[2019] [Suggestion]New Air Anomalies

Tempest capacity for Galaxy is going to be severely reduced in the next update, and deposit rates will be slowed as well, so you have a better chance to kill targets before they drop all their resources off. Those changes should drop Galaxy's value during the alert.

A few factors contribute to snowballing.

The first is population and a willingness to participate. - Fun events that don't feel one-sided get more participation.

The second is the placement of the anomalies themselves. - Defending inside your territory is easier than having to extend outward.

The third is a critical mass of units in the same area. - The more consolidated a force is, the more difficult it is to kill targets within it.

New anomalies addresses the latter two directly. By centralizing the turn-in location, even when you have an anomaly the spawns deeper into your allied territory, you'll still need to come to a location more easily reachable by all factions in order to earn any points at all. This opens up strategies to defend turn-in locations, hunt down aircraft in transit, and it makes killing enemies actually mean something, since the damage isn't done until a vehicle turns in its resources.

Definitely the right question to ask, and the truth is that we'll have to see how it unfolds. If one faction is truly camping the buoys without any recourse, that means that you're giving the other faction time to gather forces uncontested in the anomaly, which would ultimately mean another big clash in the middle.

At any rate, the changes are certainly going to be better than it is on Live currently, if for no other reason than the center of the map being much more accessible than the far reaches, for all factions at all times.