Using film to find hiding gvs -- cheat?

[popeye]

I was accused today of hacking or cheating to find hiding gvs.  Don't have a hack, but I do sometime use film to find a gv that has been hiding for a while and I haven't found by flying around and looking.

Is that a cheat?

[Devil 505]

You're just using the game as HiTech intended...

[Lusche]

IMHO that's a grey area these days. Years ago, in AH2, I would probably have answered: "Yes"

But there are so many players who just park their tank near a town, base or a factory to make them flash and go away, sometimes for hours. The problem is: In AH3, you often have no chance to find them at all, because they are hiding in those dense woods or even in some building.

So I made a personal decision: I don't use film in battle/combat situations. They're fighting for the town, we just got a white flag and there's a m3 somewhere? I better watch the maproom, film is off limits. Same when a GV is in town and just stopped smashing the buildings because he spotted my Ju-87.

But if I notice a base flashing for an hour without anything happening, I might take a look at the film if the terrain is particularly nasty. In the past, I sometimes even called out my intention on CH200.

[Mongoose]

Maybe you could just consider it reconnaissance photos.

[JimmyD3]

I do the same Kong. When defending a base or attacking one, I don't use it. However, if the base is flashing for a long period of time or, if its is flashing and I go there and nothing is moving and nothing down, I'll look at film.

I think Lusche's "personal decision" sums it up for me very well.

[oTRALFZo]

Cheating? NO.  You are using the tools given to you within parameters of the game.

I have seen players flash a base for over an hour. Only to creep to town/field until someone spawns and they go back to invisible mode. I don't have that patience, life is too short. If they are having fun sitting there for that long then they can have the base. I will just tower

[LCADolby]

Due to the ridiculous icon range on GVs we now have, it's the only way to even the playing field as an Aircraft. As one said, It's a Recon photo 

However, if you are a GV and using AHFilm to find your enemy, you are cheating.

[Dadtallica]

Due to the ridiculous icon range on GVs we now have, it's the only way to even the playing field as an Aircraft. As one said, It's a Recon photo 

However, if you are a GV and using AHFilm to find your enemy, you are cheating.

Someone in a tank could have recon photos too. Don’t think you can differentiate.

[GasTeddy]

Maybe you could just consider it reconnaissance photos.

Agreed. Never used it but I consider it useful idea.

[haggerty]

I wouldnt use it as a crutch during an active base attack, but to find a troll just flashing a base for no reason, go to town with it.  They are griefing and deserve to be hunted.

[RichardDarkwood]

I wouldnt use it as a crutch during an active base attack, but to find a troll just flashing a base for no reason, go to town with it.  They are griefing and deserve to be hunted.

Most of the time Kong does not need to go look at film to find GV's, that's pretty much all he does it would seem.

A lot of times someone takes a M-3 with troops to the town and it isn't ready yet or the people that planned to take the base got held up or distracted but the guy in the M-3 has already drove all that way so he sits there waiting.

IMHO looking at film is just lame and shows that people are desperate for kills to get there name in lights and a bunch of wtg's from fellow countrymen.