Arena format change

[Trikky]

Looks good to me. People can still charge about in the MA mark 2 with that plane set, will need new planes though to exploit the new areanas to the full but that seems what HTC have planned.

Plucky move though, hope it works out.

[Krusty]

my suckage > your suckage

[wipass]

Simaril, forgive me if I am wrong but I am guessing that English isn't your first language ?

I have no idea what point you are attempting to make. Write it in your first language and I will translate it. I am typing this slowly so you can understand.

wipass

[Mathman]

I seem to recall something similar to this with respect to the reaction (some would say overreaction) to a significant change.  Before freaking out, you should see what actually happens with the new arenas.

As for me, you will be able to find me in the early and mid-war arenas.

[nexus69]

Originally posted by Gman8
Until this morning AHII was a WWII sim (and a damned good one)...now its just a game designed to meet the needs of a handful of elitist who want to tailor the game to their specific desires.  

I Agree with you 100%. I also saw the caps on the arenas, they are set to 200 players.  So what does prevent a particular country to control one arena?   Imagine the odds! ( poor knights)

Everyone is so involved in figuring out what planes are available but not what the odds are going to be.  " Oh Please, I don't care if I can't up, as long I can fly my favorite plane" duh...... ding, dong the fries are done!

This is BULL at its best!

[Dichotomy]

Originally posted by Grimm
Oh My!,

This sounds intesesting......

I guarantee that during low numbers times,  1 arena will become favored.  Thats not a bad thing.   During Peak hours Things will get spread out.

Question:  I havent seen the Arena Cap numbers,  but lets say its 300,  Does that mean only 100 Knights, 100 Bishops, and 100 Rooks could log on?   Or does  it mean you could have 299 Bishops and 1 Knight?

sounds like a fair fight to me

[E25280]

Originally posted by lazs2
are the areas divided by strict year or is some performance and substitution allowed?    

In my case, what comes to mind is the FM2 performance being early war and..  that the FM2 is  a good sub for both the buffalo and the much better F4F-3 that actually outperformed the FM2 and is a very early war plane.

Oh, boy, now the "substitution whines" can be extended from the AvA to the MA . . .

"It says A-5 but is supposed to be A-3" . . .

"Spit XVI is really a '43 bird" . . .

The such-and-such whatever, although a '44 design, is close in performance to the whatsit whocares '42 ride so should be allowed early war . . .

Etc. etc. ad nausium.

There's enough whining as it is.  It seems this will only cause more.

[Dadano]

Originally posted by Baylor
if this is the plane, can it be made so i can be on different countries in each arena?  what country may have a fight in one arena, doesnt have a fight in other arena...or get rid of the time before you can switch again.

I just switched to nits in early war, cuz there was a fight there...it evaporated...so went to other arenas...no fights to be found as nits.

Good call...This should be adressed.

-Dano

[WMLute]

Originally posted by Simaril
Not really sure waht vocal minority you're talking about. This change doesnt favor fighters, GV'ers, or capture fans particularly. The arena mechanics are unchanged...captures are the same, strats unchanged.

All thats different is that the total numbers per arena are less (like mornings EST anyway!) and that the entier planeset can be used by more people (not just reserved for the experts.)

actually, wipass was spot on.

The community has now been fractured.

Setting up a early and late war arena would be a good idea, but keep the MA the way it is.

By doing so, one would soon see that everybody would rather fly in the MA as it is (proof of that would be the AvA arena), and a small, core group of pilots would fly in the early, mid arenas.  

This has been proven time and again.  

Why HTC would split up the community for the needs of a small core group is beyond me.

[Dichotomy]

Originally posted by wipass
Simaril, forgive me if I am wrong but I am guessing that English isn't your first language ?

I have no idea what point you are attempting to make. Write it in your first language and I will translate it. I am typing this slowly so you can understand.

wipass

was that necessary?  The point was quite clear.

[storch]

pyro,

will you be considering additional models to add especially for the early war?

I'm hopeful that you will flesh out some important participants from:

france
italy
england
exported US
soviet union
romania
poland
japan
germany

i'm sure you guys have your hands full currently but if you would reply i'm sure many others are wondering the same thing.

[nexus69]

Originally posted by PuckHead
Honestly, I have been on for 20 minutes. Gave each arena a test drive, and have considered suicide as an alternative to boredom. Am am NOT diss'ing the current set up. I applaud it. Now the early war fanatics dont have to be worried about 40 cherry pickin la's, and vise versa. But there are those of us who love our old AH, the 100 plane furballs etc etc. Please consider making the main arena an alternative to the early, mid, late war arenas.


Puck

That is an excellent idea!!!   HTC are you listening?

[ghostdancer]

Okay 200 players per arena? That CAP I think is a bit low and going to cause issues and break apart squads. The part of squads is flying together. I really don't car about scoring or the rank of my squad. I care about flying with them and seeing them off my wing.

200 pilot CAP reminds me of old Air Warrior days and my gut says way to low. 300 per arena would be a better number.

[Krusty]

Only, it doesn't work that way lute.

If we kept the MA as-is but made the cap 300 players, then the CT would be packed full most of the time.

Introducing new arenas is a nice touch, and the caps may be changed later, but nobody's moving from "Late War 2" unless it's full. I gaurantee that. If you put in new arenas but no incentive to go TO those arenas, they go unused.

I'm confident this will all play out to an equitable solution, given a bit of time to test things out.

[FLS]

We hope that through further growth we can add even more diverse offerings such as more time periods and perhaps even time periods outside of WWII such as WWI or the Korean War.

These would be the Early Early War and Late Late War arenas?

I would love to see Biplanes. Low and slow is more fun than high and fast.

As to all the complaints, let's see how it shakes out.