would people be crying more if

[Zazen13]

Yea, I much prefer the plane limiter to sortie timer. A sortie timer punishes the new person who dies alot. A new person isn't really particular about what plane he flies, he's likely experiementing with all of them. A veteran on the other hand is 'set in his ways", and is more greatly impacted by being limited out of his favorite ride.

Zazen

[hitech]

It is just an arena setting Slapshot, not a patch issue. But changed it to 6 hours day after the patch.

HiTech

[kj714]

Originally posted by Zazen13
Yea, I much prefer the plane limiter to sortie timer. A sortie timer punishes the new person who dies alot. A new person isn't really particular about what plane he flies, he's likely experiementing with all of them. A veteran on the other hand is 'set in his ways", and is more greatly impacted by being limited out of his favorite ride.

Zazen

There are a few vets that can be identified as having one plane preference, like Leviathan, our japanese friends, AKAK, Mosq, but it seems like just as many veterans fly varied planesets.

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by kj714
There are a few vets that can be identified as having one plane preference, like Leviathan, our japanese friends, AKAK, Mosq, but it seems like just as many veterans fly varied planesets.

I think most are niche flyers. Most old vets I know stick with 2 or 3 rides for specific roles, but focus on one as their 'main' ride.

[kj714]

Originally posted by Zazen13
I think most are niche flyers. Most old vets I know stick with 2 or 3 rides for specific roles, but focus on one as their 'main' ride.

After some thought, you are probably more correct than I am. I guess really it's just a few that stand out from the crowd more that I'm thinking of. I didn't realize it, but I think I'm a Spit V guy, even though I've been feeling out the F4 lately.

[dragoon]

Originally posted by Toad
All any of the suggestions, in any of the various threads, address is the symptoms. None address the cause, thus there will be perpetual whining no matter what "solution" is implemented.

Does restricting aircraft availability address the reason why people horde? No.

Does instituting a "time out" address the reason why people gangbang a country? No.

The game is set up to "reward" the achievement of a goal. That goal is "resetting" one of the countries and "winning". The most effective way to achieve that goal is by steamrollering a particular country using overwhelming numbers.

Until that changes, these band-aid fixes will be tried with varying amounts of success and lots of salty tears from lots of unhappy players.

Enjoy.

i set up a thread directed towards squads moving and balancing the game. it addresses the problem of the horde. if 50 dedicated players left the rooks maybe it would work???? i dont know, but i tried to offer up a solution agreeable to everyone. thing about it is only 1 squad is willing to move so far. im sure this squad would move if they knew that eventually the restrictions would be lifted.

its all up in the air and im sure HTC approves of ideas that might be agreeable to everyone. they are just thoughts.