Author Topic: Mission Arena – Will you fly it? (Read 890 times)

beet1e · « **on:** October 14, 2002, 03:22:00 AM »

I’m really looking forward to it. I wont over-dramatise and say I’m keeping my account open for it, but if it (the Mission Arena) works, it will be a whole new gaming experience.

I’m not privy to all of the proposed features. I understand that you will need to join a mission to be able to take off, and land it to score any points. You wont be able to re-up if you die.

So some traits of the game which have been so annoying in the past should disappear. These include

Fly-till-u-die vulch crap.
Suicide runs to the CV.
Opportunist LA7 goon hunters.
Tiffie smashdown raids, in which guys re-up after suiciding.
Lone wolf cherry pickers – doh! I’ll have to change my ways
Rapid Response LA7 units, who turn up in response to the flashing map, causing me to drop my ord before killing them – highly annoying.

hehe – the last one was a bit tongue in cheek, but you can see where I’m coming from.

Now the one problem we’re going to have is multiple arenas. Even when there are 300+ in the MA these days, there will be a single digit value for the CT attendance.

The Mission Arena is like a single European currency - a great idea, but will it work? If played alongside the existing Main Arena, probably not. Because too many fliers seek an instant killing fix and are concerned only with kills per hour.

It would be like the CT is now – empty/nearly empty most of the time. If the Mission Arena displaces the Main, then I think we’re going to see all the old Pizza Whines: Waaaah, there’s no fights. Waaah, can’t vulch. Waaaah, it’s Mission Arena week – time to mow the lawn. Yap-yap-yap cancelling my account yap-yap...

No polls, so please post here. Will you fly the Mission Arena?

Replies invited from all my critics, flamers etc. But let’s see how quickly I am hijacked as this will give an insight into the overall attitude to the Mission Arena.

JensK · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2002, 03:30:50 AM »

Yes!
I will most certainly fly there. I'm hopeing for a more historical
planeset, compared to the now anachronistic MA. Too bad the
CT has so low participation numbers. This new idea really has a
chance to be successful I think... and ... I hope...

GScholz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2002, 03:32:50 AM »

Yup! Sounds like my kind of game!

I'd fly in the historical arena, if there was other pilots there

. Main Arena is getting dull with all the crap that's going on.

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** October 14, 2002, 05:32:13 AM »

depends on how gamey it'll be to game any rank needed to order any dweebs around... or something.

moose · « **Reply #4 on:** October 14, 2002, 06:18:51 AM »

Yeah I'll be there

Wotan · « **Reply #5 on:** October 14, 2002, 06:19:41 AM »

Lotsa folks say they will fly it, hell they said they would fly in the combat theater.

It remains to be seen.

Preon1 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 14, 2002, 06:24:10 AM »

I'll definately give it a try

crowbaby · « **Reply #7 on:** October 14, 2002, 06:28:50 AM »

absolutely!

i mostly fly in the CT at the moment, for all the MA reasons you mentioned.
I've got to believe that a Mission Arena will be a success....

oboe · « **Reply #8 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:01:31 AM »

The CT is great on many US prime time evenings - particularly Sun, Tue, and Thursday. Its mostly a furball arena between semi-organized sides flying historically matched planes in an historical terrain.

I'm afraid the Mission Theater is going to kill the CT. From the way its been described, I think it will appeal to more CT dwellers than MA-types, and any loss from the CT is going to be felt. But if it can pull some additional flyers from the MA maybe we'll have
a historic arena with good numbers all the time - and that would be great.

I'll probably fly there, as that is were the guys I like to fly with/against will be found...

Zippatuh · « **Reply #9 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:15:52 AM »

I’ll give it a go but in all honesty I’ll probably end up in the MA. I have a limited amount of time to get those kills in and when factoring in the wait time for missions to start as well as the time to target it will probably keep me out of it.

Goth · « **Reply #10 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:21:48 AM »

Not if it has the CT numbers I won't. I hope HT is not wasting his valuable time on this.

LLv34_Camouflage · « **Reply #11 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:40:24 AM »

I will be there, as will our squadron.

Camo

Monk · « **Reply #12 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:43:35 AM »

hazed- · « **Reply #13 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:50:33 AM »

absolutely but it all depends on how its done.

If it relly does stick to the sort of TOD type play then it can only get more and more popular.But like you said if the numbers arent there what will it be like?

hope it works out, from what i can see this is pretty much exactly what id want from AH.Finally we get an arena that punishes the dweebs.

lazs2 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 14, 2002, 07:57:14 AM »

If the main became deserted then I would try it untill a new sim came out that was not "historical" and then I would quit AH and join it. The same thing happened in WB.

I don't care for "kills per hour" so much as 'action per hour'. Missuns are not action to me. being part of a group with a "goal" is not the same as having fun. If I wanted to work and be bored and be part of a team with a 'goal'....

I woulda just stayed at work and made the overtime.

my guess? It will attract a lot of old vets who have managed to burn themselves out and think that this will be a so,ution... It won't of course because... it won't be run the way they want it to be run. They will blame that on why they don't fly there either.
lazs