Please note: the following are criticisms, NOT insults directed at any member or HTC employee. Maps don't have feelings and can't feel insulted. Rule #4 doesn't apply here.
This map has more problems than just being rather large.
Several "bowl" airfields that are essentially unusable by bomber pilots.
Several 5-10K alt vehicle fields that are essentially unreachable from the gv spawns of other nearby fields, while their own gv spawns are quick downhill runs to town or field. Why have gv spawns to canyons below a vehicle field on a nearly unreachable plateau 5K higher?
The reverse is true in other spots. GV spawns that allow tanks to sit on a downslope and fire with impugnity into a vfield or airfield while gvs spawned at the field can't fire back because the enemy is above the max angle of the gun. The defending gvs are easily killed long before they can reach the upward slope and a chance at firing back.
Pointless and useless PT boat spawns that allow CV groups to sail right up to coastal fields with relative impugnity, while PTs for that same field have a single spawn an hour's drive away. CV's can get so close that the auto-ack of the CVs can shoot down planes taking off at the field. Along with this is the complete lack of shore batteries except at ports.
There is nothing equitable about Equinox. The SE country on this map starts with several more of the above-mentioned high-alt near-invincible vehicle fields, making defense much easier for them.
These are just a few of the many flaws I can think of at the moment. I'm sure others have other flaws they can name for this map. There is no fix for Equinox. I have heard of several players who have simply ceased playing while this map is in effect; due to it's many flaws. The map should either be completely redesigned or deleted altogether.
Many people busted their butts to get a reset the first time on this map last week after it was put in following the tour reset. We worked for a quick reset just to get a new map. No new map. Then came another reset. No new map. Then a third reset. No new map.
If we did something wrong to deserve this fatally flawed map, then please consider just spanking us. We volunteer RuAmL to be spanked. But, please, stop punishing us with this map. Whatever we did, we didn't mean to do it. We won't do it again.
Long post for my first. I'm sorry. I just really, really dislike this map.
