Rewarding small-unit actions

[Tank-Ace]

how can 3 guys stop your 5 if the darbar wont show anything?  and btw we have stopped 30 guys with a lot less than 10.  ghi once stopped over 50 by himself by shooting down every single goon for about 2 hours.

you still havent proved how your idea will help the game, while hinting that it will break up into smaller fights is not necessarily what is going to happen.  the idea behind darbar is to help others find a sector where activity is happening.  you want to find  a small fight then look for a small darbar.  you want to furball among 100's then look for 2 or 3 darbars in one sector.  you dont want darbar to show then go noe, it's just that simple.

and something is taken away btw.  the ability to find small fights.  

semp

random person: "hey look, guncrasher, the base is flashing, and I can see the aircraft attacking the town from the tower. Wanna go defend?"

Guncrasher: "naw, I don't see any darbars, so I'm going to assume the base is safe."

That how you operate in game?


Alright, thats a valid point. How about we just remove the NOE ability for groups larger than a set number of planes? Small fights aren't any less hard to find, but defenders won't run into the seemingly ever-present horde of 30 NOE planes that give almost no warning.

It wouldn't limit people from hoarding, but it would give defenders a reasonable chance to make a fight of it. Small fights are still visible when they happen, but hordes can't both sneak up on a base, and swamp the defenders with 15 to 1 odds.

[guncrasher]

random person: "hey look, guncrasher, the base is flashing, and I can see the aircraft attacking the town from the tower. Wanna go defend?"

Guncrasher: "naw, I don't see any darbars, so I'm going to assume the base is safe."

That how you operate in game?  considering that you dont play the game.


Alright, thats a valid point. How about we just remove the NOE ability for groups larger than a set number of planes? Small fights aren't any less hard to find, but defenders won't run into the seemingly ever-present horde of 30 NOE planes that give almost no warning.

well if you want this then make another wish.

It wouldn't limit people from hoarding, but it would give defenders a reasonable chance to make a fight of it. Small fights are still visible when they happen, but hordes can't both sneak up on a base, and swamp the defenders with 15 to 1 odds.

I play almost every night and we have been busting almost every single noe attack that the bishops/rooks have sent our way.  it creates some pretty intense fighting for about 2 or 3 minutes, till we kill every single one of them.  actually busting noe raids are pretty fun and you want to take our fun away  ?

what people are trying to tel you is that darbar works as intended the way it is.  no need to fix what isnt broken.  you can try to do the "well then you are stupid for not wanting some change" thing that some people try.  but it still wont make a bad wish look good.



semp

[Tank-Ace]

Hey, just saying, you make it sound like the darbar is the only possible way you can tell if a base is under attack, and that if NOE's were made even a tiny bit easier (say the old 200ft altitude, where it was easy to fly NOE the whole time even over land), then sneak captures will be rampant because the dot dar and base flashing don't work for some reason.

Changing darbar wouldn't be because the darbar is broken, but as a means to encourage non-horde playing. Yeah, you can fight hordes for 1/2hr -45 mins, but then (for me at least, and I'm sure I'm not the only one) it just gets.... dull.

Right now, if you want to help with a capture, you kinda HAVE to join the horde, unless you have a group of good, skilled squaddies on (I usually don't.... didn't... whatever).

[guncrasher]

tank-ace i totally understand what you are trying to accomplish.  but changing the darbar is not gonna change anything.  anyway, all that needed to be said has been said  .


semp