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Originally Posted by Lexandro
What it basically boils down to is that console developers have to cater to the widest audience, and that includes all the crap players you get on a console. And they outnumber us good pilots. Now the current amount of players online is such that people are having problems getting to play a game. As it is now, many players will simply quit a game with a B-17 in it because they feel it is far superior and extremely difficult for them to take on. Making it anymore effective in firepower could force many more out of the game making the airfract effectively pointless to choose.
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Touche'. Well then- I think the best multiplayer game would be the hardest to produce for this title then.... Perhaps one large room per gametype? When you join an online game you can join while it is already in session... i think a persistent server for each gametype would solve a lot of multiplayer issues. One should be able to start their own game still- but imagine if you could just go online and join a dogfight that was running all the time, or perhaps reset every couple hours or so. that would fix the issues with some of the planes then too... If you had a persistent world and a larger number of max players, people in B17s wouldn't be so overpowering... though they could, theoretically, fly in formations- the likelyhood of a bunch of console gamers cooperating like that is slim to none.
Anyways- making the B17 realistically effective without burning out the hopes and dreams of the vast craptastic console gaming community basically revolves around a larger number of aircraft in each multiplayer game... then the strengths and weaknesses of each individual aircraft wouldn't be so apparent. It doesn't suck that a B17 can kill 200 tickets in a single bombing run unless your on the other team and don't have the ability to score more than one point a time. So, to solve that issue, make the strike missions have WAY more targets... including trucks and tanks- things that even fighters can kill with their guns. Make point value for aircraft depend on the class of aircraft. For instance a heavy bomber can cost 5 tickets or something.
I guess I'm getting a bit off-topic now so I'll stop. It just pisses me off that the entire gaming community has to dumb itself down for the masses- I understand it... I just don't like.