Please address the problem of CV hijacking

[Stalwart]

The last few nights online I've noticed our Rook CVs keep getting tasked to areas behind our "continent", where they are fairly useless.

I hope there more and better ideas to address the issue of CV hijacking, but for the moment, can we at least have a log of who, when, and to where CVs are tasked?

 
Stalwart

[phatzo]

Some people like to save CVs, what for I dont know. I can sort of understand moving one back that the enemy owns the port of but they are there to fight with not hide. May as well take them out of the game if thats what happens to them because you can't do squat with them while they are hidden.

[Masherbrum]

"The wheels on the bus go round and round".

[AWwrgwy]

"The wheels on the bus go round and round".

"The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish"

 


wrongway

[EskimoJoe]

"The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish"

 


wrongway

All the live long daaay!

Oh, wait...

[guncrasher]

Its either they are moved to where they are hidden from everybody, or bunched up together so they can be sunk by one set of lancs. answer is sadly only when they get bunched up together it is against the rules to do both.

semp

[phatzo]

LOL
I just read my post a few hours after I posted it. I could almost pull off a squeeker wall of text shade.  
 

[Simba]

Well said, I couldn't agree more. It follows that just because someone might be an AH 'high-scorer' in the air, that doesn't qualify them as the same on water. This ol' cat knows a thing or two about naval warfare and has controlled Task Groups in not a few bombardments and hard-fought sea actions. He and the crew would have had even more fun if only various nautical dim-wits with higher AH scores hadn't suddenly hi-jacked the TG and sent it either headlong to its doom or away from the action to where it could make no further useful contribution.

The hi-jackers are also usually too lazy or rude to let the previous Admiral know that they're taking over the helm. If there's one type of battle in AH where co-operation between players can lead to great amusement and satisfaction for all involved, it's a sea-fight between Task Groups or defending a TG against air attack while attempting an amphibious landing in the best Saipan style - but all too many such have been spoiled by the selfish action of a twonk who fancies himself as another Bull Halsey but hasn't even the knowledge to con the Gosport Ferry, let alone a warship.

It shouldn't be too hard to code the scoring system so it's the highest-scoring 'nautic' who has precedence for Task Group control and not the 'greatest tanker/air-ace' - how about it, HT?

   

[ImADot]

Perhaps it's time to have people take a test and submit a request for a "license" from HTC to command  CV group.  Only licensed commanders can control them, and if they habitually hide them or park them at PT spawns or in front of a SB, their license gets revoked.

Or, perhaps we can just come to the realization that this is a game, and get over it.

[SEseph]

I love people ranked under 10 who take control of the CV, won't give up control, and run it right up to an enemy base, in front of the shore battery and leave the ord up. I've seen alot of this as of late. I fully agree that the ranking should not have anything to do with the control of the CV because of such putzes.

Maybe something along the lines of: you can "own" control so long as you are in, or around the CV group (not sure how far out) but once you leave said area, the CV retains its current course, but control is lost. Then for those who want to grieve while afk and thinking "I have a rank of 6 and I'm going to sleep, so I think I'll sit in the CV's tower and keep control." HTC could make it so that a certain amount of inactivity, you lose "ownership."

PS: it's also hard for someone in a dogfight to maneuver the CV defensively as needed during a simultaneous bomb run.. no Admiral in their right mind would fly and try to be a Captain.

[waystin2]

Spider1 Alert!  

[redwing7]

"The wheels on the bus go round and round".

Thanks alot guys, now I got that dammed song stuck in my head for the rest day!!!!...lol

[whipster22]

Perhaps it's time to have people take a test and submit a request for a "license" from HTC to command  CV group.  Only licensed commanders can control them, and if they habitually hide them or park them at PT spawns or in front of a SB, their license gets revoked.

Or, perhaps we can just come to the realization that this is a game, and get over it.

+1

[guncrasher]

Maybe cv's should be coded so that you cannot take them behind your front line bases.  Or people that are here that do not like it, take control and bring them back down to the fight.

semp

[Stalwart]

Please understand.  I'm not talking about differences in opinion about how to fight a CV group in the conflict area.  I doubt we'll have agreement on that.  What I'm talking about is completely removing the CVs to the back edge of the map.  The night this thread started there were FOUR CVs way behind the Rook continent.

I don't think any Rooks would have put them there, but rather I suspect an agent of Knights or Bishop tasked them there just to get them out of the fight.