Gameplay: Outfit Air Cruisers Redux

[Talek Krell]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

My opinion of space battles is much the same as water based naval suggestions... takes too much from the ground game of planetside...

While this is arguably true, I think there's scope to expand the Planetside Universe beyond just the ground game. EvE is trying something like this with Dust514, and I see no particular reason that both the traditional Planetside and the Spaceside game attached to it couldn't both be populated and successful.

The problem with introducing these ships, especially on existing continents, is that they become the focus of the game. It's a game change so fundamental that the original gameplay is forever compromised. They are like BFRs in that way. The original intention of the BFR was to become the new center of the battle. Nothing matched a BFR, the best way to kill a BFR was to use another BFR. And the result was that life started to be a lot less fun for people who weren't driving a BFR.

If airships are the solution then I'm not yet convinced that there was a problem.