Toad said:
I actually think it's a detour. My personal opinion is that it's being done to mollify a portion of the paying community so that work can then continue towards the true goal. But there's no proof of that; it may have
been in the plan all along.
Ok, fair enough - probably accurate too.
AKcurly said:
I may be wrong, but I don't believe strat and furballs will work inthe same arena. Furballers want the fields closer together and that makes
many strategic objectives difficult (if not impossible) to atchieve.
Toad sez:Yeah, you're wrong.
Maybe so.
But, I will be really surprised to learn that HTC is going to make changes in the game engine to accomodate you guys -- we'll see.
Strat and Furball already works on the Trinity map. The Tankers are Furballing in Tank Town and it has essentially no effect whatsoever on
what passes for "strat" on the rest of the map.
We just need an Aircraft Furball Arena Within An Arena similar to the Tank Furball Arena Within An Arena also known as Tank Town on Trinity.
The tank thing works until one side decides it's going to win the war. At that point, the tanker thing vanishes.
Your "Arena within an Arena" concept will fail miserably. Here's why:
When the tanker guys lose their area, most just get in airplanes and continue with the game. When you/lazs lose your last furball area, you guys are going to turn channel 1 blue with your protests and exit the arena -- much like your reaction to a sunk CV
Even a cursory examination of the "Arena within an Arena" reveals it won't work unless HTC modifies his game engine (makes certain fields
uncapturable & etc.) If you believe he's going to do that, I have some real estate in Florida I would like to sell you.
After the Con and after Oshkosh, I probably will talk to him about giving the CV Furball idea a try. I think it'd satisfy a lot of folks that don't care for the no-skill-repeated-reuppage-numerical-supremacy-smashdown raids thatare the basis for ALL strat on ALL maps.
Really strange to hear you say combative things like that Toad
Either you don't remember what you guys (TAS) used to say about the or your thinking has changed If your thinking has changed, that's cool, but why make denigrating remarks towards the part of the community that infrequently furball?
The problem I see with the CV idea though is that it's going to take more "sea room" than the Tank Town takes up on Trinity. But I'm still thinking
about it and sketching things out now and then.
Sure. A separate arena would be ideal. I don't read the AH2 BBS much, but I gathered there will be two separate arenas -- TOD and AH Classic. Why not work on convincing HTC to make AH Classic a furball arena?
curly