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+1 thats my thought=P 

I agree.

+1 for me.

Agreed on 3 points. The APA would allow smaller fleets to take ocean tiles easier and faster by spreading out even large fleets forcing them to defend with force all tiles. The APA is the perfect ship for newer players to make a defference in an HA.  If all fleets could make the HT quicker with APAs, they would have a better chance in the HT without resorting the use of skytrains.

Skytrains are more dangerous now with the lvl 125 airlift and the increased vets that they now carry. Skytrains dont need the extra help of border humping.

 

IDK about removing harbor lmits. Two of them is enough for our fleet, and anything more than that is a burden. Actually, one is enough. I could see fleets that carry large timezones, could break it into different HA sections within a fleet.  With the current state of mega-fleets and mercs in some  fleets, I would hate to see some future mega-merc-fleet hold them all or control that part of the game in the future. I don't think we are close to  that yet, but I could see that down the road.

 

Trade, absolutely. If even trade only within fleets, we missed a golden chance to get the new steam guys up to our level and keep more of them around.

 

Good positive post.

 

One more thing about HA's. You want to make them really fun again? Remove some of the ship limits. Imagine rooms full of subs again, large kita rushes, 35 rushing BB3's and so on and so on....

+1

yes remove limits, i can rememmber mogami's with bomber, torper 10-15 mogs the fun days:).

Allow with in fleet trading
Apa's in ocean tiles would spread the large fleets out a little more, and allow smaller fleets
to get to rhe Harbor quicker.
Win or loose HA's are fun

Agreed on APA.  Please fix it.  I still remember the fun of APA working with bb and ss to control either the north (or south) to capture a room instead of trying to hunt down ss.  I know that I should not complain because I have been using ss to delay in HD a lot.  :)

Agreed on fixing "border humping" skytrain.  They are almost invisible flying low along the north border.  Fighters cannot catch them when going in at high altitude (got shot down by the border).  However, I suggest to fix this instead of removing skytrain altogether.  Removing a class of sailors is not fair to the players who spent the time to level them.  Or, GM can start to ban players who do that. 

I am "on the fence" about the max of 2 harbors.  Because players cannot be on for the whole day, the 2 harbor limit can be good for the health of players.  I suggest to keep the limit but allow fleets to give up a harbor by the "click" of a button on a specific day every week (e.g., on Sunday).

To fail_member: the CHNB "bunny" fleet is strong too.  I believe RA, Omegas, Bunny, and BAMF are the four stronger fleets in the server at the moment.  The other fleets are catching up. 

heyho!

interesting post, thx!

 

my personal opinion on this:

 

APA:

YES, this variety in strategy is definetely missing!

low level players, smaller fleets support etc...all said

 

skytrains:

they belong to the game. is the only way for smaller fleets to win something.

borderhumping is not the "fair way" ... hard to control, just be prepared!

if possible to fix it some way - best thing.

our fleet used skytrains on north border in past too, but tried to stay hard at the limit of legality (=planes in sight) - and we lost some harbors to it :-))

some misclicks may happen...some desyncs

enemy always complained...defenders always complain when sleeping deep ,-)

(no, dont want to start big discussion on this topic...)

 

harbor limit:

yes, increase the limit PLEASE!

maybe  4 , not 7?

each fleet should know how many harbors it will be able to defend .

it will stop the bullshit of giving away harbors to have the chance of attack again.

"leave button"? - no...wild click-race on monday morning ;-)

yes, at the moment CHNB, RA, Omega and  BAMF  are the bigger ones.

there is a balance in game.

i see no problem in "mercs", ALL fleets use them more or less...even the big ones?!

especially if fighting against an other biggie;-)

server population is too low .... or too many fleets :-))

the smaller fleets have no chance without that kind of "support"...adds something like diplomatic component to navyfield ;-)

so let a fleet take more than 2 harbors, if they can handle it...

 

shiplimits in HA tiles:

good idea! 

not totally open, but maybe something like: max 7 cv, 10 subs, 35bb (but MAX 35 !!!)

good bye "scheme f" and tactic "0815"!

 

little other idea:

rotate the harbor times some way or change something other.

we have fleets all over the world with their special time-zones.

some harbors have a "very special time" at the moment.

asian players will "never" fight in london, europeans never in new york, americans never in toulon etc

because in their timezone this harbors are deep in the night!

playing for years, some fleets never meet each other ... always the same fights x vs y and a vs b, not x vs a and y vs b...

would be more interesting - maybe...

 

AND DONT FORGET THE FLEETLEADER/RADIOMAN-BUG

some accounts still out of order!

 

greetings

catweazle_eu

 

 

PS TRADE topic +1

 

 

 

 

1. APA +1

2. Strange statement of the question. One fleet, several players from which are members of TNF team, regularly use the map border bug, in an impudent skytrains conduct throughout the year in HA Baltiysk, Tokyo, now Hamburg. And for this it is necessary to remove skytrains from the game? Do not punish impudent offenders and scammers, but remove one of the mechanisms of the game ?! )) Are you joking.
A desync occurs daily in GB without the participation of skytrains. The reasons for desync are in the program code, not in one of the units.

3. On the RU server in the end, 1 fleet owned 7 harbors. Here it is not real because of time zones. Maximum possible to participate in 3 HA / HD.

4. Resumption trade +1 

4 HA's the same day get challenging.

Back when HA's were on Wednesday and Saturday, that would be 8 per week. Tough

Do not forget to return APA's old parameters: 8000 HP, 40 knots max.