Being fairly new to this game, though I played a lot of Airwarrior back when AOL offered it, I am about playing the game and the game is a team oriented game just as the real war was. If you are only interested in kills and aircombat go to the dueling arena and you won't have to sweat someone stealing "your" kill. I will certainly back off if someone asks but in the heat of battle I have never heard anyone call off other attackers and I certainly never would. I have been on both ends of the issue and for me it's a none issue. For instance I attacked a b-24 head on last night and did not realize until passing him (after inflicting critical damage) that someone was right on his tail. Don't know if I hit the friendly or not or if I took his kill, attacking these bombers from the rear is pretty much suicide anyways, the point being I may have stolen this guys or galls kill but I had no way of knowing he was there and no time to worry about it as the field was just a couple of clicks to my 6 so the game comes first and that means protecting the field. I have had similar scenarios in a dog fight where stopping the boagie meant I might be stealing a kill but maybe I stopped a vulch of the field (which means I have one more fighter up helping hold back the attempt to capture the field) or helped a bomber get clear of or to the field on the way out or in, regardless I down the boagie first worry about points second. Bottom line the game comes first and the game is to capture and defend territory. If you're around me and you have a shot...take it, might be the difference between loosing or taking a field and for me that's really all the matters.
