New strat just needs refining i think, it works but isnt balanced right yet.It favours attackers one second with only a couple of acks to take out, then with a resupply it swings wildly the other way.This makes the fight turn into a wave war between bases.The amount of times ive killed the ack, just as it all reapears, or thinking im ok to turn only to see the dead ack very much up is becoming a worry.
The problem isnt so much the strat in my opinion, its more to do with how the game is played and the players in it are managed i think.We need a bit of cooperation!, and the only way is to make it easier to organise and fly together.
I think every hour on the hour each country should get a computerised mission, be it bombing or fighter or GV attack and get us all used to JOINING them.
If we all knew it was due and maybe a 5 minute countdown showed on text bar, then each minute it said 'your country needs you...mission X minutes' maybe we'd start seeing big missions? COOPERATION?? never!
(Hey how about a flashing light on the map seen even when flying???)
I often set up and post missions, which is simple to do and you have a good control over tactics with the mission editor, but to be honest, missions i plan with pre jabos, fighter escorting, bomber groups etc, never get the numbers (or very rarely) unless i scream and hollar and beg for the people to even go look at them.This is not because they dont enjoy them,on the contrary, win or fail miserably
, they are good fun.
The problem? getting attention of players. Hearing players that want to join but have just taken off saying they didnt look at the map room is very common.Its hard work keeping up my enthusiasm for doing missions when its hit and miss as to whether anyone will join.I have learned from experience that its mainly luck that fills them up.
so lets put the missions where we can SEE them!
put scrollable list in the TOWER so 1 or 2 are viewable(ones due to go sooner)and the rest down the list so, as we log in and out /change bases etc,WE SEE THEM.
Put a country mission up every hour (maybe only stategic bombing/fighter sweeps, rather than base captures)
get the players USED to joining a mission that starts 5-60 minutes away so we get used to timing our landings to be ready and used to cooperating, give them a taste of squadron flying.
give them the 5 minute countdown viewable in radio(?)to help warn/build interest. DONT make me do all that shouting and begging
Think about it, just as the germans knew the raids were going to come so would each country.fighter jocks would know every hour they would have targets galore,bomber guys would have numbers to fly with.Squadrons would have bombers to protect.Mission lovers will have a better trained crowd to get into their own submited missions.Those that havent tried them will wonder what these big missions are all about wont they?
give each mission type a name, say 'Industry strike' 'Radar stike' so people get used to what each mission will be and eventually dont need to ask target info etc.
My only request if this is done is to make the country missions more realistic by keeping them RAF only or USAAF only or LW only. These are much better and more fun than a huge mix of planes and make great photo oppotunities
lets have the big b17 formations with p51s etc escorting,the ju88s with 109s and 190s,
eventually, bettys with zeros /niks/ etc
We can get an idea of what it was like for the differing sides, the tactics and weapons we would need to employ to make the missions work for each of the nations.perhaps intermix them with ALL IN types of missions too though as these could be good fun too.
we will see groups of each type(lw,usaaf etc) im sure.we would monitor numbers joining while we fly
its not gonna happen I know,but i would love to see this sort of thing myself.
[ 10-23-2001: Message edited by: hazed- ]
