A slight flaw in the vulch timer. Like HT can do it he wants to. But so what?
I like to vulch now and then. It is a lot of fun.... for a while, and then it gets boring. But I don't vulch for the kill to be added to my score or for the perk points.
I vulch because I really love to shoot some poor helpless slob who is trying to take off. It satisfies some primordial part of me that is at best psychopathic.
It is like shooting some poor sot who is shot to hell, smoking, and trying to rtb or ditch. I don't do it for the kill to be added to my score. Often all you get is an assist. I do it for the pure unadulterated pleasure I get out of it.
There is a part of me that is purely psychopathic, sadistic, and psychotic when I play on-line. It is a vicarious Mr. Hyde that slithers out of the primordial ooze of my baser persona. And from the performance of others in the arena, I would say that I am a long ways from being an anomaly.
What you are trying to fight here is the condition of the human spirit. Religions, philosophies and governments have spent thousands of years in futile attempts of trying to control the baser part of our humanity. They have come up with all kinds of rules and ideas. None of them has been very successful. Why do you think your rules will be any better at controlling human behavior in the arena? Especially when there are so many unrepentant anarchistic reprobates like myself who will not submit themselves to the sanctimonious, and often ridiculous unwritten rules of behavior that some want to impose on me?
I don’t cuss, swear etc on open channels. I stay off of channel 200. I don’t deliberately kill steal. And I don’t do anything to keep others from having fun their way, except that I will shoot them down anyway I can. I vulch, cherry pick, gang bang, alt monkey, fly with hordes, back stab, shoot at a bogey from it’s 11 to 1 position. If I have no chance, I will HO.
All of the above is not “Honorable” behavior. But I will assure you that I have been vulched, cherry picked, gang banged, been hit by alt monkeys, back stabbed, HO’d, attacked when I have been low slow, shot to hell, smoking and trying to ditch or rtb.
I do unto others as others have done unto me. Kill or be killed, that is the only rule to fly by. All other rules are wistful romantic ideas dreamed up by people who have never been on an actual battlefield.
You want reality in Aces High? Then fly like a real fighter pilot: Kill the enemy any way you can, before he kills you.