Are recons allowed?

[ÆNIMA]

Spechunting is illegal in pub.

But totally legal in league play.

HMMMMM

That's because the LT Lobby is much stronger than Warbirds or Javs lobbies.

It won't get changed because PL is a star LT and he doesn't want to get spec hunted.

[CaptainPoopface]

For LTs, it's not such a big deal. If you set your ?target appropriately and watch radar for the bright blue dot firing blinky white dots, it's not hard to find them. The terrier is already the most evasive ship anyway, so spec hunting one won't accomplish much.

Spec hunting in pub can be used to harass a particular player beyond what is reasonable or fair though. The ships in TW are configured so that each ship has at least one ship it cannot counter very well. Terriers are probably the least exploitable in this regard. But if someone wants to (and let's not forget the inordinate proportion of assholes in the SS player base), he can constantly switch to the best counter to his harassee's ship to maintain the advantage. Sure, this happens in regular play sometimes, but when you are spec hunted, it is impossible for you to surprise the harasser. You are always at the disadvantage. He can also camp his lame ass somewhere (BobR), and always have the heads up when someone is coming, including perpetual free x-radar.

It's unfair because not everyone can do it. If there were some kind of bot request everyone could make every couple of minutes to give you the coords and ship type of a single player, that would be different. But since it can be abused, it will be, unless it is outlawed (and then it still will be abused, but probably a little less).

[Xog]

Goddamnit, people! Stop making sense. >:[

[JabJabJab]

You know I was honestly giving capt. poopface the intelligence award until he referenced someone. Man, seriously, referencing people for bad things and trying to sound smart does not go together people!

[Infrared]

do it in pm and no one will know.

thread closed.

[ÆNIMA]

For LTs, it's not such a big deal. If you set your ?target appropriately and watch radar for the bright blue dot firing blinky white dots, it's not hard to find them. The terrier is already the most evasive ship anyway, so spec hunting one won't accomplish much.

You're right about that. However, a good LT spec hunter will gauge where a terr lays his portals as well as favorite shots. Blasting an LT after he warps is a very effective method of hunting.

[jngy slate]

He could just warp to safe or spawn.

[DankNuggets]

hey, here's an idea:

if someone is spec hunting you hit esc+q

click the profiles button
make a new profile
enter the zone

get a friend to help spec hunt him

(note: if you have no friends, you can probably find someone who dislikes the player enough to help you)

Any cases where it's being considered "harassament" - that is they are repeatedly just killing you, spec hunting, changing arenas and such - that should warrant a warning and punishment for harrassment, a totally different rule. That is unless, they only enforce that for verbal harassment.

But seriously if they do it in PM there is no way to get in trouble for it, it's all hearsay.