You are trying to do two things at the same time which creates a lot of stress for you over this game. You are trying to change this game either back into AH2 circa 2007 or into Junky's Combat Sky's 2017 by constantly challenging Hitech and anyone else you perceive in your way. You do not like the game as it is now and would still be trying to change it even if we had 400 players as a norm. Changing it for the altruist good of the community is a cover for you wanting the game to be how you remembered it. It doesn't matter what games I play, this is AH3 and not them.
Hitech imposes no rules in this open world so it panders to the lowest common level of human nature. Because there is no structured framework with competitors constantly trying to be No.1 at combat. Or defining themselves by their superiority over the community other than kill strings and the naughtiness that gets laughed about on 200. That was the muppets circa 2007 who cared about those competitive combat things. Score and rank have stopped meaning anything especially to the core group of players who have been around longer than you. They kind of define the current game which as combat games goes is a rather laid back affair. At least Waffle hasn't greifed us yet by temporarily putting a bocce ball court in front of the tower with a 55gal drum of Geritol next to it.
ENY and how it came about was directly due to human nature and that human nature is always on display in the MA looking for a way to whizz down the other guy's back and crow about it. That is the current spirit of the game. I've had 14 years to watch it ebb and flow as someone comes up with some new and naughty way to greif the community for a time and either moves on or gets banned by Hitech. Good luck trying to force the MA into being one of those other combat games, that's why we have Koth, AvA, DA, FSO and special events. It sounds like you want to bring all that structured special play to the MA and convert the community to your combat religion. The muppets tried for a while to change the MA into a super sized DA, some moved on, and the rest finally picked a fight with Hitech they couldn't win in his house.
You said human nature in combat games yet you haven't played any other combat games so you made a statement without any experience....then try to flip it on me with some absolute horse crap....
First, I'd like you to go back to all your posts prior to AH3 launch where you were telling me the game was going to be different and those issues wouldn't follow over and I said they would...then come back and say "Junky...you were right"....you won't because you are a stubborn but anyone who can read knows I'm right there.
Second, If I didn't care or like the game....why would I volunteer to help make it better???? So that comment of yours is just absolutely insane and reaching to try and get a right answer.....just stop there
Third, Oh players who have been here longer then me have adapted??? Really??? Where's the Blue Knights, JG26 Widowmakers, Chicken Hawks, AoM, Rolling Thunder, V tards, and the other larger squads from back in the day who made up a large portion of the community....yea they really adapted Bustr....maybe it was the game that was adapting in the wrong way....ever think that??? Like maybe town resupply should have never been added...maybe side switch time shouldn't have been changed so dramatically...ect ect ect
Next, You were partially right when you called me an anomaly....I play the game thinking about the other persons experience more then I think of my own...until they mess up my experience. I don't HO...I seldom vulch anymore unless I'm in an F8, I fly at lower altitude because I understand me with alt hurts an average players experience, I crutch myself by turn fighting in a 152, I pull off of cons who are getting ganged and don't jump in on a gang(sometime it happens), I respect 1v1s, I stick to fighters but can and do all other parts of the game better then most, and I communicate with friendly planes within range like I'm talking to a squaddie.
Finally, I'll debate with devs if I think anything is wrong....general combat...when it happens, isn't wrong currently...that's always been right, players could go the extra step and not HO and such to make it better but devs can't change that...they can manipulate the settings to trend the players certain ways though...like cutting the town supply in half or making the switch time lower to the low country side....If Hitech thinks I'm attacking him just to attack him....feel free to boot me, generally I wouldn't care....It would just confirm what many others already say.
