I think bases are too easy to capture now (I take that back...not
too easy but easy enough). If there is a defense in place, then it becomes more difficult, and the more enemy there the harder it is to capture, but this only affects defended bases and eventually, a determined attack can kill the base and capture it without any more excessive difficulty. I enjoy this game the most when the momentum of capture / lose / capture flows back and forth, and you wind up in pitched battles with the same bunch of players on both sides fighting it out, trying different tactics, looking for that "sneak" in the back door to steal a base from under your nose ( or catching the little sneak just as he thinks he has made it,
)
Now I am not against closer bases, I personally would prefer a combination of distances, instead of the set range of 20-25 miles.
As for the difficulty of capturing a base, I think that being able to destroy fuel / ord / troops & supplies and only 1 easily destroyed VH makes a base defense only a temporary holding action......it is inevitable that it will fall if the attackers are co-ordinated and determined. We all know that bases can be defended, but the difficulty of holding onto a base out weighs the difficulty of taking it. Add to this the fact that the attackers can easily change plans and hit another of your bases while you must either move to intercept them in air or wait on the ground for an attack that is not coming, and it shows that this game is offensively driven. I have no problem with that either, it is as it should be, but I would like to see more VH's or harder to kill VH's.
Now as to the point of this thread........I am relatively new to AH and to sims and to the computer world in general. I agree with various points from all of the above.
We should encourage new players
We should not tolerate those who want to disrupt our fun
We should endevour to make this community better
We should be more tolerant of the occasional "bug" or server issue ( They seem to be dealt with as well as one could hope IMO )
The old timers are not elitists in my view (for the most part) but some do seem to have short fuses sometimes. But this holds true for new players as well.
Are there cheats? I doubt it (at least on any large or long term scale)
Does my SA suck? Yes
Do I need to be told how much I suck on Ch 1? no...really, no
Was that plane invisilble? well, I didn't see him! (4ACES turned a Tiffie onto my six so fast last night I thought sure he had disappeared
....but it was just my lack of skill...hehe )
OK my tirade is over.........I think
