Imagine losing after a 10-kill clutch because some 15lv decided to camp the airfield

[Ion_Protogen]

@Busheedoh

Is the player who doesn’t understand the basics of dogfighting and using the airfield entitled to winning the match for basically doing nothing themselves?

They wouldn’t have won if OP didn’t begin to camp the opponents airfield while ignoring tickets.

@Busheedoh

Landing, and rearming should be a risk.

It already is since you can end up in a worse situation on takeoff. That still doesn’t change the fact that you are not entitled to kill an enemy plane that’s damaged/out of ammo for no reason other than you not wanting a fair fight.

Without AA, ignoring all fighting and camping the opponents airfield will become a valid tactic, and why would anyone want that?

@Busheedoh

Essentially, as long as something like base AA exists; the common Joe will never have any reason to get better.

That’s untrue IMO. Base AA is not the limiting factor behind player skill. AF camping isn’t that common, and the real limiting factor is that killing players doesn’t net that much more than base bombing, so why would anyone want to learn to get better?

@Busheedoh

because I believe the player should have full agency over the actions

Being forced to be a free kill to someone who doesn’t deserve it because you actually played the game is the opposite.

[UnknownVariable]

I feel like just marking on the map the exact radius of the airfield AA and then allowing said AA to lose track of you if you go super low (like 15 meters off the ground max) would do plenty to making the camping the airfield a bit fairer.

The issue with airfield AA is not that they shouldnt exist, its that there should at least be some way of working around it so that we feel its not just a super OP guardian angel to hold your hands.

[Chikarino]

@Ion_Protogen

Being forced to be a free kill to someone who doesn’t deserve it because you actually played the game is the opposite.

@UnknownVariable

I feel like just marking on the map the exact radius of the airfield AA and then allowing said AA to lose track of you if you go super low (like 15 meters off the ground max) would do plenty to making the camping the airfield a bit fairer.

I don’t really mind people getting protected by AA while on ground. using terrain and the inactive player thing do counter that kind of abusive use pretty effectively.
But players deliberately flying above the airfield can cause problems. a group of Rolands with infinite missiles shooting at early jets is pretty crazy.