Tod

[Heretic]

Gentlemen,

Would someone please explain to me what Tour of Duty is going to be about?    

Yes I am very new to the game.  Started back this past spring.

I'd appreciate civil answers and not the dweeb-newbie bashing.

I asked a question in a civil manner and would like a civil honest answer.
Thank you in advance

[AKcurly]

Originally posted by SEgunner
Gentlemen,

Would someone please explain to me what Tour of Duty is going to be about?    

Yes I am very new to the game.  Started back this past spring.

I'd appreciate civil answers and not the dweeb-newbie bashing.

I asked a question in a civil manner and would like a civil honest answer.
Thank you in advance

Not really sure Tod since it's still in the planning stage.  It appears the server will generate missions for the participants.  Presumably each mission will have an objective.  I imagine each side participating in the mission will be stratified in some way (there will be guys - real people, not software - in charge of the mission.)

I imagine a mission will play out and be followed immediately by another mission.

curly

[Heretic]

Thanks Curly.

From what I gather from your post its a set of objectives or objective to be carried out and accomplished.   From there a new set of objective(s) will be made up and so forth.

Thanks again

[GreenCloud]

yes..pregenerated misiions...


its going to be kikassssssss i cnat wait..

so..lets say its a raid on teh Wilhmshaven Sub pens..


a group of 30 B17s is lifting from England to bom b them...


You will join a B-17 crew or be escoprt ftrs..

when not all spots are filled they are COmputer flown (AI)


the Germans on the other side will be sitting in there warming huts waiting for ALARMMMMMMMMMM msiion roll!!!


so basically there will be Pre written Msiions going on 24 hours aday...

Soem will be manned by all Human pilots soem will be mixed..

Thsi is what i understand,,and hope for...


cant wait..:)weeeeeeeeeee


nothen like diving thru 1, 000 plane raids:0
defending Berlin in me 163s !:

[Furball]

b.g.b...... have i told you lately that your typing sucks?  A blindfolded armless monkey would do a better job.

[Mak333]

I hope its not random plane sets like in the MA but more from a realistic point...

That would be a huge let down

[JB73]

there will also be ranks.

you will have to start our, go through ground school, so on. if you get shot down you can be de-moted and even courtmarshalled.

the main goal will not be killing and getting "name in lights"

successfuly completing a mission / RTB is the main goal

there will also eb an axis and allieds from what i hear, so someone wont be just flying a pony one sortie, then a 109 the next.

thats just what i have gathered from reading about it.

[Ohio330]

Originally posted by Furball
b.g.b...... have i told you lately that your typing sucks?  A blindfolded armless monkey would do a better job.

    Typo's upset you?  Sheesh.   Try quoting some of these people that make regular run-on sentences that take a few minutes
to decypher.  At least in typo's you know what they are getting at.
    Oh, and I think you really meant that he types like a blindfolded-armless monkey that types with his head

[SunKing]

I see this TOD being super popular at the start. Everyone and their mother will play it. Then the missions will repeat , boredom sets in and we are back to full MA numbers. They will have to create tons and tons of missions if they are going to run back to back 24/7.

[HavocTM]

OMFG u guys r teh suck!  u cant even tipe one sentance wthout mispeeling words an making the sentance a runon so ppl cant read it good like one guy taht i work wiht he tiipes so bad u cant even tel what he is tlaking abgout evry day he dos tihs and its so hard to tell what he si saing and ahe dosnt even use teh punctaion or nohting like we r suposed to know wtf he si saing tih sez so much abot teh amercan educatoinal sistem tath it makes me SIK!!!!!!!111!! omg i am so glad i spent all taht money to go to colege eevn tho it sux becuz i cant play teh Aecez hi becuz my parnts sed to get a farkin job to pay for my coleg loanz tehy make u pay evn if u dont pass wihch sux becuz i wnet for 6yrs and tehy should just give me a farking degree!!!!11!!! becuz i payed tehm like 40,000 dolars not relly my paretnz paid for it and now tehy live in a van by teh river!!!111!! but it is a sucky muddy river not pretty or nothing.

god I am so srry for making fun... i luve u guys and i miss you becuz we have a babby an i cant play nomore.

[Sikboy]

I'm hoping that ToD will be able to have some "Change of Pace" type missions that go beyond what we already have in the MA.

The two that I've talked about before are Marritime Patrol (for the day, god willing, that ToD makes it to the Pacific) and Recce.

I can imagine flying at high speed, low alt on a Photo-recce mission, just dodging enemy CAP and AAA... I bet it would be a total blast.

But one thing I've noticed about most other MMORPGs is charactor/avatar developement is paramount. It gives people a reason to exists in game. So far, we know that Rank will be a factor in Avatard development, but what will be the benefits of obtaining rank? There was a some discussion of performance modifiers being used if I recall, and perhaps certain missions will be open to those of a certain rank and above (allowing plane selection to be limited in a fashion).

Or would a system of Points perhaps be used for "buying" participation in highly desired missions? (sort of along the lines of the Perk system that we have). In such a case like that, how do you effectively "farm" points?

I don't know... the posibilities are endless, there is just so much that can be done. Unfortunately, no matter what they come up with, as soon as any details are released, this board is going to fill up with complaints lol.

-Sik

[Grits]

I always laugh when I hear folks getting all fired up for ToD, yet they wont leave the MA to fly the CT because "they dont have the (insert favorite plane) in there".

ToD will be like a new plane, everyone will try it out at first and then when the new wears off it will be back to the MA.