The CV doesn't get attacked. It is hidden.....and missions off it, are NOE. Unless....a noob or someone with mind set like Osmium's comes along and gives it away.
Or someone on the other side with a passion for strategic / meta gameplay and experience comes along.
First, anyone around here for some time could knows about the way you are using the CV on certain maps. (It's nothing new or unique either, it's just with the low numbers of these days you are probably the last player left to do these things).
What I used to do on certain maps is checking the strats for damage patterns with the dt command. Damage from bombers has a markedly different pattern from Jabo or CA/BB bombardment, both in time and spatial distribution. So when I would notice someone is hitting the strats with NOE jabos, I very well might come to the conclusion that there may be a CV involved.
At this point I would (and in the past often have) up a single Arado with DTs and a single bomb and go scouting. If I actually found a CV it was near the strats most of the time, but If I knew you were on another team I wouldn't hesitate to scan vast areas... and on most maps it boils down to a few places. The oceans are not as large anymore as they used to be with the megamaps anyway.
Of course doing such or similar things has gotten me quite a number of "cheater" calls in the past. But then people also don't believe one can find a bomber mission by watching sector dar moving across the map.
