This whole thread is really a waste of time. Gaijin is just not going to do something like this.
The best we can ask for is for Gaijin to tailor the game mode to be more hardcore PVP, like reducing team sizes back to 12 vs 12 or 10 vs 10 or maybe 8 vs 8 for some small maps.
However, the more passive players will still need a mode where they can grind CAS aircraft and Gaijin sure as shit is not going to relegate them to just grinding in Ground.
This would require Gaijin to create another gamemode. Either a PVE Air RB or an Air RB EC.
Removing CAS aircraft from an entire gamemode is not gunna happen.
Models are real airplanes, gameplay is not based on realistic scenarios. Real air battles went for hours or even days and contained hundreds of airplanes.
If you want that, play Air Simulator (except hunders of airplanes).
What was more challenging? Take off from af in a prop with ~ 1.500 hp and to get get to 6.5 km just in time or to spray them down with a jet with air spawn and a shitload of 30mm ammo with a “one-hit-kill” shell. Your choice bro…
i always liked CAS planes, but im not grinding tanks to play them in ground rb, so i have nowhere to play my mig-27/su-25/IL-28 … …, how about we instead reshape the game mode so cas aircraft have severe impact on the outcome of the match?
Better still, outright replace Air RB with Markerless RB EC. It’s a better base to build a new mode upon. Let the current mode be stripped down to just a dumb fighter deathmatch it should stop pretending it isn’t and have that be the “special event.”
I mean youd just have to adjust the research multiplier to be equal to regular Air RB. Research and SL balancing is prolly the easiest mechanic to adjust.