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| Limited number of private flights within 24h period | Started by: Grin-08 on Jul 09, '20 14:10 |
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The private flight feature allows someone to fly whilst they still have a flight timer cooling down. Whilst it is relatively expensive, it oftentimes feels like an abused feature allowing individuals to circumnavigate the need to work well with others due to the wealth which has been accumulated. This usually manifests itself in a couple of individuals private flying around the country for locals for example as they are the only person with vision, or the only one capable of making a shot, rather than having to bring more people into it to achieve their goals. I feel that the idea of the game is to build a family of multiple parts making others outside of a handful of people important to the effort. The more people involved, the greater the enjoyment level for more people. I would therefore propose we can the number of private flights any one person can take within a 24 hour period before they are then stuck in that location for the duration of their flight timer. I feel like this would encourage more involvement from more people as the big accounts would need more assistance if they were stuck somewhere for an extended period of time. |
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Long overdue - I wholly agree that those who have an abundant amount of cash/credits are more easily able to work around the flight issues by repeatedly taking PF's and that limiting the amount of daily PF's would considerably alleviate this circumnavigation. |
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| Reply by: Illuminatiated at Jul 09, '20 14:21 | |
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Seriously great idea! |
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| Reply by: OctopusLegs at Jul 09, '20 14:30 | |
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| Definitely a plus one from me | |
| Reply by: Anton at Jul 09, '20 18:17 | |
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I like the premise. I was thinking that to make private flights more realistic, as flying instantly to multiple locations is literally impossible, you could have a private flight take less time than a regular flight. For example; you take a normal flight and have a flight timer of 6 hours, you are immediately able to now take a private flight to another city, however after arriving in this city, you HAVE to wait for your flight timer to clear. I have no idea how long this would need to be, maybe a proportion of the regular flight? If a normal flight would've given you a 6 hour timer, maybe the private flight gives you a 2 hour timer? In essence a you can take a private flight while waiting on a normal flight timer, but you can't take one if your timer relates to a private flight already. If this isn't workable, I do like the original idea of just limiting the flights in a certain period of time. |
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| Reply by: SammyGarcini at Jul 09, '20 19:42 | |
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| I disagree, there are many reasons for private and it's not exclusive to the credit rich. Some of the scenario's you mentioned are funded from donations through relationships/friends. It's been a feature for a long time and it helps move money/credits within the game. | |
| Reply by: OneEyedJack at Jul 09, '20 19:50 | |
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I disagree, this feels too much of a veiled way of controlling a feature of the game and those that might need to use it. Usually private flights are used with family involvement, at lest with my experience it has. |
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| Reply by: Allegra at Jul 10, '20 08:49 | |
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I also disagree |
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| Reply by: BitterSweet at Jul 10, '20 09:50 | |
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| Huge -1 for me. Seems like a way to limit a game feature that helps turn the tide of wars and also limits the ability of single shooters with a supporting cast to accomplish as much. Just seems like a way for somebody at the top to get a better stranglehold on the game. | |
| Reply by: TadKnackered at Jul 10, '20 15:11 | |
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No veiled attempts or strangleholds intended. I've just been part of wars where 1 person grabs every local and big shooters are privated around. Costs maybe 50-60m, which is no skin of their nose, job done. Whereas if the info guy was stuck and the shooters were stuck, maybe more people are then involved in the planning and execution, which leads to both more interaction between players and the possibility for things to go wrong/inclusion with the ruling powers. |
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| Reply by: Grin-08 at Jul 10, '20 16:42 | |
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It's worth saying, by the way, given Grin-08's position in this thing of ours, that his proposing this might well backfire on him. Definite +1 for me. |
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| Reply by: Anton at Jul 10, '20 17:21 | |
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I agree with this suggestion. Personally speaking I would go slightly further also. I would propose that a private flight should add to your flight timer, not replace the current time. With each additional flight brings further added time. That way you set a cap of the max time you can accumulate and once above said time no flights are available to you. |
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| Reply by: Midas at Jul 11, '20 18:57 | |
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I personally don't think this is a good idea, but could make an adjustment such as making it more expensive each trip. Could be 1.5x each trip or 2x |
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| Reply by: PumbaTumba at Jul 13, '20 09:01 | |
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this would be limiting a feature of the game. If people want to spend, let them spend. -1 |
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| Reply by: Antonio at Jul 14, '20 18:15 | |
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