Originally posted by SlapShot
Yup ... I remember all those threads/posts too. Not one do I recall had a problem with making the various strats more meaninfull to the bombers ... most of the threads/posts revolved around the suicide dweebs being able to destroy field strats with extreme ease ... not bombing cities, fuel depots, ... etc. to make them more meaningful to the buff guys and significant to the "war effort".
You must have a very poor memory if you can't recall anything like I am saying. HTC can correct me if I am wrong, but I think the reason we no longer have supply depots and have had no changes to how the strat system works is in large part due to the furballer crowd and what they want. I.e. HTC keeps things about in the middle for both.
I've seen many suggestions to make plane availabity tied to some large factory somewhere away from airfields, rather than FH... and then plenty of complaints about how the milk-running "fluffers" would be effecting everyone else's fun.
The same for the availabilty of fuel, ords, troops... make things have limited supplies with supply chains to forward fields, etc. It's all been requested and it's all been chewed up from the furballer end MANY times.
The main thing is, as long as the only decernable "objective" is to capture all the other fields, the enemy has to be stopped from making a defense at each and every field so that troops can be landed at the map room.
This could be done in a lot of different ways, but I would think that the slow attritian would be a better way than one second having FHs and the next second not. At least with attritian, people would see that the field was starting to be run down, and action could be taken to fix it. With the current model, a field can be at 100% with a wonderful furball taking place and in one pass of a couple bombers, the whole field is shut down instantly.
Give the bombers somewhere else to go that is worth going to, and I think that they will go there.
Oh and before you say something like the bombers would still be able to ruin the furball, just remember that there would be plenty of "strat potatos" and "Sky accountants" looking for those bombers to try and stop them.
