Would you welcome an RPG aspect to this game?

[Wyld45]

               Toss out all that other garbage, give us a "virtual" G.I.Canteen for our
               "created" flyboys, we'll call it an RPG.

[bustr]

A solution looking for a problem?

Too kind Moot.

Fast Food Generation whining.

Remember the real Aces High game is played between the ears. It's not Hitech's job to take the place of the brain.

Role playing is like Science Fiction conventions. Ever see anyone show up not as the uber doober hero of the galaxy?

[trotter]

Too kind Moot.

"Too kind"? Exactly what about this subject deserves anything less than civil discussion? What, did you get stomped on by an RPG nerd once and now want bad boy forum revenge?

Not one person in this thread, including myself, has taken up the opinion that a full transition to RPG wizardry would be a good thing for AH. So who, exactly, are you so angry at? Troll on WoW forums if you have such deep issues.

And regarding your assumption about character types:
You'd actually be surprised how many people are willing to role play in less desirable roles. I played a RPG once for a few months, got out of it because I couldn't stand the community of teens and RPGish-ness, but nonetheless saw very many people who built up trader/support role characters, rather than the fighter/hero type.

We have this altruistic type in AH currently. You know the guys...they are always willing to run a goon, run supplies, or go pork ords.

[moot]

I think he meant (like I did) to say that complaining that AH is a hamster wheel is very exagerated.  And RPG probably wouldn't work in the MA. It's way too easy to abuse score unless there's enough framework like CT is supposed to have.

[hubsonfire]

What game is not a hamster wheel? What game has real accomplishments, victories, and defeats? What game is anything but a break from the day to day grind? If you can't have fun playing a game, the problem isn't necessarily the game.

[Anaxogoras]

What game is not a hamster wheel? What game has real accomplishments, victories, and defeats? What game is anything but a break from the day to day grind? If you can't have fun playing a game, the problem isn't necessarily the game.

I think the point of the hamster wheel metaphor is to highlight the lack of a goal or aim-point in the game.  Sure, every game is a hamster wheel in a very broad sense, but games which have a specific end point and goal don't fit the metaphor in the narrow way that AH does.

One of the appealing things about AH is that you can jump into the arena and do pretty much anything, and it's nearly impossible to negatively impact your team.  Don't feel like being a team player?  Not a problem.

But, yeah, sometimes it feels like a hamster wheel.