If We Weren't Supposed to Shoot Chutes...

[Z6]

However I would never use A/C ammo to kill em.  But in a Field gun there getting all the lead I can pour into em.
>>>S<<< GOODHUNTING!

[Masherbrum]

If it pisses me off getting shot in my chute.  Why on earth does it take you Drunk Bishies six passes (shooting) to finally hit a chute?

I want to be in that tower sooner to shoot you down!   I have witnessed some pathetic gunnery?   I don't even know if the word gunnery qualifies.

I don't get pissed, like I said, it gets me in the tower faster.

Every bullet spent on a chute, is less for a plane or strat.

K2

[Sixpence]

I don't know about you guys, but if my chute opens more than a 10 sec drop to the ground, i'm begging for people to shoot me. I think the rude thing to do would be not to shoot me:D
 Saw a chute at 15k the other day.......and I bet he would have complained if I shot him down......that's gratitude for ya.

P.S.   Give the pilot a .45 so he can shoot back!!

[Griego]

YES WAR IS HELL.

  Shooting a chute would not be something they[ being the WWII pilot] would be PROUD of or boast about.

 Historically accurate yes. PROUD OF NO.  
 
 Straffing Historically accurate yes.

 "While it wasn't an official pratice. It wasn't discourage either."

 It was left up to the individuals own moral code. I'm sure there were times in the heat of the battle. That some were consumed with hatred over what had happen to a friend or countryman that Morality went out the window. I'm also sure they had to live with it and I'm also sure they were not PROUD of it either.

 If you listen to any of the the WWII pilots interviews. None ever brought up How PROUD they were in shooting a Chute. Unlike some people in this post.

 Remember it's just a game. enjoy yourself and if shooting chutes trips your trigger go for it. It really doesn't matter now does it.

 quote " I played AW for 8 years and WB for 3yrs and chute shooting in both is just as common as it was in Ace's High."

 No not just a common by any means. A few chute shooter yes common NO. That why there have been many comment on the mentality of Quakebird [Ace's High]. Don't get me wrong I like Playing AH. but some of the community including myself in this has to lightn up.

 Yes my post on chute shooter is a bit much LOL. some is sarcasm and some is sarcasm with a reminder on how far we really come when people are proud of such action be a game or not.

 " LOL it's just a game don't take it to seriously"

  REALLY!  

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by lazs2
"it means that the other player actually despises you as a person, and wishes to inflict upon you as much discomfort as is possible via a remote connection. There is no other explanation"

yes... there is another explanation.  It means that the person despises your cowardly, score potato VIRTUAL butt.  
lazs

Heh heh.  Just stumbled on this thread.  Funny, in AW this was why I went out of my way to shoot chutes.  I wanted to do my part to discourage pointmongering.  Then I came to AH, which appears to have been designed expressly for pointmongers, and find that because scores are evidently such a huge priority for so many people, I can't bring myself to spoil their fun.  So I don't bother anymore.

- oldman

[Puck]

Originally posted by Griego
YES WAR IS HELL.

  Shooting a chute would not be something they[ being the WWII pilot] would be PROUD of or boast about.

 Historically accurate yes. PROUD OF NO.  
 
 Straffing Historically accurate yes.

 "While it wasn't an official pratice. It wasn't discourage either."

 It was left up to the individuals own moral code. I'm sure there were times in the heat of the battle. That some were consumed with hatred over what had happen to a friend or countryman that Morality went out the window. I'm also sure they had to live with it and I'm also sure they were not PROUD of it either.

 If you listen to any of the the WWII pilots interviews. None ever brought up How PROUD they were in shooting a Chute. Unlike some people in this post.

 Remember it's just a game. enjoy yourself and if shooting chutes trips your trigger go for it. It really doesn't matter now does it.

 quote " I played AW for 8 years and WB for 3yrs and chute shooting in both is just as common as it was in Ace's High."

 No not just a common by any means. A few chute shooter yes common NO. That why there have been many comment on the mentality of Quakebird [Ace's High]. Don't get me wrong I like Playing AH. but some of the community including myself in this has to lightn up.

 Yes my post on chute shooter is a bit much LOL. some is sarcasm and some is sarcasm with a reminder on how far we really come when people are proud of such action be a game or not.

 " LOL it's just a game don't take it to seriously"

  REALLY!    

Yup, it's just a game.  There's a *SLIGHT* difference between chute shooting in AH and in WWII.  We're not killing people.  I've met a few who've "been there and done that" in my days; none of them were PROUD of killing other people.  It was an unpleasant part of the job.

This is a game.  Don't take it too seriously.  Nobody gets hurt, nobody gets maimed.  About the worst thing that can happen is repetitive stress injury from hitting the return key too often.  This allows for a bit more banter.  If you can't deal with it, don't read the boards.

Speaking of which, I've also seen war games played in the military; inter-service and in the teams.  After all is said and done and everyone is back in the clubs they're just a PROUD for having gotten a "kill" on someone, and are just as likely to give them grief about it as the people here.  The only difference is the guy who died generally has to buy the guy who killed him a drink.

It's just a game.  Don't take it too seriously.  Morality isn't an option  

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by Oldman731
Then I came to AH, which appears to have been designed expressly for pointmongers, and find that because scores are evidently such a huge priority for so many people, I can't bring myself to spoil their fun.  So I don't bother anymore.

hehe Spoiling pointmongers' fun is exactly the reason I do go out of my way to shoot chutes.  I find the signal to noise ratio from shooting down the chute of someone who "flies to live" to be well worth the expenditure in ammo and time.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Creamo]

Chutes that land pad scores, or not?

I think they do, so I shoot them.

I they don't make a score diffrence, I will still shoot them, because they are pry from AW, and send Flossy flowers.

[lazs2]

what kind of a wuss would bail out?  Who would even have a key mapped for such a thing?   If we weren't supposed to shoot at em then why do they have big red icons?
lazs

[Rude]

I myself, at one time, never even thought to shoot a chute. However, over time, the discussions on this board relating to killing chutes peaked my interest. I said to myself, what in the world could be so controversial about shooting a chute. Well, then I tried it.

My eyes have been opened and now I truly see!

I find it most enjoyable sending folks to the tower and watching the buffer for a reaction...I know, I know, not a very nice thing to say or do, but it just somehow feels right.

To make sense of this madness, I feel justified killing these little butterflies because they relay information back to their friends who then try and kill me.

So, in closing, I'de just like to say, KILL EM ALL!!!!

[Creamo]

Exactly. Why is there Channel 1 anyway otherwise?

It's either to entertain me from chute deaths whining all the way to the tower, or to give Zeroping free reign to chat gayly like it was AOL's first version when it dropped hourly charges.

Can't he die, no then the mindless "Great pilots pass in the virtual world" threads...blah...


I'll throw in $5 bucks for his babysitter not to fake his death, but drop a can of 5minute expoy on his keyboard.

[Griego]

Originally posted by lazs2
what kind of a wuss would bail out?  Who would even have a key mapped for such a thing?   If we weren't supposed to shoot at em then why do they have big red icons?
lazs

 LOL thats why the icon says chute. To let you know it a chute not a plane. plain and simple. sheez

 As far as bailing out when you don't have a wing or half your plane is gone what the point in staying in it. You get the kill anyways.LOL shooting chutes is for wussess. you got that backwards.

 Chutes are there only for immersion factor is all.

 I also find the reactions to my statments on this post very fulfilling. In the same way some of you find chute shooting so.

[Karnak]

I fondly recall a P-38 diving after my chute, twisting and turning to get guns on me, and then shooting past me at 500mph when I opened my airbrake / chute.  He hit the ground 300 yards below me.

That was fun.

[Samm]

Why do people bail out in the MA ?

[SOB]

One of the few things that amuses me more than shooting chutes, is plowing my pony at mach 1 strait into the dirt trying to angle for a low chute.  Not that I've ever done anything that stupid, mind you...


SOB