Originally posted by brady
Well Vortex you have 34 hours, I have 92 hours so far this tour, I may of seam somthing you mised 
BTW I curently have no life:)
Perhaps, although I doubt it. One doesn't need to spend 6 hours a night online to see the failings of the system. I found it quite obvious within a 30 minute time frame on most nights...at which point I'd usually log in frustration.
Originally posted by brady
I also don't get how anybody could not find a fight, the Map is real easy to read, in about 30 sec I could find a Fight of any type, by looking at the map.
I gues it is a prime example of the Human condition, "excuse me miss wher is the informatin desk?", the cleark point's to the Big Red Sign over her head that read's INFORMATION , and she replies " you are at the information desk sir can I help you" I gues having to look at the map is to much for some people? Nothing personal just an observation.
The last week I flew, just about every sortie I had would start at a base close to what appeared to be a busy area. By the time I got to that spot the fight was usually done...i.e it would usually be 30/1 odds at that point. There is no real reason to defend bases in this map, so why bother when the milkrun comes your way? Moreover there was no discernable front. The size makes it too easy to simply bypass pockets of activity on the Magical Milkrun Tour. Accordingly most of my flights ended off in what was now the abyss with me Alt-Tabing out, and just doing a right click and "Close" on AH. I certainly wasn't going to waste more time traversing several more sectors in this ongoing quest for a fight.
That was the norm. There were indeed exceptions when a good fight would be close to your base. They just weren't that frequent unfortunately, or many times just didn't have much longevity for some reason.
If one flew outside the 4-6 hour prime time window then it was a real job trying to make it work. The map was an unmittigated disaster in that context imo. It is grossly oversized for prime time imo, let alone the 50-200 number range of off hours.
You see the problem is that when the "Information" sign is written in a language I don't read, and has a tarp thrown over it, and the desk it hangs over is stuck in a broom closest, it isn't really doing the job it was originally designed to. That's a much more apppropriate analogy methinks. There's a lot more broken with the pizza map than there is working, from a gameplay pov.
But again, we come full circle back to my original point. With a rotation you can have all the fun you want in the vast wastelands that is the pizza map, when it cycles though. I'll enjoy the shoulder to shoulder crowds of the previous maps. That's a far better solution than what was offered the last few weeks imo.
