Author Topic: BBS sampling/opinion re CT (Read 3195 times)

Shane · « **Reply #15 on:** August 26, 2003, 04:04:20 AM »

batz, the setups are generally more balanced than you're implying.

dot dar *does* make a difference. it's not the dots, it's identifying them. and in general bases are closer than on maps like pizza and bug isles.

field capture/milking is not as rampant as it used to be. and it's generally the same (type) player who does that.

a few squads run squad nites in CT and they'd love some opposition - and it has been arranged and all had fun.

more people like to mix it up in CT than from what you might remember - some of them have "evolved." there's a slow influx of noobs who go thru that cycle.

when was the last time you ran a CT setup?

i fly both ma/ct and enjoy both for what they are.

i'm just wondering why more don't fly CT, and the bottom line seems to be "numbers." why are #'s low? how to increase them, since AH now has a very healthy player base? dunno, but the most common complaint seems to be radar settings. try 2 months solid of MA radar settings for every setup and see what happens, not a setup here and there, which is just a crap shoot.

i don't think CT will ever be action packed in non-primtime (US), simply because overall #'s don't support it then.

Toad · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2003, 04:54:55 AM »

Yeah, I think the way the settings are constantly changing probably plays into this as well. Set MA standard and leave it alone. They you MIGHT be able to tell if that's the problem. But continually changing it makes it easy to say "that can't be it" I guess.

Fields to far apart? Somebody sounds like Laz!

That's a design/mapmaker problem, one the CT shares with the MA.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #17 on:** August 26, 2003, 05:01:48 AM »

It really needs more a/c to allow for balanced scenarios...late war bombers vs early war fighters leave most people cold....CT is always going to be the red headed step child to ma though..

Xjazz · « **Reply #18 on:** August 26, 2003, 06:35:15 AM »

Hi,

What Im missing from AH Online is CT and SEA.

This "Numbers" reason is nothing but big time excuse for those who dont have a guts to fly anything else than their favorite airplane...

(pulling flamesuit on)

CMs are making their best to provide interesting & challenging setups for the AH community.
Because of current AH plane selection, some compromise must done. Real big deal!

Why not spend at least one evening every week in CT and accept the weekly challenge? Its just a game.

(duck 'n cover )

Eagler · « **Reply #19 on:** August 26, 2003, 06:51:50 AM »

keep hearing "numbers"

how many "numbers" do you need?

one

one enemy

or is it "numbers" as in your wingmen covering your arse so you live through another gang sortie?

what keeps you out of CT or from coming back on a regular basis?

they are scared

NoBaddy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 26, 2003, 07:13:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Shane

NB... if the perks weren't reset (and they aren't very often as we don't often have perked rides) occasionally, it'd defeat the intent of having perked rides as we'd all have gobs and gobs of perkies earned and unspent (or unspendable). besides, when there *are* perked rides, the cost is usually so laughable that you can earn enough for anything with a sortie or 3. hell, i earned a weeks worth of p-51's with 2 sorties of 109f4.

Shane...

I would have less of a problem with more perk rides or putting a cap on them than I do with just zapping them periodically.

Oldman731 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 26, 2003, 08:00:02 AM »

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Originally posted by NoBaddy
I would have less of a problem with more perk rides or putting a cap on them than I do with just zapping them periodically.

Why the concern over perk points? In any ten weekly setups, there may be one that has perked planes and, as Shane said, they're perked at the level of 2 or 3 points each. Otherwise, for months at a time, you have nothing to buy with your points.

I'm just curious, is all.

- oldman

lazs2 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 26, 2003, 08:12:53 AM »

"The 1 thing that brings in players is a decent map with bases that are close and plane set thats relatively equal.

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yep.. that's it for any arena but... I would add that I don't like the axis vs allied thing. It's ok once in a while if you have early war planes that tend to fight each other but.... even then... like last night in the PTO the combinations of acm consist of.... the zeke move against the F4F move. in a very short time you have learned exactly what not only you and your opponent can do but what your teammates and his can do to help you/him... Axis vs allied is a simpletons game and gets boring quickly.

The CT is fun if there is nothing happening in the main... if the main is pizza or if it is night and..... if the CT is early war planesets with NO perk planes and you don't play there very long and no one is milkrunning in the CT and and and...

MY opinion? the CT can be fun for a diversion if you don't do it too often and stick to the early war setups... Not enough variety or numbers to really hold my attention tho.... I ain't into pretending I am fighting WWII. I read the book... I know how it turned out and, pretty much, why.

oh... i seen just as much (percapita) channel one 12 year old stuff and just as much unskilled flying and just as much porkage and milkrunning in the CT as in the MA. People are people.
lazs

Westy · « **Reply #23 on:** August 26, 2003, 08:15:48 AM »

I fly in the CT whenever I see three dozen or more in there. That means there may be up to a dozen players fighting each other. (I can never figure out where the other two dozen are or if it's a roster "tally bug" with the host). But even then if the sides are severely imbalanced, two to one or worse, then I'd rather go to the MA.

Easyscor · « **Reply #24 on:** August 26, 2003, 08:55:29 AM »

Finding a fight:
I can't ever remember having trouble finding a fight except once on the Fin-Rus map. If I see three dots to my north I check friendly dot dar and if it only shows one friendly dot, I turn north to engage the bandits, especially in this weeks setup.

Numbers:
When the numbers are around 40, I usually check out the CT.

Stay and play:
I stay if the side numbers don't get too far out of balance.

I leave when the numbers fall or if the side balance is too far out of line, unless switching sides will help.

I would like it better if more of my squadmates flew the CT but I can't pry them out of their favorite rides.

Rude · « **Reply #25 on:** August 26, 2003, 09:15:01 AM »

numbers

Seeker · « **Reply #26 on:** August 26, 2003, 09:39:01 AM »

1) handsomehunk short nma/long frnd icon setting (last time I was there)

2) No dar = no fight

3) CV dweebishness

4) They keep wiping out my perkies

SlapShot · « **Reply #27 on:** August 26, 2003, 10:04:49 AM »

Numbers and Icon settings

Swoop · « **Reply #28 on:** August 26, 2003, 10:30:33 AM »

icon setting mainly.

Hmmm, there's a general trend appearing here.

Kweassa · « **Reply #29 on:** August 26, 2003, 10:35:53 AM »

No people in PAC prime time.

Extinction of a "USAAF" in a Euro setup.

Continuous lop-sidedness towards Allied forces- not huge, but still enough to annoy.

Not enough planes

...

but there are still some setups I would always try to fly in - BoB, Tunisia, Malta, Continuation war.