Damn... what have I done...
I hadn't intended on replying to this but when it reaches 5 pages in 12 hours, it's peaked my interest.
To start, I like some of the posts. They made me giggle and now I feel better (was expecting more Monty Python).
The tanks sitting on tarmac bugs me most, they can face their death like a man (or women if it's proper). I will spawn a Tiger II into a base and drive for 20 minutes just to kill a couple of perk tanks on the field even when I know that I will never break even on the perks. Why? Because I've accepted the fact that there are other players who are better than me, and I don't mind getting killed by them.
Now onto the airplanes issue, while this bugs me I've accepted that it's always going to happen and there is nothing I can do about it. Yes, I will call them out on 200 and call them cowards but beyond that it's not much worth the effort. I have actually come across a few people that won't shoot landing planes. It doesn't happen as much as I would like to see it though.
The difference between vulching uppers and vulching "downers" is that vulching an upper is for tactical suppression. I don't want planes taking off from the base I'm trying to take and killing the troops I've worked hard to get in there. Shooting a landing plane in real life still serves a tactical advantage, you are taking that plane (and most likely the pilot) out of action for good. With our cartoon planes that we can grab another of without penalty, shooting a landing plane just makes you a dick.
What I will shoot when landing:
1) A set of buffs- just the drones, they are usually on the runway anyway. This has only happened three times in the last three years (all happened in the same tour). I leave the main aircraft so that he can land his damage, however impressive or pathetic it may be.
2) If a plane lands and taxies to the rearm pad, I will kill him. He should have towered when he had the chance.
3) If I spawn out of the VH in a perked tank for defense and the base is taken right after words. Might as well sit at the end of the runway and fight like hell until I'm killed. This has happened twice since I started playing.
4) Following an enemy who was shooting friendlies trying to land back to his own base just to kill him when he tries to land. I've gotten the chance to do this once, the PMs of hatred because he didn't get to land his his twenty something kills made him mad (dying to a noob didn't help I'm sure).
5) Anyone participating in a bishop B-38 raid. Because they deserve it, no other reason. This is a new one that I started just today, I'm sticking with it.
