Originally posted by Flayed1
It's not all negitive no more freekin LA-7's and Spit-16's ganging you every time you up.... In the other arenas that is, I really don't see why we don't have more people in the MWA good plane set all around and fair fights.... I can truthfully say I have not uped a single plane in the LWA after they changed things. Though I do miss the F4U-4 a bit but I'll trade that for the lack of LA7's and Spit16's in the other arenas. I sometimes think that there are so many in the LWA because so many need the cruches of those uber planes. I know that this statement might not be totally acurate but it's just the way it seems..
Flayd, I have to disagree 100%. Not all of us BOPS want to fly a Hurri2C vs a 109F all day everyday. I could always find 4 or 5 squadmates minimum on channel at any hour on any day or night. Now, I haven't flown with more than 2 squadmates for a week. I can't remember a dry spell that long in over three years. That says something about the popularity of the new setup to me. Squadmates are my friends and I want to fly with my friends or I would'nt be in a squad to start with.
I don't see the late war planes as crutches. I enjoy fighting against them and gaining perks when I kill them in a lesser aircraft. Check my stats, I rarely fly perkbirds unless I'm blowing them in a 262. Most of the time you'll find me flying a wooden gascan that turns on a quarter and will drop with a few pings from a .303(Mossie) while taking on those uber LaLa's and Spits. I'll fly the lesser aircraft with the higher ENY and take the money and run knowing I just owned the other guy or fight to the death against him and his friends while they wonder who the heck is this guy thats so hard to kill. It's all about who knows that pilot stuff and who does'nt, IMHO.
Being limited to a T34 and M16 does wonders for the ground game, too. I can't believe the Germans didn't have Panzers at the start of WWII. Did Poland surrender to JU-87's?
In the EWA and MWA it's all horde or vacant except for the milkrunners. I never had a problem with LaLa's and Spit16's in the past, altho some others whined about them. The problem is not the planes, it's the imbalance of enemy in the arena. Shrinking the arena does nothing to address this.
I remember AW had a limit of planes that could up from a field or zone. It makes sense historically and practicly. An airfield can only hold so many planes and receive so many in resupply. Stopping the resupply of replacement aircraft is a logical solution. Keep the arena numbers high, but force the players to up from different bases or zones. Change grunt training and AA factories to fighter and bomber factories. Allow resupply of factories by goon. They are basicly useless now except for milkrunner points. Neither really affects gameplay or reset outcome as is. Make strats strategic!
Opening a new arena when one hits 250 accomplishes absolutely nothing other than to put you in a vacant arena prime for milkrunners. Who knows, maybe these suggestions won't work here. But it's a far sight better than a 3 way arena with a 250 player limit setup we have now. This game has gotten way too touchy feely like a politically correct affirmative action program gone horribly, horribly wrong.
