A Suggestion To HiTech

[LePaul]

Oh is this another whine about "How dare I have to up a fighter and defend my base from those evil, marauding enemies!".

C'mon.  Its a strat game.  You want to defend a base from an numerically superior enemy...mass your own and defend.  Asking for "powerups" or the like because your countrymen do not share your zeal to defend an airbase is just weak.

[Furious]

I think you missed his point LP.  I don't think he minds upping for defense.  


I feel similarly (minus the extra manned guns stuff).  I want to fight other folks.  Defense or offense, I don't care and I would think that this is what would attract most folks to an online combat simulator.


...but, it's not.  Many others just want to "win".  To accomplish this, whether it means resetting the map or shooting someone down, they avoid a "fight" as much as possible.  

It's all about the horde. Safety in numbers, I guess [shrugs].

[LTARokit]

Cities are a little too easy.  AH1, if ya rolled into a city ack had to be down...or it would kill yas...unmanned but deadly.  Now you can roll right up to city ack and kill it with no fear.

Then there was the hardened bldgs.  ya either rolled armor, or called in bombs to take them down before you could take the city.

Now all ya have to do is flatten the bldgs and drop a load of drunks, low and behold the city (and base) is yours.

I agree...don't fix what isn't broke..........however in this case -- the city ack IS broke & needs to be fixed.  And more than likely, if HT does re-activate city ack I'll be the first to lose a tiger to it..........go figure

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by Morpheus
If dis aint a fuggin troll then you need to lay down the crack pipe and get help.

.report Morpheus

[AmRaaM]

isnt there another arena like the dueling arena..just grab some buds and furball all day. This game would be extremely boring without capture, be it that it takes a mass to capture a base due to the fact that people are are constantly joining the game and leaving and not to mention many languages are playing and abilities.

be nice to have some 88's with historic aiming  and fuzing.

[MANDO]

Grizzly, didnt have you flaks and M16 to deffend your base from the ground? Didnt have you planes to set up deffensive CAPs? Can't you take off from another base and go to deffend the attacked one?

Are you one of these quakers that only want to jump inmediately into a gun and start killing risking nothing (even no time) and ruinning, without any effort, the fun of people that, at least, spent several minutes flying to your base?

[MOIL]

MANDO:
"Are you one of these quakers that only want to jump inmediately into a gun and start killing risking nothing (even no time) and ruinning, without any effort, the fun of people that, at least, spent several minutes flying to your base?"

You're kiddin right?

Quakers?  and let me guess, in WWII the plane landed and went to a "hotpad" and was reloaded in 30sec's?  You jump from pilot to gunner and the plane "flys itself"?  talk about "quakers"
You gotta be kiddin me, I forgot the only person "risking" something is the guy flying to an enemy air field or ship. The guys on the ground trying to protect themselves and their fields/cities are risking nothing?
You bumped your head my friend

[DipStick]

Originally posted by Eagler
I suggest you provide manned flak at the bases, similar to the 5" ship guns.


lol

there goes the neighborhood, for at least dot vis distance in each direction

or have one game called "Aces High" and another called "Aces Low"

move all airborne items to CT ie "Aces High", leaving anything that cannot take off in MA ie "Aces Low"

I believe that is the one thing that WOULD get me to the CT.  

[Mobius0077]

Y'all can talk but when is a Dev gonna say, "Were thinking about it." Most of the great ideas here are not even noticed.

[me62]

There is not one anti-aircraft gun, fixed or mobile that can touch
a high altitude bomber formation.  The M-16's Osti's and the
player operated field guns work good against low flying planes
but high bombers, forget it, might just as well not fire.  And I can't
recall the last time I saw the A/I puffy ack damage a bomber
formation.

Mike
BTMe62

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Higgins
Grizzly,

While I respectfully agree with your opinions and frustrations with the game I really like the land grab aspect of the game for a number of reasons.  Rather that bore you to death I feel that in order to successfully capture a base it requires working with a number of different people.  This makes the game so much more immersive for me in that I forget about everything else in the real world and feel like im
"in the game".  If you take out that aspect and go purely air-to-air combat I feel people would fight mainly for themselves with the exception of wingmen ect.

You may have misunderstood.

I'm not advocating taking away base capture. To the contrary, it gives us something to fight over. But I  don't think the objective needs to be the entire arena. However, you could still strive for that if you wish (choices). The problem is when Dale makes this the official game objective, that's how the vast majority play it. And since the most effective way to capture bases is to avoid enemy contact or use overwhelming force to overcome it, the result is the milk running and massive horde land grab attacks so common in AH.

[LTARokit]

Originally posted by Mobius0077
Y'all can talk but when is a Dev gonna say, "Were thinking about it." Most of the great ideas here are not even noticed.

_____________________________ ________

I don't agree  HT listens, makes changes in effort to improve the quality and play.  Does that means they're going to take action on every whine or whim.......?  I don't think so....and if they do.....then me first......I still want wings on my Osti HTC!!  

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Darkish
10$ on the furballers.

I'm not advocating furballing. But for those who like it that's fine. Reread what I said and try to realize I advocate making all forms of game play available, including land grabbng. I'm just saying not to make this the built in objective of the AH.

[Morpheus]

I advocate making all forms of game play available,

It seems rather silly for you to think that any form of game play isn't already available for you to choose from.

No matter what the "norm" of AH might be for most or some of the players in this game, my one joy will always be fighters and fighting. I may hop in a bomber from time to time, screw around in a GV or even join a mission from time to time. Why? Because its available to me and because I choose to decide what I want to do with the game for myself.

Really its not a matter of what HiTech gives us or says we should do. Its a matter of what you want to do.

The game was, is and always will be what you make of it.


And NO.... I'm not sticking up for the furballers, the tool shed killers, the Ack dweebs, or the GV dweebs.

I'm simply stating that you are free to do with the game what you want.

Adding more guns, more fighters, more bombers, different sights, different bullets wont change that.

[LTARokit]

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