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Originally Posted by dimlee
Personal code is so... personal indeed. 
I have developed my set of rules in early years of IL2 that included, for example, no shooting at paratroopers and at those who landed with lights on or smoking . |
I never paid much attention to those who switched their lights on. Point-whores often would switch their lights on in the middle of a fight if they took a little hit or ran out of ammo etc., and they expected to be let go to land to get their precious points, too bad for them if I was around. If you start a fight you don't get to leave it just because you switched on lights.
Shooting those who bailed out, I probably did that too as it could also be abused by point-whores who were trying to get half their points instead of 10%. Of course there are also those who actually disconnect to avoid being shot down.
After you flew so long you knew who deserved mercy and who did not, at least by your code anyway.
Of course "shoulder shooters" need to be mentioned, they are scum. More than a few times if someone on my side was shooting past me at my target I would shoot them down points be damned especially if they passed by while they were shooting and got in front of me.
Those who got clean kills or ground attack points flying hard settings, covered the tails of their mates and then got back to their base or at least back over the line before crashing or landing. That is always most impressive to me.
Even if someone really sucked at flying IL2, they could still be my hero if they stuck out flying the hard settings and flew with some sort of honor, flew for some reason besides racking up points.