After flying last night I couldn't sleep so I started catching up on this post and fell right asleep.
The bottom line is undisputable - The country with the numbers is going to roll.
The country that is getting double teamed, usually the knights, has no chance in hell to do anything, much less defend. This means taking up the best fighter for a 3 on 1 or greater engagement.
I would love to see a furball area like Tank town. It would be nice to be able to go furball when numerically challenged. The DA is just that, for Dueling - it is not furball conducive. The CT just plain sucks because of the lack of people to shoot down. A furball arena, at least that would be a start. Yes it would be better in the MA but it's a start.
This game does get extremely boring, waiting for high alt JABOs to dive on field, hopefully survive their first drop, then wait for them to burn enough E so that you can catch them only to have to fight for the kill with the other salivating countrymen. Then do this all over again. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Then there is the other side - Find a base close enough to climb ten minutes to intercept the high alt raid and maybe get a little dog fight while you chase the JABO guy to the deck he drops his ord you kill him and have to climb another 10 mins for the next one. Wake me when I get there.
The hardest part of this game is the patience. It really is like real life in that regard - Hours of boredom broken up by minutes or seconds of heart racing action. That is fine when you have a lot of time to kill.
JABO is fun and you can always find some strat to kill no matter what any time anywhere. For the Fighter Joc, as you get better and better this game gets more boring and boring, since there is no where to furball, unless you get lucky and one appears. But they are so fleeting, because as one country gets the advantage they almost always start vulching and good bye furball.
All in all, with a game this good they are missing a big piece of game play and it is too bad. I dont have much hope for AH2 to fill the void either.
mars01 [M.A.W.] Blacksheep - XO
crap I just put myself to sleep again, proofing my post.