Originally posted by SELECTOR
I for one think its a brave step htc have made...i for one welcome it.(anythinkg to stop the stagnation) i also think its good...
ive read some posts of canceling accouts and stuff, well there are how many planes? and your worried that you wont be able to fly 1 or 2 of them some of the time..what a shameful act threatening to do this or do that, stamping your feet and throwing tantrums..
This game is for everyone not just you, Stop and think somepeople might welcome this( I for one do) move just as much as you dont..let it bed in, and think again next month
Pull yourselves together, take a deep breath, count to ten..and remember you cant please all the people , all of the time..
try flying something else, after all you pay your 15 dollars for them too..
But why is this step necessary?
Why did HTC suddenly say.... "Gee I MUST do something to level numbers"?
Is the strength of any one country SIGNIFICANTLY larger than the COMBINED strength of the other two? (the reason there are three countries is to allow allocation of effort etc to counter one country running away with the ox cart) When I say SIGNIFICANTLY larger, does the strength of one exceed say 40-60 more thanthe COMBINED strength of the other two? Not in small blocks.. say one evening... but everyday... most of the day...etc.
I would suggest that no one country is stronger than the other two combined for any length of time on a repetitive basis. Rather, the three country model is not used as it was designed to offset numbers imbalance. That and of course the two smaller countries, if they combine, cannot realistically work to an arena reset for one while they are working more or less together.
Last week, especially Weds and Thurs the Rooks were PINNED on the small main island with 6 or less bases all night.
Yet Friday we implement a strategy to encourage (read force) cross leveling of fliers. When the arena finally starts using the three country model in a manner for which it was intended, we reward that by changing the model.
I'm not going to go into vignettes to show how someone could change country based on availability of plane types and the numbers shift within 30 minutes and now he is once again in the "wrong" country and is stuck there for 12 hours.
The arena was designed to account for uneven distribution. The reason it doesn't work well is people don't understand or like to have to adjust their effort to more or less team with another country for whatever time period uneven distribution requires it. They want a chance to be MY COUNTRY the arena reset winner. Which of course is another major game play model of AH that is now being broken because we are encouraging people to switch countries based on numbers.