Sounds like an interesting evening in the arena. I'm wanting to see how many of the 66 B-29's rtb'd.
I like the overall idea of the raid. Reminds me of the old days when Mathman ran HQ missions. His were almost always the same......he would announce on the arena wide channel that he was organizing a raid, "Greeting hated enemies!.....", state his intentions, throw a salute out, and away they went.
I was in The Assassins then, and we'd normally continue to furrball or whatever we were doing that night, while keeping an eye on the dar bar. You usually had half an hour to an hour before you needed to scramble for alt. Usually we'd hit the bomber stream at 20K, rarely higher than that. Cause I was such a Jug fan, our squad CO hblair would usually reach alt in his G10 several minutes before me, and would give us an estimate of bomber strength and escort types. The missions were fun, brought a lot of players together in those sectors, and from my memory, there were few if any hard feelings afterwards.
Just my thoughts, but going off map is very gamey. The B29 has such massive defensive firepower.....to announce a mega raid weeks in advance, then go off map so you can't be killed.......
I'm hoping the economy and my own financial situation will improve such that I can return to the game. Reading these threads brings back a ton of memories, and makes me want to get involved again.