fugitive i have been here since 2006 or 2007. game play is still the same. people complain about gangtards, bomb****s, hordes today just as they did back then. maybe lower numbers now but gameplay wont ever change.
the illusion that way back then it was different is astonishing.
semp
ya but from what Ive read you use to drink a lot too so I'll trust my memory a bit over yours
When things are slow in the air;
Try to sneak a field capture. That usually stirs the pot.
Master dive bombing.
Try to master a tank.
Search for CVs to kill.
Learn to use ship guns.
When hordes hit your base sneak back to their base and takeout the troops.
Lots of things to do in AH.
Fess answered you well, some players don't want to do those other things. They PAY their subscription the fly fighter planes and fight other players.
HiTech. Please cancel all arena's except the DA, and all aircraft models except "fighter pilot" based ones. Ya, because all that other crap is not worth having and all those people who DO like it are too stupid to know better.
Your an all or nothing type of guy aren't you.
You cant conceive of players that like to fight <----- PLEASE NOTE fighting could mean attacking a buff formation, chasing away the attack on a buff formation, attacking other planes trying to dive bomb GVs, attacking the planes trying to shoot down those trying to attack the dive bombers.
Instead you get lawn darts, runners who do nothing but drop dar and flee, or let their buffs die, or buffs that fly so high it takes hours to get up there to take a shot. Fighters who hide NOE and bail when spotted, or if they make it to the target are using the planes only as fast bomb trucks.
Years ago it was all about the fight. We had players like wldthng and others who would take on all comers, and more often than not take them all out. There wasn't this "FPH" crap, you knew who the top guys were because they fought well. Youasked for help and they were happy to chat about fights as they flew out to the furball. They would meet you and have a fight off to the side of the furball and more often than not others would let the fight play out. There was FRIENDLY trash talk across channel 1, and it was channel 1 because nobody abused it and so didn't offend other players. Now we need channel 200 to tune across countries so you KNOWINGLY put yourself in the position of the garbage we get to see today.
Once the land grab got started back in the day we FOUGHT for bases. Missions had buffs, cap, heavy fighters and goons. The defenders would up to defend and try to shoot down the attackers. Often it turned into a furball half way between the attacking and defending bases. The LTARS would defend with OSTYs. Rarely did you drop fighter hangers or bomber hangers. If the LTARs were there the VH had to go down
Then it started to change. Fighting for the base got too hard for some and so they ran NOEs. Defending got too hard for others and they would up LA7s and do nothing but scream along the ground hunting goons, only shooting at another plane if it happened to cross its nose. NOEs got so bad that HTC dropped the dar to the deck and increased the circle by almost double. You were on dar almost as soon as you went wheels up. HTC relented a few weeks later and we have the dar setup we have today. M3s came along and seeing as they are harder to find and for many who have a problem with bouncing off the ground harder to kill, they replaced the Goon as the troops carry of choice and so the LA7 use dropped off.
Sure we had the HOers, vulchers, pickers, runners and so on but it was a much smaller percentage of the players doing that. Back then it was the norm to fight, now it is the norm to run and hide.