So basically what you are saying is, NOE is undefendable. If it gets sniffed out, somebody cheated.
The reason NOE is so effective is because people generally don't pay $15 to play Tower General and study the map for suspicious activities.
This isn't WW2. There aren't actual field scouts surveying the countryside and radioing in the sneak attacks to headquarters. It just doesn't work like that in this combat game. The MA detection methods for NOE simply aren't transparent enough. A small base flashing on a map with over 100 bases? Who is going to take the time to study it? Not me. Not the average Joe. I'd rather find a fight. NOE is taking advantage of the way the main arena operates.
To be honest I'm glad your mission got busted.
Apparently you are not getting what Falcon talking about, we have no problem with our missions being busted, it is how this particular squad is doing it time after time, that is the problem, I'm not generally suspicious but these repeating coincidences are now getting a little ridiculous. As recently as last night we had a NOE mission that started almost three sectors away which was 90% over water, so it was very easy to stay low and not give away your position, I would think everybody knows that staying under 500ft will keep you from giving away your position outside the radar rings. That being said as the mission was in progress we were watching the Rook front, there was five or so bases along the shore line we were heading for, as the mission progressed towards A163 we seen dar bars showing up in three of the bases one above and below including the one we were heading for, as we moved cross sectional across through the sectors basically zeroing in on our target, the dar also move from one sector to another, (keep in mind that we are not giving away our position, we've had no dar bars all the way across) we then decided to change our objective to a different base, A168 at this point we were about 2/3 of sector away from any of the rook bases sector lines and closing, but then turning south we were vectoring in on that base, as we did low and behold those dar bars I was telling you about followed us and came up from behind us and guess who they were, they took out our goons (mission busted) and we just proceeded to that base anyway and were greeted by the same squad members as before and we did not even make land yet, which they already had altitude on us over the water and they made quick work of all of us in the mission.
I have and many of all of you have been in many missions that were busted for any number of reasons, oh well that's part of the deal we accept that and have no problem with taking the good with bad when the playing field is even. But I even was reluctant to believe this was the case in this matter and I still hope I am wrong in my analysis but it does not look that way so far.
One other thing I would like to add about all of this NOE stuff and so on, I believe that being able to go under the radar is all part of the experience, if it wasn't suppose to be here then we couldn't use it. And by the way we only had 12-15 people in the mission two of which were goons.
