What Do You Do ....

[ChiefRedCloud-AGE-]

......We seem to be having the problem of everyone wanting fly (helos or fixed wing). What do you guys do or how do you all handle this situation?

I remember this from BF 1942 and Desert Combat big time. And perhaps there is no way around it. Once you get passed team killing to get a plane, some suggestions are to let who ever gets to the plan/helo fly it for that map/game. Not a bad idea if everyone goes along with it. Taking turns doesn't seem to fit in somes vocabualry. I like to fly but I'm not forgoing the fact that ground pounders win the war and air jcks just give us headasckes (bombs, bullets etc.) Helo lifts and rides are great if it isn't abused by single jocks.

[lcplsickoll]

I just don't fly. If we're getting pounded by aircraft and our jets are just sitting on the tarmac, then I'll jump in. Other than that those guys can sit and be sniper targets while waiting for the plane/helos, I could care less.

[rombaft]

When the chopper is free, I could be that I fly it, but not always, and if it's not free, there's tons of other fun stuff to do in the game, like going on foor or go with some armo to own some enemy's.

Chopper isn't the holy grale to me

[evilzucchini]

The problem with any method is that not everyone is going to know about it or bother to comply.

If taking turns doesn't work, no way saying one person for the whole map is going to work.

I am one of those people that just says "screw it" if there are a million people waiting for the planes and helos. I just take some other vehicle.

However, when I am commander and we are losing. . . it pisses me off to see all the people just milling around the god damn helo pad. GO DO SOMETHING!!!

[Kukov]

First come, first served. There's nothing wrong with that. People crash or get shot down enough anyway to keep new choppers and planes coming in, furthermore if you happen to miss getting into one, you'd better learn to be proficient in something else instead.

[lcplsickoll]

However, when I am commander and we are losing. . . it pisses me off to see all the people just milling around the god damn helo pad. GO DO SOMETHING!!!

This pisses me off royally. I also hate when I have a squad that is hell bent on defending an uncappable flag. They absolutely refuse to follow my orders and move on an unpopulated enemy CP.

[The_Misfit]

I prefer to fly a helo, but will take several things into account...

map, # of clanmates in TS - and what are they doing in the server, and how bad the game is going...

I spawned at the MI-28's location on Mashtur city last night, only to find 4 guys standing there waiting for it... I got in a vehicle and went to battle...I won't waste time waiting, and usually let people have a turn. If they're total nubs at it and plow it into the ground I'll ask to fly....

[Cotizi]

I just don't fly. If we're getting pounded by aircraft and our jets are just sitting on the tarmac, then I'll jump in. Other than that those guys can sit and be sniper targets while waiting for the plane/helos, I could care less.

i think im gonna to camp on the carrier sometime with a sniper rifle when they all are waiting for aircraft and see how many i can get before the realize whats going on :laugh: with any luck they will be too worried about their planes to care....

[lcplsickoll]

i think im gonna to camp on the carrier sometime with a sniper rifle when they all are waiting for aircraft and see how many i can get before the realize whats going on :laugh: with any luck they will be too worried about their planes to care....

Seen it done. 1 supply 1 sniper...I spawned and was killed. You're correct in your thinking that nobody cared about the sniper. They just jumped around until a plane spawned. Needless to say I wasn't looking for a plane, it was the only point we had. I spawned inside and walked behind the 2 of them. Well... they didn't kill anyone else.

[glaeken]

I no longer fly. Basically around the aircraft spawns you always get all the really lame behaviour going on so I concentrate on the ground game these days. I don't even have my flight controls bound in BF2.

[Grey Fox]

I basicly just play as infantry, and whne I die I press ctrl to see if any vehcle ground/air is availible, and if I can use it for soemthing usefull, otherwise I jsut spawn at the flag nearest to the action. I hardly ever wait, cause that is a waste for your team, you could be fighting instead of waiting.

Dice could solve this very easy, by first making an area where the airplane or helo respanw, now lets say a fighter can only be piloted by one person, now if 1 person is in that arez he gets a yellow 1 above his head, which means that no one but him will get in the plane once it reapawns if he stays in that area, that way players will know that they have no chanse, no matter if they go closer to were it will respan and hold e, the way it is now sometimes you have up to 10 people wating for the respawning jet.

Anyway another solution is whne you are playing as commander to treaten to arty them, I did that a couple of time, in less then 1 minute the deck of the carrier was almost empty, however this only works in non ranked servers, cause your score doesn't go on perma record, and best if it has punish off, so the idiots know you mean it.

[ChiefRedCloud-AGE-]

I want to thank you all for your comments. And you all make great since. The war, in basics, should NOT be at the airfield. There are too many ways to help win the war than waisting time waiting for a plane/helo. I perticularly like the idea of the colored number above the potentual pilots head. But in this instince what about teamkillers. they are out there.?

[Grey Fox]

if someone is Tk'ed by soemone with a rifle when he has that number, the tkéd person gets the option to kick the guy, not punish, but kick. But in any case, even without that, the idea still works cause it solves more problems then it creates.

[imported_Master Shake]

ChiefRedCloud....I like the AGE server...play there often..

[Sapper]

I'll wait a few minutes if there is a short line. I don't mind co-piloting at all. If the damn thing doesn't spawn for a while, I figure that the dood is a better pilot than me and I leave to fight else where.