Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Letalis on July 20, 2010, 01:35:03 AM
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During a recent evening of watching Nits get steamrolled we lost 4-5 bases in the span of perhaps an hour or two. It occurred to me in that flurry of activity that it would be nice for SA purposes to have base capture notifications not only announce which country won a base but also who it was won from. Obviously can be done a number of ways but bottom line is to get a feel for the course of the MA war without looking up fields that generally have no sequence to them on the map. :salute
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You're right, I can always assume the field taken was Nit... :lol
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If you care you probably know who's field it was.
If you don't care, your probably not even going to read.
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Actually, I'm going to +1 this request.
I think it's a completely reasonable request. Look, I don't have the map memorized, and I DON'T know who owns what base at any given time by memory. If I am flying defense of a base that's under attack, and see notices that 2 other bases are taken, that have close numbers (such as A17, V19), and notice both are the same country, I may move across to help defend there. Normally on seeing those messages I only pay attention to what I'm immediately focused on (either the base I'm attacking, or defending), and this would definitely be a nice bit of info to help give an overall sense to how it's going.
Sorry oak, I fail to see how this one is an epic failure. Perhaps if he had said that drag in AH was not modelled....
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People ignore "Alert A-1" text messages as it is, still.
Accomplish something through your own actions. If you're that interested, open your map and look. I don't think you're that interested. Mildly curious perhaps, but that's all.
I wish someone would read the BB for me and type my dictated response. It's too hard to do it myself.
wrongway
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This has been asked for before, but I agree, I think it's a reasonable request.
Some people just love saying "no," I'm looking at you wrgwy. :neener:
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Don't care enough. What real difference does it make what country got what base taken from them? The map is pretty self explanatory when you look at it.
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I think it's a worthy request and would be very easy to implement (compared to other coading projects).
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It wouldn't affect game-play one way or the other, nor would it force a certain game-play on someone else.
If someone enjoys it, they might as well implement it.
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Don't care enough. What real difference does it make what country got what base taken from them? The map is pretty self explanatory when you look at it.
It wouldn't affect game-play one way or the other, nor would it force a certain game-play on someone else.
If someone enjoys it, they might as well implement it.
I bet 90% of the bases that have been capture, the formal country never made any effort trying to get it back with in a hour.
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This has been asked for before, but I agree, I think it's a reasonable request.
Some people just love saying "no," I'm looking at you wrgwy. :neener:
How about instead of "no" I say "not necessary".
I think of it as arena SA. I do it the hard way. Open the clipboard and search the map.
I didn't call anybody lazy... Hmmmm....
:aok
wrongway
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I suppose you walk everywhere, because it would be really lazy to drive...
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I suppose you walk everywhere, because it would be really lazy to drive...
If it's across the street (i.e. hit ESC to open the clipboard and look at the map) absolutely.
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I agree that many people are too lazy today, and don't do the work themselves. But this isn't like doing your own research, it's just a convenience thing. I press ESC, zoom out, and look myself; but sometimes it's just a pain, when there are multiple fronts, the fields aren't in great order and the map is just generally messy.
Just because YOU don't care who took it doesn't mean NOBODY cares.
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I don't really care about winning the war but I see no problem with this request. "Rooks have captured Axxx from Knights". If anything it might draw people to those areas to defend and create more fights. That's a good thing IMO. +1
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+1, trying to find certain fields can be difficult at times.
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+1. Don't know why people are flaming here.
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+1. Don't know why people are flaming here.
What flaming? Just pointing out the obvious.
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I think a .v or view command would be a good alternative (and maybe more useful than this) to finding a base on the map without moving to that base. Could even work while in flight.
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In the case of large maps I don't think it matters much as they hardly ever reset in late war arenas any way. Mid & early war arenas well what does that matter you only have two squads cleaning all of them up.
Nits for the most part don't seem to care about holding realestate in late war arenas any way it's all about the furball. The fact that you had not noticed that 5 bases had been lost tells me you don't care much about the ground war part of the game any way.
So why would you need to know what was lost or won :headscratch:
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In the case of large maps I don't think it matters much as they hardly ever reset in late war arenas any way. Mid & early war arenas well what does that matter you only have two squads cleaning all of them up.
Nits for the most part don't seem to care about holding realestate in late war arenas any way it's all about the furball. The fact that you had not noticed that 5 bases had been lost tells me you don't care much about the ground war part of the game any way.
So why would you need to know what was lost or won :headscratch:
Careful with the assumptions there. I was at three of those five fields as we lost them, most frustrating. Add to that capture notices in the text buffer that may or may not be relevant to your situation and you have a wishlist item that is almost as easy to implement as it is to argue about.
You were right about one thing, the Nits don't generally care about much other than the all-important furball.
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Careful with the assumptions there. I was at three of those five fields as we lost them, most frustrating. Add to that capture notices in the text buffer that may or may not be relevant to your situation and you have a wishlist item that is almost as easy to implement as it is to argue about.
You were right about one thing, the Nits don't generally care about much other than the all-important furball.
I would not take issue with text notification of who took what.