Originally posted by mars01
Beet this is where you have always gotten it wrong. That would mean, if you see a bunch of guys just fighting between bases maybe you should pick another area to drop the hangers or at least ask.
And this is where you have always got it wrong. The purpose of killing buildings is to prepare the base for capture. Or at least it was when I did it. That can take more than one form - killing the town and preparing it for a troop drop (I assume that hasn't changed?), killing the VH to make it harder for you to defend with GVs, or hitting the FH to stop you from taking off. If you still think that the "toolshed killers" are just doing it to see BOOM - and a lot of red/orange/yellow pixels jump across the screen, then that would explain your confusion. I've read other posts where you've said words to the effect of "give the bombers a corner where they can bomb" - and you're missing the point completely. If I may draw on my favourite analogy - Chess - you're saying "give the rook movers a corner where they can move their rooks around" - completely losing sight of the "big picture" - the game as a whole. Same thing goes for Edbert. He clearly fails to see the interaction between bombing strategic targets, and the effect that has on preparing the base for capture.
Eagler - HTC is caught between a rock and a hard place. If they had developed a game with only air combat (as WB was - with no vehicles, and only AI CVs) then people would be whining for change. So they've enriched the game by adding vehicles, PT boats, mannable acks etc. - but now it seems you're whining because the game has been overdeveloped!
I also notice a somewhat disdainful remark in the first line of your post. How can you expect the strat/war guys to respect you, when you don't respect them?
And I'm still confused. I read about the ingredients you guys want in a flight sim - close fields, no buffs, no toolsheds, no vehicles... - that very place has always been there - the DA. If I ever live to be 100, I don't think I'll ever understand why you guys don't just go there. It just doesn't make sense to come to an arena where there is strat which has been
put there by HTC with the intention that it will be bombed, and for you guys to whine when it is.