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So, I original played Allegiance when it was released with an ancient three button joystick. I have no recollection how well I did with it then.

When I started playing Allegiance again after I got out of college, I played it with a huge, lumbering monstrosity of a stick a friend gave to me, whose ...

QUOTE (-Trigger- @ Apr 8 2008, 05:02 PM) A problem with using wings for specific tasks in PUGs is that you don't want to limit some of your players to one task. You only have some many Vets who know what they are doing and need to be jacks of all trades.

Even 'Nooblet, Nooblington, Hopeless_Voob ...

QUOTE (Weylin @ Apr 7 2008, 05:43 PM) Larger games should make use of the "wings"

People who take part in a specific role should all join the same wing to not confuse others with there chatter, and so the comm can simply say "echo wing, camp the aleph low" somthing of that sort.

Also these wings ...

I'm willing to bet that if any commander took the time to directly tell, say, five people to form up into a wing, they'd get that down. However, I don't think any commander wants to spend the time singling out and ordering five people to do it.

People seem to have trouble realizing that more tech isn't always better; Expansion vs Expansion, for example, I hear people scream at coms for buying mini3s...because you just bought that for the other team as well.

I really like this idea; capital ships are neat, but the current implantation often seems to result in disappointment fairly often.
Have people being getting back to you with playtest data yet?

Most times, a wide appeal for 'three people get on <x> wing, go on miner offense' won't get a decent reply because people don't realize they're expected to step up and do it; this is true for other general commands as well ('Someone get on miner d right now!'). So, typically, only reasonably ...

That would be really neat.

...Though I suspect that most custom paint jobs wouldn't be quite so well done as the above.

Out of curiosity, did you actually make that into a fully statted ship, or just make the skin for the IC fighter?

In either case, it's nifty.

The simple layout makes everything clearer; though it lacks the distinctiveness of the original...I don't think that matters.