I logged back last night, for the promo thing, mostly to greet old friends and check the progress of the game.
The fact is that I don't like the high population gameplay. And not because of lag, it was mostly bearable, a few warps here and there but...
Back when we had 100-150 on, you knew everyone, and there was that sense of "chivalry of the sky" and plenty of 1vs1 or 2vs2 with the ocassional 10-12 people mission or squad sortie. All I saw last night were huge 50 plane mindless furballs, rampant kill stealing (ouch, killshooter) and loads of silly gray/green spam on the chat.
Maybe its only a matter of looking harder in the map to find a low population area, climb to 20K there and meet my old enemies in B&Z heaven, i'll try.
I liked most other new things, bomber changes are great, etc...
I don't know if I will stay... when I left, 15$ were nothing even if I did not play more than twice a month, but now i'm buried by the mortgage, car payments, water, gas, food, electricity, dsl... so 15$ seems like the topping on a too big cake...
I'll keep checking until March 15, maybe I will get used to the new gameplay and stay.
