Hornet! - ...and you're
still here reading my thread.
I am flattered.
Slapshot. I did say earlier that the cherrypicker might not necessarily be an LA7, and the target might not necessarily be a buff. I said that jabos would be easy targets too. I see your point that with those closer fields a furball might erupt, and provide cover for a buff to make good his escape, but if you were to play during Euro hours, when there can be as few as 70 people online, you'll see that the situation can be very different.
Nobaddy -
As far as I know, there have been no changes to the game to benefit one specific group over another. Additionally, I am unable to think of any "temporary" changes that have been made. Changes are made when the game system becomes imbalanced. This is normally done after new 'features' are implemented in the game.
I've seen what happens when one particular group of players lobbies the game producers to have minor changes applied. It happened in WB. The LW guys would whine and whine, and eventually they got their way and had a 109E that could outturn a Spit 1a - complete, unadulterated BS. I know of an entire squad that left WB on account of that one change. Here's another: One day, you could bomb a target with a 500# bomb, and it would go down. The next day, a 1600# bomb was not enough to destroy the same target - and then we would hear all this crap about "having to hit certain parts" of a target. Lazs dubbed this concept the WB "wheel-o-settings" - lol. The game just became a beta version. And I gave it up.
You're all for balance? Fine, and thanks for your explanation on that, although as I pointed out before, my sig does not relate to the Trinity map in particular. But if we're going to have balance, then I think that with all the furballer bluster about hardening this and that, we need a balanced view which means hearing from other people who do not favour such changes - at least not for the reasons given by those proposing such changes. You're probably right, and maybe there have been no changes applied purely to benefit one particular type of gameplay or group of players. But I want to do my part to see that it never happens.
Still on the subject of arena balance, some people want changes to AH, but I don't think that "arena balance" is their objective at all. If we had a "balanced" arena, then why are the planes that form a steamroller always from the same list? (P51/YAK/Spit/LA7) Many people I have spoken to agree that the LA7 seriously unbalances the arena - but I don't hear Mr. Furballer calling for it to be perked. We do however hear the call for 100# bombs to be perked. If we really are on a quest to have a balanced arena, then we would have an RPS. Even Apache from Nopoop's squad believes that. The first week of an RPS would be misery for me, heaven for others. But at least we would have balance - with all the planes being used, and not just the usual P51/Yak/La7/Spit subset. But no. People argue that they want to be able to fly what they want when they want. So we have 1945 every day. The early war planes don't stand much of a chance if they venture away from home base, so they stay in the hangar. Is this your vision of a "balanced" arena???
So I stand by my sig. Read it at face value, instead of searching for some nonexistent apocryphal meaning or agenda. I hope that you continue to be right about none of those "temporary" changes being made. But I also hope that the reason is that HTC sees the folly of kow-towing to a particularly vociferous group of players, and not just that they're too busy working on AH2.
