TOWN TOO BIG FOR AVERAGE SQUAD

[bustr]

So whats wrong with 2 hours 15 total bases winner took the most bases when the clock runs out?

[FLOTSOM]

bustr as always i find no flaw in your logic, nor do i see and reasonable argument against such a plan.

but alas there will be those that still demand that their $15 entitles them to easy captures plenty  of undefended porking and no fights against an opponent that they must meet on equal ground. i see your idea being overwhelmed with anti-bustr whines long before it gets any serious consideration for its merits.

+1

[Letalis]

+1, Good thought and easy to implement
Might work well with increased town downtime.

[1Boner]

Don't believe that it does bother anyone.  What seems to bother people is the plea to cater to the least capable players, to make the game easier rather than harder.

- oldman

They have done NOTHING to make anything easier for those types of players.

On the contrary, they have done EVERYTHING to make it harder for guys who don't care about the 'skills", and just wanna bang around and take some bases.

New dar, bigger more spread out towns, more ack on bases and towns, Yeah they really" cater" to those guys. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Least capable?  Capable of what??

I  still don't see how guys taking bases, affects guys who are dogfighting several sectors away.

Yeah, lets make it harder for the less "capable " players, then watch them leave for "easier" games.  Great for business.

[Banshee7]

How you been Banshee7?  I'm doing well thank you.

Doing great.  Getting an itch to fly again!  Glad to hear all is well your way

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[Guppy35]

They have done NOTHING to make anything easier for those types of players.
On the contrary, they have done EVERYTHING to make it harder for guys who don't care about the 'skills", and just wanna bang around and take some bases.
New dar, bigger more spread out towns, more ack on bases and towns, Yeah they really" cater" to those guys. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Least capable?  Capable of what??
I  still don't see how guys taking bases, affects guys who are dogfighting several sectors away.
Yeah, lets make it harder for the less "capable " players, then watch them leave for "easier" games.  Great for business.

Just curious cause I don't get enough flying time to pay attention to who has how many bases or whatever.

There used to be what was decried as a furballer whine, when it was suggested creating an area on the maps where it was essentially  'Fighter Town' where the quick into the fight guys could go at it without the hanger killers etc ruining the furball.  What it sounds like to me is you would want this from the other end of it.  Put it back the way it was, so we  can take bases fast and win the war.  Combat is secondary.  

It seems like the notion of making it tougher to take bases would encourage combat as the guys who might try and up to defend have time to react instead of the old quick NOE raid, hangers down, town down, goon sitting on the ground waiting bit that was so common.

Are you advocating avoiding combat, and seperating the fighter guys from the land grabbers?  You seem to be suggesting that the changes were made to cater to the air combat guys.  From my perspective it seems to have been done to encourage combat and get all kinds of player types into the same fight.

[SEraider]

it's what we used to do in the hired guns. actually, we kinda overkilled. usually 4 or 5 of us in lancs. 

SE's - 3 lancs Right,center,left.  6 - 2,000lbs dropped evenly from front of town to end.  98% effective rate 1st pass, 1 - 110g to clean up while troops are falling.

Can tell you we captured hundreds of bases like that.

Them were the days. 

[Little Dragon]

I think the town should stay down longer.  That's it.  I usually don't complain.

Agreed Neo 

  SWkiljoy

[CAP1]

SE's - 3 lancs Right,center,left.  6 - 2,000lbs dropped evenly from front of town to end.  98% effective rate 1st pass, 1 - 110g to clean up while troops are falling.

Can tell you we captured hundreds of bases like that.

Them were the days. 

yea....the fun part always came when the resistance came up. in the guns i think we almost always dropped from 10k or lower.

 in the playmates, we dropped from low too, but what we thought was overwhelming force in the guns, was nothing to the force we came in with in the playmates. we nearly were our own horde.
 there were times when me and two or three others were sneaking around the back side with troops while the bombers, clean up crew, and fighters kept the defenders looking the other way.
 in the guns, the fights were ALWAYS fun. in the playmates, we overwhelmed them so badly, that either no one bothered coming up to defend('cause no one likes to fight 20-1) or if they did come up, it was 20-3 or some crazy odds like that. i didn't/don't like being part of those hordes. i don't condemn them......if that's how people wanna play, then so be it....i'll go play in another part of the map.....i just don't wanna be part of it. i do still enjoy bombing runs sometimes though.

[thndregg]

They almost HAVE to come in a horde now.

Agree.

[FiLtH]

  Ive always thought this game needed something to show at the end of a campaign the totals for each side, kills, deaths, tons of bombs that hit, bases owned. The couple of perks at the end dont really do much. Thats one thing WW2OL had right was the "Howzit on the battlefront" type thing they posted daily.  You'll never have that true "immersion" that so many talk about, without a WHY WE FIGHT.

[ImADot]

You'll never have that true "immersion" that so many talk about, without a WHY WE FIGHT.

In my opinion and my personal reasons...

1. The "immersion" comes from the 1st-person in-cockpit-only view of a well-modeled WWII plane/vehicle being used to fight against other human beings from around the world .

2. The "why I fight" comes from the fact that I decided to sign up and pay $14.95/month to enjoy point number one (see bolded text).

[Shuffler]

Only takes 6 SAPP 38s with torpedos to kill the town. We tested it.

I don't see what the incintive is to take a map anyway. You just get a different one. Maybe after a long while one would get old. That can be fixed by simply resetting the arena with a new one each week.

[CAP1]

sapp version of noe raid?


 

[Shuffler]

On that raid we were running shallow.... maybe three feet. This method is used should you have to go airborn quickly. Since the props are getting air too at three feet you can generate more speed while submerged in the terrain.

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