Gunning down ejectee's

[Wlfgng]

if I'm ever tempted to bail out.. and actually open my chute..
please shoot me because it was a momentary lapse of reason and I would rather get back to the tower and re-up.

ok.. so there's my reason for shooting other chutes as well.. just providing a quick return to the game for the poor dweeb that forgot why he logged on.

[Apache]

When I shoot a guy down and he comes across ch.1 with "hehe, I just knocked your hangar down", I'm gonna turn and bust a cap in his chute for good measure.

[Fatty]

Until innocent civilians running in terror beneath my hail of gunfire are implemented, chutes are the best target available.

[Curval]

Originally posted by Seagoon

B) The man in the chute is defenseless
- SEAGOON

Perhaps HTC should address this?  Give German pilots a machine pistol..allied pilots a tommy gun, etc..then the man in the chute won't be quite so defenseless.

LOL Fatty..

[Hornet]

In any case the Americans actually started the whole murdering pilots while hanging in their parachutes when they arrived in the ETO. It wasn't common practice for the LW to do that as they thought it was despicable

hmm...don't start wars unless you're prepared to get your bellybutton kicked?

[Innominate]

"How can you shoot the women, and children?"
"Easy!  You just don't lead em so much! Ain't war hell! HA HA!"

[Arfann]

Your thread title is very misleading. I thought it was going to be about using lethal force on Peewee Hermin at the porno flick.

[Puck]

Originally posted by Seagoon
Ah, the end of morality in the West. No one even seems bothered that:

A) In reality, shooting chutes is a cowardly and vile thing to do
B) The man in the chute is defenseless
C) This isn't exactly sportsmanlike behavior



- SEAGOON

A. War is a cowardly and vile thing to do.  Shooting at people ranks pretty high on those categories, also.  My philosophy is the guy I didn't take down today may well recover and send my team mate home in a mason jar tomorrow.  I'd rather not have to explain to his widow/mother/sister/etc why I could have saved his life and didn't.

B. Good.  Defenseless enemys are my favorite kind.  My personal religion considers a "fair fight" the ultimate sin.  I don't enjoy killing people, but by $DIETY when I gotta do it I want to do so with as little danger to myself and my team as possible.

C. There's nothing sportsmanlike about getting shot at.  Untill you've been there, done that, and still have the nightmares please STFU about "sportsmanlike" conduct under fire.  See A above.

...or were you talking about the game?  

[vorticon]

i avoid shooting chutes not because its honerable to but because the faster they die the faster there up i figure i should let them suffer and spend 5 minutes falling while i do evil things to there base.

and yes i DO bail out sometimes BUT rather than bailing right after my plane is flaming i wait till i get to 600-700 feet then bail out and immediatly open the chute (remember if your chute aint open before 500 ft your DEAD) then the people who do chute shoot have a very small amount of alt to attempt to destroy my chute (most chuteshoots are bnz attacks so looking down at a plane augering is always funny)

[Curval]

Originally posted by Puck

B. Good.  Defenseless enemys are my favorite kind.  My personal religion considers a "fair fight" the ultimate sin.  I don't enjoy killing people, but by $DIETY when I gotta do it I want to do so with as little danger to myself and my team as possible.

C. There's nothing sportsmanlike about getting shot at.  D

As quoted by Mathman (who probably stole it from someone else)

"Fairness is for the Special Olympics....not AH!"

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by Seagoon
This one is fairly simple to work out, if you struggled to get 3 or 4 kills and then got shot down after a hard fight, and bailed wouldn't you want to be able to land your chute safely? It's a Golden rule issue, treat your fellow pilots in the manner that you would wish to be treated. Also, the angry whines that result are never worth it and make everyone else's life miserable.

[/B]

I fully expect that, should I ever bail, someone else has every right to come along and blast me out of the sky as I hang helplessly like the wussy I am.  I'm therefore following the Golden Rule when I do it to others.

Oh, and the angry whines are always worth it.  

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Mathman]

I kill chutes.  I am going to hell.  I don't think they are related.  Maybe they are.  Doesn't really matter though, I was going to hell anyways.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by Seagoon
A) In reality, shooting chutes is a cowardly and vile thing to do

[/B]

Aces High is a game.  There is nothing cowardly or vile about shooting pixels.

B) The man in the chute is defenseless

[/B]

Aces High is a game.  The man in the chute was not defenseless before he bailed.  Maybe next time he'll reconsider his options.

C) This isn't exactly sportsmanlike behavior

[/B]

Aces High is a game, not a sport.  It's not about fairness or sportsmanship; the only thing the other guy has done is cost you some points and sped up your trip to the tower.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Dingbat]

Originally posted by Arfann
Your thread title is very misleading. I thought it was going to be about using lethal force on Peewee Hermin at the porno flick.

RoFLMAO, how you made that connection one will never know

[EDO43]

Personally, I don' t often shoot up a guy in his chute but every now and again, I will; especially if he bailed to avoid me or is sp ying at a field.  FWIW, I don't care if someone shoots me in a chute, it just gets me back in the air that much quicker.  Also, except for the statement above, shooting a chute wastes your ammo and I generally don't fly things with .30 caliber ammunition.

Just my quarters worth (ain't inflation a squeak)