i just found this on the trainers website.
KILL STEALING: In Aces High, a damaged plane can spin helplessly to the ground after having its wing shot off in a good fight. The victor of this fight, assuming he is any good, is probably already looking for the next fight, and maybe even anticipating seeing who he killed. A kill stealer is someone who chases the tumbling, burning wreckage that was once a plane down to the ground, pumping it full of bullets, and gets a kill because he gets more hits into it before it hits the ground. This is the mark of a true dweeb who cares only for his score, not whether he is any good or not. While accidents do happen, don't shoot into planes that are already going down.
This I must admit is one of the most annoying aspects of this game! i find this to be a sign of a true jack-off.
sometimes you don't realize the plane is going down right away, so you nose in and pop a round or so. but within a second or two anyone should realize that the plane they are engaging is either beyond the control of the pilot (i.e. tail down spin to the ground, end over end tumble upside down flat spin ect) or damaged to the point of imminent crash.(i.e. missing wing(s) tail ect)
although if a plane, such as a zeek, is flaming but still flying the pilot who shot it should not let it go but must Finnish it off. the zeek can still fly fight and kill while burning. they light quick but burn for a long time. as a fact to this, while playing this afternoon i watched a burning zeek saddle and down two planes in quick succession before succumbing to the flames. if the zeek is left to fly away after sparking it up then its still a viable kill for who ever wants to catch it. just because you light it that doesn't make it dead, if you turn away from it it may be you it comes back to kill (yes i learned this the hard way, thanx for the lesson).
as we are all well aware, i am no expert in this game. so it takes allot of effort for me to get enough good hits on a target to bring it down. don't rob me of my due for the work invested by scum bagging kills from me.
so my view on this is simple, if it's just burning but turning its game, if it looks like its missing key parts or in an unlikely to recover from tumble or spin then leave it alone.
i think that THE MOST IRRITATING thing for a person to do is to boom into a fight that is obviously going on between two planes without a request for the help. yes yes this is the pick, but i am talking about the "friendly" pick. i have killshot myself on multiple occasions on the arse of a friendly who has taken it upon himself to jump between me and a target i am firing on from 200 or less away. you cant
not see me, or the fact that i am firing on the target, but then you choose to jump yourself into my stream of fire anyways?? what kind of scumbag s*&(t is that? these are by far the lowliest of the low in killstealing dirt bags.
on a funny note to that though, one night a couple of jerk offs did this a couple times in a row to my wingman JETSOM. so for the rest of the night we made it our job in life to jump between these pilots and any plane they engaged. we wouldn't even bother to shoot the enemy plane, we would just get into the line of fire of the dirt bags.
i know childish and immature, but in defense of our actions Jetsom had called them off before they got in front of him the first time and the disregarded him and caused his subsequent killshots. then after he typed to them that that was not a kool thing to do, and that he did not need there help, they attempted this two more times almost getting him killed both times. well after that the game was on.
this does not include when someone kills themselves because they shoot a country man while hording. if there are 10 guys in a bundle chasing and firing one plane, well you get what you get.
this thread has been great guys, i thank you again
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