There was a time when 2 or 3 missions where up at one time. There was a time that you could get 12 players to jabo. There was a time when every thing you mentioned was implemented daily. The time you speak of is long gone. 1 or 2 players can resup a town in less than 10 minutes . 1 or 2 players can defend a town from 5 attacking it. The glory days are not here again. There is no shortage of skill since only the long time players are left. There is a shortage of team work on 2 of the 3 countries and that's why 1 country wins 99 percent of the maps. Strats have to be hit to compensate for 3 players willing to take a base. It would be very easy to fly for the country that wins all the time. What I am asking for is more players to up bombers. It is easy to be critical of any suggestion to make a more balanced game. You win in the amount of posts but my strategy of victory begins with strats holds true in the current status of the 2 countries that lose all the time.
I fly Rook also, I know we almost never win a map. I also know it is not the "be all, end all" of the game either. I do fly buffs and Im pretty good at it. I do jabo, and Im pretty good at it. Fighters.... not so much but it is the most fun thing to do in this game ....for me.
What good is a big strat run if after that hour or two you cant get anyone to team up and hit a base? I think a few runs to pork suppling fields, and then a bunch of run to the field your attacking and fighting for would be more fun, and it may take you the hour or two of the start run to capture the base this way but it would be a lot more fun.
That was also the time when the strats were broken and bombing them nearly pointless. Then strats were changed & fixed at the same time. You finally had a target for large, long range escorted bomber raids. Good times.
True, but the point is that fields were STILL captured. People worked "for the win" in stead of just using some backdoor crutch. The game is missing combat, and I think that hitting strats is just another way to avoid combat. Very few are going to take the time to get to the best attack alts and lie in wait for these buffs. In the hour or two a mission like that would take I could get a dozen kills and die twice as many times.
49zero, You want more participation, just keep posting missions. Add a twist to them, dont do the same old thing every time. Plan a co-ordinated mission, up buffs 30 minutes before your fighters and then launch the deack crew 10 minutes before the jabos. Timed out right everyone hits the field with in minutes of each other and you can have a great attack going. 6-8 guys can do a lot of damage..... if they are skilled.
Winning the map isn't the "goal" you should be reaching for. Fighting and winning the battles will bring about the win for the war, but most people dont look that far into the future. They have an hour to play. If a good mission is running they gets some action and have some fun. That is what you should be looking for. The more fun they have, the more often they will join, the more often you team will be pushing for the win.