Bogus 6 calls.

[majic]

Speakin' of kill stealing, nothing bugs me more than taking the time to close too d200, holding your fire all the way and seeing shots fired over you from some guy d800 from the enemy.  First you think your being shot at and you check and its your own teammate.  But I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here...

[Nifty]

Originally posted by Apache:
600 yards? You actually fire that fire away?

Seems like everyone does.    In a Spit, I'll do it with the .303s, mainly because I'm not going to use them close quarters over the Hispanos.    It won't do a thing to the con, but sometimes it scares them into turning.

A week or so ago, I felt silly, so I JABOed in a La7.  Attacked the city with the bombs and most of the 20mm ammo.  Ran out of ammo fighting, so I went low and headed for home.  Get a N1K2 following me about d700 and I'm pulling away from him slowly.  He sprays at me the entire way, up until D1.1K where glasses and someone else caught him and dispatched him.  I know the George has a good ammo count for it's quad 20mms, but he had to be almost empty by the time they got him, and he never got a ping.  I'm surprised when I see Spits spraying.  only 120 rounds per cannon, why waste it when you'll only get lucky 10% of the time?

Oh, I haven't gotten 6 calls to pull me off a con yet, well, it's possible.  I just attributed it to someone else being the intended recipient of the 6 call.  I know my chk 6 button on my Saitek doesn't like to cycle well at all.

[mjolnir]

Sheesh. OK, so you are 600yds behind an nme, and you are pingin away with 50 cal. lasers, maybe even getting hits, when a countryman with more E and bigger guns pulls in 200 yds behind the nme and blows him away.

What can we learn from this?

A. The enemy is dead.
B. See A
C. Its time to thank your COUNTRYMAN for the help and move on.
D. See A again

That is all (go team)
 

The only problem with that scenario is when your "buddy" drops in front of you at d200 from target while you're firing and you die as a result of killshooter.  That's happening a lot more lately too.

[Grimm]

The Only Sportsman and chivilerous thing to do is have Enemy 6 Call.  Before the enemy shoots you, He gives ya a 6 call.  Muhahahahaaa.......

[Am0n]

I havent had this scenerio happen to me yet. But i do understand sometimes you give the call to the wrong guy un-intenionaly.


He may have been trying to scare you, mistaking you for a newbie, due to you being in that ugly Sissyfire apache     (j/k)


Seriously though who ever is doing this on purpose is a idiot.

Who was it? so i know who not to give a 6 call to when it counts.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by Am0n:
I havent had this scenerio happen to me yet. But i do understand sometimes you give the call to the wrong guy un-intenionaly.

I've never had this happen to me either, at least as far as I can tell.  I wonder how much of it is really perception versus reality.  In any event, I'm always happier to have a six call than not, bogus or otherwise.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Apache]

Perception versus reality. we could spend days there, lol.

It is "my perception"  , that this was most likely intentional. Why give me a 6 call when you're (metaphorically) the one on my 6?

[Raubvogel]

Last night I chased a Spit who was trying to shoot down one of our buffs. He was smoking and I was saddled up about d300 of his 6 lining up my shot. I see tracers swarming around me and I do a barrel roll out of the line of fire. Sure enough, there's 2 countrymates about 400 behind me trying to get the kill. I had already taken half of the Spits wing off, so I let it go and got the kill. When I ask this guy WTF he was doing, he goes off about how it was his kill...then he actually blames me because he got killshootered from spraying me. According to him, I was "blocking his line of fire." It was good for a laugh.

[Serapis]

Check 6 is about useless now. I've had a few of the bogus calls that I can fairly say were designed to get the kill, but that's not what bugs me (at least until they become more common   . What I find distracting is the lack of check 6 calls in general of late.

For those who do/have called my 6 recently -- <S!> And I know that in the heat of battle it can be hard to call every six. I had someone complain to me once when, frankly, I was being shot at just like he was (we were both outnumbered in the fight). I didn't complain the two times in the fight I found someone on my tail by the tracers flying by and understood that he was a bit to busy to be monitoring my SA in that situation. He didn't feel the same. But, there are a lot of cases where a number of friendlies apparently don't want to distract the bogey who has slipped on my low six by having me manuver.

In general, the Check 6 call can lead to a false sense of security (there's only two enemies and five friendlies -- they'll let me know if the other enemy decides to go for me). The healthy mindset is to never expect a call regrardless of the situation, and to always check your own six even (and especially) before taking the shot. Bad calls are not a surprise then, good calls are accpeted in the spirit given (sometimes though, I see the enemy and an timing the break   and the occasionally useful six call is really appreciated.

Charon

[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Charon ]

[Grimm]

Originally posted by Raubvogel:
he goes off about how it was his kill...then he actually blames me because he got killshootered from spraying me. According to him, I was "blocking his line of fire." It was good for a laugh.

OK, This my way of looking at it. Who cares about scoring the Kill.  Im not big on score.  Oh sure, If I end with a good K/D Im going to be happy.  But really just having a good time is all that is important to me.  

The last thing I would do is argue about whos kill it is.  If I got credit, and I could transfer it I would.  

It reminds me of Deer hunting and you shoot a deer, and another hunter shows up in a few minutes and says he trailed it and its his. Then the fool pulls a bead on you claiming his deer.  Crap its not that big deal, either is kill credit in the game.

Just my warped out look.
"my mind is so warped.. I need an orthopedic hat"...