I've been meaning to write a post about the perk system in the DA and have read all posts up to this point. I 100% agree with SunBat and his posts.
I started this game in feb. 09 so I've been here a year now. I enjoy the aerial combat like so many others in the game. When I go to the MA and look for a fight I can't up from the base that already has a cap so I up from the next closest base that puts a 10 min flight to get there before the fight begins. The aerial fights in the MA are always either your team outnumbers them or they outnumber you. You hardly ever find a even number of players in a furball.
That's what I love about the DA and why for the most part I spend the majority of my time in there. You take off from your base and 3 min. your in a fight.
Skuzzy you've said before that the DA has evolved into something that HTC didn't mean to happen. Why is that such a bad thing if your customers are enjoying the atmosphere that you guys at HTC are providing. I believe the bottom line is we keep giving you our $15 dollars every month because were enjoying the game. I would take that as a positive in business if I stumbled upon something that made people buy and not a negative.
The perk system in the DA over the past WeekIt's been a blast and so many were having fun with less gripping and complaining over the chat. Might have seen 5 tempests all week. Seen a lot of familiar faces from the MA come in and fly and the ones I talked to said they enjoyed it also. I don't see the problem for enabling perks at A1,A2,A3 as it is not used for dueling anyways, those are strictly furball bases. A lot of people like furballing and Skuzzy you talk as you are putting the furball arena down when that is providing you guys over 1,000 dollars a month in income. 70+ guys fly at the lake and just because it happened and wasn't intended to happen, you just want to throw away a 1,000 dollars a month? This is what Sunbat was talking about is that people like the WWII environment but no balance in there with all the temps flying around and hoing. I have no problem with a Niki hoing because I can out run him but you can't out run a temp that's the problem in there. Some guys in there want fight you in a temp they extend and then turn around and ho you again that's the main thing that is frustrating. The balance of the perk system is needed.
The Future of Dueling at it's best A while back there was a post about dueling and having an arena that would be a ranked/unranked dueling ladder and I believe Kazaa had this idea not sure. The arena would put you in a lobby where everyone would be and chat/voice would be enabled. You could click on a person's name and challenge them or just check a box stating ready to duel ranked and another check box that says ready to duel for fun/unranked. When the fight is ready the system would show you a box saying 15 sec until your fight begins which gives you time to get set and ready to go. Once the time clock hits 0 your automatically put in a plane and in the air 6k away from your opponent at 300mph. The system message should show you what plane you are in. That's the arena everyone is dying to have or something similar to it.
Thanks for listening,
TnDep
Oh yea and put the scoring system back in there like uptown said. Whats the deal with that anyways it's been in there forever and I watched it to see my improvement with k/d and hit percentage.