Maybe we should cater to the console crowd with airspawns et al. While Tt on oz kansas provides instant fight for many, it also sucks up numbers to fight the war. When the rooms took all of Tt it seemed the numbers online dropped. What kills me are the guys on 200 bragging about killing a fight, they don't realize by getting people who seek that fight to log .... A lot .... They kill the game. In every ma map there must be places where furball era and gvrs can fight that is not tied to the overall war effort. Make the central v bases on Tt maps uncaptureable. Bring back a fighter town with airspawns.
The solution is not looking at how to retain it is in looking at how to draw.
The current maps aren't designed for airspawn combat. For example smpizza. Even if you had an airspawn into the middle of tanktown, what if one of the enemy airspawn fields were captured? Does that make it so that the nearest airfield of that side becomes an airspawn ? That would make it so the next enemy base would have to be an airspawn to balance it out, otherwise it would give them an 'unfair advantage'.
While I do agree that sometimes it is hard to find combat, and sometimes time consuming to reach a fight only to have it die a few moments after getting there. It wouldn't be beneficial (in my opinion) to have air-spawns in the MA.
Not only that, in order to cater to the console crowd, you would have to make the gameplay much much easier, making the learning curve that of perhaps... walking up stairs with flip flops.
Eh, to be honest, looking at many of the games that have come out for 'this generation' it is sort of a hand-held experience, one way or another. Which isn't something that HTC is known to do (they still don't have a tutorial of basic things for the game that are a necessity to play!). Many games have a simple "press this that and the other to get your character or vehicle to do what you want". Sometimes happening each time you get into the vehicle, or after you respawn (like in Halo 4).
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