Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Slade on February 22, 2015, 09:59:37 AM
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Is it true that it only takes 37,573 lbs of ord to drop an HQ (1 set of Lancs, 29s)?
Why not just triple that, make it require a coordinated multi-bomber operation. This would make the game more inclusive for both sides. Otherwise you might was well allow Nukes LOL! jk
Or an ICBM as many HQ raiders I noticed bail right afterward.
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I hope on the update, they make it atleast 5 sets of bombers to down the HQ, and also they perk drones.
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Couldn't the host just multiply the hardness of the HQT in the arena settings? :huh
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Yes they can. The issue I see maybe the fact that the maps are in a custom rotation system they created. Simply changing the settings may screw with it. That's the only thing I can think of. :headscratch:
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Only 38,000 pounds of explosives to interrupt business at that building for 2 hours.
Fighter cap is not a hat.
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That's "up to 2 hours" with the caveat that city has to be pounded down first.
On many maps, it is closer to 11 minutes.
The clues are all there for an incoming HQ attack but the masses choose to ignore them.
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That's "up to 2 hours" with the caveat that city has to be pounded down first.
On many maps, it is closer to 11 minutes.
The clues are all there for an incoming HQ attack but the masses choose to ignore them.
Could be the masses are too busy playing and having fun
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Gentlemen,
The brunt of this issue is not during prime time hours. When you have 250+ players on you see things coming and can resupply fast enough. Many of us have limited time each day and must log in during off peak hours. Logging in to find you cant find a fight with the finite time you have to play the game is the issue for MANY of us.
I hope that clarifies this for those that are quick to say just resupply and the like.
Respectfully,
Slade :salute
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Slade there must be more than one of you annoyed by this when it happens. There is also more than one arena. I understand wanting to fight in LW but you do have options if you just want to fight someone.
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I'd like to see formations for goons but only at the airfields near the HQ. Also the only thing they could carry from there would be fields sups.
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After years of wise sages telling people you have other choices of how or arenas to fight in. It seems unless Hitech comes up with a radical change in how he wants players to utilize the primary MA. Human nature trumps the insanity of repeating the same sage wisdom for all of these years. That human nature is also paying the light bill for HTC.
The other arenas are in essence specialized side shows, versus what most of the MA playing community is paying for. Since the problem exists in the primary MA, the solution is eventually up to HTC. It is becoming obvious some kind of toll is being levied upon a growing portion of the community. It's possible like any parent with a house full of boys, time more often allows these things to sort themselves out versus showing favoritism.
Still there are tipping points where a parent has had enough.
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Bases still flash when the HQ is down. The argument that you can't find a fight with your limited time seems weak. It is more like you can't go into a fight with all the advantages you want to at all times.
During the war all sides would have radar outages. That could take many resources to fix.
Some guys spend a long time to set up their HQ bombruns, and are thus not killing other targets. Why should they not be rewarded with being able to fly home unmolested?
This is one of the last things I would change about AH.
P.S. I feel this is relevant because of the amount of HQ takedowns lately, and thus NOT a punt. :bolt:
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Bases still flash when the HQ is down. ...The argument that you can't find a fight with your limited time seems weak. It is more like you can't go into a fight with all the advantages you want to at all times.
vHACKv you sound like you have a lot of experience with this. I've been playing this game for about a decade. When strats are down during off hours (and low numbers) when I see a base blinking I up immediately to find a fight. Any fight. My average alt at these times is between 5-10k. Lately in an F6. To get to a fight quickly I sometimes take a 109k though. 90% of the time I get there only to find no cons.
EDIT: I know you know that a base can blink because of a GV of course too.
vHACKv what am I doing wrong?
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Bases still flash when the HQ is down. The argument that you can't find a fight with your limited time seems weak. It is more like you can't go into a fight with all the advantages you want to at all times.
During the war all sides would have radar outages. That could take many resources to fix.
Some guys spend a long time to set up their HQ bombruns, and are thus not killing other targets. Why should they not be rewarded with being able to fly home unmolested?
This is one of the last things I would change about AH.
P.S. I feel this is relevant because of the amount of HQ takedowns lately, and thus NOT a punt. :bolt:
Again WE ARE NOT AT WAR!
This is a game of combat. First and foremost a game! We play to have fun, not jump around looking for a fight at flashing base like some internet game of wack a mole. Second, it's a game of COMBAT, not hide and seek.
The dar being taken out by a single player is ridiculous. Make it so a couple players have to work together to do it, much like it takes a number of players working together to bring it back up.
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Could be the masses are too busy playing and having fun
This.
Let's say, you are fighting at A49 and the alert goes out that A52 is about to get clobbered. You could keep fighting at A49 and ignore A52. either way, you have a fight.
But, if you are fighting at A49 and the alert goes out that HQ is about to get clobbered, you could bail out and try to save the HQ. Of course while you were busy having a fun fight attacking or defending (the whole purpose of the game), you didn't notice the impending NOE attack on HQ. You arrive too late and the HQ goes down. Now there are bases flashing but no way to tell why, without looking out the tower windows and hoping you see something.
Hide And Seek is best left to FSO.
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I've noticed that the ones saying there are other options, or that it's part of the game, are usually those that enjoy that portion of the game above the others, or members of large squad's that can marshal the effort to make the effects of a destroyed HQ effectively nil.
It seems to me that listening to these player's machinations is akin to rule of the minority being imposed on the majority.
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The dar being taken out by a single player is ridiculous.
This....
No action from a single player should have this level of effect on 1/3 (roughly) of the players in a GAME!!! vhackv, I have a real life unlike some others who can play this game for 100 hours a month. I don't want to spend half of my game play resupplying HQ so ONE player can come back and knock it out, or bail when I try to intercept.
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It's sad that some people play this game to do nothing more than piss off other people. If they were doing to "play the game" once the HQ was dropped there would be massive and multiple attacks along the front, but there never is.
What's even more sad, they are allowed to continue this type of play by the owners even as we watch more and more players leave the game.
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The only thing that I truly dislike about a dropped HQ is that it annoys so many of my friends I play Aces High with.
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Well....since it takes so little resources to destroy HQ .....it also takes little resources to defend it ......also due to decreased player numbers putting together a "massive" raid would be hard to do....if not impossible to get that many players together.
Consider something else .....during much of the day ...and much of the late night (in my time zone) ....there is less then 125 total players .....playing in these off hours can be dull to say the least ....by making HQ destruction more difficult you would make it impossible for those of us who fly in these "odd" hours to destroy HQ ...which can be fun, when things are dull .....why would you wish to discriminate against those of us who fly at these times? ...why are you the only players who get the right to destroy HQ?? ...you guys are damn selfish ....the whole game does NOT revolve around "peak" time players ...those of us who keep "The Doors open" in Odd hours deserve to have to have fun to have too
Helm ...out
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.....playing in these off hours can be dull to say the least ....by making HQ destruction more difficult you would make it impossible for those of us who fly in these "odd" hours to destroy HQ ...which can be fun, when things are dull .....
Which actuall makes things more dull for a huge part of the remaining population, as you hardly can get HQ resupplied in most cases when you have like 10 active players on your side total.
And at a time when there are mostly just single high alt buff formations flying around (no "look for the battle!"), no HQ basically kills the game for many people.
At peak times you may have enough players to defend (in case it's even possible, which very often is not) and to resupply HQ. This 'balance' is totally off during low hours.
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Which actuall makes things more dull for a huge part of the remaining population, as you hardly can get HQ resupplied in most cases when you have like 10 active players on your side total.
And at a time when there are mostly just single high alt buff formations flying around (no "look for the battle!"), no HQ basically kills the game for many people.
At peak times you may have enough players to defend (in case it's even possible, which very often is not) and to resupply HQ. This 'balance' is totally off during low hours.
I totally disagree. It's ok to do it when you are on playing?, but for the rest of us were are not allowed to do it??? ....rubbish!
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I totally disagree. It's ok to do it when you are on playing?, but for the rest of us were are not allowed to do it??? ....rubbish!
Why are you taking out HQ? If things are already boring due to lack of fights/interest, how is dropping HQ helping other than being "fun" for you I mean.
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I totally disagree. It's ok to do it when you are on playing?, but for the rest of us were are not allowed to do it??? ....rubbish!
Where did I say ANYTHING like that?
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You didn't, he is trottel.