ya know there are how many recent threads complaining that now there are no furballs because of the new towns requiring hordes that vulch and drop hangers preventing any fight? and now you guys are complaining that there is no base taking because all that is going on is furballs......
which is it?????????????????????????
the intent of the game is to inspire competition and mock combat amongst a multitude of persons scattered across the world. so now your complaining that the game does just that?
it takes more effort and energy to take a base because the town takes more effort and energy to defeat, thus causing more individuals to put in the effort required to accomplish this task, thus causing more individuals to put in the effort required to defend against and block the capture of said base.
another thought that is being forgotten is that the longer the town takes to defeat the longer potential defenders have to fly in from other surrounding bases to defend and/or resupply the base without having to endure the inevitable vulching phase of every base capture attempt.
so by implication should this thread really be read as "i want my bases to be quickly (to fast for defenders to fly in from other bases with alt and speed) and easily (don't want to have to work for more than a minute or two to drop all the unprotected buildings, i.e. no ack,) capturable bases, with the opportunity to get in plenty of vulching (the defenders forced to up from the base i am attacking due to how quickly i can capture the field means they cannot up from another base before i can win) to pad my score with, even if i only have a couple of friends to work with (i want to do this all by myself and reap all the score and glory and cant understand why i cant)"
in the current instance the ends are justified BY the means. more people required to reach the goal equals more people involved in either the reaching and/or blocking the goal. Hitec wont break up the mega squads so in this instance he is putting them to some kind of use in either the attacking or defending roll. now that they actually serve a purpose you will complain that their purpose is too hard for you????
just a couple of years ago when i first started in AH i was a member of the B.O.P.'s (hey guys!) now the B.O.P.'s were then and as far as i know still are what could be called a MEGA squad. shortly after i joined them i watched as they created a multi pronged 110 mission that dropped and captured the first base in 2 minutes after the first round fired and went on to attack 4 more bases capturing a total of 4 of 5 targets in less than 45 minutes. they moved so fast against each target that there was almost no time for any type of defence at any of the bases but the last target, and i think that was just a lucky guess on the defenders part.
could the B.O.P.'s have accomplished as much against the size of the towns we now have? would they now have to take longer to capture a base and be required to place more emphasis on taking escort fighters with them? would they have likely been forced to fight some form of built up defense flying in from other bases preventing them from capturing landing re-upping and move on to the next target within minutes? how many people would have been involved in both attack and defense for this mission if the towns were as they are now? personally i think it would have made for a much more interesting event than a 45 minute roll over of the enemy front lines.
i am not saying that there shouldn't be a better way for those players involved in the action to see how much of the town remains standing, this is just a common sense request, but to spend your time whining about first the hordes required to take a base then the furballs that the hordes inspire is counter productive and a waste of time. these are age old arguments that do nothing here but muddy the waters and take attention away from the point you are attempting to make.
i reiterate here what i said in my previous post, make the towns a mixed bag of size and protection. those who want easy can go and seek it out, those who want a fight can go look for it. in my opinion that is the fairest way to go.
