Here is where you have always gotten this wrong while I've been able to add none standard things to test in my 4 terrains since AH3 went live.
I don't try to force him to change his game based on the delusion I know better than him like you and many others do. I take what he provides and try to do something new with that. Over time he has allowed me to make changes across 4 terrains with little changes that I use to test how players use them. Without trying to force my lack of building games experience on him, and only building terrains for his game with tests built into them. I'm pretty sure since he wants to keep three countries even now. And our smaller numbers, reducing the minimum field distance rule to 13-15 miles will result in more air combat due to the faster turn around time.
I've built 4 terrains in the three years of AH3 you have been flapping yer gums the whole time telling him you know more about his craft than he does. So until he changes AH from 3 country centrist, I've been doing tests to get more activity out of MA terrains. For all I know, enabling planes at F89 15 miles from A30 on smpizza this week was him testing the feasibility of shortening the distance between airfields. It produced a long period of air combat over A30.
I’ll "flap (my) gums" as you so condescendingly put it, as much as I like within the TOS until he tells me otherwise. It’s a DISCUSSION board. And I’ll tell you something else I know better than apparently anyone: What we have now is not working. If it were then numbers would be rising.
He’s not gonna change. I don’t expect him to nor does anyone else. Many have left expressing that very frustration. As Dr. Phil asked, “How’s that workin’ out for ya’?” It’s his call. He has to live with it. All the well-intended end-user advice goes right into the round file. That’s fine. It is what it is. It’s also why I spend 99% of my time on AH skinning not flying because the latter is something I can still find enjoyment in because the restrictions are reasonable.
And no, “ALL (I) HAVE DONE” is not just chatting on here. I’ve spent COUNTLESS HOURS creating, restoring, and updating skins for the game, things that get used EVERY SINGLE HOUR it is online. Hell, I’ve almost singlehandedly updated the entire stable of P-51s alone.
You’re welcome.
Shortening base distances will cause other unintended consequences that will NOT solve the problem. If you want more LAs and YAKs running amok knock yourself out. It won’t fix the problem one bit.