Originally posted by duh
Why would anyone want to spend 30 mins of his time coming back to base when in that time he could just bail and up again and bomb 50 more bases?
Long ago people didn't care about score or winning, they cared about immersion and accuracy.
People didn't always game the game and it's much more fun when people play the right way.
Maybe if HTC added some sort of supply limits to every aircraft in the game - maybe resupply every 4 hours or so... have this modified by certain buildings (give the buffers something else to bomb that actually effects the game).
If your wide is being a bunch of Spit dweebs and wastes them stupidly then those Spit dweebs will be forced to take up an La7 or something for a while.
On the other side of the coin if you bail or auger buffs often you'll have to find a new ride eventually.
Of course this is subject to grief play but I'm sure there could be some sort of work around for it. i.e. give aircraft a 3 - 5min grace period, i.e. if they die within 3 - 5 min the aircraft isn't moved from supply. This would also prevent vulchers from totally reducing a sides supplies.
I know there could be an issue with newbies dying often in their favorite ride and causing everyone to suffer, well then offer to help them improve.. or hey, add some rank system.
Speaking of rank system thats a good idea in general barring any other changes. At the beginning of each campaign everyone starts at rank 0 or whatever you want to call it. As you gain rank by success you gain access to more 'newer' aircraft. This would almost model the actual progression of aircraft in ww2 as well. Although you'd probably need either bigger maps or make it harder to capture bases so we'd actually make it to the later tier fighters/bombers but hey. If you really want to get hardcore you could make seperate trees for fighters/bomber/attack 'sorties' and limit access -- attack ranked players get the good ground attack aircraft and dive bombers -- bomber ranks get the bombers esp the heavier ones and fighter of course gets the fighters.
