seriously what are you gonna do with the boatload of points? get 5 bucks off next month's dues? the satisfaction should be that you hit them and came back and were able to land.
I miss oneway, he would go on this 3 or 4 hour missions bomb every base between him and the strats and back. land his planes with about 3 or 4 kills too. he never did it for the boatload of points, he did it because it was fun for him.
wish people would stop with the "we should get more points" and actually enjoy the game.
semp
Semp, ouch! I'll take a stab at this one. My assumption is a sortie at high alt involving 5 to 15 guys in bombers is good for the game. Y'all can figure out why.
Ok, mega buff points for strat runs. I'm for it. Let's say, I take off on a 90 min to 2 hour run with some other grey beards. Let's say we destroy the Ack Factory to 10%. We land. For our efforts, we get that magic # 300 buff perks. Those perks will get turned into B29's.
I'd say during these last months of playing, I've spent a good deal of time in buffs. After work, it's enjoyable. So, then it's hangars, ord & barracks, and town at the field levels. And teaching newer players how to go about this buffing thing most efficiently.
If the rewards of strat destroying were large in terms of bomber perks, old, old, old, guys like me (I'm guessing) would flock it more. Then as I said, that would toss more 29's into the air. Which I say is a good thing.
As it is now, when I contemplate a 29 sortie/mission, I'm looking at how much I can lose if it all goes south, and how much other guys will lose if they join the mission. Last night is a good example. Formation cost about 180. Great. Put it out on Country Channel, and the upshot was folks wanted to fly but either didn't have the perks or weren't too keen of putting the perks on the line. So, we upped B17's instead. Had a fine run. Were about 5+ of us attempting to hit a couple fields on the Rook front. It was a 22.5K run and tons of action. A few guys did quite well. I landed successfully after getting mauled mightily.
Now put perks into the pockets of buff pilots and those same guys and more will up 29's, and we'll go toddling in at 27.5K to 30K and have to wrestle with M Jugs and 152's. A good thing says I.
Also, 1 buff with 75% gas nailing tons of fields and strats is something I do from time to time. One can get away with it with a high likelihood of success due to the small dar footprint. So you can add my name to the growing list of "two" who do it for fun.
Mega perks for buffs accomplishes several things simultaneously that are beneficial for the game.
1) It won't adversely affect the gv "whack a mole" spawn battles.
2) It won't hamper the 5K ho'ing hot rod fur balls.
3) It won't put the kibosh on bust the hangars, bust the town, drive in an M3 captures.
4) It will add another dimension in terms of frequency of B29 runs at nose bleed altitudes. And, maybe, amongst the geriatric set, bring down the 29's to the 20K envelope.
Now, I'm thinking . . . nope. I don't like the idea of cutting the cost of the 29's in half. That will put more in the air, but do nothing to put more buffs over strats. If anyone is asking what's the big deal about the strats, for me, I figure its a function of playing Aces High since 2002. In the beginning, 5K fur was exhilarating. For a long time, porking field elements was my thing. Got a thrill out of it. Whack-a-mole still might be fun, but I'm lousy and slow at it. And the kids' eyes are better than mine. And kill all the hangars, for me, is just so inelegant and lame. I'm more of a nail the ack, vh, cap/vulch and get the town down and capture.
My guess is for vets who have been at this for better than a decade who also find buffing fun, the strat thing would be more a part of their play if the rewards were BIG. I think the last 29 run I put up was maybe 2 months ago. A big one that is. And it was quite small by some of the 15+ 29 runs I've tried to chase down since their introduction.
Yup. I'm for mega-strat points. I'm not asking anyone to play my way. Not depriving any of the fun they find the in game the way they like to play it. And not criticizing others' motives for playing this way or that.
Anyway, I doubt it'll ever happen. Oh well, the B17 is a great ride anyway.
