Bronk, you seem to think I was attacking you - I wasn't (or didn't mean to anyway).
I'm also not sure what you are refering to by "toolshed"... although I'm pretty sure it doesn't apply.
Anyway, since it would seem that you think I was attacking (or at least criticizing) let me clarify:
I fly air to air combat and pretty much that's it. If you check my score, you'll notice that I've killed one M16 all TOD. (I was upping and he was coming right into the base I was upping from.) In fact, if you check my score for other TOD's, I doubt you'll find a single kill of a tank in the months I've played AH (except where I might have been credited with the "strafe bug" before I knew it existed) - and not very dang many M5's or M16's either. The only jeeps I've ever killed are the ones I rolled over messing about with them.
All by way of saying that I have no vested interest in preserving what I think should happen on the ground in general, or TT in particular.
What I am saying is that I've been playing flight sims for a long time (including WWIIOL which had a pretty significant ground war component) and it has been my experience that even when people play to fight other people as you've said, they usually require some sort of active in-game framework to hang it on, or as a group they lose interest and go do something else.
When I pointed out that tankers don't go play tank in the TA when they can't play in TT because it's all one color, I wasn't suggesting that they should - I was simply pointing out that doing it "for no purpose" takes the fun out of it for enough people that there's not enough left for the rest to enjoy, either.
I think you'd find that without a purpose to TT other than "the joy of killing another tank", you wouldn't have enough sustained interest in the area to maintain the environment you describe enjoying in the first place.
I could be wrong, but I don't think so ....
