OK - I'm a landgrabber, and for the record, yes, I'd like for my country to win the war every single time. Why you may ask? Is it the amazing 20 whole perk points, or the new map we get to see? No - it is just more interesting to me to get a coordinated attack going and fly with my buds than it is to up an uber plane, fight 1 vs 1, rinse, and repeat ad nauseam.
By my take on this thread, one question seems to be: why do you bother taking undefended land? To which I respond, well why the hell don't you up and defend your land? Having been on the defense myself quite a bit, I know that there are a variety of ways for a smaller force to frustrate the attackers and ruin their day - goon hunting, troop porking, etc. In the midst of that you might even get some good A to A battles.
Another complaint is that it is too difficult to stop the 15K jabos diving through the defenders and getting to target. OK - having been a jabo whose job it is to get through the defense and get my bombs on target, I shouldn't be expected to sit there like a pidgeon so you can have fun. Get up to 20K and dive down on me and maybe you'll stop me. I will grant you this - the radar ranges are too short to make an effective intercept by the time you see the attackers on radar. I have made postings to this effect and have suggested HT increase the base and CV radar ranges so that it would be easier for the defense to get up and intercept, and I have also suggested large strat radars covering a large area.
Another complaint seems to be about "hordes" attacking. Lets face it - squaddies usually like to fly together, so if they all are attacking a single target you are going to have a horde. The best battles I've seen on this game are the horde of attackers vs the horde of defenders, so if you like A to A, then join in the horde and have at it. If you don't have a horde, then most likely the perk point cost of a Tempest/262/Spit XIV/F4U4 (insert arena uber ride here) is going to be real low for you, so up one of those and have fun that way.
I would submit for the good of the game as a whole, the game should be oriented more towards hordes and landgrabbing / base capture / strat destruction. Why you may ask? Put yourself in the role of a complete newbie coming into the game - you can get up OK, but then what? Are you more likely to have fun, be successful and want to come back and play more when you are part of an organized force trying to accomplish a specific objective? Are you more likely to meet folks you want to fly with that way?
Do you think a newbie has more fun upping on his own, flying off, and getting shot down alone again and again by pilots that have hundreds and thousands of kills under their belts? (and then getting taunted by some prepubescent egomaniac on channel 200 afterwards?) I don't think so.
Thats my $.02 worth.
EagleDNY
