Tonight, in mid war, we had a NIT change sides and spot and drop supplies for the NITS. (That is in addition to turning our CV around etc etc). We lost a 8.5K airbase that we had captured that morning that we were using to hit the Nits hard with. Now I do not like losing important bases, but I hate it when a spy is involved.
As pay back I went Nit for a while and spotted and dropped supplies. Out of a sense of fair play I told my new “team mates” what I was doing. They were not happy. I understand. They claimed that they had “no idea” etc etc. Hard to believe. (We lost two guys defending the downed town because the guy was spotting.) The Nits told me that I was nuts and even lying – I maybe nuts (I’m taking this game too seriously) but the facts from my point of view were not misrepresented.
I do not like spies; they take away from the strategy and tactical aspect of the game.
And YES I know – there is nothing in the rule book about not being a spy – just a code of conduct that some of us wish to follow. (BTW, I do not think that what I did was spying – I was pretty open about it – in part because I wanted to let them know that I was there so that they could either keep their communications to themselves – and in part to work them up – yep – many of them were not happy - although I did receive one or two expressions of love form one Nit with a sense of humor - and yes I still love you too!)
I think that there has got to be a way to kill your own country member if you need/want to. Real world spies were killed all the time. I do not know – is there a technical limitation within the game that stops this from happening? I’m assuming that there is a difference between collisions and gun fire. (I think that if friendly collisions were allowed then when two guys tried to up at the same time from the same runway you would have problems. Image losing a 262 before you even take off!). But there has to be a way of shooting a “friendly”. Maybe it could be an option so that newbes don’t go around killing own team members by mistake. Maybe it could be a non-permanent option i.e. you would have to select the option every time you upped.
This is just an idea to close a game weakness against those who game the game.
To the Nits not involved in the affair – my apologies.
