Uh-oh... I've got an idea.. again!

[Dichotomy]

Gee Snailman even my dumb arse understood that.  Seems plausible.  Might even draw me into the MA on a rare occasion. 

[Ghosth]

HT I hope your listening!

Lusche I see a lot of idea's proposed here, but very very few of them are as well thought out as this one.
I think you really may be onto something.

And I agree with Latrobe that HT needs to put you on retainer.

[R 105]

 Lusche.
 Thanks for your hard work, I like it <S>.

R-105

[SunBat]

I like both ideas. This is a way to keep the game the way it is right now and still keep the strategic minded players interested. I can't see any immediate major disadvantages.

I think it would be cool to have a scoreboard in the clipboard for the second idea. U could see each base, see who owns it and see it's point value.

I can see some future whines about why certain bases are assigned certain values and perhaps HTC may steer clear bc of that but I hope not.

Good ideas for a snail. 

[4deck]

Descent idea, I into it.

As far as the map rotation though. I would like to see Titanic Tuesday map stay for the month. Then the next month rotated out. Seeing we only get that map on tuesdays. Thats only really 4 days. I am digging the fact that whatever condition the map was in, stays, nice feature.

[NCLawman]

I think I can buy into these ideas.  Though I admit I would likely prefer the maps to auto rotate more frequent than 2 weeks.  But, it is certainly a good start.   

One other idea, that I picked up from other posts/threads, I would like to see a BASE ENY.  That is to say that after a certain number of 'high-end' birds have taken off, you have maxed out the resources of that base and must resort to 2nd line planes, and continue likewise until 3rd line, etc....    Once the max has lifted off, you can't get a 1st line plane up again until one returns (or lands somewhere else) or is shot down.

This could be coupled with putting airplane factories around the map for which the destruction or partial destruction reduces the number of low ENY planes are available at each zone base.  I honestly believe (though I have been wrong at least once before) that putting airplane factories around the map would give the bombers (escorts wanted) something worth while to hit and the fighters something worth while to defend.  If that does not promote GREAT COMBAT, I am not sure what would.

     

[grizz441]

Yep I like it.  Also allow score tallies to be easily trackable at any time in the game from clipboard.  There are still other problems in the game obviously, but this would definitely mend at least a couple and improve the game.

[waystin2]

Lusche do you sleep & eat like the rest of us?  You are the frikkin' Albert Einstein of AH!  The above ideas are great Sir.  Hitech please take a read...

 

Way

[maddafinga]

I like it man!  Wouldn't affect me in any way, since all I do is furball, so no loss there.  It would affect the guys who go out for that sort of a thing positively.  Sounds like all up and no down side to me. 

[crazierthanu]

From a furballers perspective, this seems like a great idea. 

[Jayhawk]

My biggest concern, the one sided offensive.  I hate when your country faces huge offensives on either side while countries B & C don't show a single flashing base between them.  I don't have a solution but I worry this system will exacerbate the problem.  There is no reason to fight two countries when you can focus all of your efforts on one side to reach the more valuable bases in the rear.  I understand there is never a country wide consensus of which side that would be but as the scales slowly tip to one side, the fights will slowly slip to that side and eventually we could end up with a dead front.  Eventually side B & C have almost everything but the uncapturables and they begin to fight each other at bases deep in A's territory, no reason to start the front up on small insignificant bases if we can fight over high value bases back in A's deep territory.  This usually results in many of A players facing very difficult odds and leaving to go to the other arena (like it or not it's usually true).

Okay... prove me wrong. 

However, if you can figure out a way to make strategic bombing actually count for something with this, then +1000!

[caldera]

Creating additional "hotspots" is a good idea.  The maps seem to devolve into just a few large battles, while most of the fronts are untouched.
I think a simple way to spread out the fights would be to add additional vehicle spawns to different bases.  The current bases only spawn to the next base over (mostly) but if they could spawn two three or four bases, that might be incentive for the base takers to try different routes.

I don't GV or take bases, but those actions promote fights for us all.  Some of the maps have very few spawn options to break up the front.  A pair of GVs at three more bases could start three more fights.  

[NCLawman]

I hate when your country faces huge offensives on either side while countries B & C don't show a single flashing base between them.  I don't have a solution but I worry this system will exacerbate the problem.  There is no reason to fight two countries when you can focus all of your efforts on one side to reach the more valuable bases in the rear.   This usually results in many of A players facing very difficult odds and leaving to go to the other arena (like it or not it's usually true).

Okay... prove me wrong. 

However, if you can figure out a way to make strategic bombing actually count for something with this, then +1000!

Hmmm.... Very good point.  Have to think about that one a while.   

[Husky01]

I hate when your country faces huge offensives on either side while countries B & C don't show a single flashing base between them.  I don't have a solution but I worry this system will exacerbate the problem.  There is no reason to fight two countries when you can focus all of your efforts on one side to reach the more valuable bases in the rear.   This usually results in many of A players facing very difficult odds and leaving to go to the other arena (like it or not it's usually true).

Okay... prove me wrong.  Big Grin

However, if you can figure out a way to make strategic bombing actually count for something with this, then +1000!

Hmmm.... Very good point.  Have to think about that one a while.   headscratch

Simple, make the hot spot bases worth more or less depending on the number of total bases the country has.

[zack1234]

PBY please to rescue squadies