I reupped my subscription yesterday and I am already contemplating terminating it again. Honestly there just aren't enough players to have what I consider good battles (everyone's opinion of "good battles" is different.) On Friday night I joined the bomber mission that was put on and that was pretty fun but there was quite a lack of enemy engagement. Today I logged on to see the Bish with 40 player to the knit and rook 21 and 19 respectively. The Bish simply out number the other two teams and start efficiently steam rolling bases. There is no way to defend them when they are all working together and the other two teams are spread thin. I spent some time defending and logged off. I even got called a feminine hygiene product by someone I've never heard of nor remember their name because I had the audacity to fly a Fi-56 and spot/mark incoming GVs for the one or two people that actually were trying to defend a port at the time. It's pretty crazy that I find more maturity playing fortnite with my 10 and 7 year olds than I find in this game of "adults." I'll see how the next few days go but I'm not that optimistic to be honest.
Welcome back, SilverZ06, sorry you had that experience.
Yeah, the hording happens with all sides when/if they get enough numbers. I experienced it the other night, well, two days in a row, and while the perk planes are cheap, other than that it gets real old, real fast.
Anytime someone starts name calling like you describe, hit ". report" and that will give HiTech a heads up. He does care about behavior in the arenas, we don't always see what he does in his role. Had a run in with someone a couple months back, sent an email to HTC, talked with Dale on the phone, haven't seen that person in the arenas since then.
It's nice to see familiar names giving the game another go, even if only for a short while. I hope that you won't consider your experience the other night to be the norm. There are really fun nights (speaking for myself only) and other nights I spend maybe half an hour in the MA and find it to be not what I want to deal with at that time, and I log off and find something else to do. Give it a chance, please, a week or two at least, before you pull the plug on the game.
For myself, I refuse to fly WITH or AGAINST a horde. Just doesn't appeal to me. Don't know if that sentiment was what you were alluding to, but if so, I agree.
To the other forum flyers, while it would be great to see old faces back in the game, if it doesn't appeal to you, that is okay, too. Talked with Dale on the phone last week about pulling the plug myself, as 19 years in a game is a LONG time, and after a while, almost any game loses it's appeal. A lot of things that I see in game that bother me NOW, didn't bother me in the least back in 2000, or even 2004............but now, I find them irritating and make me look for entertainment elsewhere. Funny how that works..........fun when you are younger, not at all fun when you put on a few years............
