Ways to improve the quality of this game? AKA its killing me!

[mthrockmor]

Not sure but in the short two-years I've been here this is just getting more and more pathetic. Everything is a horde or vulchfest. Has it always been like this and I've just noticed it the last six months? Could be, happy to hear that I'm dimwitted and just catching on.

About the only thing I enjoy is the scenarios. Maybe I need to get involved in FSO, though my squad has not shown much interest in this. As it stands right now, oy-freaking-vey! Any ideas on how this can be something less then a daily vulch/horde contest? Or am I just whiney and should snap out of it?

On an only slightly related note, one aspect that will likely bring more business is to actually cut the number of planes offered. In MBA programs across the world they teach too many choices killing overall sales. Example, Store 1 offers twenty-plus varieties of jam. Store 2 offers only six, well chosen options. Customers see too many choices in store 1, simply walk away and buy bologna instead, literally. Store 2 with only six options has almost double the sales as store 1. Maybe for every new plane we weed out a couple others. Do we really need X number of P-47's? Spits? 109s? Maybe one month is early war and only early war available with all late war heavily perked. Next month is late war, etc. Maybe one month is European theater, next month is Pacific. I know, right off the bat every Luftwaffe dweeb is getting nervous and offended. Maybe a bad idea but...

Also, likely asking too much but what about nightly organized missions that one can sign up for a day in advance. Nightly, 7PM Eastern 40 sticks sign up for and fly a 60 minute, one loss mission. I know there have been some attempts at something similar but maybe???

Ideas??? The current horde vulchfest is killing me in more ways then one. Or, I should just zip it and move on.

Boo

[coombz]

snap out of it! 

I finally got some time to play this weekend and found some great fights 

[Debrody]

Welcome to the club, Mr Boo. You cant do anything, the sheep will always gang together.
Your idea is nonsense, more plane options cant hurt a cartoon game. Each will have lower usage but overall will be the same.
Anyway, the Christmas is coming soon, i got better things to do than fighting cartoon hordes.
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[PuppetZ]

I enjoy flying in the MA once or twice a week for a few hours total monthly. That way I dont burn myself out. I fly FSO and scenario and other special event as much as I possibly can. It is where this game truely shine if you ask me. Post in the FSO forums. I'm sure one of the squads there will be able to offer you a ride.

 

[moot]

Do we really need X number of P-47's? Spits? 109s?

Yes.  Wait, lemme think about that... Yes.

[Shuffler]

Snap out of it..............

[Lusche]

Two years is just the right span of time to burn out.
Was the game that different only 24 months ago? Nope.


Just for the record, I was playing for about 17 hours yesterday. Vulched only twice. Got picked two or three times. Was enjoying myself and the high level of activity. Only thing I wasn't enjoying was the sheer amount of hypocritical cries on all channels, but I (desperately) try to build an inner ignore filter.

 

[infowars]

Okay so until I can confidently engaged and kill just about any plane with any plane I still have plenty to work on in this game.

I remember seeing the muppets come in with a couple guys and totally destroy a horde.  That can still be done. That had to be fun.

I love air to air combat regardless of the situation it is dynamic and almost never the same.

I get vulched and picked and hey I vulch and pick too.

This game is fun.  If we were playing for money and people were breaking rules that's a different story.

I love this game.

[The Fugitive]

Two years is just the right span of time to burn out.
Was the game that different only 24 months ago? Nope.

I don't buy it. What your saying then is the game sucked back then and it only took two years for this guy to figure it out.

I'm thinking more along the lines of those of us who like the game and want to stay advance enough to find the poor game play lame and unexciting . This is why we question it after being around a while. So much of this game is by past in the name of winning the war NOW that it has become lame and boring for any one who wants more than a pick or a vulch.

[FLS]

Not sure but in the short two-years I've been here this is just getting more and more pathetic. Everything is a horde or vulchfest. ...


...Also, likely asking too much but what about nightly organized missions that one can sign up for a day in advance. Nightly, 7PM Eastern 40 sticks sign up for and fly a 60 minute, one loss mission. I know there have been some attempts at something similar but maybe???

Just curious if you consider 40 players in a mission a horde?   

[icepac]

If half of them are in heavy bombers, then only the 20 other guys who brought light fighters are "the horde".

[SPKmes]

IMO it is not so much the " horde" as such ....more the mentality that is concerning ..... There has always been numbers in attacks and odds in fights however it has just become nuts in there ...sure you can find another point on the map to lift from to stay away from these but that is just not me ....I consider myself a base defender ....when learning theis game I would always be 2-3 V 1 and that was hard but helped me I believe yes there was the picker around and the odd over zealous group about that would pile but not to the degree of it now...honestly it is just a pile on factory out there....5-6-7( I spose eventually it will progress me more like this also)- ..... it is nuts which is where the mentality of the player base is changing..... gamers(real) not a bunch of like minded old farts kickin around havin a laugh ( although there are still a lot of them trying to have a beer and laugh but all the electronica and D&B...it's just so loud hahahaha) .....

Game play is still the same take bases, furball ( I have come across a few goodins lately (but then they turn to mush) hangers used to get dropped (just not with the same frequency)...and resistance was awesome ....( just seems if there is any these days it is qwelled quickly by instant removal of hangers or bring in the numbers)

^^^^  Just me thinking out loud .... Stick broken so AH fix needs to be done here hahahaha ....never fear though...I will be purchasing a new stick  TODAY!!!!! 

[JUGgler]

The move towards larger #s of folks in mission has come from 2 main changes IMHO

#1- when the towns were changed (which honestly I like them the way they are now) it took a much greater effort to knock them and their ack down

#2- radar alt was changed, this forced those who enjoyed a little covert ops to join missions as it is virtualy impossible to take a base now without Supremely compitent folks or larger #s of them!

These 2 changes forced the "WAR fighters" (of which there is a great # of them who play this game) to get together in larger #s.

 Also you have to remember one guy, just one can destroy the entire effort of a mission by shooting down a couple goons or M3s<-- not very realistic I'd say!




JUGgler

[matt]

snap out of it

[Chilli]

I misread the title.... AKAK is killing me...   I've been there    

ANYWAY..... the OP's question was in reference to ways to improve the quality of the game.  Some say the game is okay and you can improve your personal experience.  I say the game is OKAY, but not perfect, so I too would like to see it advance.

In a way the idea of limiting planes is already in place in certain arenas, and it would generally be good if the numbers were spread throughout those arenas, but LWMA gets all the glory, so it also gets all the glory hounds.  So need to be overly critical of that train of thought, there might very well be a balancing mechanism other that ENY that no one else has thought of yet.  There is one particular idea that connects the availability of aircraft to the status of factories.  

I disagree, that game is as it has always been, or even that it hasn't changed in 2 years.  Wasn't it around 2 years when the big update with the better graphics, then new towns came out?  My gosh, the game has changed in so many different ways since .....    

And JUGler hit the NAIL on the head.....  that part I have been saying for close to 2 years.