So you know hordes are "not advancing subscriptions." How would you know that?
Just because you are bored doesn't mean those 50 guys in the group are. Honestly I have never had a problem finding what is listed on the front page.
No, no and NO! IN no way do the hordes that we see pictured with 40 plus countrymen flattening a town and airfield reflect massive aerial dogfight or battle (even going out on a limb here and saying that many of them are the same names over and over again). Don't mix that up with a
FURBALL.
Furballs are exactly what is described on the front page. I could do that all day. I could run in a horde and take bases all day also.
The big difference is, one actually discourages aerial combat, destroys plane hangars, vulches would be combatants before their wheels ever leave the ground and moves from one deserted area to another.
Now, if you enjoy throwing caution to the wind and roll directly into the horde (which on occasion I do), then you might find a quick fight or two before you find 5 or more guys diving at you from every angle including HO in the name of a base cap.
Kilo, if there was no problem with the system that we have that rewards hordes, then you wouldn't see so many threads about them or, as in the case of this one, what can be done to defend against hordes. So let's be honest and say this is not what encourages a 2 week trial subscriber to pay to play or even keep some of the old veterans that know how much better game play has been in the past.