Logging in with dar down sucks. Dead HQ is the single most frustrating thing in the game to me. You now have no reliable information on what the enema is doing.
"Up a C-47" is all well and good, but as others have stated, I'm not tremendously fond of Virtual Bus Driver, let alone Virtual FedEx Pilot. Sorry guys, for some people, flying for 10 minutes to drop a crate is about as much fun as a proctological visit, and worse, you don't get a cookie and flowers afterwards.
For all of you who are saying they should just defend the HQ, get real. People who actually defend in this game are a tiny minority. The much more common reaction is to log and/or post on the BBS.
I've seen it happen on several occasions. A couple or a few guys will spend the entire night launching mid to high alt buff raids in ones or twos that simply. will. not. stop. because the buff guys know the defenders will inevitably get bored and they'll be able to get through. A large mission gets noticed and defense often occurs, but when it's just a trickle of bombers, not as many people get involved to stop them, and it really doesn't take that terribly many runs to take out the HQ.
Degrading the HQ affecting the map win parameters is an interesting idea. Not sure what it would look like, but I like that a lot better than universally blinding the enemy.
The thing is, this wasn't caused by any issues with the HQ system. The problem resulted when the players of that country failed in defending their HQ from attack and not resupplying it afterwards. The problem were the players, the solution is also up to the players.
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That's swell. Now how do you go about changing the minds of the majority of the playerbase?
Wiley.