Originally Posted by StrikeFear

Sounds like a blast!
But I'm not sure why you're limiting th spawning 1 jet at a time. The Essex can easily spawn 2 F-35s without causing crash issues. Reducing it to 1 will reduce the furballs in the sky.
Now, if someone made a full Attack Carrier, rather than the small Amphib carrier that the Essex is, you could easily launch two hornets off the bow catapults, put 4 helos on each elevator, even throw an F-25 on the starboard fantail, and still keep the landing area clear for touch-and-go's - which means not using cats 3 and 4.

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my description. I actually did mean to have 2 jet spawn points, but I guess I was a bit tired when I wrote my post. I also never realised that the Essex was a small carrier. Maybe with a bit of fiddling around in 3d max I could come up with an attack carrier. Hmm, something to try.

Originally Posted by CingularDuality

Here's the problem: BF:1942 had a couple of air-only maps. They emptied the server faster than anything else. Keep in mind that MOST players can't or don't like flying.

I think a good compromise would be on an island map like Midway. Plenty of room to have more aircraft in the air, but also some ground action for the grunts.

As I said above, I probably wasn't too clear with my initial post. The idea of the map isn't simply to have an aerial fragfest, but to also have groundpounders fighting across the decks and nether regions of the ships. Or, to increase the importance of the troops, the actual capture point inside the ship could be deep inside, inaccessible to any wannabe vert cappers.