CV Hiding

[Murdr]

There is already a solution to this whine in effect.  If you dont like what is being done with the CVs, get some rank and do it your way.

[twitchy]

Originally posted by Murdr
There is already a solution to this whine in effect.  If you dont like what is being done with the CVs, get some rank and do it your way.

For once, I agree with murdr

[twitchy]

Originally posted by SlapShot
agree 100 %

Would like to see another condition added to CV control.

The person who has control has to be within a certian radius (miles) of the CV. This would force the captain to actually stay within control range. Leave the radius ... lose control.

It would also help to eliminate the hogging of CV Control  by just 1 person, unless of course CV Groups are steaming next to each other.

I dont think this would work slap, say you send the cv group to a distant base to attack, then you have to be with in a certain distance of the cv for hours and hours. When you weren't, someone grabs it and sends it where they like, this not only makes you have to stay near a cv that may or may not be close to a base at all while it is en-route, but it leaves the cv group open to spies as well. The only problem with the cv group is the guys who don't have a high enough rank complaining about where they get sent. It would be like a chief petty officer raising hell at the admiral about going to a specific location. Get some rank, or keep peeling those potatoes!

[twitchy]

I hid a cv today, and I wasn't ashamed of it either
I had a couple nits telling me to keep in play but about an hour after I pulled it away from the front, sure enough the port got retaken. Was glad I hid it.

[AKleadbutt]

Nothing wrong with hiding them IMO.

[hubsonfire]

Hiding of them is entirely lame. Screaming about how you work really hard to hide all 6, and then log out for hours, and come back to find them in use or sunk is also lame. Saying work on your lowering your rank (by doing more silly things that don't make the game much fun) is also lame.

I'm venturing the guess that since HT put CVs in the game, and made them capable of launching vehicles, PT boats, and aircraft, that he was probably thinking they'd be used like roving airfields, and not family heirlooms.

FWIW, I like Slap's and GF's ideas. I tend toward the autorespawn of the CV, but nailing down a good practical time limit might be tough. Hmmm, actually, why not the same respawn time for a sunk CV? Also, staying at the helm for the duration of your control might also be a good fix. Sure, it'd stink for the 150mi sail to foreign ports, but that would, I think, tend to tempt the 'captain' to keep the CV in use, for fear of passing out from boredom. It might also promote AFK captains, but there's always someone with lower rank on.

Cheers,
hub

[Murdr]

Originally posted by hubsonfire
Saying work on your lowering your rank (by doing more silly things that don't make the game much fun) is also lame.

So playing the game the way hitech designed the scoring system is lame, and not much fun.  So we should instead chain a player to the bridge of a CV, when it might take an hour or more to reach the objective?  That doesn sound like much fun either.  The rank system has only one practical application in the game, CV command.  
I hate to be rude, but if one does not want to do what it takes to earn the privilage to do as they please with the CVs, that that is their problem, and they have no footing to be b**ching about it here.
But there are always people who rather complain about privilages someone else earned rather that earing it themselves.

[richard_rd]

There are strategic times to hide a CV.   If you take an enemy port and it looks like there is no way that your side will be able to hold onto that port for more then a hour or less, then hiding the CV maskes perfect sence and i do it all the time.  The only reason i work hard to get my rank under 100 each month is so i have the power to hide and control CV's.  

Nothing more frustrating for the enemy then to retake a port and then find  it somestimes takes them 4+ hours to a day to find and sink the CV's.  Not only will i hide them, but if they want to make a mission to sink them they better plan on flying their buffs 150 miles to do it!!!   Just last week i had the 2 CV's from the rooks  hidden and out of action for over 24 hours.  I even stayed logged on when i was not playing so no one with a rank less then mine could put the 2 CV's back in action.  My rank was 38 last month and although there were players from the knights with lower rank then mine they understood what i was doing and did not take control of the CV's from me.!!!  

   The stratagy was on that body of water there were only 4 CV ports.  2 in night default home territory and 2 in rook default home territory.  We did a great late Knight raid up the coast and captured all the rook sea bases, so now we owned all 4 CV's.  At that point we did not need any cv's because we already had all the sea bases captured.   But i new the next morning the rooks would surge when they got their morning numbers up so i hid their CV's 150 miles away in the farthest corner from them.  So when they took back their 2 ports the next morning it took them almost a whole day to get organised and run a buff mission deep inside our territoru to get them back.  Needless to say the fact that the rooks went all day without CV's, and then had to make a special long distance buff mission to get them back definetely slowed their land grap efforts on that sealine during that day.

[richard_rd]

Originally posted by Samiam
If my country is hiding a CV and I'm on, just ask me and I will gladly tell you where it is and escort your bombers to it - under the condition that you promptly sink it, then direct it to the nearest enemy base and pick a fight. I'll be waiting.

No need for that.  Each country has more then its share of dweebs with shades accounts to see were they are while spying.  The problrm is not knowing were the CV's are hidden, The problem is flying a buff mission 150 Miles deep into enemy territory undetected to sink them.   The only thing more fun then hiding them is jumping the incoming buff raid that is trying to recapture them.  What a shame they just wasted a hour flying only to get shot down when they were within 25 miles of the CV's!!!        

[Bronk]

I see a PNG coming to you very soon.

Bronk

[kamilyun]

Originally posted by SlapShot

The person who has control has to be within a certian radius (miles) of the CV. This would force the captain to actually stay within control range. Leave the radius ... lose control.

Agree.

[E25280]

Holy Dig Up a Dead Thread, Batman!  

[doobs]

and are they truely hidden..................


 or just not found

[Stang]

Took more work to dig up this thread than it would to find and kill a hidden CV, lol.

[richard_rd]

Originally posted by E25280
Holy Dig Up a Dead Thread, Batman!  

   Oooppsss!!!     Yeah, I appolagise about that.  I would not have responded to this thread if i had realised it was dead for so long.  After i went back and read my comments i noticed the 2004 to 2006 gap.   I must have noticed and read  this thread while doing a search for something else, and i had a brain lasp and did not realize when i was responding to it that it was so old!!!  

    Sorry Guys, My bad!!!!!