"Kill Stealing" NO Flame please!

[Connery]

ok ok this thread isnt meant to be a flamefest or a name and shame lets get that right from the outset.

I would like to ask, has "kill stealing" become rife recently ?

We all know it takes many forms, from out and out blatant shooting the fuselage of a wingless aircraft as it falls to the deck, to more subtle techniques like person a calls his target dives in someone decides to race person A to it and normally comes booming past and person A ends up maybe kill shooting him or herself.

I would say that latter isn't really kill stealing, but more of a frustration.

I am posting this because I have seen a few people mention it, and I've been witness to it a LOT recently...

Your thoughts please, and remember I don't want this to be a flame thread or a name and shame thread. Perhaps someone could post the etiquette of the game and the unwritten rules in case any new players are reading

Thanks guys

[whiteman]

i can handle someone blowing by me killing someone i just dove on. But i have seen a lot more one winged planes being chased by people that didn't put a shot into disabling it in the first place.

last night was the first time i really got fustarted with it. One guy in particular that stayed above the fight and then dove on planes that were on fire or missing wings. Same guy was also playing General from 15k telling people to protect the m3's and kill the ack so that may have been part of what p***ed me off.

[SuperDud]

I steal kills as often as possible. It's great hearing people cry.

[Rino]

What I don't like is seeing the tracers go past my wing without so
much as a courtesy call first.  Let me know if you're going past or shooting
so I don't have to wonder if the tracers are from a bad guy or not.

     More than once I have watched multiple friendlies chasing a bandit into
a friendly without a headsup from any of them.

     As far as the pathetic disabled enemy vultchers, I feel sorry for them
if that's the only way they can score.  Bad guys are like Doritos, they'll
always make more.

[Raptor]

I just hate looking on dar and seeing an incoming horde approaching, then see 10 green guys chasing 1 red guy in another direction otd... oh well... more for me.

[ghi]

i'm tired greedy shy score putas  vets saving kills and points for retirement always complaining about poor nobs strafing a wounded plane,

[LTARsqrl]

Chasing wingless planes to the ground while spraying it the whole time will last till September.  Remember it's sqeaker season.  Tunnel vision is a tough thing to explain to someone.  And just think of the bragging rights when Junior High starts.  

LTARsqrl  <>

[Squire]

Nobody complains when they get a late kill credit that somebody else actually shot down. It all evens out in the end. I dont worry about it, put lead on target and let the credit falls where it may. If some squeaker needs to shoot at a flaming wing, f-it, who cares.

[halcyon]

The way I see it:
(Halcyon's unofficial AH2 rules)

1. Fly courteous, fly fair (no cable pulling, terrain glitching, etc.), fly fun. Doing the first two ensures the third.
2. Ask permission to help teammates. If the don't need it, don't intervene the dogfight.
3. Respect your teammates. Don't insult them or others, because you're just burning your bridges.
4. Mind your surroundings. Cutting off someone in a furball usually gets them killed.
5. Respect the radio. It's a privilege, not a right.

I've follow these rules everytime I fly, and I always have fun.

(just to note, score means jack in this game. Shooting disabled aircraft tells me you're a score potato and automatically turns you into a dweeb)

[GunnerCAF]

Has anyone been killed by a "Spits Dead"?  I only have problems with people who call their kills, when they are not dead.

They are dead when they turn into a ball of flame.  I won't shoot any anything that is going down.  If anyone need a kill bad enough, your welcome to anything I wing.  This attitude sure makes the game more enjoyable to me

Gunner

[BBBB]

This is why I have not played in over a month. IL2 1946 has got me my fix. Yes it is on a smaller scale, but I don't have to play the same boring bellybutton maps, listen to squeakers as they die, deal with kill stealing, hording, wanna be master and commanders and stupid flying (most of the time).

 I don't know what to tell you about kill stealing. I don't like it. But what can you do? HTC is making good money off of his current set up. So there isn't a need to fix it I guess.

-Spot

[NateWolf]

My very first time in the arena I dove after a falling plane on fire. Then a guy politely told me that is not a good thing to do as many people will get mad. Since he was so polite I listened and learned. I don't do it anymore because I'd rather die trying to get a real kill then just get some cheap kill. Now, if some squeaker started yelling at me, I would just keep diving and firing.

[Grits]

"Finish him off next time! WOO WOOOOOOOO"

[Slash27]

Originally posted by Grits
"Finish him off next time! WOO WOOOOOOOO"

 

Heard that about you.




Sinner.

[soda72]

Originally posted by Grits
"Finish him off next time! WOO WOOOOOOOO"

What ever happened to that video?