Change name of Dueling Arena to Furball Arena

[Virage]

And make all objects indestructable.

possibly:  two teams, adjust map to include only a few furball options instead of the dozen or so zones currently used.  Keep a few areas for one-on-one duels.


I think this change would help create 2 healthy/populated arenas in AH.

AH will attract new players and help retention.  Players can find the gameplay in either arena that suits their taste or whim.

May  help smooth Community infighting.

The DA is under utilised now.. why not tweak it?

[TweetyBird]

I'd like to see a furball arena just for the simple reason it would be a great place to practice gunnery and how to fly and shoot while looking backwards But I don't see how reducing numbers in the MA would help anyone.

[Virage]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
But I don't see how reducing numbers in the MA would help anyone.

The popularity of one arena does not equate to the unpopularity of another.

[Virage]

PUNT..

Throw the dog a bone.

The furball area within the DA is the right idea, (3 bases over the lake) only the bases are too far apart.  

It might be the easiest fix to this ballooning problem.


I love the irony of certain players getting a map designed for them yet the howling is louder than ever.  

Really... how often is FT shut down?  1% of the time?  If that I bet.  I haven't played in a while, but I doubt things have changed too much in the time I have been gone.

Obviously some members of this community revel in creating an 'us vs. them' atmosphere.

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[SuperDud]

I foresee a locked thread IN this ones future

[Larry]

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[Clifra Jones]

Besides the fact that HiTech has said numerous times that he will not do this. He has stated good reasons for his opinion.

Gathering a bunch of people and saying "Let's go to the DA and furball" is one thing but it lack many aspects of the MA that make a furball what it is.

What the DA lacks, and any Furball arena will also lack is the aspect of the unknown. It the SA of the MA, the wild card bogey entering the fight that makes a furball in the MA so exciting and so challenging. Keeping you head on a swivel to watch for that high P51 about to dive on your six as you line up a shot. It's also the aspect of the unknown pilot. Mixing it up with a bandit and killing him and finding out you just killed one of the better pilots is a rush. Even if you get shot down and finding out you held your own with a guy like Nomak or Levi is also quite a rush. The MA is where we all meet to play this game.

PLUS:
It's been tried before and it didn't work. A fighter arena setup was tried in the CT and while the first few days were cool it died off after that and no one was there.

Bottom Line:
In this whole debate the fighter pilots (furballer) have only asked for one thing. A little common courtesy. The Land-grabbers have responded with no courtesy at all. And that's a fact!

[Westy]

I admit the idea has merit.


And along the same lines HTC could rename the OFFLINE button on the welcome screen to "Shed Battling Arena."

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by Clifra Jones


What the DA lacks, and any Furball arena will also lack is the aspect of the unknown.

Bottom Line:
In this whole debate the fighter pilots (furballer) have only asked for one thing. A little common courtesy. The Land-grabbers have responded with no courtesy at all. And that's a fact!

And they, in effect, beat the furballers and half the threads have been devoted to that fact ever since. The furballers could not hold the base.

I flew there for awhile. It was like flying into any other Horde. Then I got bored and went back to base defense.

Land grabbers have no courtesy....been reading the boards lately? It appears courtesy is not overly abundant here for either of the two groups  why would you expect any different in the MA?

Do people show me the courtsey not to bomb the VH? No. Do they show me the courtesy of not carpet bombing my Osti with low level Lancs? No.

But bomb a furballers pet base and the boards light up with the name calling and cries that the furballers get shown no courtesy. And get responded to in kind ad infinitum.

Maybe if you had some of the "LandGrabbers" helping defend your base you may have kept it. Of course you know that somebody will attempt to take it again. Be ready.

And no, I won't be there, I wasn't the last time. And I don't do bombers, too boring. And after reading the boards since, I also won't go there in my Osti again either.

[Nomak]

Just my opinion but I think the DA serves its purpose perfectly.  No need to try to change it into something else.

For me the soulition is and always has been FesterMA.  It is so well laid out that both camps have plenty of action.  A couple more Fester maps and all will be well.

Dave

[DipStick]

I 2nd Nomak's statement.

Also I'd add that moving the furball fields by the lake closer would be nice. I've always thought it'd be usable if they were closer.

[BigR]

i dont understand how its too much to ask to just make those bases uncapturable. Someone please give me a good reason why. I want to hear why its so important for somebody to take one of the FT bases. The "war" can still be fought and won without the FT bases. The people who are at those bases want Fighter vs Fighter battles. The only reason to capture or pork one of those bases is to make people angry.

Also, a dedicated furball arena would fail miserably. No one would fly in it. There isnt a large enough player base to support more than one arena at a time unless there is a special event going on. I would love to see it happen, and thrive. I just don't see it working.

[CAV]

For all the old AW players, many of them are watching history repeat it's seft again. In the days of AW on AOL/Gamestorm it to had a "Fightertown"  on the Big Pac map. It never work well....

Things started out OK... We all followed rules. Mudmovers was not to attack FT. Furballers were not to attack bases or AC outside of the FT zone.

The only thing was... it never worked. AC from Fightertown would attack buffs going pass FT to their targets....  The Mudmovers from all sides would bomb FT into the stoneage. And for days on end, the AW forums would look just like what  we are seeing here in AH.

In the end the fix for the AW "Fightertown" was it was removed from the MA maps and it became The "Fightertown Arena".

CAVALRY

[Morpheus]

Change name of Dueling Arena to Furball Arena

That would be like calling masturbation, sex.