Originally posted by mars01
Umm Skydance and Cliff, it is usually only the furball guys that will up and defend bases in the face of overwhelming numbers. SO preaching to the furballers about this style of game play is like preaching to the choir about not going to church.
Tool shed killers will not up into overwhelming odds ( see most of shubert's et-al posts. )
AS for the base defence, yes it can be fun, but most of the time it is chasing pork and auger morons around while they dive in from alt in their pee 51s then zoom away, not much fighting there more like target practice. Unless that force comes in with people that want to fight it will soon get as boring as dropping bombs itself.
Didn't mean to downgrade the furballer at all. I would catagorise myself as somewhat of a furballer. I agree with you, base defense is mostly chasing the dive and runners. One thing that really irritates me, and I am not easily irritated, are all the suiciders. I can understand compressing your plane. I've done it a few time in a 38 but I can pull out of most dives in a pony yet I see these guy go nose 1st into the VH, radar, CV. I still think there should be some kind of penalty for suicide attacks. Not sure if the game can differentiate between compression and a deliberate suicide.
My main point was that you will have like 15-20 pilots defending a base but as soon as we get outnumbered half if not more will not come back after getting shot down. The guys who stay are mostly familier call-signs that I've flown defense with in the past.