Minotaur:
My vision was this: all available planes that can be flown from an airfield are actually on the runways (next to the runways) or in hardened bunkers. Thus, when say 10 people want to fly "immediately" from a field in spits, but only "8" spits are on the runway then the other 2 either have to wait (however long it takes for more spits to regen) or take another plane. The other possibility is they could fly from a rear field. I (read fats: it's just my OPINION) feel this would be positive because:
1) Stop the incident of everyone flying from the field that is closest to the fighting at the same time e.g. "the {bishops} attacking our field" so 40+ people instant spawn from that field.
2) Stop the problem with the same person taking off from the same field every 15 seconds in a shiney new plane (actually they could still do this, at least until the planes ran out
). {see problems (2) below)
3) Add an extra strategic element to the game. When attacking/capturing a field people would make sure the spare planes are eliminated first. Or for long range bombers, they could bomb aircraft factories to lower the regen rate.
4) Adds shame and glory (which I think is kinda cool
) as given by the previous post's web site.
The bad things I can see are:
1) People getting frustrated not having a plane of their choosing right at the front. Thus, they have to fly from a rear field to the front lines. BUT chances are by flying from the rear field they will get more alt and thus be more likely to have a succesful sortie (alt=e=life in AH)
2) Some dweeb taking off again and again with the best planes and constantly destroying them.. would result in people getting really ticked off that he keeps destroying the best plane = shame for him.. Possible solution, if a pilot destroys a large number of planes reaaal fast (i.e. obviously on purpose) then they either get: 1) delayed a period of time (minutes) from when they can next fly 2) restricted to lowly plane type by the flight sergeant ;0
I personally think the cons outweigh the pros. However, I admit I'm kind of "biased". I reaaallly want the opportunity to zoom down on a field and like soo many war movies I've seen.. strafe a bunch of planes sitting off the field. If I was to be able to do that, I would feel like my life was fulfilled
Lord HaHa
