4-sided war in AH2 Classic

[oboe]

If its not too much trouble, how many here would like to see the chess icons dumped and replaced with a 4-sided war based on Hearts, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds?

I was lukewarm to the idea at first, but realize now with 500-700 nightly in the MA, there is certainly room for another country; and it may help to spread out the conga-line base attacks using overwhelming numbers against lightly defended bases.

Plus, it makes more sense to me for a sim named "Aces High" to use card suits as the country.   Just look at the AH logo.

I don't know who's idea this was, but it makes good sense to me.

[senna]

I would, once a barney always a barney. Barneys will kill tampons(reds), frogs(greens), and the golds (forgot what we used to call them).

[oboe]

Err, umm... wrong sim there senna.   I remember you though!

Naw, all opposing countries in AH are red icons.   I think that's a good idea too, as it avoids people complaining about differences in visibility of the icon colors.

[Batz]

rooks, knights, bishops, and queens.

[Arlo]

Originally posted by oboe
If its not too much trouble, how many here would like to see the chess icons dumped and replaced with a 4-sided war based on Hearts, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds?

I was lukewarm to the idea at first, but realize now with 500-700 nightly in the MA, there is certainly room for another country; and it may help to spread out the conga-line base attacks using overwhelming numbers against lightly defended bases.

Plus, it makes more sense to me for a sim named "Aces High" to use card suits as the country.   Just look at the AH logo.

I don't know who's idea this was, but it makes good sense to me.

Ahem ....

[vorticon]

or we change em to the following

lemmings,groundhogs,whistlers and chipmunks

[MrCoffee]

Since we already have German and Japanese insignias and world war II was a long time ago, why dont we just have countries like America, Brittian, German, Japan, Italy, etc... and bind the airplanes to those countries. Let the countries make their own aliances and have at it. So if US allies with UK, you get stangs and spits flying together etc... Would be interesting.

[Arlo]

And we can change the name of the game to "Warbirds".

[MrCoffee]

Not really like Warbirds but more like BF1942. Also having many countries would make it more more dynamic. Perhaps an ally system when you first log in then its tallied up and instant allies are created or changed within the game. Attacking an ally beyond a certain point or its strategic land assets changes the status of the treaty etc... Would be nice to attack a field full of zeros in wildcat or rumble with a bunch of stangs and spits in  a 109. Like the combat theater but in the main arena.

[GScholz]

How many would want to fly for the Japanese? And do you realy want to fly against a whole country of Lala-7's or Spits?

[Pooh21]

Only Lalas or only spits would cancel half the gripes I have about those 2 planes. Only time they annoy me is when they travel in packs. If we add a side for the queens, who would fly for the bish?

[Kweassa]

Actually Gscholz, it is the mix-up of different plane types that makes the La-7s and N1K2s so deadly.

 When they are separate apart, their limitations become clear and they tend to become less threatening, or frustrating, than seen in the MA - that point, has been adequately proved in the CT.

[Duedel]

Originally posted by Kweassa
Actually Gscholz, it is the mix-up of different plane types that makes the La-7s and N1K2s so deadly.

 When they are separate apart, their limitations become clear and they tend to become less threatening, or frustrating, than seen in the MA - that point, has been adequately proved in the CT.

La7 and limitations at AH combat alts?

[Nilsen]

leave it as is, or the way Oboe suggested.

If you want separate country setup go to CT

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Pooh21
Only Lalas or only spits would cancel half the gripes I have about those 2 planes. Only time they annoy me is when they travel in packs. If we add a side for the queens, who would fly for the bish?

You guys that advocate "queens" rather than the playing card suits suggested worry me.