Lazs,
12:12 in one fight is rare in the CT, it happens, but you can't count on finding it. It's also a bit harder to tell how many are within range since the icons are shorter. The shorter icons make it both easier and more difficult. A quick scan will not show icons on someone who is not an imediate threat, so its kind of a filter. But the shorter icons also mean that when you get into a tangle with a guy or two, if you don't kill him/them very fast a little black dot can clobber you before you were aware that he was close enough to be a threat.
Anyway, you can count on getting 5 to 10 enemy within icon range of you pretty regularly in the CT, but not always. Sometimes, but rarely, you can find 15 or more guys working together. It doesn't really matter though, how many guys can you fight at once? Seriously? Unless your hanging out at the edges, looking for a distracted enemy your odds are worse with lesserr numbers.
And yes, some times the fights are even.
Poopster,
"Good fights, no people. "
Now come on, how can there be any kind of fighting, good or bad, with "no people"?
Again I ask the question, How many players do you want to fight at once?
In the CT there typically is a fight with 10 to 20 or more in one area, and then a few smaller skirmishes in other areas. Who cares if there are 400+ players elsewhere on the map well beyond your dot range? When I choose a fight in the CT, I decide, "I can take on this 1 or these 2 guys attacking this base down here, or I can go to the bigger (5 to 10+ enemies) fight over here.
I do think the fights are better in the CT (fr me at least). They are no more or less intense than what I typically found in the MA. Some times/nights you've got to fly 10 minutes just to get to the enemy. But then again, there are some CT maps with bases only 5 miles apart. When they are owned by opposing countries, well that's the best, most intense fighting I've ever had online. Much like a CV parked near an enemy base only not so unfair that one side has the perpetual wall of ack. Those are the fights that I've gotten 40+ kills in an hour (and died my fair share as well). Literally, I've fought for an hour or more nonstop, with sweat dripping off both my throttle and joystick.
But, IMHO, the best thing about the CT is the historical match-ups. When I get into a Zero, I am Saburo Sakai. I want to shoot down big blue US Navy planes. Now don't get me wrong, fighting a 109 with a zero in the MA can be a lot of fun, but its not immersive. It just doesn't look right. I don't feel Japanese. I play the game to relive history. I want to forget that I'm just some tard in front of his puter in a nice warm house in 2003. I want to believe what I am doing is real.
When I fly a hog, I am Pappy Boyington, and I want to kill meatballs (OK, I watched a bit too much Baa Baa Black Sheep when I was a kid.).
When I fly a 109, I am Erich Hartman. Honestly, as I fight I recall bits of passages from Hartman's book about how he/they fought the russians.
I love it when I see something and say to myself, "I've read about that!"
... and so on.
eskimo
