There has been a large discussion over what the best way of limiting the effect of border
humped planes is.

There are a number of options open to us, but I will present the most effective way of
dealing with it, followed by the other suggestions and why they are not as effective.

Solution.

The solution is for some programming to be added to the game whereby if a plane approaches
the border and passes a certain line, they automatically fire/lose their ammunition.
Whether this is a TBer or DBer, ground level or max altitude, the plane should lose any
ammunition it has left. This area should encompass ALL the areas whereby a plane can
become invisible so that only it's shadow is visible.


OTHER Ideas.

Automatic AAW on the Borders.

This method would also work but it has 2 large potential flaws. Firstly, the AAW required
to down a TBer is immense, whether or not it is possible to ramp up the AAW effect is not
known and whether it can be made to work effectively at high alititude is also not known.
The second problem is that this could be abused to increase BWing. By dropping the bomb
and then flying to the border, the planes would die automatically which would make the
pilot free again. This could easily by abused to make BWing a far quicker affair because
it isn't like a CV56 is short of plane space.


CV losing DP while bombers are on Border.

This idea doesn't really appeal to me because it still allows the CV to deal the damage
through the BWing. I think proactively affecting the planes is better than reactively
affecting the CVs.

Planes lose fuel when going over Border.

This could be open to abuse as the AAW idea is.



I believe that the "dropping bomb" idea is the best way to deal with this problem. For
those of you who raise the question of how Scouts and Fighters are affected, my idea is
that neither will be affected by this change.

Please feel free to add other suggestions if you wish but I think this offers the best
solution to the problem.

Perhaps a Macro which says "I AM ATTEMPTING TO BORDER HUMP PLANES AND HAVE BEEN
ACCORDINGLY PUNSIHED" when they do it would be a nice little bonus as well.