally will only kill 2, I hate spending 45 mins climbing to 18k in lancs just to get jumped by the 1 con that finds me out in the miidle of nowhere , to lose all 3 sucks and is a waste of time so I like to let the guy thats all the way up here... feel like it wasn't a total waste and still get his name in lights... Because thats what we all want (secretly ofcourse). Fly High Buffs

[PFactorDave]

High Bombers... I generally will only kill 2, I hate spending 45 mins climbing to 18k in lancs just to get jumped by the 1 con that finds me out in the miidle of nowhere , to lose all 3 sucks and is a waste of time so I like to let the guy thats all the way up here... feel like it wasn't a total waste and still get his name in lights... Because thats what we all want (secretly ofcourse). Fly High Buffs

You know, I've done that when shooting bombers in defense of a base and he has already dropped his bombs.  I figure if he was going to bomb and bail he would have already, and if I leave him one bomber he will spend the time to land it.  Keeping him out of the fight for that much longer.

[FBCrabby]

I have... like recently got into a epic fight with Birddog his Ki-84 vs. my P38J - luckily enough the fight ended and all the while there was a Spit 16 and 109 K-4... I did what I wanted to do so I flew into a straight line... funny part is the Spit 16 "nordman" used 95% of his ammo to kill me - "took him 2 min of flying on my dead six"

[smoe]

I've done it in the training arena.

I've also done it in other games where a someone had a lifetime game record of many losses and no wins. Feels good to let them win there first one.