So the Nits were drastically outnumbered today when I logged on. I sought refuge from the Horde onslaught by practicing my porking and deacking on a little out of the way base. I flew over and within minutes had dropped the Dar, the ords, and then deacked town. decided to press my luck and deack the base as well. I got all the auto guns down just as a Spit lifted off. Hoping for a decent fight, I extended away and let him get co alt, and pick up some E, then I turned back and merged. Sadly I was able to reverse on him immediately and he ran for the ack. (poor feller neglected to notice I had already killed it all
) So I caught him and killed him. Then I hear the familiar sound of REVENGE MANNED GUN FIRE. I spent the next few minutes chasing this guy around the field killing the manned guns he was jumping into. good thing he was a worse shot than me !
Now this is NOT a rant, Whine, Cry or any other such thing. I just want to open a conversation about this, and see where it leads.
I think if you are manning a gun, you should be able to be killed. and for your death to count as a kill for the killer. You can shoot down planes and effect their stats or score, but you are completely safe from any negative outcome on your game.
There are some VERY skilled gunners in game that pick planes outta the air from more than 1.5k out, and a lot further with the 88's. There's been more than a few occasions where I've chased somebody back to their base and killed them, or out fought them and killed them relatively close to their field, only to have them jump into an 88 or manned gun get a lucky shot on me
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Same base I attacked and deacked earlier.. Im inbound lookin for the cause of the dar bar, when I spot a high con. he dives on me, overshoots, and I easily gain his 6. He runs for the base, I kill him just outside of ack range. seconds later I see the single tracer, and puffy ack next to me. so I zoom in and kill the 88. starting heading for home, and boom, another ack burst, so I turn around and kill that 88.
Shouldn't that person have 2 deaths recorded ? After all he was trying to kill me and if he succeeded I would have been penalized with a death. and why shouldn't I be awarded 2 kills ? I had to avoid his shots, bobbing and weaving, take aim and take him out. I had to put myself in danger and avoid being killed in order to kill him. If a GV engages a plane, and the plane kills the GV, that GV gets a death, and the pilot is awarded a kill.
So what's everybody's thoughts on manned gun kills/deaths not counting ?