Radical but simple way to improve immersion.

[miko2d]

 OK, guys, we are flying for some chess pieces here. Big deal. So you get shot by hotshot from rooks. You do not care about rooks and you do not care about hotshot. He might be a nice guy for all you know.
 There is no fear of death here - so what if you die to the knights twenty times in a row trying to take off from a vulched field.
 What reason do we have to cooperate? For the glory of Bishopland? Yes, of course. It is so exiting I am falling asleep.

 We need some more passion to that game. And where the passion is? In the O'club, of course.

 What if we replace rook, knight and bishop with elephant, donkey and a tree.
 Then republicans will have a preferred country, democrats will have a preferred country and apolitical people/foreigners will have a preferred country.

 Now a guy in your sights will not just be a nameless dot but a political opponent!

 That is a joke, of course   , but in the last few days playing an on-line game is less interesting then reading that game's off-topic forum (AH and other games).

miko
 

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[Dinger]

The Democrats will whine that country size is based on geographical area controlled, not population.  The Republicans will complain that although Democratic territory is much smaller, it's full of cities with lots of ack and flak to hide in.  The republicans will squeak that perk planes should only go to the best pilots; the Democrats will squeak that perk planes should be evenly distributed to all pilots.  In the end, a perk plane system will be enacted that satisfies neither country and is needlessly complicated.
Republican pilots will be required to take off from one base, and only that base, regardless of where the country needs them; no Republican pilots, however, will be based near the front lines. Democratic pilots, mindful of the country's needs, will have to register their flight plan before takeoff, and be assigned a field such that planes takeoff evenly from all bases; some Democratic pilots will take off from fields near the battle, but very, very few.
Democratic pilots will complain about the excessive environmental damage caused by 1000-lb bombs, and therefore have each one replaced by two eco-friendly 500lbers.
Republican pilots, on the other hand, will cut a deal to get 100 more perk points for certain fliers.  In exchange, all Republican planes will be twice as likely to have their planes get oil hits and start smoking.
Over the course of a war, both countries will see their factories gradually shutdown and move to AirWarrior; the barracks, on the other hand, will be outsourced to WarBirds.  The refineries will be privatized, resulting in spot shortages at all fields.

The two countries will spend most of the time on channel one yelling at each other, but the  scoring pages will show that the overwhelming majority of both Democrats and Republicans fly C-hawgs and N1ks and gangbang the "Other Parties" country.

[Dinger]

uh-oh.  Somebody shoot me:

There wouldn't be many bomber and jabo pilots among the Republicans, because a large contingent of the pilots insist that, from the moment they load bombs, they're obliged to carry them to the target.  This will cause a good deal of bitterness, and eventually high command will decide on a compromise that leaves everybody unsatisfied.

The Republicans will insist that an effective pilot is one who is morally upright, and will promote yank-and-bank dweebs who are honest about their vulching to command positions.
The Democrats will insist that morals are irrelevant, and will promote yank-and-bank dweebs who lie about their kill stats to command positions.
Many Republicans will spend time camping out in panzers at airfield spawn points, hoping to find a Democrat commander who has cast aside his Spitfire to spawn with a heavy Hog.
Democrats will then accuse the Republicans of illegally spawn camping.

The Republicans will conduct an extensive and costly campaign to capture a field clear across the map.  They will wipe out every single con, flatten every structure and leave it a smoking ruin.  Of course, they'll forget to bring in the C47.

The Democrats will conduct and extensive and costly campaign to capture a field clear across the map, but they'll use only C47s.

Both sides will have more than their share of whiny dweebs who think the other team is cheating.

Since most of the pilots here are male, the Republicans would have very few LW pilots and no JagdGeschwader: few Republican men will openly admit to regularly spawning with a Franz or Gustav (although some will do so secretly).  Of course, this will change when the Dora comes in.

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[MiG Eater]

I only see one potential issue with this.

The republican airplanes would have guns.
In the democratic airplanes, the guns would be outlawed.

 

MiG

[Dinger]

And Democratic airfields would have no ack, allowing them to be captured easily.
But the ack at Republican bases shoots at everybody.  

[Toad]

ummmmmmmmmm....isn't this O/T?  

Try one of the TWO O/T forums.  

[Maverick]

All rounds fired would have to go to a hand count performed after the combatants log off so the true winner can be found  

Mav

[GRUNHERZ]

Democratic goons will airdrop lawyers?

[-lynx-]

Dinger - that's waaaay too funny!

Thank you for a great laugh  

Toad - you go to OT if you want to - the rest of us will just read and enjoy it where Dinger spawns - Pyro you really need to sort out those re-spawning points!

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lynx
13 Sqn RAF