Air Battleground

[Deathlycold]

Hey all,
I just got an idea for a air type battleground so i write it down before i will forget it.

*This battleground will be held as it says in the air, it can only be held three to four times per day.
*The locations are the city skylines it will be done with Gyrocopters and the Airplanes you use with the quests you must drop skyreavers or something into Ymirheim.
*It will be a 100 v 100 but unlike you can target people you CAN'T target anyone you only see youre own health bar and of youre gyrocopter / airplane.
*You only see those vehicles flying above, below, left, right etc at you (total chaos ;D) you dont know who's who cause Horde and Alliance both use those vehicles you only see at the top of screen how much of every faction is left.
*A funny thing of those vehicles is when you see the health bar of you or youre vehicle (you can both be shot at the same time) you can chooce of the ideas i got in mind (both got the same) a freefall that lasts for 5 seconds,
a corckscrew to escape enemies or a looping to escape enemies.
*A few attacks is a normal shot (white coloured) a Heat Guided missile 5 minute cd it goes to any random enemy vehicle and deals an X amount of damage, Bomb on a parachute it blows up after an X amount of seconds you get damage wether friendly or not 20 second cooldown, or an onboard machine gun what deals low damage but can be shot very rapidley deals a small amount of X damage.
*When youre vehicle is shot down you will be teleported to a friendly random city but dont worry you will still get youre reward wether you win or lose (3 if won 1 if lost ofcourse).
* This type of wg in the air has no time and the first faction who is shot down first loses ofcourse it also has rewards but instead of armor what wintergrasp has (40 marks for shoulder for example) you get a 1 handed weapon for 100 marks (this includes wands, offhands, librams etc) 150 marks for ranged weapons (thrown included) and 200 marks for the rest of the weapons

So tell me what you think of this type of battleground and leave the childish comment out

[Ormula]

In a perfect world, it seems like it would be fun. Unfortunately, the vehicle system takes a giant toll on servers, and you can tell already from the beginning of Wintergrasp it lags the majority of most world servers to hell. This would be that, but probably 10 times worse.

Also, the reason the time limit thing works for WG, is because it allows for quick games where, for example, servers with 5:1 A:H ratios can quickly win or quickly lose. This would seem to heavily favor factions which are already favored.

[Zoros]

Sorry but I want to play my character.

Vehicles are fun for a quest, but more than 10m are boring as hell.

However I miss a BG where players can use both mounts. An escenary with a noxius atmosphere where to fly has a 15s "Breath bar", and some kind of building where you can only use the ground mount.

[Annarion]

Am I the only one who couldn't make enough sense out of that to make heads or tails out of it?

[Deleted]

If I'm reading this right, you want a 100v100 fly around Ymirheim randomly shooting at eveny planes like the infra-green quests already ingame?

Please, no.

[AnotherPaladin]

I'd like to see something like this happen. Sounds interesting and not recycled, like the majority of content has been. A ship one would aslo be cool.

[Deathlycold]

If I'm reading this right, you want a 100v100 fly around Ymirheim randomly shooting at eveny planes like the infra-green quests already ingame?

Please, no.

No not at ymirheim but those planes you must use to drop those orcs / humans depending on faction if you read further then that you see it will be held at a friendly / hostile city darnassus, if, sw, org, tb etc

[Shamocra]

no just no it would be a copy of Aion and it would have so much lag that every server just crashes

[Don Yak]

sounds nice actually, only it would fit better if it would be in that air elemental plane thingy.

[tradicas]

*It will be a 100 v 100 but unlike you can target people you CAN'T target anyone you only see youre own health bar and of youre gyrocopter / airplane.

*You only see those vehicles flying above, below, left, right etc at you (total chaos ;D) you dont know who's who cause Horde and Alliance both use those vehicles you only see at the top of screen how much of every faction is left.

*A funny thing of those vehicles is when you see the health bar of you or youre vehicle (you can both be shot at the same time) you can chooce of the ideas i got in mind (both got the same) a freefall that lasts for 5 seconds,
a corckscrew to escape enemies or a looping to escape enemies.

*A few attacks is a normal shot (white coloured) a Heat Guided missile 5 minute cd it goes to any random enemy vehicle and deals an X amount of damage, Bomb on a parachute it blows up after an X amount of seconds you get damage wether friendly or not 20 second cooldown, or an onboard machine gun what deals low damage but can be shot very rapidley deals a small amount of X damage.

Wait a second... OP just described the multiplayer and "ALL RANGE MODE" fights from Star Fox 64.

I mean, seriously, someone else has to have played that game and sees the similarities.

[OoMally]

Would be cool if it could be Implemented well, sounds pretty crazy otherwise

[Ormula]

Wait a second... OP just described the multiplayer and "ALL RANGE MODE" fights from Star Fox 64.

I mean, seriously, someone else has to have played that game and sees the similarities.

Why else do you think I approved?

[Renoxis]

could work.... need massive refinements however

[Togarox]

How do you attack if you can't target anyone else's vehicle?

I wouldn't mind it but there would have to be more incentive to do it and with it being a large scale BG, a way to keep from 1 side always winning due to amount of people (like tenacity)

[Deleted]

Perhaps, but first I'd like to see the proposed Sea/Naval based BG, with moving or even conquerable ships and stuff like that. Of course the air based BG could be a part of this one.

This is something I'd like to see as well. Some recreations of the good old Warcraft II's naval battles.

[ComputerNerd]

This idea was already tried for wintergrasp, but proved to be such a lagfest, even worse than the current one so that it never made it to live.
The images on the wotlk box show that concept.
Yes the idea does have some appeal, but there are already major lag issues with the likes of wintergrasp, and something like this would just be far worse.
I have seen many occurances where in wintergrasp there are half a dozen people complaining about sudden lag simultaenously, so not a "buy a better computer" issue, but long standing problems.

[Eats Compost]

Does it look fun? Yes, it does, mainly because I was looking forward to Wintergrasp dogfights that never happened. Would it be difficult to implement? Yes, very, which is the main thing going against it. WoW also has very clunky aim-and-shoot mechanics, which could also be a spanner in the works.

Can't let you do that, Star Fox.

[Dhuzgan]

Not interrested. Gief deathmatch battlegrounds.

[Hei]

No. It would be much more painful than WG and IotC in every aspect.

[Lythox]

Talking about marks im so glad they removed them. with 4 bgs the system works but as soon as there are over 8 bg's marks are being a hell.