Puffy ack must not hate me nearly as much as you guys because I've only died to it a handful of times and I love me some CV action... I do agree it should check for LOS as that's common sense, and altitude isn't factored in it should be, and perhaps the targeting routine might also be adjusted to favor bombers more then fighters (as obvious threats to the CV/Start) but beyond that I don't mind it now. Flying into ack is a calculated risk as it should be, the puffy ack needs to be reasonably deadly to have any deterrent effect at all. It's not SUPPOSED to be safe to fly into, if you don't want to die too it stay low (the 3000 foot ceiling is already a huge concession, there's no real logical reason it couldn't be firing straight down to the deck like the manned guns) or avoid CVs. Otherwise suck it up, and besides it's not like puffy ack is the only thing in game that screws you with bad luck we've all been hit by some guy spraying an ostie all over the sky, or pinged once for a pilot wound at 1k, or had some guy turn directly into us with no chance to avoid a collision bad luck happens: deal with it; at least you get to respawn.