How does one promote air combat, rather than a sleazy vulch fest?
1>Makes acks stronger, to limit the vulches, gives new flyers a chance to get off the ground.
2>Make HO's where only 1 pilot gets the kill, thus, in the designers head, discourages HO's.
This was discussed in beta by the designers. The purpose of AH is to PROMOTE ACM, not to resort to tactics of HO and vulches.
So, why don't you guys give HTC a break and let them design the game the way they intended to?
I have never seen so many whines of HO's, Acks etc. in my life. Here's the cure:
1> get away from airfields,you have the ability to fly away from ack-infested airfields.
2>Avoid the HO's, there are 20 ways to avoid them, USE some defense and avoid them, come around, and kill your opponent.
I personally get much more satisfaction out of a medium altitude, away from ack dog fight where both parties try for position rather than "guns hot" merge, than flying around low near an enemy airfield vulching the hell out of everyone.
(Dons Flame-proof undies)