[RN] Air damage poll results

Day 3,367, 04:23 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by The Royal Navy

Good day shipmates.

A week or so ago, following on from our Introduction to Air Battles, a discussion started about whether the Royal Navy should treat air damage differently to standard damage. Ideas were offered, schemes were proposed and - ultimately - we decided to run an informal poll to see what our members thought.

This article shows the results of that poll, along with some comments we had along the way.

Please note that nothing in this article is final - nothing is set in stone (typically stone and ships don’t mix very well). I’ll be putting these results to the RN Command team to discuss what we should do. However, while that happens feel free to check out the results and continue to comment.



Poll details
Apart from finding out who responded, the poll had three questions and an area for comments (all detailed below).

We had 21 responses in total, which is pretty good. Here’s how they break down:


As you can see, Divisions/Regiments 1 & 2 were best represented, which is no surprise - they're the ones who stand to benefit the most from more emphasis on air damage.




A very strong majority either try to fight in air battles when they’re available, or don’t particularly care. Only one person only fights in air battles and - equally - only one person avoids them. Overall, the response to air battles is pretty positive.




There’s a clear majority of people who think we should have an air regiment. 10% (two people) think we shouldn’t, 20% don’t care, and the remaining 70% think we should.

Of those who think we should, a large majority think we should have a separate air regiment, effectively allowing people to choose to join it if they want to concentrate on air damage. We already know from the previous question that 45% of people try to fight in air battles when possible, while another 45% will fight in any battle.




Again, we have pretty clear support for rewarding air damage here.

13 people think we should give rewards for going up the air ranks
7 people think we should have different strike kits for people doing air damage
3 people don’t particularly care
3 people think things should be left as they are

This could be linked to having an air regiment - if you’re in the air regiment you get air rewards and strike kits, otherwise you get the standard ones.




Q4. Do you have any comments or suggestions?
We got some good responses and ideas here, which are simply listed below:

Air rank rewards only at a later stage - they are gained too easily at the beginning.

Good idea!


It’s a question of whether the MU wants to support and develop a new wing. I think the priority should lie with tanks. We need to develop air capability but anyone wishing to focus on planes might be best joining the RAF.

True, but already we’re seeing the RN at the top of the national MU leaderboard for air damage. Do we want to lose members by not supporting air damage?


Rank rewards for air rank up would be nice. Do we even get rewards for air rank up at the moment?

No - not at the moment


The Air battle system is difficult to reward mostly because the weapons are stupid (single use for £30) but some food for those younger players trying to make a difference in air battles by levelling up I think could be good. As to a regiment again it would be handy but it would also be hard work to maintain DO on air battles as they don’t last long. Either way good luck with whichever ideas you go with.


Create a commune job for AF.

Very difficult at the moment - producing air weapons and raw materials generates a huge loss


If enough members are available then more can be split.

My feeling from this poll is that there are enough people in the RN who would want to join an air regiment.


Can’t mess Regiment 1 about, that would mess the order of things for the other Regiments. Don’t think we have many that do air only. We could try and get support for food for air rank ups if we agree to do them.


With a couple of weeks just fighting in air battles you can rank up a lot. I’ve only recently started fighting in air battles and my hit in them has now risen to 84, which although hardly huge is an improvement.


Some kind of recognition for air battles would be great - perhaps we could achieve this by calculating a ‘damage multiplier’ factor for damage inflicted in air battles?

I’ve messed about with this a bit, but haven’t found anything that works. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as “multiple air damage by 100 to get the equivalent ground damage” - there are too many factors that mess up the formula.




In summary
Looking at the responses - and the number of responses - shows that there’s clearly interest in working out a way of encouraging, supporting and rewarding air damage within the Royal Navy. Most people seem to agree that an air damage regiment, supported by air rank rewards and Strike Sunday air kits could be the way to go.

Now we have to work out if and how the MU can do this within our means. There’s no point spending a fortune on supporting air damage at the cost of our current rewards. That process will start now - watch this space for the results!

Thanks to everyone who took part. As you can see, your opinions are important.



Signing off
VoodooMike71
Royal Navy: 2nd Commander, Captain Regiment 2 (HMS Sheffield)



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