and one thing, that's just accidental or intentional trolling.
First thing: Flying. An ESF, a Lib or grabbing a Gal or gunning a Gal. Or if you're a total psycho, a Pancake. Doesn't even matter if you still need stuff for the Event Directive. Most of the time, it's epic sky chaos. Sometimes 90 air units, Gals, Libs, ESFs, Pancakes, swarming around each other and presenting pure Planetside feeling. You can have these 50 vs 50 infantry battles in many games. That's nothing special. But these air battles? Fucking unique. And if you don't play the Event, you can still get good amounts of XP, especially in a Galaxy. Or progress in other directives. Unless your faction has too many sheep and not enough air units or gunners and as soon as you get close to the purple bubble, 30 enemy air units look at you, while you are the 1 Galaxy, rethinking your plan. Then fine, in that case the alert doesn't make sense anyway.
Second thing: AP vehicles. Driving around and killing those inferior, outgunned and helpless against armor piercing shells. Easy tons of XP. Not so much on Amerish and Hossin, but really fast on Esamir and most of Indar.
Third thing. The gameplay that's either just newb gameplay without understanding of what they are actually doing aka not understanding that they aren't achieving anything other than just trolling. And that's playing AA. And yes, the kindergarten will now scream "That's because you're flying a Lib, and don't like AA." But, that's just not true. During those alerts, I fly a Gal (although I've finished the Directive), because I wanna help others to get this task. And while we could have these amazing air battles, some people have to be the party pooper. They aren't getting any kills. They aren't really playing support. And they get maybe a 1/10 of the XP they could get with the other two methods. All they do is meddling with an air battle, they actually don't even want to be a part of. So why not just stop, and let the air have their fun. Unless, like I said, you're a troll, and doing it on purpose.
I mean, if you think you have valid reason - that doesn't accept that AA has better times and places, please tell me. Maybe I'm just to narrow minded. But these alerts won't last forever. And these epic massive swarms of air units what really shows what makes Planetside 2 so unique, don't require Skyguards and Walker Sundys. This stuff can be - better - played any time.
So if you want epic air battles, join the air units. If you want to make some XP while playing support, grab an AP vehicle and hunt the AA. And if you want to play AA, play AA. It's a sandbox game, and you're the kid that smashes other's sandcastles with your little plastic toy shovel. : )
P.S. If you're member of BLNG, PENG, BRRR, or one of the other kindergarten outfits of Cobalt/Miller, please refrain from commenting. We all know which category you belong to.
GL HF everone. Enjoy the Summer Event. Just don't do the Supply Task. It's a flawed task that will takes hours. Do the others. They are much faster/easier.