While the airport is closed you can't fly out but you can land. This seems an imbalance in the game compared to real life.
How about diverting flights to Mexico and Canada? It would reduce the benefit of flying to avoid radiation as inbound flights could also be blocked from taking off.
Example:
Flying from China, DB started while in the air. Diverted to Mexico and can't fly again until the airport is open.
Flying from London, DB activated while in the outward flight or while on the ground. Can't fly back as destination airport closed so flight cancelled.
If we could do this, we could make it a regular feature.
I imagine it would turn Mexico and Canada into mugfests. Also those not involved with the DB would get irritated. However it would add depth to the game and distract (frustrate?) from the daily grind.
Trapping hundreds of random players abroad because of a DB seems like a terrible idea for player retention to me.
Especially with events such as the last couple of weeks where over 10 bombs go off, and the older this game gets, the more money that exists the more common these bombs will be.
With good enough timing and a few bombs you could keep players stuck abroad for long periods of time, people who have absolutely nothing to do with the target faction.
"This seems like an imbalance in the game compared to real life"
Comparing torn to real life makes no sense, in real life if I find myself getting gunned down im probably going to be in hospital for more than 4 hours.
I think DBs should be more powerful but in an interesting/ strategic way. Not a "f**k every traveller" kind of way
I like the idea, a temp inconvenience for the 25b cost. Maybe instead a full delay make it 2hr.
If it works like a flight delay instead of a diverted flight that would reduce the mug impact. As soon as its triggered all flight have 2hrs added to them.
It would piss a lot of people off but 25b is kinda a big deal.
i don' think diverting people is a good idea , besides the fact that people use the time flying for items to sell in their bazaar and lessen the
risk of being mugged. But diverting them would prevent them from doing other things in torn . like using drugs , training
or participating in trains.
Yet if an airport is closed incoming flights should be cancelled or diverted while it's closed. Personally think the whole travelling system needs an overhaul but time on Torn has set low expectations for anything significant changing.
I think if you own a PI with airstrip you must be able to travel all the time. But thats another discussion lol.