Unperk everything in Latewar

[LLogann]

Cause if you think about it, if we let everybody up the early war birds for free, it may just generate some interest!!!

 

[dedalos]

Cause if you think about it, if we let everybody up the early war birds for free, it may just generate some interest!!!

 

I hear the AvA is full of people when the 262s are enabled and the fights are awesom.  HT was talking about splitting that arena due to the big numbers.

[68ZooM]

unperk everything for a month and see what happens, if it's good then great if not then go back, i would just be curious to see how gameplay would change, equal planes for everyone seems to me would be a equal playing field,  new players coming into this game are at a total disadvantage with the steep learning curve, they get frustrated, which tend to make some not go past the 2 week trial   

[dedalos]

unperk everything for a month and see what happens, if it's good then great if not then go back, i would just be curious to see how gameplay would change, equal planes for everyone seems to me would be a equal playing field,  new players coming into this game are at a total disadvantage with the steep learning curve, they get frustrated, which tend to make some not go past the 2 week trial   

Equal planes for everyone would mean that every one is in the same plane.  So, really, an arena with 262s. 

It is a lot easier for a new guy to fly a spit16 than it is to fly a Tempest anyways.

[Yeager]

Nothing you can do is ever going to make LW not suck.  Just too many people playing, herding together, smack talking, generally being asinine towards each other.

[CptTrips]

Nothing you can do is ever going to make LW not suck.  Just too many people playing, herding together, smack talking, generally being asinine towards each other.

Not unlike our BBS.

,
Wab

[dedalos]

Nothing you can do is ever going to make LW not suck.  Just too many people playing, herding together, smack talking, generally being asinine towards each other.

Makes you want to cry 

 

[uptown]

Nothing you can do is ever going to make LW not suck.  Just too many people playing, herding together, smack talking, generally being asinine towards each other.

I always thought that was the beauty of LW  

[Gixer]

I always thought that was the beauty of LW 

Maybe that's the appeal to a few throwbacks. Possibly one reason why the subscription numbers have always been so low is that the game is advertised as being WW2 Air Combat Sim etc etc.. Doesn't take long to realise it's just Air Quake with a capture the flag deathmatch attitude to match. Possibly emphasised even more by some squads who's forte and favourite terminology is "seal smacking".

And of course not helped by a score system and posting #1 rankings for the month on the main page. I've always thought that's very counter productive from trying to promote the game as being more missions,squads, team work and strategy focused. It use to be that way inclined up to about 2003 but has leaned more towards Air Quake ever since.



<S>...-Gixer

[uptown]

  Can't say I disagree with that Gixer   

[Dadsguns]

Maybe that's the appeal to a few throwbacks. Possibly one reason why the subscription numbers have always been so low is that the game is advertised as being WW2 Air Combat Sim etc etc.. Doesn't take long to realise it's just Air Quake with a capture the flag deathmatch attitude to match. Possibly emphasised even more by some squads who's forte and favourite terminology is "seal smacking".

And of course not helped by a score system and posting #1 rankings for the month on the main page. I've always thought that's very counter productive from trying to promote the game as being more missions,squads, team work and strategy focused. It use to be that way inclined up to about 2003 but has leaned more towards Air Quake ever since.



<S>...-Gixer

This about accurately reflects what is happening.   

[uptown]

Makes me wonder what the game would have been like if Combat Tour would have materialized. It was sure a disappointment for me when it didn't. I'd much rather be addicted to something like CT then Air Quake.

[68ZooM]

Maybe that's the appeal to a few throwbacks. Possibly one reason why the subscription numbers have always been so low is that the game is advertised as being WW2 Air Combat Sim etc etc.. Doesn't take long to realise it's just Air Quake with a capture the flag deathmatch attitude to match. Possibly emphasised even more by some squads who's forte and favourite terminology is "seal smacking".

And of course not helped by a score system and posting #1 rankings for the month on the main page. I've always thought that's very counter productive from trying to promote the game as being more missions,squads, team work and strategy focused. It use to be that way inclined up to about 2003 but has leaned more towards Air Quake ever since.



<S>...-Gixer

Hammer meets the nail on this one 

[Simaril]

This idea has been knocking around for a lot of years - but I gotta wonder if the score pages are the CAUSE of the decried behavior, or simply a response to it.

Seems to me that people are going to compete this way regardless...especially that majority of us with XY chromosomes.

Further seems to me that the biggest issue has been the numbers, pure and simple. When the game has SO many players, it's going to be crowded. And in that crowd we'll be more likely to run into...ummm...dysfunctional folks than we were in the less populated days.

In other words, what we're talking about is what happens naturally when a small town becomes a city.

Least, that's what I think.

[doc1kelley]

Maybe that's the appeal to a few throwbacks. Possibly one reason why the subscription numbers have always been so low is that the game is advertised as being WW2 Air Combat Sim etc etc.. Doesn't take long to realise it's just Air Quake with a capture the flag deathmatch attitude to match. Possibly emphasised even more by some squads who's forte and favourite terminology is "seal smacking".

And of course not helped by a score system and posting #1 rankings for the month on the main page. I've always thought that's very counter productive from trying to promote the game as being more missions,squads, team work and strategy focused. It use to be that way inclined up to about 2003 but has leaned more towards Air Quake ever since.



<S>...-Gixer

Now this guy Gixer truely gets it! 

... Just wishing more folks get it too!

All the Best...

   Jay