Please forgive me for misinterpreting your question. All HQ does is drop the radar for entire country. It makes things taticaly difficult to anticipate and is a symbolic gesture. The community as a whole have grown accustomed to players flying lancs to an HQ so everyone grabs alt to 20-30k and hunts them down. What these guys are doing is committing a whole day to dropping both NME he's by driving for hours to the target, finding a great spot to shoot the HQ without flashing it, and making the game play of all those who just play this game to dogfight that much harder.
So thier fun is to take an entire day to make it more difficult for others to have fun? And that's thier fun?
Now bear with me in this discussion. There was a time where I could commit those kinds of hours to playing the game. But it's been a long time. Now if I can find an hour or two once or twice a week I'm lucky.
I confess, my fun in the game is looking for a good furball. Now I know your first response is "go to the DA". But for me the other part of the fun is interacting with the players from all sides that I've gotten to know over the many years I've played. That is a lot of people who enjoy many aspects of the game. If the guys who furball all move to the DA, you break up a longstanding part of the AH experience.
So in the end what you are glorifying is a bunch of guys who take all day just to make my limited time to fly more difficult? My hour or two of dogfighting does nothing to interfere with thier desire to drop bombs and blow the map to smithereens. Yet thier desire to interfere with what I enjoy is worth taking an entire day to do?
I'm flattered that I'm that important to them, but I fail to see the logic behind thier effort. In the end isn't it counterproductive to the health of the game if a bunch of players log off out of frustration or boredom?
As I said, I haven't flown in a while due to real world stuff. But of my couple hours of time last night I probably spent at least half looking for a fight because radar was down. Wasn't much fun to be honest.
But if that's the goal, to interfere with my enjoyment of the game, it was a win for them
