HOing, Runners, Pickers, and Ack Huggers

[rvflyer]

A lot of you that complain about ack huggers are the first ones to hover  over a field and not let someone upping get up to an altitude for a fair fight. Not all, but a lot of you will wait for the upper then swoop in and try to kill before they can get speed and altitude. So yeah if you are hovering around the low slow guy is going to head back to the ack as you diving in WEB on and try to get the kill.

[Lusche]

An anecdote from my early AH days that taught me a lot about these kind of things:

Enemy is attacking our field in force. We few defenders struggle to get to combat speed and altitude, but they will relentlessly swoop down on everyone daring to leave the boundaries of the field.
"Don't play their game!- Lame vulchers! - Stay in the ack! - Drag em to my Ostie! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

20 minutes late the attackers ran out of steam, we got support, so that the situation ended up reversed. We were hoveing over their field, ready to bounce any poor souls daring to come up to meet us.
And I swear, the very same people now went:
"Pu$$ies! - Lame Ack huggers1 - Get out of your ack! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

The most puzzling thing to me was that those guys were perfectly serious about what they said in both cases.

[Arlo]

An anecdote from my early AH days that taught me a lot about these kind of things:

Enemy is attacking our field in force. We few defenders struggle to get to combat speed and altitude, but they will relentlessly swoop down on everyone daring to leave the boundaries of the field.
"Don't play their game!- Lame vulchers! - Stay in the ack! - Drag em to my Ostie! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

20 minutes late the attackers ran out of steam, we got support, so that the situation ended up reversed. We were hoveing over their field, ready to bounce any poor souls daring to come up to meet us.
And I swear, the very same people now went:
"Pu$$ies! - Lame Ack huggers1 - Get out of your ack! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

The most puzzling thing to me was that those guys were perfectly serious about what they said in both cases.

 

[Scca]

An anecdote from my early AH days that taught me a lot about these kind of things:

Enemy is attacking our field in force. We few defenders struggle to get to combat speed and altitude, but they will relentlessly swoop down on everyone daring to leave the boundaries of the field.
"Don't play their game!- Lame vulchers! - Stay in the ack! - Drag em to my Ostie! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

20 minutes late the attackers ran out of steam, we got support, so that the situation ended up reversed. We were hoveing over their field, ready to bounce any poor souls daring to come up to meet us.
And I swear, the very same people now went:
"Pu$$ies! - Lame Ack huggers1 - Get out of your ack! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

The most puzzling thing to me was that those guys were perfectly serious about what they said in both cases.

It's all about what side you are on, how you view the situation

[GottaAHJones]

An anecdote from my early AH days that taught me a lot about these kind of things:

Enemy is attacking our field in force. We few defenders struggle to get to combat speed and altitude, but they will relentlessly swoop down on everyone daring to leave the boundaries of the field.
"Don't play their game!- Lame vulchers! - Stay in the ack! - Drag em to my Ostie! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

20 minutes late the attackers ran out of steam, we got support, so that the situation ended up reversed. We were hoveing over their field, ready to bounce any poor souls daring to come up to meet us.
And I swear, the very same people now went:
"Pu$$ies! - Lame Ack huggers1 - Get out of your ack! - That's why AH gameplay sucks so much these days"

The most puzzling thing to me was that those guys were perfectly serious about what they said in both cases.

Been hearing this for over 15 years...whines recycled...deja vu all over again!

[wpeters]

It's all about what side you are on, how you view the situation

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[Ramesis]

Picking? As far as I can tell picking is suited to some planes...
don't complain if you get picked... it goes with the game... or at
least in MA...If you're looking not to get picked, try DA...picking is
not as prevalent there
Ram

[DREDIOCK]

ack hugging has an easy solution arlo already mentioned.. quit pinning people down at their base.. meet them half way and they have no ack to hide in.

barring that, deack the fricking place if you absolutely must have all the advantage yourself.

I'd agree with that if it were only those upping or trying to get alt.
The annoying ones are the ones who take one pass at yo in a co alt/E setting or even with an advantage over you then run to their ack

[glzsqd]

Picking? As far as I can tell picking is suited to some planes...
don't complain if you get picked... it goes with the game... or at
least in MA...If you're looking not to get picked, try DA...picking is
not as prevalent there
Ram

lol, go fly at furball lake for an hour or two. you will see how mistake you are.