Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Axis vs Allies => Topic started by: Squire on April 08, 2002, 06:36:00 PM
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A weekly CT "War Night" of 3 hours duration (9est-12est?) with 4 lives for each player. Same map setup as whatever one is running. Its scored and the results are posted.
Advertise it, and they will come.
Why? to get more exposure of the CT thats why. I believe it would result in a large influx of players, who at least would get a taste of it.
WB did the same thing for their "HA" and it worked very well. They call them "Target for Tonight".
And now before the avalanche of "its too hard to setup" starts. No it isnt. No registration, same map and setup, all you need is a little inspiration for a "theme", set out some targets that need to be hit, and roll it. After its done, reset the CT.
Regards.
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hmmmm. Snaphots and TOD come to mind.
F.
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But what would I do for the other 2 hours and 50 minutes? ;)
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4 lives, kier. You should be good ta go for annother 30 min. ;)
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Actually, I've been toying with a similar concept, but haven't had time to run it by Pyro. The limited lives is not so hard to do, with a little imagination and support from HTC. Basically, you perk every aircraft, say 1 point each. Then you make all ENY values zero, so you can't earn any more. Than, you preload everyone's CT perk account with four points (enough for four a/c). Goons and GV's could be free, perhaps. HTC would have to be envolved, as this would require some file management from them. The changes to perk accounts, perk costs, and ENY values would have to be done just before the "War-time" and reset again after.
I've also though about doing the same sort of thing for regular CT set ups, where most planes would be zero perk costs and ENY values, but a few choice models would have a nominal perk cost. Again, everyone's perk account would be reset and preloaded with enough perk point to buy two or three uber planes, and once they were gone than no more uber planes for you. The idea would be to represent the limited availabliltiy of certain late war uber rides. Just thinking out load, but it has potential. After your uper rides were trashed, you'd still be able to fly the non-perked planes for the rest of the set up.
Sabre
CT Staff
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Limited lives= Less dweebery (they are already dead at T+60).
A log gives some incentive to do real missions.
Its great advertising for the CT.
And no, Snaphots are a seperate style (1 life per frame) and they dont occur in the CT, so no, they are not a substitute for this. As for Snaphots themselves, love em, but they seem a bit sparodic?
The whole point is to give the CT some exposure, and have a great axis/allies event too.
Anyways, just some thoughts. Look , if we want a "home" with a place for historic types to fly, we will have to do it ourselves. Waiting around for big scenarios from HTC just aint gunna do it.
Regards.
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hehe, HTC doesn't put on any events other than the Convention. :)
Sabre that's a fantastic idea for using perk points to simulate lives!
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great I idea sabre. So simple yet effective (perks that is).
As far as the setup I think it would be a great bit of fun. 4 lives should be plenty for most anyone (flying responsibly).
For our squad nights the VF27 limit themselves to three lives as it is so it would not put us out at all.
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Im not so hot on this idea gents, Would much rather see this in the events arena.
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Could we get a comittment on weekly Snapshots then?
Regards.