Hello, I'm the current fleet leader of BAMF (This changes weekly) and this will be a decently sized post. Whatever you think of BAMF I think most everyone can agree that many of us play for HA's and we'd love to see this game continue on. Below I have a few thoughts on the current state of HA's and would love to have some civil discussion on them.
1) Fix APA's
2) Fix Borderhumped skytrains
3) Remove the harbor limit.
So first thing I'd like to see is the return of APA's. For the newer players (do ya'll exist?!?) APA's were a method of taking a room while the enemy still had subs/other ships holding the room. You'd take the APA to the other end of the map, if it made it through safely it would win the room for you. In the end it added a bit more strat to the game, and when you have no mas apa the ss delaying the room works as it does now. This was inadvertently removed when retreating off the border was patched out, currently the APA will "beach" on the border.
Second thing is skytrains. My personal opinion is they should be completely removed from the game with the state of desyncs but I can understand why they are here, to help fleets who cant counter a supior BB force. That said, there is been an trend of fleets border humping skytrains on the north border, while this happened occasionly (and used to be bannable), these fleets have figured a way to get them completely off the map, so you can only hear sound. Below are the screenshots I tried to capture, but they are so far off the map they don't show much. Honestly I'd just like to see a fix for this.
https://i.imgur.com/IM8VXNN.jpg In this picture you can see the splash of one plane being shot down, and the shadows way above the health bar, followed by https://i.imgur.com/NOYfsYx.jpg . I think we can all agree this is crappy gameplay.
Now for the third one, and what I'd really love to happen is the removal of the 2 harbor limit. So atm, CHNB and RA both own 2 harbors, BAMF would own 2 but we gave away USN so we can attack. Limiting a fleet to 2 harbors is meant from keeping one fleet from dominating the server, but why? Right now there is a good three way balance of power between RA, BAMF and Omegas. I'm unsure on CHNB's power as they can't attack do to investing in both their harbors. Removing the limit would allow fleets to actually fight over harbors. Now if say, BAMF was to take over all the harbors (which is very unlikely) the game could team up and attack all harbors the same day, forcing us to massively over extend and play Navyfield all day (spoiler, we wont do that). I think this would be an issue that would counter balance itself while at the same time allow many more competitive fights.
I'm very interested in hearing thoughts on this.
And on a final note.
Bring back the trade system <3