Arena format change

[Baylor]

but nobody's moving from "Late War 2" unless it's full

from earlier in thread....

krusty, for the early day so far, early war has most people in it, more the twice as many as late war arena's combined.

and to state it again, just left arena again....150+ in early war, 11 in late 1 and 43 in late 2 with  12 in mid.

[Ghosth]

I think you just got me interested enough to come back HTC.

WTG!

[detch01]

Well, just spent the last hour and change playing the new setup and I like it. I had no trouble finding a fight, frame rates were higher (loading fewer aircraft models and skin I imagine) and the fights are far more interesting seeing as you're generally fighting aircraft that fall (fairly losely) within the same performance class. Closing the gap between the high performance and low performance rides in an arena is going to make for better game play IMO. The setup (ENY/Perks/planeset?) will likely need to be tweaked but I think this is going to work out very well.


my $0.02


asw

[WMLute]

Originally posted by 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.

Bear something in mind.  I LOVE the idea of early and mid war arenas.

I feel that would be tons of fun.  I know i'm a niki dweeb, but i'm not dependant on that plane in any way, and I tend to fly, and be just as succesful in, many different rides.  Like the other night I had a blast in Fighter Town in my D3A val shooting down spit, pony's and zekes.

My huge concern is side balance, the hoards, the score weenies, and the fact that people will have to cycle through 4 diff. arenas to find squaddies.

The person who mentioned arenas with 3 knits, 4 bish, and 20 rooks (countries randomly picked there) were spot on.  There is no way to prevent, or balance that.  We can't just switch sides to balance it out.

It wasn't broke.  If they wanna ADD to the game with new arena's, brilliant!  I am all for it.

Just look back at other flight sims and what made them special, and what killed them.

The major argument for not flying another sim like IL2 was the fact that we would have 5-700 players in one arena.  This argument was just rendered moot.

I dunno, maybe after a month or three HTC will get all of the issues worked out, and it will all be golden.  I just hope that enough players stick around to see it happen.

[Dichotomy]

Ghosth

I dare you

I double DOG dare you

[nexus69]

Does anyone knows if HTC will pro-rate my subscription if I cancel now?

[Dadano]

I just logged out of the EA and had a blast. Great furballing A1 to A19.

I'm interested to see how the arena to arena communications challenge pans out. Until then check out teamspeak

-Dano

[Yeager]

if HTC will pro-rate my subscription if I cancel now?
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cancel now and find out

[ReyPirin]

That's better than seeing a 70 year old grandma in a bikini jumping in a pogo stick with rottweilers chasing her through heavy traffic in pouring rain ,on the interstate.

Finally KOREA TIME!!!! W00T!!!!!!!!!!

[Krusty]

Don't be so melodramatic, nexus

[Guppy35]

Just a gut reaction from stopping in quick to look at the plane sets.

Only thing I'd consider is getting the Spit IX and 190A5  out of the Early war arena.  And maybe even the Hurri IIc with those cannons considering the huge amout of use it was getting in the old MA as it was..

Other then that it all looks cool to me.  Except my G is perked in the Early War arena!

Mid-war looks the most evenly balanced right now in terms of aircraft.

[Domin]

Originally posted by WMLute

The major argument for not flying another sim like IL2 was the fact that we would have 5-700 players in one arena.  This argument was just rendered moot.

The first thing I thought of. IL-2 does the same thing but you had fewer people in each server (I didn't care for that). At certain times  the AH2 servers are going to be around IL-2 (free game) levels. Guess we will see.

PLEASE DON'T TOUCH THE DA HTC

[Keeler101]

Bring back the MA

if anyone wanted this they would have flown AvA    and not in fighter town or tank town,

there was still room for the crappy planes in the ma thats mostly what i liked
 
Making flying like 3 special events all the time is gonna take from the game

[simshell]

one thing im amazed at is how there was no warning from HTC about this massive change in gameplay

[uberhun]

Oh no not Change:O Not when I was getting so used to getting Hoed by newbs:mad: Please not that.......Anything but change. You go Hitech. It was getting pretty stale in the MA. I am actually looking forward to some flight time tonight