How many who have been here over 3 years, have ever seen an A5, A8, F8, dora not get through to the field in a dive unless there were about 12 or more defenders 200 off his tail? And some make upwards of 5 passes trailing Love Lorne defenders trying to reach out and touch him......
Seems to me Hitech decided porking is a good idea if it has not changed much since 1999. While admittedly it's suckky on nights when numbers and the tactical situation places your country in the two hole barrel. But, I'm always surprised when I hear some knight not a POTW heading out alone declaring he's gonna pork some ord.
POTW will pull in over a big stalled fight and look at the troops\ord at all enemy fields with a spawn into the one under attack. It's almost always the same situation, all are up and healthy, attack stalled, everyone pointing fingers about the town ack that keeps coming back up every 5 minutes. No one is really hunting M3s or heading off to eliminate the supply source for the M3s.
I think M3's being able to resupply the town are more of a problem than getting your field porked. Just watch the knights when they try to take fields. They always think the first wave will be in, drop everything, and the troops will be running before anyone is the wiser. 10 minuets later, usually something small has gone wrong, and the M3's have enough time to make their first delivery.
No one goes and porks anything at the M3's origin fields, instead, the knights up GV's to stop the M3s and rush the town to clean it up at the pace of a frisky glacier. The fastest way to stop a mass AH2 GV assault, is to up a single T34 and hit one enemy tank. Not even kill it. And the GV hoard all ducks and covers to a grinding halt. And then if you jabo that single GV, and recon to make sure there are no more GV, the majority of the GV assault group won't resume the rush on the town. They all hang back to long range cover the few willing to keep up the momentum. You know how precious those GV perks are.
Porking used to be a prelude to an NOE hoard passing near the porked field. Watching radar rings turn red and ord become 0% was a reasonable way to guess at the destination or the new front some squad was starting. Ord porking on a coastal field was a good indicator of a near shore CV. But, back then we had enough players to make up for the inconvenience by weight of numbers who would respond to the challenge.
Since our numbers have tapered off, there seems to be an ongoing feeling that players want Hitech to sanitize the game a bit or introduce complex conditional properties to reduce their increased frustrations. Sanitizing the game will force players to face each other, and what kind of following do the WW1 and DA arenas have? Complex conditional properties, looks good when you think them up with the other guy getting screwed. Most people forget they will get just as screwed in turn.
