HT, PLEASE, put an HA up

[Tac]

H2H is so much more enjoyable just because you get the chance of no icon fights with axis vs allies aircraft.

THAT folks, if you havent experienced it, makes the sim SHINE to everlasting glory.

[daddog]

I too would enjoy a Historical Arena of sorts. I doubt we have the player base for something that is open 24/7, but maybe something for several hours. My dilemma in selling that kind of idea to the other CM’s and HTC is the numbers we have in our current historical events. The very first Friday night Snapshot I held had almost 90 people show up. Now we are back to 30 or 40. The Saturday Snapshot has even less than that. The Sunday Check 6 has about 30 or 40 also, and at times in the last few months it has been over 50. Problem is this is a 3 hour event and by the beginning of the 3rd hour we are often down to 10 or 15.  I have no leg to stand on to even suggest a Historical Arena with those kinds of numbers.  Until we have squads participating in our weekly events, players from the MA breaking from the MA to fly in our events, a method tell all new players about our weekly events, and our regulars selling our weekly events, a historical arena will be a long time in coming.

In the middle of June I will be working on some changes.  We have some historical terrains just around the corner. All I hope will boost our attendance, which is the bottom line when it comes to having some kind of historical arena.
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CM, daddog
332nd Flying Mongrels
Snapshots
The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival

[anRky]

daddog:
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I too would enjoy a Historical Arena of sorts. I doubt we have the player base for something that is open 24/7, but maybe something for several hours.
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I would love to see more things like that!  

I stopped into the arena the other day, and heard that an eastern front thingie was going on in the SEA, so I went in to check it out.  It was a free takeoff thing with limited enemy icon range, sorta like an AW warnight, although with no objective that I knew about.

I had a great time, and wished I had seen it announced somewhere so I could have showed up earlier.

Maybe event attendance would increase if you started spamming the message boards more.  I know I would appreciate it.

anRky

[daddog]

I think word of mouth does more than anything else we can come up with. We have the "events" banners on every page of HTC site. Just click on the above banner and it will take you to links about our weekly events.  

[DocFalconer1]

Cool down...how about an arena similar to the one in FA...it'll have some mud moving in it too...

[Hornet]

Die and sit in the tower for 5mins.

This will serve to limit the 1 pass and run mentality how?

[Otter]

 

Originally posted by SeaWulfe:
Really.... Anyone have the jaws of life? We need to remove RAM's head from his ass.
-SW[/B]

So much for you amazinhunks allowing anyone to have a differing opinion...you're the lead donut in a woods full of 'em.




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Otter

[Hangtime]

Hey Daddog.. an idea...

How about a WEEKNIGHT event series??.. say 10:30 pm eastern, once a week for snapshot type events, or even a weekly 'rumble' type setup. Friday nights and Saturday/Sunday I'm 'occupado'. On a weeknight you'd have a large captive (i gotta work tomorrow) audience. Summer's ruff on all of us for weekend event attendance..

Maybe host some "Assasins vs FDB's" squad type matchups, or Allied vs LW, IJN vs USN, Brit vs LW (early war) Rooooooooskie vs LW.. etc..

I would CERTAINLY be avilable on weeknights.. tho this does nothin fer the Europe or far East time slots... maybe they could do something similar??

Just a thought... and keep up the great works! (THANKS!)

Hang

[BlauK]

I totally agree with R4M.. give us a HA like he suggest!!! Just give it a try. The you can see how many pilots fly at MA and how many at HA.


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BlauKreuz
Lentolaivue 34

[Dowding]

Tell me, in this HA wonderland you are describing, where will those who fly VVS, IJA/N and Italian planes fly?

Will this be a five or six country arena? And how could that possibly work?

Or is this just an idea for the RAF/USAAF and LW flyers?

How very... inclusive.

And Eagler - very well said mate.

[kfsone]

Reasons not to start a HA yet - much as I want one:

 1. Only one country has a tank
 2. Only one country has a troop transport
 3. Only one country has sea vehicles
 4. No PTO bombers modelled (IJN or USN) so ETO only
 5. Where do you place Russian / Itallian / etc planes

You can't have a HA yet, because the planeset just doesn't support it. If all sides have C47s and PNZRs and LVTAs etc then people aren't going to like having HA-arena style icon settings.

If it's a 2 country HA people will leave after getting bored of 'gangbanging'.

If it's a 3 country HA, right now, people will leave because the peak population is likely to be 50-80 people, and it will be fairly tedious. It'll either be 1-field vs 1-field or it'll be lots of non-cooperation and random people desperately seeking someone to shoot down.

Admittedly, I'm sure the game would be more attractive to move players if there was a good H.A.

And the issue of ETO / PTO etc ... You have several camps of HA to cater for, so do you provide two HAs? Or do you cycle between PTO and ETO?

Population needs to be much higher before you start dabbling with this. People will come back for the HA, but if they don't like it, they'll stay gone.


K

[This message has been edited by kfsone (edited 06-01-2001).]

[Vermillion]

Personally, I think the recent run of "I Quit" posts are due to burned out pilots who suddenly think a new game is going to be the answer to their flightsim dreams. Something fresh and new, and that satisfies their every desire for a more challenging and immersive environment.

I'm not going to make any kind of comment about WWIIOL, and if its any good or not. There's no need.

Because anyone who's been around for a while know the game isn't the problem. Its the burnout, which is natural when you look at the number of hours logged by some of the pilots we're talking about.

So R4M, if you like WWIIOL and you leave for "greener pastures", well... all I can say is good luck. It too will be a game that has good points and bad points. And if I know you, you will be somewhere on their boards squeaking continuously about the points you don't like  

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[Toad]

Exactly.

[SeaWulfe]

 

Originally posted by Otter:
So much for you amazinhunks allowing anyone to have a differing opinion...you're the lead donut in a woods full of 'em.

Did you read this quote by RAM that I was replying to?
THAT would make AH way more inmersive, and I am sure that will bring back lots of hardcore lovers who have left because the MA is a such dweebish, no-skill, unrealistic, vulcherplace that in the end bores some of the best pilots around to the point to have to leave because they dont have fun anymore.

love muffin... read before you type. It wasn't about the HA, it was about that drivel he spewed forth.

Go back to sucking on your mom's teet and curdling at the sight of the real world. HA is fine, but don't spew forth drivel as if your anus is doing the talking for you.

You, Otter, have got to be the most anally retentive salamander of all. Sure, he can call the MA whatever he likes and you'll jump to defend him... but when someone points out his head is so far up his bellybutton on that issue the gutter life springs forth to quickly dispense their line of crap and crawl away with out so much as a clue as to why they had to add their comment.

I may be the lead amazinhunk, but atleast I'm a leader of something rather than a buttmonkey follower Otter.
-SW

[Westy MOL]

You hit the nail on the head Verm.

  -Westy