HTC: come look at the Main arena and tell us whats different?

[Citabria]

night and day.

the strats were hubs of activity being hti on all sides. high alt piston fighters were killing strat bombers.

bish horde was complaining about resupplying their strats.

then 163s were enabled.


all the bombers were killed or run off.

none of the strats are flashing. the bombers arent attacking them.. but why?


NO ONE WANTS TO SPEND AN HOUR CLIMBING TO GIVE SOME ADD SYNDROM #@!# FREE KILLS.

[Dragon]

But the 163 pilots are happy!


You can please most people most days.........

[Citabria]

no they aren't because in past 2 hours no ones bothered to go near the strats even though they are rebuilt.

[Eric19]

what makes montis the map we have now any different from the other maps hmm fester even on maps where the strats where at the front lines I only saw maybe a couple of bombers go over there to hit it in about 12 hour internvals
I would be more than happy to go bust some rook and knit strat in a B29 in a single flight but I won't be able to do that for atleast 4 hours or so

[Iraqvet]

night and day.

the strats were hubs of activity being hti on all sides. high alt piston fighters were killing strat bombers.

bish horde was complaining about resupplying their strats.

then 163s were enabled.


all the bombers were killed or run off.

none of the strats are flashing. the bombers arent attacking them.. but why?


NO ONE WANTS TO SPEND AN HOUR CLIMBING TO GIVE SOME ADD SYNDROM #@!# FREE KILLS.

 

[The Fugitive]

what makes montis the map we have now any different from the other maps hmm fester even on maps where the strats where at the front lines I only saw maybe a couple of bombers go over there to hit it in about 12 hour internvals
I would be more than happy to go bust some rook and knit strat in a B29 in a single flight but I won't be able to do that for atleast 4 hours or so

Montis HAD an issue where the 163 was disabled. While it was there was lots of buffs and fighters fighting over the Strats. Once the 163 was ENABLED all those fights disappeared.

What he is saying is the 163 has a large impact on whether or not people want to take the time to do strat runs. Turn it on and there are no runs, turn them off and fight abound.

[Wiley]

Montis HAD an issue where the 163 was disabled. While it was there was lots of buffs and fighters fighting over the Strats. Once the 163 was ENABLED all those fights disappeared.

What he is saying is the 163 has a large impact on whether or not people want to take the time to do strat runs. Turn it on and there are no runs, turn them off and fight abound.

'Fight'...  You mean buffs coming in at 30k+ hoping to be unmolested by all but the most die hard of buffkillers, with a bunch of people climbing below them?

Wiley.

[Citabria]

Montis HAD an issue where the 163 was disabled. While it was there was lots of buffs and fighters fighting over the Strats. Once the 163 was ENABLED all those fights disappeared.

What he is saying is the 163 has a large impact on whether or not people want to take the time to do strat runs. Turn it on and there are no runs, turn them off and fight abound.

I like buff hunting and strat running.

montis right now since the change has NO BUFFS AT STRATS

NO buffs to kill means no buffs strat running.

guys HTC you cant be blind to somthing so night and day as this.

163 should be disabled on all small maps.

for defending HQ its great on big maps but on small maps it is to unbalancing and invulnerable when well flown to even have in the arena.

[DH367th]

163 gone and no resupply for strats go along way to improve game play on smaller maps.

[Citabria]

so had the first bomber all afternoon since pyro enabled 163s try to fly to rook strats...

i intercepted him in a 163 70 miles from the city (163 has 20 min range the way i fly it and can go 200 miles easy)

so i flame one of the poor bomber pilots 25k b24s on the first pass from an angle and speed impossible for him to track...

then i zoom in front to setup another pass...

the poor guy bails out of his two remaining bombers out of frustration.

its not fun for me. its not fun for the poor bomber pilot that spent over an hour to get there. I spent 3 minutes getting that POS 163 there.

[Latrobe]

What if HT were to limit the number of 163s per side? Each country can only up 3 163s at a time. Once 3 people are in flight with 163s that's it. Anyone else who tries to up one will get a message telling them that the 163 limit has been reached. Would stop people from upping 20 163s to kill 5 sets of bombers.


Maybe not the best idea, but that's the only thing I can think of right now.

[caldera]

'Fight'...  You mean buffs coming in at 30k+ hoping to be unmolested by all but the most die hard of buffkillers, with a bunch of people climbing below them?

Wiley.

Like the OP does?  Who even knew B-17s were perked?  They must be, to be flying up over 30k. 

[Ack-Ack]

Montis HAD an issue where the 163 was disabled. While it was there was lots of buffs and fighters fighting over the Strats. Once the 163 was ENABLED all those fights disappeared.

What he is saying is the 163 has a large impact on whether or not people want to take the time to do strat runs. Turn it on and there are no runs, turn them off and fight abound.

What I find amusing about this thread is that Fester doesn't remember the whines from the players complaining how they had no means to intercept high flying bombers attacking strats before we had the Me 163.  The Me 163 was added to satisfy those that were whining about how difficult it was to intercept the strat attacking bombers as the only planes at the time, the Ta 152 and Me 262 were the only viable options and both had a hefty perk cost.

Now were are getting whines how the Me 163 are killing fights over the strats.  Priceless.

ack-ack

[Citabria]

What I find amusing about this thread is that Fester doesn't remember the whines from the players complaining how they had no means to intercept high flying bombers attacking strats before we had the Me 163.  The Me 163 was added to satisfy those that were whining about how difficult it was to intercept the strat attacking bombers as the only planes at the time, the Ta 152 and Me 262 were the only viable options and both had a hefty perk cost.
Now were are getting whines how the Me 163 are killing fights over the strats.  Priceless.
ack-ack

you're not getting it.

I have killed more b29's and strat bombers on montis than any other MA map and they were almost all 25-30k and i had no trouble destroying them without a 163.

I can't destroy them if they are not there.

there is no predator if there is no food supply.

you may still get stray b17 and b24s and lancs once in a while but not the flood it was. and certainly you won't get to shoot at waves of b29s. they won't hang 300-400 perks out to dry for 163s to shoot at very often.

 

[Triton28]

What if HT were to limit the number of 163s per side? Each country can only up 3 163s at a time. Once 3 people are in flight with 163s that's it. Anyone else who tries to up one will get a message telling them that the 163 limit has been reached. Would stop people from upping 20 163s to kill 5 sets of bombers.


Maybe not the best idea, but that's the only thing I can think of right now.

Either this or jack up the cost of a 163 to somewhere in the neighborhood of a formation of 29's.