Solution for Town Capture Stalemate

[AKKuya]

The towns are larger and requires lots of players to coordinate the take down and capture.  Solution would be for HTC to place in the arena table a programmable percentage for town building destoyed for capture.   67%   82% and so on.

This way M3's and C-47's can constantly drop troops and the base will eventually be captured.  We just won't know the exact percentage of buildings needed.  No different then CM's changing the amount of troops needed for capture in the SEA arenas.

[RedTop]

Don't mind me....Im just onna sit over here and watch---------------------->

[JOACH1M]

The towns are larger and requires lots of players to coordinate the take down and capture.  Solution would be for HTC to place in the arena table a programmable percentage for town building destoyed for capture.   67%   82% and so on.

This way M3's and C-47's can constantly drop troops and the base will eventually be captured.  We just won't know the exact percentage of buildings needed.  No different then CM's changing the amount of troops needed for capture in the SEA arenas.

Is it really that big of an issue to take out a town? Just curiouser

[dkff49]

curiouser

Wouldn't it be more curious?

[The Fugitive]

Hitech has posted that some changes will be made to the towns for the next release. They never intended for the towns to be more difficult to capture.

[wojo71]

As much as I like the new towns...A little bit less trees and such would be nice.

[MachFly]

Town down?

Yes, drop troops.

I see a building up!

No that's ok, we can have 10 buildings still up.

Troops did not take. What happened?

IDK lets count the building.

Damn, we have 11 building up not 10. I thought thous 2 were a single building.

[SunBat]

Hitech posted that they were considering something very much like this and there would be a flag in the town that showed its status.

[LLogann]

With the next release we will be making some adjustments for this. The new town release was never meant to be harder to capture.

HiTech

[JOACH1M]

Wouldn't it be more curious?

My phone fudged it up

[Bruv119]

The new towns are fantastic!

You can still take it down very quickly with 1-3 guys who know what they are doing.  

It is the out lying buildings that are the main problem because it takes WAY more passes to kill them all and of course giving the defenders lots of time to get up.   Which is a GOOD thing.  

I think on some maps we need them moved away from base slightly some are literally on top of the field.  

Extend the downtime to maybe 60 minutes just so you have that little extra time.  

Job done.

[Chilli]

The unfortunate result of months of practice by folks trying to figure out the new field captures and anti stealth settings has been the "mother of all hordes" group effort.          

I am afraid that the emphasis in future changes will only address the "difficulty" in base capture (+ / - ).   Making base capture more obtainable with lesser numbers will be a good start.  It should offer more battles.  However, it could also lead to frequent map resets, and milkrunning.

What worries me the most, is that the "stale" portion of stalemate may have already sailed.  Players have expressed their fatigue over repetitive rolls in a number of different styles or preferences of options.  I know this may sound harsh or (some other large word, that means I don't have a clue about the complexities involved), but I would love to see this game step up, once again and offer just the sort of tweak in game play, that simply is enjoyable to players at all skill levels. 

Bruv, please take this as a compliment.  When you have achieved 3 top seats in fighter categories, and I have seen you land greater than 17 kills twice within 15 minutes, I will have to say that your skill level far exceeds that of the typical town porker.  What most of us want to do is simply shoot stuff and look good doing it.  Getting locked in a 60 minute battle over a single airfield, multiplies the odds for most of us loosing cartoon lives.   The appeal of the NOE, and the horde has been the likelihood of survival and success.  There you go, maybe that is the key, better chances at survival.  How does one achieve that?  Reducing 262 availability?  Reducing the popularity of the 109K4?  Reducing the range of the La7?  Reducing the one shot killz from a Tiger opponent?  Scary to think, but we have the mid war arena and until LW got shut down yesterday, it has been difficult to find a fight there, but it fits the above scenario.

Proximities of towns and spawns are specific to maps and make them challenging in different ways, and I agree we are not clear on where challenge becomes more fun or less fun, so having a mix could be beneficial. 

[skribetm]

The new towns are fantastic!

except that it doesnt feature a mcdonalds or starbucks.
you cant call it a town w/o one.

[LCADolby]

The new towns are fantastic!

You can still take it down very quickly with 1-3 guys who know what they are doing.  

It is the out lying buildings that are the main problem because it takes WAY more passes to kill them all and of course giving the defenders lots of time to get up.   Which is a GOOD thing.  

I think on some maps we need them moved away from base slightly some are literally on top of the field.  

Extend the downtime to maybe 60 minutes just so you have that little extra time.  

Job done.

The new towns are pretty, but they need a pub and a post office.

[RTHolmes]

Ive been involved with 3 captures in the last coupla weeks which took just 4 players. each time there was a coupla tanks and at least one fighter defending. captures dont require a horde, and they arent that difficult even with the new town layout.

otoh this week Ive also been sitting at the map room gunning down buildings with a LVT's .30cal for 20mins while 15-20 friendly hogs dropped bombs on all the hangars on a medium base and killed 2x SBs, completely ignoring the town. the chat on country followed something like "why didnt we take that base? we needed more players" ...