Aces High is now ALL about tanks

[Slate]

  Some of the the Flyboys have brought this upon themselves.  

  Yesterday a perfect example: So the Flyboys of a country sweep in and kill all the Hangers at a base as they try to capture it. A stunning defense engages the enemy with most having to fly in from a neighboring base. When this resistance is encountered what did the Flyboys do? Match and defeat the defenders? NO they upped and attack another undefended base.

    I guess some Flyboys would rather fight Hangers than other players. Wait I know where Players will stand and fight, unafraid to mix it up, on the ground.   GVers  

  

[VonMessa]

  Some of the the Flyboys have brought this upon themselves. 

  Yesterday a perfect example: So the Flyboys of a country sweep in and kill all the Hangers at a base as they try to capture it. A stunning defense engages the enemy with most having to fly in from a neighboring base. When this resistance is encountered what did the Flyboys do? Match and defeat the defenders? NO they upped and attack another undefended base.

    I guess some Flyboys would rather fight Hangers than other players. Wait I know where Players will stand and fight, unafraid to mix it up, on the ground.  GVers 

 

You kinda beat me to what I was going to say.

You can change the game, all you want to.

It won't change the players.

[Fulcrum]

I have nothing but respect for my GVing cousins....I personally just don't have any interest in it.  But that doesn't mean I oppose expanding the game.  It's not a new concept...look where Spectrum Holobyte was planning to go with it's "Electronic Battlefield" series, or where Eagle Dynamics IS going with DCS World.  It's just a matter of time. I think a more realistic version of Battlefield 1942 would be a blast.

Now if we just expanded the naval game a bit...say add subs and small, non-CV task forces, expand the ship types for some surface to surface engagements....WOOOWHO!*

*I'm secretly a WWI naval history buff and feel the "aeroplane" ruined naval warfare. Damn you, Billy Mitchell!!!!!  

[Max]

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[dedalos]

We have an arena set for a 2 Country War Front no One ever goe's their cause they like the Icon's to much and are afraid to try new things

Molsman

If you have determined that the reason that arena is empty because of the no icons as you say, why do we insist on having them off?  FYI, accusing us of being afraid to try something new is not going to bring us in.  I have tried it, I don't like it but I don;t mind it enough for it to keep me away.  However, given a choice of getting picked by planes I cant see or getting into a fight because I did see the plane sneaking up on me I make take the second choice.  I don;t like playing hide and seek anymore.

What keeps me away in combination with the above is this.  I log in, no one in the AvA I go to the MA.  I log in, no one in the AvA I go to the MA.  I log in two guys in the AvA.  I join them.  Oh look, they are on the same country bombing the VH.  Kill them they go to a different field, I go to the MA.

People go where they see other people so the empty arena will stay empty until some people go in it and draw others.  After that you have to keep them there and if icons is what they like well, give it to them.  How many years has that place been empty?  Little insults will not do it either  

[Reaper90]

When I see the "greebo" map, it makes me want to find the Enola Gay and nuke TT.

Leave the tankers alone!  

 
 
Seriously, I don't have the awesome long range sniping ability that a lot of guys have to be able to land dozens upon dozens of kills, and every time I up a perk tank I get killed almost immediately but luckily there's a whole world of opportunity for other types of GVing. Last night was a HOOT in TT, I think I made over 250 gv perks killing panzers, M4s and Hetzers with an M3 75mm gun carriage, racing through their spawn from the rear, shooting them in the butts at point blank range, and scooting out the other side, hopefully before they respawned and killed me! I think I got an entire armored division of M3s killed,  but damm it was fun! One time even managed to get three in one pass!

Give something different a try... There's more to GVing than spawn camping....

[Fulcrum]

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[ReVo]

Recently the long running spaceship MMO EvE Online released a FPS intended to interact with the universe they have created. It wasn't a bad game but it wasn't the best either and it isn't doing especially well because FPS players tend not to wait for patches, fixes, and rebalancing when they can just go back to Modern Warfare, Battlefield, or any number of other well established shooters. My personal opinion is that the big names have that market cornered and unless you come out with something really amazing it's probably not going to go far. Sure there are other things that HTC could add to the game that would improve it, but I think it would be a waste of resources to go down the FPS road.

[Randy1]

The GV'ers are good about calling out a six, finding the Flaker and blowing it up.  When you get good team work going between the GV and a heavy fighter or A20 like bird, it is great fun.

I got irritated with red GVs last week when they camp out in the hangers and shot spanning fighters in the hanger and on the runway.  Still, the GV'ers are a good part of the game.

And what the guys that bring supplies into the town when it gets hit hard.  Not much glory in that but they still do it.

[Arlo]

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Less likely than FPS for the same reason Ranger gave. There are already
deeply detailed and immersive submarine games available that would tax
AHII to death (literally) if such modeling were to be attempted. There is
such a thing as too much.

I'd go as far as some additional AI drunk functions but seeing historical
plane gaps filled would be better.

[wpeters]

I think we just need to think about it a little.   Maybe just get soldiers with the bazooka and the German equivalent.

1 Spawn into gv spawn on a German bmw with side car.

2 Spawn in and run around like a pilot.

3 Bazooka range of 500 meters.


Think about it guys that would add a new diminsion,.   A whole set of  different infantry is not nessesary at first.   Lets just try on type.. If we like maybe start adding snipers then what ever else... But dont  try adding all at once. would take to much time.      Maybe this could happen in AH3..   


By the way I LOVE TT in the CRATER MAP

[waystin2]

Did I miss a new update?

[ReVo]

I think we just need to think about it a little.   Maybe just get soldiers with the bazooka and the German equivalent.

1 Spawn into gv spawn on a German bmw with side car.

2 Spawn in and run around like a pilot.

3 Bazooka range of 500 meters.

I could get behind this idea as I think it would be fun and simple to implement.  

[Megalodon]

The GV'ers are good about calling out a six, finding the Flaker and blowing it up.  When you get good team work going between the GV and a heavy fighter or A20 like bird, it is great fun.

I got irritated with red GVs last week when they camp out in the hangers and shot spanning fighters in the hanger and on the runway.  Still, the GV'ers are a good part of the game.

And what the guys that bring supplies into the town when it gets hit hard.  Not much glory in that but they still do it.

 Every once in a while I'm on when a map coincides, where I can participate in this kind of play. I don't use a bomb truck though, I like the Ju87G2... it is much harder than bombing. I like to help out Dr7 and a few other when the situation allows.

I think that the Ju87G2 should be allowed to up from the same GV hanger as the Fi. The Ju87G2 was an extremely close air support plane.  Allowing it to up at GV bases would allow the Air guys to participate around the GV's <not bomb tarding them> when the map does not allow for a GV spawn into an airport.  Allowing the GV's to just go off and blast each other for hours and days out of the same spawn just keeps the Air and GV guys apart spliting the players.

Last nite I saw Greebos map when I logged in and logged off. Had I been allowed to fly the Ju87G2 at TT, I might of stayed and played.

 

[elc7367b]

 Some of the the Flyboys have brought this upon themselves.  

  Yesterday a perfect example: So the Flyboys of a country sweep in and kill all the Hangers at a base as they try to capture it. A stunning defense engages the enemy with most having to fly in from a neighboring base. When this resistance is encountered what did the Flyboys do? Match and defeat the defenders? NO they upped and attack another undefended base.

    I guess some Flyboys would rather fight Hangers than other players. Wait I know where Players will stand and fight, unafraid to mix it up, on the ground.   GVers  


Sometimes that attack you are referring to is meant to draw heat off a friendly base that is under siege with no intent of capturing a base. The intent being is to draw attackers off the base under siege.

Muttman