New Map with Fightertown

[GooseAW]

Igor, take this one to the "worn out" pile

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by Toad


Think this way: There were no buffs in the beginning. There were no vehicles. No manned ack, no shore guns, no troops, no "fuel supplies", no "ord", no "barracks".... NONE of that BS.

Why because ACES HIGH was about AIR-TO-AIR COMBAT.

Ponder a while.

Yep, I agree...back in the day. The good old days. How things usta was. The original DOOM was great!....years ago. Things evolve. This Aces High isn't that old aces high. I would guess there are a lot more players now than then, with more diverse interests. Nostalgia is not a bad thing, but the past is past.

[Toad]

Oh, Aces High changed all right... but the addition of those things didn't make it better.

And it is more than clear what the "original intent" of the game was. Well, it's probably not clear to the johnny-come-latelys.

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by lazs2

who ever herd of fighters needing buildings in order to take off?  who ever heard of one man flying 3, 10 man crew bombers and having a god like view of everything and controlling all the guns with one button?   vehicles sprouting from thin air?    

furballers aren't playing realisticaly?

lazs
Public Relations Officer for the BK's

Just to make a point. Whoever heard of fighters, and bombers for that matter, taking off through the bomb craters on the runway. How much "realisim" would you like? I sure that cratering the runway would effect fighters much more than bombers so is that a concession to the Quakers? By the way, the planes sprout from thin air spotted at the end of the runway with the engine cranking over. The vehicles you have to actually start the engines. Another concession?


*Devils Advocate*

[Toad]

Ever hear of a "landing mat"?

My dad trained on a mile square field in texas that had no "runways". The pilots landed into the wind on the mat. Multiple simultaneous approaches by many airplanes were standard.

Ever seen those movies of Spits scrambling during the BoB? Line abreast takeoffs on a grassy field, not a runway?

[BisonCH]

Originally posted by Hornet33
OK lets face it......the MA is NEVER going to be perfect. On the other hand it DOES have MOST the ellements of this "IMHO" great game included. You want to furball, you can. You want to bomb the crap out of something, you can. You want to drive a tank, you can. No one can tell you NOT to. The MA is not there to fight the "war". It's there so everyone has a place to go and do what they do best. Furball, toolshed, pork run, drive tanks, talk smack, hang out, whatever.

The arena to fight the "war" is the Special Events Arena. That is where the structured campaigns take place. Friday Night Squad Ops, Close Escort, Snapshot, and all the other events that take place there, with the exception of the Racing Leauge which is just plain FUN for the sake of FUN.

If you want to play this game on a more realistic setting, i.e. missions with a clear objective, command structure, target asignments, and the like, try checking out those events. If you want to have a good time and do "whatever" go to the MA. Thats what it's there for.

Even though I might complain from time to time about the "gamey" aspect of the MA, everyone there pays their $14.95 a month same as I do to do what they please in there. Therefore who am I to complain? In the MA I'm nobody just like everyone else, I'm also the king of the world just like everyone else.

Well said. Besides real life issues limits online time for some people. So fighter town serves a purpose for these individuals.