Under S, for Stockton, add "See also whiney crybaby."
Alignment flipping is not a cheating tactic. LOL. And you don't drop ships in a sector you put personal figs. For instance you're a blue and another blue starts attacking stuff. You hunt them down, kill them. Now you're red. You need to flip your alignment back to blue, so you attack red personal figs.
It's also used as a strategy in quick casher or solo games. You go red, cash a lot, drop bright red figs around a class 0 or dock or coming into terra thru a higher traffic sector. They hit them, get stuck (hopefully), turn blue. If you're quick enough to catch & kill, great. If not, then they've still lost all chances for a cash-based win.
Neither are cheating and both are used a lot in mixed corp games.
CBY is not self-podding. Self podding is attacking a ship w/ corbo and eating a pod. CBY does not produce a pod, it simply kills you, resets exp to 0 and if your alignment is positive turns it -10. If it's already negative your alignment is, IIRC (I think), just cut in half. See also getting mugged to death @ dock.
I'm pretty sure you can go to the undergound as long as you're not positive alignment.
Cross podding doesn't really gain experience, when you get podded you lose a decent chunk of your exp. In most games cross podding has no benefit except lowering ones exp (easily done via other ways, too) but in games where kills count it's usually considered cheating. In games where kills don't, or there's a death lim, most won't do it. In some games, like a pirates edit, the pod is worth 500k. So you take 2 players and cross pod, sell the pods and use that cash to bust up your red to SSM level...
