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Well, the Battle of Britain has no "death bubble" over the Axis base. Taking into account the lack of balance and 90% chance of Axis victory, it's not that bad. Also, the Axis usually bail out over the Allied territory and shoot everything from Allied machine- and AA-guns.
The main purpose of both sides at Coral Sea is to destroy the carriers by all available mean. Since the carrier is not an uncapturable point, you can bomb and bail out over it again and again, to reap death and chaos at the enemy's runway. The more planes you destroy with mines and expacks, the less they get to take off.
I agree that Coral Sea is about destroying the enemy carriers, and I know you can't get anything close to total realism on a game like this, but with the current situation it's not anything resembling the real battle. All we can do is try to eliminate that which obviously destroys the realism, whether by server configuration or server rules.
I disagree that the carrier is not an uncapturable point. It is a spawn point (the ONLY spawn points on this map are on the carriers), and it is not capturable.
By the way, I remembered an anecdote from WW2 about a carrier crew being ordered to stand by to repel boarders, and was able to find an account of Japanese planes almost landing mistakenly on the USS Yorktown during the Battle of Coral Sea: http://tacairnet.com/2014/01/09/wrong-ship-sherlock. They didn't actually land, however.
I have a lot of respect for both Flick and Giant, so this is unfortunate. I hope it's just a misunderstanding.
BTW, can someone deal with George's post? It looks like spam, and when I scroll through the messages on this subject a word shows up in huge letters one my screen that is banned during gameplay chat.
The second rule of the Server Rules states, "The previous basecamping/basebombing rule does not apply to Battle of Britain map and Capture the Flag (CTF) maps."
OK, I understand that the whole point of the Battle of Britain map is to bomb the enemy base (at least for the Axis), but camping by people not even in planes is rampant on this map here, and in my opinion it ruins the whole game. Why is it considered desirable to have Allied players bail over the Axis airfield, run into the JU-88 inside the hangar, and camp there spawn-killing people for most of the game? How is that a good game?
Coral Sea is just as bad. People on both sides in EVERY game I've ever played here bail over the enemy carrier pretty much throughout the entire game. Yet when I've complained in-game I've been told that it is allowed on that map. I certainly don't see it listed as an exception in the Server Rules. Midway is not quite so bad, but I still hear the excuse that the carriers are not uncapturable bases, so it's OK. Either way, I've never in all my studying of WW II history heard of battles in which people were running around on enemy ships laying mines and shooting gunners in the back, and it makes for lousy game play whatever the rule actually means.
In my opinion people should have to stay off the bases/ships unless they are still in a plane. Is there any chance of clarifying or changing the rules to stop this type of activity?
I have posted in the forums before, within the last few weeks, so I know I had registered here. Tonight I tried to login and it didn't recognize my user name. It even let me register again using the same user name, so I know it was really gone. Anyway I am back, but what happened? Several days ago I noticed the forums were completely gone, and I was getting page does not exist errors, but it came back after a few days. Could my registration have been lost because of whatever problem was going on with the server?
I was playing in the FRA server in an Iwo Jima game that ended a few minutes ago, so I was playing mostly between 22:00 and 22:30 GMT-5. I came in late, so I did not see all the action, but there was a player (#3) named "*** Zobywan Kenoby ***" who was TKing intentionally. I was in a plane and he kept shooting at me, although I didn't realize it was coming from him until he actually shot me down and I saw the "*** Zobywan Kenoby *** killed a teammate" message. At that time he was auto-kicked for minus score, so he must have been doing it for a while. Just near the end of the game he came back, and TKed me again, and I don't think there's any way it was an accident. The logs should verify the TKs.
So in addition to TKing I think he also violated the rule that says "Do not try to evade a ban, that will lead to a much longer ban" by coming back to do the same bad behavior he had already been kicked for.