I decided to wait a bit and see others comments before replying to this post.
First, I've been around for the past 15+ years. I took a long hiatus from the game largely due to the activities (such as 49'ers activities) among other reasons. So yes, I have been around - and - I have seen the results from before and to now. Yes, some of those activities drove people away...as it was going to do it again now with the way the game changed significantly too much to the other way. There needed to be a happy medium. 30 minute resup time was not a happy middle ground.
As I said, the time needed to be adjusted to something fair for both sides, but, along with this I made other suggestions. It should not be the case where a single bomber can cripple strats damage so much in a single run. Having multiple bombers is more effective (agreed - always has been the case) but even with that the targets should be more difficult to hit. I propose:
- 10 min (or even 15 min) resup times
- redesign strat target objects further apart so they can't be taken out easily in a single pass
- relocate strat objects to a reasonable distance away from a base so that quick resups (or for that matter when a base is captured near a strat) it is not easily resupplied or taken down quickly
Let's try to find a better middle ground - I don't think the above is trying to propose putting it back to favor one side or another but trying to find a constructive balance of fairness.
As for one last item regarding long flight times / name in lights / 1 finger salutes...I'll simply put it this way. I'm a bomber pilot predominantly. I don't always fly at 30K+, I quite often fly at altitudes much lower than that, and I like doing long strat runs with squaddies or other country members (at least we used to before the 30 min resup times) because we chat and enjoy the ride / challenge of multiple fighters intercepting us along the way. It's not about the stardom at the end of the night, it's about the mission and we always assume the risk of getting shot down on those long runs (more often then not once we are discovered).
Take into consideration as a bomber pilot if I fly long strat runs that take me 1.5 - 2 hours each, and am online for 4 - 6 hours at a time...how many runs / missions do I do compared to many others that GV / Ftr pilot? No where near as many...and I pay the same as everyone else. So All I have asked is to balance things out to make things more fair across the board. We may not completely agree on how we get there but I am hoping the above proposal is a start.
Thanks HiTech for making some adjustments and hope that the above is constructive moving forward.
Cheers,
Elec1
going back in time...town buildings were not supplyabe, guns were but that is another story, and that time was 45 minutes. @ 45 minutes a individual or group could get two effective sorties in, it was always close but could be done. this was a good thing to have a chance at a successful attack (a good topic here if you want to talk fights and fun), it also allowed soloist to succeed, but so what? a feat mostly reserved for sleepy times of 100 players in the arena
. then with the strat change town buildings went to 30 minutes down time. nobody, NOBODY can do two sorties in this time without bailing, again
additionally, buildings could be supplied by user, changing defense tactics and further making capture impossible...long story short hordes took over as the only method of probable success. not fun. Pilots were forced to the strat to increase down times before an attack could begin. Its hard enough to get the timing of players together, but now we have to do a two hour tour before we begin. sheesh.
I said it 6 years ago "you need people like me, so you can point your finger and say thats the bad guy!" The attack makes the world go round, some never carry ords! It is not fun to fly 15 minutes or two hours for nothing. No attacks = no fun . No matter how much fun you think showing off your kill skills make me log in, it does not. you fighters will always have targets if im will to spend 15 minutes to fly to you. If i dont you have nothing to shoot at. Ill go toolshed some other game. dweeb.
