I think it is a healthy thread so far
So if I get this right... let's say we have a bunch of destroyers and carriers on a huge map with sea-only.
Every player spawns in a position in each ship, and they just sit there and wait for a target to eventually pop in to their sights? So one guy is driving each ship then, or?
So let's say a cruiser has 5 seats, a destroyer 5 seats and the carrier 6 seats, and we have 2 of each = 32 seats. These ships then drive around looking for enemies, and when they do find them, how do they position themselves so everybody can fire?
Or is the carrier static, so it can have planes on it that can bomb the other ships? (which was epic fun in fh1)? If the carrier is static, i guess it will be a game only about defending your carrier as each team will just head for the enemy carrier immediately to sink it.
I guess this could work out, but it would be rather boring those minutes when you just sit in a gun staring at empty sea. Or what if the driver of your ship is a moron and drives it to stupid places?
If you need to suicide to switch to another ship, it seems to me it will be like a minigame just hopping from seat to seat, from ship to ship looking for action.
If we had mobile artillery code working in the ships, I guess scout planes could spot the enemy carriers and you just shell it from a distant, It could be fun, and your captain would need to always move your ship to avoid getting shelled himself.
Artillery minigame of hopping between targets and adjust the dials is actually pretty fun, and I can probably see myself in a huge gun a whole round adjusting dials and hopping between targets, if in the end I could see a huge carrier go down like in FH1, it was truly rewarding moments in Midway-FH1.
The same game play layout could ofcourse be applied to an air-only map. where you spawn in a plane and need to take off to fight enemies in the sky. If designed perfectly, and with clear objectives, even noobs can enjoy it. I had very fun in coral sea in bf1942, but ofcourse there you could land on the enemy carrier and plant landmines on its deck, or snipe the AA guys from the mountain....