Originally posted by Uriel
I understand that some people love the good old furball, but there is a whole lot of furball and not enough war. Bombing is what wins wars.
Please either:
A. let bombers spend their perk points on fighters
B. add perk points for flying and fighting at real war alts.. like 20k
C. create an arena that encourages high alts perhaps centalized high alt bases so we dont have to climb for an hour in a bomber
the dogfight should happen at 15-25 k, it happens at 5
you have a fighter town, you have a tanker town, where is bomber town?
I thought TT and any base where a good furball was going on at WAS "bomber town"?
Your "A" would just encourage MORE milkrunning in EW/MW (not a big problem) and MORE suicidal dive buffs and bomb and bails (which would be) to earn perk points to use in fighter. Not a good idea.
Your "B" would be difficult to implement, if I understand the code for scoring correctly. And Anyone is correct; flying higher equates to your own safety in completing the mission.
Your "C" equates to another milkrunning arena like EW and MW are now. Population is fragmented now, that would be just more of the same. And what bombers are you taking to what altitude that it takes you an hour to get to altitude? Lancs at 30k? Full fuel loads? Start a flight, load 25 to 50% fuel, and go afk to do something else then.
Bomber pilots do need another perk point sink than the Ar234, but it doesn't look like we are going to get it in the foreseeable future. The bombers often offered as perk-worthy buffs include the
Mosquito B.Mk XVI with drones, the
A-26B and
A-26C Invader, the
He-177 Greif, and the B-29. The B-29 carries too much ord, too high, and too fast and would upset game balance with it's capabilities, so it's not a real option as a game addition despite many calls for it.
Perks for additional drones also has been brought up, as Anyone stated. The ability to purchase up to 3 additional drones is one I prefer, but game code is currently limited to pilot's plane and 3 drones (and we only get two of them).
A box of 3 planes across, two planes deep, and rear group slightly offset would be great against strat factories. But, those additional drones would have to cost what an Arado does now to prevent overuse.
Personally, since the arena split, additional troop strats, and smaller maps, I've not flown heavy bombers all that often any more. I used to fly 17's over bases to kill strats, and I used to take out strat factories in the old zones, but it just does not have the impact now that it did then it seems. Smaller arena population has resulted in less overall "strategic bombing" per arena by multiple buff drivers, that could compliment each others' efforts. Usually I just see buffs dropping hangars to cap a vulch or prevent defensive efforts.
Ki-67's vs CV's are my most common runs now.
