It's too hard
Which is why no one does it.
I used to hit the old strats back in the day when they had a real effect. Nowadays they arent worth the trip because they dont have any significant effect on anything. Your better off leveling a field. It takes less time and has a definite impact.
HQ will still be hit more often then any of the other strats because it has a definite impact. Current other strats are pointless to hit.
What has changed vis a vis impact? It's still the same, it's just "too Hard".
If players who are trying to win the war are not attacking a strat that would aid them in winning the war then one of two things must be true:
1) The player base has no clue what the strats control therefore do not attack it
2) The player base has decided their effort is better invested in other avenues
Either way, it's the failure of the system for either:
a) Not providing readily available information to the player base which informs of strategic values of said strat
b) Not providing strat with strategic influence warranting additional time to get to them and bomb
So what's your point wrongway, the strats are good the way they are?
1) the same info has always been on the help page. How many bother to read the help page for even the fundamentals?
2) It's easier to invest efforts in other avenues. Instant gratification and instant results. Hitting the strats needs to be done in the proper order, they need to be taken down completely, and then, for them to actually have an effect, you need to pork the corresponding strats on fields.
My point is, nothing has changed about the strats other than:
the strats are more difficult to reach, much better defended
Essentially an
individual can no longer take a single gv, Bf110, or set of buffs, and take down a strat all by themselves.
I am truly skeptical that, other than the rare individual that knew the value of doing so, anybody attacked the old strats with any "strategic" intentions. They wanted to blow stuff up with little risk.
Ideas for a fix?
a) Make it worthwhile points wise.
Why are people bombing the middle of cities now? Certainly not in order to capture the city.
It would be better if you could be rewarded for taking it all the way down but I don't see how that could be tracked.
b) System message.
"The Knights Grunt Training has been destroyed".
100% down for a message. Instant gratification.
c) Just more stuff to blow up.
Again, instant gratification.
Give some points. Make it easy. Whether it has a strategic value or not probably won't matter to anyone as long as it blows up reeeeal good.
Strat wishes are typically in the same vein as Mustang mk1A wishes. It's not about an Allison powered Mustang, it's about a Mustang with four 20mm cannons.
Strats have the same impact they did before they were updated. Did anyone want a greater role for Strats then?
wrongway