That question, is the least combative one I get when I have a successful intercept on an enemy aircraft.
No, I don't have a shade account with a second computer running showing the enemy positions, nor am I receiving messages from "friends" on the enemy side giving away your position.
2 recent examples:
I'm just tooling around climbing toward the activity when a few guys running NOE, and doing pretty well to, low enough not to show a dar bar, but not low enough to trigger the ships radar the are unknowingly flying near, I swoop in and kill the goon. Got a couple PM's on that one.
I am looking for a goon in a ME262 and can't find him when a fellow player in a GV calls out that he has just heard an aircraft shut off his engines near him. I go look, there it is, dead goon. I got 4 PM's for that one.
Let me tell you what you don't see. You don't see me searching and searching and then failing because there was no kill. You don't see how much time I spend hunting. You don't see the years and years of playing and getting to know the habits of players.
I love to play as a hunter killer. I've done it for years, give me a little credit for developing the skills needed to succeed.
One last thing. Every once in awhile I do get PM'd information from the enemy: "They" are pissed and hunting you Zoney...............that's my fav.
Yesterday, I'm hinting in a K4, watching the dar, and figuring that I have some one inbound the strats, skirting the friendly radar. I park at 30k, and sure enough, here comes a set of 3 Mossie 16's at 28K, he's gotta be safe right............wrong. Got a PM for that one too, and I told him exactly what I did, still wasn't acceptable to my victim.
At any time, if I intercept you, feel free to ask politely how I did it and I will tell you, and I will tell you the truth. Here is a hint to stay alive from hunters like me, "Never ever ever fly directly from your home base to your target.
One last thing. Every once in awhile I do get PM'd information from the enemy: "They" are pissed and hunting you Zoney...............that's my fav.