Believing in your sincerety up to a point still, Py, I will attempt to clarify some of the things you have mentioned that it is
a) either a misconception, or
b) you are asking for something which is just not "AH".
It is admitable that some people are overly defensive about AH, while others are more lenient. Also it is admitable those very folks have seen this sort of
'problem finder new-comers' come into AH, claim they are experts, get repeatedly shot down, whine like hell about, disrespect the whole game and whole community, then merrily go off to play something that suits them
... for
YEARS.
They are tired of thess sort of things happening.
I will not quote your statements about graphical issues, since one's view about the quality of graphics are subjective and questionable. One thing however, there exists a certain point where the developers cannot yield, the point were
the user has to commit himself to better systems in order to enjoy the game to its max. If the user cannot meet those points, he should not play.
If you feel your FPS is challenged to the point where you have problems about FPS that it effects your view on graphics, you definately need a better system, or have to set some system options to match AH.
* a scaled hit penalty for bullets coming in from the front quarter to prevent or discourage front quarter attacks.
I have seen this statement from your other post, too. Front-quarter attacks and Head-Ons are 50% luck and 50% skill, no matter
WHAT kind of change there is. Head-Ons and Front-Quarter attacks are also valid tactics used throughout the actual war. If one does not wish to HO, one avoids it. The dispersions of bullets can be tested yourself with a nifty ".target" function we have in AH.
* Tougher bombers
There is no
"Death Star" in AH. Bombers aren't weak. Please look upon this thread for more details.
Bombers....are they made of Balsa Wood or something? * Takeoffs to be limited to a minimum of 6 aircraft. Thus forcing players to create missions increasing strategy play.
In the prime hours we have over 100 people in each of the three countries. There are usually 3~4 front line fields in the AH map. Two fronts exist in each country. 40 people get up from the front lines. Where do other 60+ people get up then? I see this is a complaint about furballs. Hey, I don't like furballs either. But limiting the max take-off numbers of a field is not a solution.
Missions exist within AH everyday. Sometimes the mission planner is used, and are well organized. Other times, people take time and effort to up things what are needed voluntarily. It is not so well organized, but as long as there is some consderation about the team, there always exists a team play. Granted, somedays this sort of loose team work is better, somedays it suck, but
how many days have you seen in the MA? What you are suggesting is "play it only with missions". Even a strat-play supporter like me don't go that far. These people are not enlisted, they come here for fun.
* The ability to monitor the map screen while flying without it visually impairing vision as it currently does. Perhaps a sort of virtual HUD system.
There is no HUD in AH, there
never will be. You want to monitor the map? Then pull that clipboard from under the chair, look it up, and risk losing SA. What you are asking is "hey, give us a way to monitor the instruments and still look up front". No way, not here. The icons and range indicators, dot dars are crutches enough.
* An increased damage time from bombing, maybe a 2 hour duration instead of the current 15 minutes which I'm sure we all agree is terribly short
The effect of bombing is indeed not very long. But if what you say come true, what is to stop a certain country with superior numbers in some time zones and continuosly bombing every field there is? Heck, 2 hours? You can bomb about 10 fields with superior numbers in that time.
If you want your bomber flight to work and have some impact, you have to monitor the progress of your countrymen and do it where it is needed. Just flying over an empty sector, dropping few things and announcing over radio "hey, I bombed field XX, come here and get it" is not gonna work.
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