Here was my point from the end of the last thread
I like a more strategic ENTIRE game and that does not make me different or lesser than anyone else
Originally quoted by Lazs
you are the one who takes and makes things personal.
Yes I did and I have for two reasons:-
1. You have made
yourself the champion of this cause by repeatedly either starting or enflaming this discussion.
2. After such a long period of being labeled abnormal and sad etc (probably into years thinking about it) then it stops being a humourous jab and becomes something deeper.
OK - so to address your points .........
I agree that you should be able to log on and pick an aircraft of your choice with the fuel load of your choice and fly. The current fuel porking contest is absurd IMHO. Jabo attacks should not be able to turn an airfield from fully up to unusable in 3 minutes. This just promotes horde raids and a steam roller numbers game.
However because of the current strat setup you want to split the MA into two separate games - fighter furball and Bomber airways.
Neither one can affect the other.
This makes the assumption (and there are plenty of stories on this BBS suposedly backing this up) that furballs are starting at some point
between[/i] two feilds and maintaining some kind of balance until some strat guy comes in behind everyones back and porks the field. I my experience I have not seen that. A furball breaks out when one group attacks a field and the home group sucessfully defend it. But the whole time the furball is going people are trying to get in to pork the other sides fuel to take advantage. In your version of furballs being destroyed by the actions of others I would expect to see no advance towards the oppositions airfield and minimal attempts to pork the others fuel. That simply doesn't happen.
That seems to suggest to me that either furballers do there own share of porking or there aren't as many pure furballers out there as you might think.
I'd like to know how many of those raising their hands as pure furballers, who only log on to look for an air to air fight, can say they have not straffed a fuel tank or ammo bunker.
So I say you can't split the game like that in the same arena - too many people want to play the full spectrum. If that wasn't true then the DA would be fuller than now. If you and
so many others are having such a problem in the MA and there is already a place to fly without those restrictions then why hasn't there been a migration to the DA - as said by someone else on this thread that has never been answered.
If you are not interested in a war game or strategy then why have it at all ?? Why do you want to mix it in the same arena ?? To me that seems pointlessly complex.
Ok so then the shout goes up "see you just want the furballers out of the MA - you want to stop them playing". Not true - as I said before you have as much right to do what you want as I do to do what I want. I am basing my argument that this is a strat game on what the
game producers say and build - and that is a Main Arena with all vehicles and options and a strat system AND a clear statement on their web page on what the game is. That seems to be at odds at the moment with the push here on the BBS for a more fighter based game.
This is why I said HTC needs to step in and clarify the direction things are taking and timescales.
If the MA is to go furball and the strat is to go to another arena then thats fine by me but lets know and lets see what the system in the new arena would be - whether its AH2 or whatever.
The system I would like to see would be one that works on airfield supply and usage and move the strat element away from airfield attack as the means of restricting resource. Go back towards depots and resupply routes and set up airfield stock levels and resupply rates so if you log on and go to a feild and there is 200 gals of fuel in the tanks and you need 200 gals for full tanks you can take it. The idea is more involved than that but it is the basic premise. However there would still be an impact on furballers but not the same as there is now and hopefully acceptable.
Lastly I take your point about being shallow and insensitive and not caring about your attitude to people who wish to play the game their way and not yours - I'll bear that in mind. In the end its up to HTC how far they let things go and for how long but I think it's creating divisions within the users of AH unnecessarily and at the end of the day we are all people.
Sparks
