Ah well...so much for keeping it civil and respectful. Lazs, people won't log off, because they didn't before and they don't now (at least not in appreciable numbers). They simply move to another field. Your remarks, repetative as they are, seem to point to a lack of knowledge on military history and doctrine. It was quite possible to temporarily disrupt meaningful operations at fighter fields. The Luftwaffe did it during the Battle of Britain, and the Allies did it in the Battle for the Continent.
It becomes clear to me that what you want out of Aces High is different than what some (not all, but some) others want. Some want to fly WWII aircraft in the context of a larger war. If I read you right, that larger war has no place in the MA. "Let them do scenarios if they want strategy," is your battlecry. Again I ask, who's trying to exclude whom now? There is a balance to be found, if we but search for it, and are tolerant of a little experimentation.
The game part of it, the wargame as it were, has to exist; it can't just be about shooting down other fighters, because such a sim would die on the vine. People in general need a reason to play beyond simply shooting the other guy down. The ability to win the war by taking all the enemy's fields/bases provides that. The ability to affect how easy or had it is to capture/defend those bases is where strat comes in. Capturing fields has to be hard enough that a single player can't do it, but easy enough that you don't need an armada. To allow fighters to re-spawn at a field without restriction (even after flattening the field) is the ultimate in "gameyness," and I doubt I'll find many that disagree. Of course, perhaps I've missunderstood you here; correct me if I am off the mark on what your position is on this.
I whole-heartedly support the ability to temporarily prevent operations at a field by killing the hangers, and to restrict availibility of ordnance and fuel by killing those items. I also believe preventing the convoy from reaching the base (either by killing the convoy or smashing the depot) should have a detrimental effect on operations at that base, but that's a whole nother thread
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