Well, I will say that "gaming the game" is normally frowned upon, and scrutiny coming from doing that is going to happen.
How is it gaming the game to use the bombers Hitech put in the game to bomb the HQ that Hitech made destructible? And taking down the radar like Hitech coded the effect to do?
Why is that not playing the game the way the designer intended?
If you say THAT is gaming the game, then shooting down another player is gaming the game. This isn't exploiting a modelling glitch in some building with a tank. This is intended behavior that Hitech specifically coded in the game for players to use.
It's not "Gaming the Game". It's "Playing the Game".
What is really amusing is that none of this ilk will dare take this to Hitech and tell him he needs to change the down-time, or the hardness, or tell him to ban a paying customer for playing the game the way he coded it. Maybe they are afraid he will laugh in their face.
And you know what? I would fight all day, every day, for even you to be allowed to play the game as you wish within the HTC rules. If you give in to self-appointed dictators there will be no end to their demands. There is no end to the unwritten rules they will pull out their yen-yang and demand you follow. It's like negotiating with terrorists. Never give in, unless you want to be capitulating daily to a new demand.