Escort AA is most accurate when its closer to the ship.

Im in the quite opposite opinion, escorts are OP -.- some CVs that have a good AA escorts
are hell annoying to bomb :( (u cant fool a robot lowering or raising the height of your
plane's altitude)

I think most (if not all) players won't purposely try to make their escort keep x'ing
you just to annoy you, especially if both of them are in the middle of a line fight.

What likely happened is the guy got pissed at the escort and called the player out.
Since people don't take kindly to being called out, he took don't care approach.

what a rule

I like escorts. Yesterday, I had a Texas nuke a DD with his 8" guns... poor DD thought he
was going to get an easy CV kill. About ten games after that, I was using a Brooklyn
escort and a low DP POW gotten hammered into the ground by the rushing escort. Everyone
who saw got a good laugh out of it. A few games after that, I changed to a DDX that was
put up so much AA that a BW changed course and went after the BBs. Next game after that,
the DDX ate a torp for me while hunting an SS in the Brooklyn.

So four times in one day, escorts saved my tail. I think if used right, they do a great
job. I don't know if I'd use one on the gun line right now as my best BB only cruises at
28 knots. If I had more gun range and speed, I think a slower escort would do well there too.

If ever I host, the first thing I do is disable the escort option.

Apart from the crossing and impeding teammates, these escorts also contribute a
significant amount of AA spam, which makes slow computers like mine lag to hell.

the escort doesn't even save my butt, but make friendly BB can't move well, dodge,
manouver, shoot. this is getting worse by the very slow movement *******, that make the
escort crossing at me so slow, i can't shoot. what annoying escort

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They can't really escort you at 8 knots.

If you are using it for ASW detection, it's pointless.

Put APA/SS engine on escort. Problem solved >.>

Personally I'd like to see some kind of Non TK element to the escorts.

IE. You cant TK them and they cant TK you.