Originally posted by Mustaine
thats pretty much what it was at the end.... nowhere near a duel ing arena.
Wow ... if I remember correctly, you cancelled your account quite some time ago, so how would you know ... "thats pretty much what it was at the end" ... ?
It still was a
duel ing arena in every aspect that it was originally designed for ... but it became something more with killshooter on.
The MA has sucked so bad as of late, I was beginning to spend more and more of my time in the DA to quench my dogfighting thirst and found that with killshooter on ... I could get twice, if not three times more duels in than if killshooter was off.
An advantage of the previous setup, was that I could very easily pick who I wanted to duel, due to the fact that I could see their name. You simply lift, extent (get some speed), turn around and check-six who you might want to fight. Once that fight ended, and if I was the victor, I could then repeat the above ... so on and so on. The person that I just dueled could lift and we could be back into a fight within 30-60 seconds ... rinse and repeat. It was great.
My preference was to pick pilots that I felt were of my same caliber or better, and not club the noobs. If a noob did check-six me, I would be more than happy to fight them and take into consideration their ability and try to make the fight longer and more meaningfull for them. When the fight ended, we could discuss what happened over "range" vox, without having to tune to this and that radio. With the current setup, all the above is gone.
Other squads have voiced that squad KOTH or furballs are defunct now cause of killshooter off ... that's a shame. We (BKs and 13th TAS) have done that many times ourselfs and it was a blast. You pick one of the high alt bases, lift, drop off the edge of the cliff, gain instant fight speed, and have at it ... all within 30 seconds ... doesn't get any better than that. This allowed the furball to be consistenly and constantly fed due to the fact that each person could get back into the fray in a very short amount of time.
Current settings means you have to fly a few minutes to get back to the fur, and if you just happen to die within the first 30 seconds of rejoining the fur, you now have to fly all the way back again ... boring and it sucks.
I just find it hard to believe that HTC could not find some reputable people who did/would spend a good amount of in the DA to moderate it ... so that those who didn't play nicely with others, could be handled just the same as they are in the TA if they don't play nicely. That would have solved the problem. HT/HTC decided to take the path of least resistance ... on one hand I can see why he did what he did ... on the other hand, I wish he did take the time to really work the problem for the greater good.
Killshooter back on would be good.