Awww Kermit, stop being the little man who holds an arena grudge inside himself. Only a headcase would still be mad of losing a single fight in the MA, and then involving the grudge into everything he sees on a discussion board, sheesh.
Get a life dude.
Hmmm, and why you guys are so agressive?
The idea of structuring the MA in some military/rank type fashion is the BEST way to make sure HT goes out of business. The CT is for structured planesets, the MA is for flying/doing what you want.
Lute, Fariz, we're not being aggressive about anything. Thinking that the current MA has no 'structuring' at all is a big sham, a fantasy.
For instance, the perk system is a form of basic structuring in terms of gameplay balance. HTC doesn't want some planes flying too much in the MA, so they slap perks on it. It's a basic means of limitation.
What about your suggestions of increasing a few objects or toughening some things up, and etc?
It's also another form of limiting some actions and tendencies in the game - albeit indirectly. You hope to make some actions difficult or easier, hoping that people will stop acting in certain ways, and start acting another way. That's also a form of "structuring".
What we're aggressive about is acknowledging what the reality is.
The phenomenon behind the current problems in the MA is simply that people don't want "fun" in the first place. They react to the environment they're given, and find the most profittable, easiest way to do certain things, and that is creating the horde.
The 'hordeness' is inherent in the system. Unless there is some direct means of intervention to limit the size of hordes no small change will ever influence this mainstream.
It's not I object to your suggestions. I'm only saying it will not achieve the intended effect, and remain just another small experiment.. like the ones we had with towns, fuels, field layouts.. and etc etc. Remember those previous experiments. People came up with each of those ideas in hopes to change the gameplay to the better, stop the hording, make people practice better coordination for captures, etc etc.
None of them worked.
And I'm aggressive about acknowledging the fact that none of them ever will.
