fair point on human nature, and ok you are kept up to speed on the state of online play, but people rarely mention the days when nothing untoward is seen so it can (possibly) paint an uneven or distorted picture of things. i don't think that because the loophole exists it won't be exploited, but i am of the opinion that it is not that widely used, certainly not as widely seen as forum posts would have me believe. maybe that's just the servers i use.
and no you can't detect if someone is using a transparent cockpit or is just an exceptionally lucky/good shot. watch them, if they consistently correct and rounds connect with a target that is manouvering in the blind spot under their nose then yeah, could be onto something. one thing i have seen a couple times is a fairly new player on a server getting owned by one of the better server regulars - out comes the "you cheat" message in the chatbar. it's pretty much certain that the player is simply bloody good, not a cheater. i don't know, i just am not seeing the rash of mod users making impossible moves, shots or climbing like a saturn 5. when i get outflown i immediately put it down to them being a better pilot, not "they must be cheating". and then i take off again and look to get one or two thousand metres higher than i was before, and go looking for them.
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