My Experiences with Airport Closures
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As many of you know, I have been known for closing down a few airports. Many of you may wonder what is like to do it, why you would want to do it, etc. I'll share my experience here so that it might benefit others.
Why? The answer is simple. The addition of airports has resulted in mobsters "flying" all over the world with almost zero effort. This has caused all the major population centers of the world to become nearly identical to each other as us larger players migrate to all the airports. The world has lost some of its uniqueness. So what gave me the idea to close airports? I wish I could claim credit for that idea. I saw two things: first a player called "the man" was very vocal in his dislike of airports, and second, some other players got together and actually closed the first two airports: Sydney and San Antonio.
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I have been a solo player for couple of years now and found myself wondering if it would be possible to close an airport single-handed. Surely the locals wouldn't sit still for that would they? Only one way to find out. Go and try it. I devised an experiment to see what would happen. I knew that it would put me grossly over turf limit but that as ok as I was already way over to begin with. (Prior to the airport plan, I was slowly covering small countries with an array of turf that I expanded by caping at the edge of my territory each day.)
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The Experiment: Since the goal was to find out if it was possible to take an airport without the locals revolting, the parameters of the experiment were simple to devise. Simply cap airport turf until the locals revolted. Since I love diplomacy, I allowed for a minor amount of diplomacy to come into play. I realized that filling an airport would require way more turf that I could build and that some people might be willing to exchange turf for the use of my airport. (what's the point of controlling an airport if you don't determine who can and cannot use it?) Therefore it was logical to allow some travel through my airport for a select group of persons and this would still qualify as a "solo" takeover. It was also a plan to allow players larger than me to travel if they already had turf there since that would remove them as a potential ally for those that would want to break the blockade. In other words, they would "sell out" the locals in exchange for travel through the airport.
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The Method: Cap, cap and cap. Then repeat that over and over. As new people would fly in, you cap them immediately. The airport becomes a giant venus fly trap. In the beginning, few people noticed. A few complained about the capping or wondered if they had done something to offend me. I sent responses that assured them I was not after them but after the airport. This seemed to satisfy most people. It wasn't until space was hard to find in the airport that people started to really complain but even those complaints were few. Most came from new players that wanted to travel. I'd let them build turf and then cap them before their tickets were active. I wasn't trying to be mean. I was trying to provoke a response. None came.
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After the Airport is Filled: Toronto took some time to secure but once it was filled it was time to make a decision. What to do…. Since the experiment hadn't run to it's conclusion (revolt) there was only one choice: take a second airport. (Chicago) I followed the exact same protocol here and got almost identical results. There were a few more large players here than in Toronto and I followed the exact same policy for dealing with them. The results were the same as for Toronto. Chicago seemed to go a little quicker than Toronto. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it had more dead areas or perhaps I wasn't as careful in my pursuit of it.
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The Surprise: I never expected to be able to take a single airport. Those that I talked to about it told me it couldn't be done. Yet here I was with not one, but two airports under my belt. I realized that it was getting more than a little bit tedious. I hadn't built a turf in well over two years now due to being over turf limit. In addition, the recent map change had opened up more buildable areas in each airport that I had to go back and recapture. The experiment hadn't reached it conclusion yet but I found that I really didn't care. I needed to be true to my goal and finish the experiment so I continued. I had turf in four more airports: heathrow, london city, hong kong and singapore. I followed my same procedure starting with Heathrow but I had a really hard time sticking with it. The motivation just wasn't there.
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The Exit: In the beginning, I gave some thought on how to get back under limit. I had figured that I would not succeed in locking up one airport and guessed that I would be over turf limit by about 2000 turf before the locals revolted. I figured the coming attack would get me close to being under limit again and that I could simply tear down the rest of the way. I had never figured on being more than 8000 turf over limit! Yet that is exactly where I found myself. I stepped up the rate of capping in Heathrow and added HK and Singapore. There were some rumblings of discontent from the locals that seemed like it might get some traction but it just seemed to sit there. After a couple of weeks, I started capping in London City as well. I was now capping in four airports at once. Finally the attacks came.
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The "Fight": The locals got together and gave themselves a goal of removing me from England, HK and Singapore. It was a great effort and they did well with it. I didn't fight as I figured I as reached the end of my experiment. Now I was curious to see how fast they could tear things out. I found this to be a very big surprise. Over a two day period, they managed to destroy roughly 1500 turf. A good effort to be sure but I was left in a horrible position. I still had more than 7500 turf to get rid of. There was no way I could tear that much down. That is when the idea of a turf sale hit me. I had seen others do it and wondered how it go. The results were astounding!
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The Turf Sale: The sale was wildly successful. In just under 48 hours, roughly 7500 turf were captured. It is important to note that all these turf still exist. The "fight" in England, HK and Singapore resulted in all that turf being destroyed since they were using vendettas to attack. The sale is a MUCH better way to go since it gives all that turf back to the community. It also is kinda fun since you have idea which turf people will take. It introduces a randomness to the playing field once you are mobile again. It also leaves plenty of good will for you in the community. People love free stuff. Doing the sale is easy: sell all your upkeep weapons, declare a vendetta (targeting no one) so that your remaining weapons are 40% weaker and announce it in the forums. Have fun with your announcement. Be goofy. I did.
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What's Next: I find it interesting to note that several people have taken up the mantle and vowed to keep some airports closed. Some have gotten into the airport business themselves. Toronto still seems to be closed. Chicago seems pretty crowded too. What are my future plans? Don't know. I'll spread out again. That much is certain. Will I take over an airport again? Probably not. Maybe a city or a country...
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Good read👍
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Are you greenman in disguise?
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Very inspiring. Im just a 5k newb, but definitely gives hope that some interesting things can be done in game.
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An intriguing experiment or a vulgar display of power. Call it what you will. Impressive non the less. I begrudgingly tip my hat to you Dirt!
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Interesting look on the airport situation. Good read. 👍
Personally I don't get the argument against airports, if the theology behind the argument were applied throughout, hopping should also be stopped. What's gps based about hopping? Also, for those living in relatively small places with no real chance of getting out, airports give more to stay interested in. Interesting that most who oppose airports are those who are pretty much all over the world anyway! Be pretty boring for them if there were nobody else there?
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Although I like the meaning behind closing down airports with turf, which you describe above. I could see it having an adverse effect on the 'no more airports' argument. Those wishing to utilise the benefits of airports will only be more vocal about more opening up, if they can't get into the closed ones.
The way in which you describe your experience is pretty decent, not only for your own interest, but for the locals and potential travellers alike. 👍
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⚜Ꮶ͜иιɢн͡т⚜ wrote:
I agree I'm gonna be going to Cali in January and hope to get turf in an airport so I can expand but if the airport is full I will eventually bore o the game and leave, airports have been my goal for a long time and I hope to achieve it. And hopping is not GPS based at all all the vets complain the GPS aspect of the game is leaving when they play a major role in that alsoInteresting look on the airport situation. Good read. 👍
Personally I don't get the argument against airports, if the theology behind the argument were applied throughout, hopping should also be stopped. What's gps based about hopping? Also, for those living in relatively small places with no real chance of getting out, airports give more to stay interested in. Interesting that most who oppose airports are those who are pretty much all over the world anyway! Be pretty boring for them if there were nobody else there?
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⌖🔥Ꮹ༙ᏌN༙Ꮋ༙ᏫᏩ༙🔥⌖ wrote:
👆👆👆Good read👍
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Great and gripping read Jim.Good work.You come across as an excellent fellow.Cheers to you.
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Well written, Jim. Nice job buddy. I myself have been the victim of an Airport Closure and the indiviual(s) closing that airport were nice enough to give me a heads up about. No hard feelings at all.
I like the chess match between game designers and veteran players leveraging their power to mold the game.
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Jim, you never totally locked an airport and I think this is why you were able to get away with it for so long. I don't beleive this can be done by a single player, especially if over limit.
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Jim Dirt (Add A1) wrote:
Great report, fun read. Well done, Sir!The Turf Sale: The sale was wildly successful. In just under 48 hours, roughly 7500 turf were captured. It is important to note that all these turf still exist. The "fight" in England, HK and Singapore resulted in all that turf being destroyed since they were using vendettas to attack. The sale is a MUCH better way to go since it gives all that turf back to the community. It also is kinda fun since you have idea which turf people will take. It introduces a randomness to the playing field once you are mobile again. It also leaves plenty of good will for you in the community. People love free stuff. Doing the sale is easy: sell all your upkeep weapons, declare a vendetta (targeting no one) so that your remaining weapons are 40% weaker and announce it in the forums. Have fun with your announcement. Be goofy. I did.
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Good read as usual dude, no more airports!!! 🔥🔥
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You guys claiming hopping ruins the part of the "GPS" of the game don't kno what your talking about. Hopping takes a TON of time and dedication. When someone spends let's say like 10 hours hopping somewhere that they could never actually go to in real life, it rele means something. You will fight to the death to defend yourself. Now with airports, if you get capped out of a country you can fly back in at the most 2 weeks later. I am COMPLETELY against airports cuz it takes the satisfaction out of capping someone from a country. All that means is that for up to 2 weeks they won't b back. DOWN WITH THE AIPORTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Reaper💀 wrote:
⌖🔥Ꮹ༙ᏌN༙Ꮋ༙ᏫᏩ༙🔥⌖ wrote:
👆👆👆Good read👍
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⌖🔥Ꮹ༙ᏌN༙Ꮋ༙ᏫᏩ༙🔥⌖ wrote:
Good read👍
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ՏᎥɴısтeʀ ⋁ㄒㅌᏟ ☠ wrote:
Exactly right!You guys claiming hopping ruins the part of the "GPS" of the game don't kno what your talking about. Hopping takes a TON of time and dedication. When someone spends let's say like 10 hours hopping somewhere that they could never actually go to in real life, it rele means something. You will fight to the death to defend yourself. Now with airports, if you get capped out of a country you can fly back in at the most 2 weeks later. I am COMPLETELY against airports cuz it takes the satisfaction out of capping someone from a country. All that means is that for up to 2 weeks they won't b back. DOWN WITH THE AIPORTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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ՏᎥɴısтeʀ ⋁ㄒㅌᏟ ☠ wrote:
I have used airports because they are part of the game, but i have to agree with Vtech.You guys claiming hopping ruins the part of the "GPS" of the game don't kno what your talking about. Hopping takes a TON of time and dedication. When someone spends let's say like 10 hours hopping somewhere that they could never actually go to in real life, it rele means something. You will fight to the death to defend yourself. Now with airports, if you get capped out of a country you can fly back in at the most 2 weeks later. I am COMPLETELY against airports cuz it takes the satisfaction out of capping someone from a country. All that means is that for up to 2 weeks they won't b back. DOWN WITH THE AIPORTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Pretty sure you only locked down airports no one cared about, once you tried it on airports that mattered it got messy. You could never have locked down JFK or LAX or Berlin or Sydney.... But great effort in doing what you did....
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Jim Dirt (Add A1) wrote:
That's all well and good until the airport argument is likened to the gps element. I'm not saying hopping is easy, I'm saying it's no different to saying airports ruin a gps based game. 👍ՏᎥɴısтeʀ ⋁ㄒㅌᏟ ☠ wrote:
Exactly right!You guys claiming hopping ruins the part of the "GPS" of the game don't kno what your talking about. Hopping takes a TON of time and dedication. When someone spends let's say like 10 hours hopping somewhere that they could never actually go to in real life, it rele means something. You will fight to the death to defend yourself. Now with airports, if you get capped out of a country you can fly back in at the most 2 weeks later. I am COMPLETELY against airports cuz it takes the satisfaction out of capping someone from a country. All that means is that for up to 2 weeks they won't b back. DOWN WITH THE AIPORTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Everyone who wants airports closed never used them?
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