What If......

[A_Clown]

What if we opened another MA, that was exactly like the current MA, but with 1 major exception. ....

If you die OR get captured, you have 3-5 minutes mandatory tower time. No matter what vehicle or plane, mandatory tower time if you die or get captured.

Not many play the CT, I feel its because of the limited plane choice. And we currently have no other option-  I am becoming disgusted with the current MA style of play, obviously many others feel the same.

No telling how long we will chase the dangling AH2 carrott, & the current MA "horde or be horded" mentality has become extremely drab & borish. WE NEED SOMTHIN!!!!


A_Clown

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by A_Clown
What if we opened another MA, that was exactly like the current MA, but with 1 major exception. ....

If you die OR get captured, you have 3-5 minutes mandatory tower time. No matter what vehicle or plane, mandatory tower time if you die or get captured.

Not many play the CT, I feel its because of the limited plane choice. And we currently have no other option-  I am becoming disgusted with the current MA style of play, obviously many others feel the same.

No telling how long we will chase the dangling AH2 carrott, & the current MA "horde or be horded" mentality has become extremely drab & borish. WE NEED SOMTHIN!!!!


A_Clown

I like that idea alot. There should be some inherent disadvantage to dying beyond scoring penalties. Those that pork and auger over and over and over and over obviously couldn't give a rats arse about their score. There needs to be some other disincentive to dying. Maybe even have the first death of the day ground you for 1 minute, the second 3 minutes, the third 5 minutes, and the 4th and beyond 10 minutes down time, but still allow the person to man a GV, C47, or gun position during the interim. I'd wager if something along these lines were implimented we'd see ALOT less vulching (vulchees wouldn't be able to continue to up, this works for the dual accounters vulching themselves too), and ALOT less pork and auger suicide runners.

[Mini D]

It would be empty.

MiniD

[hitech]

That basic idea was tryied long ago in AW. The basic problem is that unlike real life where living wasn't the primary goal , accomplishing the mission came first.

What happens is that living becomes more important than getting a kill. This just tends to make everone run unless they have a great advantage.  It comes down to one simple fact if living is the goal why fight.

In the end it makes for a very boring arena, and no one plays.


HiTech

[JoeBWan17]

Originally posted by N8DOG
while this would break up the same old thing day in day out. I feel the best, easiest, and most obvious way to break it up is to just have 2 MA's. Can do it 1 of 2 ways. #1 can have 1 MA as a large map only, and when it resets it just resets to another large map, and the other map is small and resets to another small map. #2 (and this in my favorite) is to model it kinda like AW had it, have 1 MA in the ETO with British, Russian, German, and USAF planes. Then the other MA can be Pacific/Meditaranian with USN, Japanese, Limited British, and limited German planesets. This would be so easy for HTC to impliment that it is silly to not have it this way. Obviously just as in AW one of the MA's would be more popular, but it would seriously drop the numbers in each arena which I think is a GREAT thing. These small maps are fine and dandy when each country has 35-70 people on, but when 120-200 people are on in each country it sux IMO. Some people may like it but alot dont. But you know what? HTC doesnt give a crap what we think and they wont do anything about it, they will just dangle that carrot of AH2 in front of us forever. HTC, please respond, how long would it take to add another MA along the lines of what I suggested? And why dont you do something to give us a reason to keep paying our hard earned money to you. I realize that creating a new game (AH2) is a huge task but please throw us a bone here.

HTC doesn't give a crap?  He just took the time to join this conversation and respond personally.  I'm not trying to be a fanboy here, but sometimes you guys demand too much.

There are a lot of problems with adding other arenas for groups that want to fly together.  This is why the "Go fly in the DA" arguement is always scoffed at by furballers.  When you seperate the playerbase then squads and the such have a harder time flying together.   I already feel this way with my squad being split over the CT and MA, and I would imagine it would get worse with the additon of more areas.  

My other thought is that eventually this idea would be carried to such an extreme that there would be a seperate MA for everyones personal taste and you would no longer have the fun of flying in such a large and dynamic environment where the gameplay often comes down to the players themselves.

[GODO]

Originally posted by A_Clown
If you die OR get captured, you have 3-5 minutes mandatory tower time.

3-5 mins may be too much, but 30 secs will do the job, it is the same than the needed time to rearm/refuel, and enough time to prevent the continuous spawns at vulched fields.

[dedalos]

Ha, I have the perfect solution.  You die, you get muted for 5 or 10 minutes.  It would atlist cut down on the whines

[SOB]

I will support this idea only if HT incorporates a porn browser into the FE.

[Ack-Ack]

I'll support any idea that includes a porn browser on the FE.


ack-ack

[WilldCrd]

I have a solution!! Elect me as undesputed ruler and master...dare i say Emporer and i shall give my utmost attention to this problem and as extra incentive will decree a porn browser for your tower time AND for those long climb outs!

Thank You,

Soon to be- EMPEROR Wildcard ruler of the universe

P.S. dont up from capped fields and you wont get VULCHED!!:D

[Blooz]

How about if you die or get captured you lose all your perk points?

Would need to adjust the current perk system a little by giving each plane (or maybe just the late war planes) a small perk cost.

Lose all your perks and you'll be flying early war stuff until you get a couple of real kills.

I think that would change things for the better in the Main Arena.

[WilldCrd]

Originally posted by Blooz
How about if you die or get captured you lose all your perk points?

Would need to adjust the current perk system a little by giving each plane (or maybe just the late war planes) a small perk cost.

Lose all your perks and you'll be flying early war stuff until you get a couple of real kills.

I think that would change things for the better in the Main Arena.

No way cause i would end up having to fly the wright flyer or somthing...prolly a glider oh wait i do that now LOL thought E on fuel gauge meant Enough!:rofl

[straffo]

Originally posted by SOB
I will support this idea only if HT incorporates a porn browser into the FE.

We don't really need this idea to justify a p0rn browser !

[Furious]

Originally posted by Blooz
How about if you die or get captured you lose all your perk points?

Would need to adjust the current perk system a little by giving each plane (or maybe just the late war planes) a small perk cost.

Lose all your perks and you'll be flying early war stuff until you get a couple of real kills.

I think that would change things for the better in the Main Arena.

No way would it make it better.  

The arena would be full of p51's at 25k and up running from each other.

[mars01]

I think the MA is great if you want to Ground Pound, Defend or Cherry Pick.  When I am in the mood these things can be found on any map.

The big thing I miss are the amazing furballs that went on for hours and were the size of some small islands.  Fester has proven the base proximity has a lot to do with it and also a more balance fuel resupply model would help as well.  I don't think all the bases should be moved but on some of the more offending maps you could move some of the bases closer.  As for the fuel resupply is that an easy fix?