a thought for fun, opinions wanted

[Traveler]

How many lives per frame?
How do you plan to implement Command and Control?
How or who will be developing missions and strategy?
What will be done, if anything, about pilots that go off the reservation, refuse to follow orders or any form of command control?

[captain1ma]

pilots would have 3 fighter lives, 2 bomber lives and unlimited gunner and tanker lives. this will allow for multiple missions. once they reach their aircraft lives limit, it would be by the honor system.

if someone goes off the reservation they would be ejected. if the rules are broken, it could count as a capture against that side. this would affect the outcome of the war if you will.

command and control will be implemented by regional commanders and side commanders. any wrong doing would be filmed, reported and a penalty would be given. I would hope that in the spirit of the game, this shouldn't be a problem.

I would be there, along with other AVA staff to control any incidents up and including ejection, but I don't think that would ever be an issue. we ALL play by the rules!!

[pipz]

Sounds like a cool idea. Might get people focused on something long term other than the sortie at the moment.

[captain1ma]

well its about winning war, not just capturing a few bases. the cool thing is that the other side can capture a base back, so you could potentially have some back and forth over 1 base.

[Arlo]

Is there any incentive to hit strats? Rebuilds or restrictions on ord?

[Traveler]

command and control will be implemented by regional commanders and side commanders.

How are the regional and side commanders selected? 

[captain1ma]

Is there any incentive to hit strats? Rebuilds or restrictions on ord?

they could be hit as a target and scored by down percentage as part of the over all score.

How are the regional and side commanders selected? 

they could be volunteers or chosen by a group or elected. no real structured way. The AVA staff would be supreme command, and we could either pick names from volunteers or just let the sides pick their own commanders.

[Tumor]

....it would be by the honor system.

<sigh>... well you just tanked the whole thing.  lol   

[Easyscor]

<sigh>... well you just tanked the whole thing.  lol   

No, it's still in the design stage.

The AvA staff have terrain and setup options to control this without player enforced rules!

[DubiousKB]

For HTC and our dedicated community crew...  It's a thankless job!   



Just the same as a small child will test their environment, so to will the Aces High player, test the limits of the virtual environments. There will be bugs.  Sorta the same here, you'll always have that curious player testing the limits of the game (sometimes they find exploits/bugs, sometimes they look the fool trying to cram a jeep inside of a building...)

.. Build it and we will come. 

[captain1ma]

right now, im more concerned about making this go and making it work. people exploiting the setup can be dealt with in different ways.

"the squirrels have camera's"

lets just see if this is workable.

[RufusLeaking]

right now, im more concerned about making this go and making it work. people exploiting the setup can be dealt with in different ways.

"the squirrels have camera's"

lets just see if this is workable.

It is workable. Will it be popular?

No matter what you do, someone is going to whine.

[captain1ma]

It is workable. Will it be popular?

well I think it might take some time to catch on, but I think if and when it does, it will be very popular.

also AVA Squad names are independent of MA and FSO squads, therefore you can be part of a squad in the AVA and it wont affect your MA and FSO squads.

I am going to start setting up a write up and setup with planes and rules and command structure.
stay tuned for more, plenty to come!! and it will be epic when the new game is loaded!!

[captain1ma]

ok guys heres a preliminary write up. please feel free to comment constructively. we want to make this work for everyone or a nice compromise
where ever possible.

run time: 4 months every Saturday night 3 nights a month.(or earlier for Europeans?) or sunday?
need feed back on time.

Arena: AH2 AVA until AH3 Kicks in, then AH3 AVA

command staff:
supreme command: AVA Staff

Allied command:
1 supreme commander

3-4 General's--for planning/conferring and sending out orders.
3-4 Lt. Generals, for backups and for conferring.

squad commanders/leaders--disseminate and execute orders.
1-2 air traffic controllers/spotter

Axis Command:

1 supreme commander

3-4 General's--for planning/conferring and sending out orders.
3-4 Lt. Generals, for backups and for conferring.

squad commanders/leaders--disseminate and execute orders.
1-2 air traffic controllers/spotter

Targets: each week, 1 side is to chose one main target and 2 backups.
the other side will defend that target against enemies.
bases may be attacked with Planes, boats, bombers and GVS and may be
captured by any means necessary.

if a base is captures, its dead for 1 week, and then will be put on the recapture list.
this means that if a side lost a base, and its put back on the recapture list, they can
attack or defend their main target, but can also try to recapture a lost base at the same time.

if the lost base is recaptured it counts as a capture. Only 3 bases will be allowed to be captured per frame.
each week a picture of the front lines will be given out for both sides see where they stand.

strats: strat bombing will be encouraged, and will count as points per percentage point.
this will count towards overall score. if a strat base is bombed down to 75%. then the side bombing receives 25% points.

Lives:
each player shall have the following lives:
2 bomber lives
3 fighter lives
unlimited Gv/gunner/manned gun/observer/FI156 lives.

visibility: would love to do 3k enemy 0k enemy, will start with 3k and 3k.
Tanks fights: RADAR icons will be on in AH3 ONLY. You'll understand why when you play AH3
aircraft fighters and bombers, tower only Range only.
this means you can have a Air traffic controllers for both aircraft and gv's

[Lab Rat 3947]

sounds interesting