Arena format change

[Reynolds]

Originally posted by Elfie
I never understood why squad size limits weren't enough for the players. When you squad fills up, just start another and call it XXXXX Deux. Some squads have entire Wings with a bomber squad, attack squad, fighter squad etc etc etc.

Imo, that affected the horde mentality more than anything else.

This new arena setup addresses that issue quite nicely with the lower limits on arena populations.

Thats us! We are a bomber GROUP (4 squads)

[Gary26]

i know its been said before, but i think this is gonna turn alot of people off to this game. There is issues with my squad already. Some guyz like the early stuff, some like late stuff. We sholdnt have to jump arena's to fly the planes we like. You know the reset geeks are gonna jump to the areana where they have numbers. Ihavent even flown one sortie i the new setup and already hate it. Gonna have to jump from arena to arena to find squaddies. This wasnt a good idea and i hope HT changes it back. As far as other war arena's, thats great. I say bring'em on, but leave the Main the way it was. I have seen the number of players grow alot in five years so the old way must not have been to bad.

[Skuzzy]

Squads are the same across the arenas.  No need for re-invites.  The squad MOTD also carries across the arenas.

[Panzzer]

Originally posted by Gary26
Ihavent even flown one sortie i the new setup and already hate it.

Give it a try at least. I spent about 2 hrs in the Early War arena today, enjoyed it. Haven't had that much fun in MA for ages, in fact.

[68slayr]

Turn 1 late war arena to a GVing arena with a rotaition of a few TT maps!:D

[ASA335]

Since I'm new to this, and have no commitment to "the way things were in AHII", I like the concept.

I've always had a fondness for the early to mid WWII planes anyways, so the idea of going into the MA with a P40E while others were flying the later (and better) rides kept me out of the MA. Going to the better planes really didn't make sense to me because I lack the skills to take advantage of the higher perfomance (I liken this to being a new shooter and buying a $1500 - $3000 race gun because that's what the top shooters use; they have the skill to use the extra little extra nuances the race gun brings, but the new shooter would be better off with a more basic gun to just gain firearm handling and shooting basics with - as skill rises, then get the [slightly] better gun).

I was just in the new arena areas and noticed an awful lot of the flying was being done in the "Early" arena - what joy, flying a P40E without worrying about the '45 propeller driven race and turn wagons!

But I think the short answer is "Give some time and we'll see".

In Pursuit,

[Husky01]

To be frank I dont like it now i will however give it a week or two tro adjust. lets hope it all works out

              Skuzzy pryo Hitech...ext
                       P.S. I do like that HTC is taking some anisitve.

[rogerdee]

complain all u want  do u think hi tek will change anything now we got 4 arenas  and only 1 where anyone was fighting  and that ws almost full,i personaly dont want to go and fight against 14 rooks  and 10 knights  like in the arena i just went to mainly because i couldnt find them,as for gvs t34s in early war  are useless fighting against each other,and in late war  no one was in thgvs at all.

 shooting self in foots  seems to be the order of the day

[sonic23]

I dont like this idea its almost as bad as turning KS on in the DA. I was hoping for more new planes and gv's. I dont feel like going into why i dont like the arena change because i know my opinion means nothing. I havent been playing as much as I use to and now ill probably play even less.

[viper215]

Im quiting after a week of this I HATE this idea.

[JMFJ]

With that 200 player arena cap.  Everytime a TT map comes up, that arena is going to be swamped with players.  With people sitting in line on the loggin screen clicking every 30 seconds.  Just imagine how pissed someone is going to be when they get disco'd, and can't log back into the arena cause it's full.

JMFJ

[68Ripper]

Originally posted by Patches1
I fly early morning (0630- 0900) Pacific Coast USA time. It is difficult enough to find a fight in the MA when we have 90, or so, players online between 3 Countries; now you wish to further divide this player base by 4, and each arena by 3 again, and this math only assumes aircraft, not the divisions of PTs, GVs, Bombers, Fighters/Attack aircraft and expect us early morning fliers to find some kind of a fight in ANY mode? Whom are you kidding?

I left WarBirds because of this kind of thinking...

Well think of it like this, you will have your own arena to pad them scores and get lots of perk points! yes indeed, you'll be able to bomb strat targets, take gv/air bases with little to no opposition. Why heck in a month you could go from an average score of oh say 1500 right down to single and double digits! Simply look for the arena with the fewest players (this shouldn't be hard to do during the hours you play) and pad your score!!!  When your done padding your score in the empty arena go find a arena that has someone in it to work on your fighter perks.

Geez

[TinmanX]

You know, as negative as I feel about the idea and the impact it may make on the game, the Early War furball @ A1 is a lot of good clean ACM fun!

[Gunit2222]

EM and about all the other knights HATE IT. So could u please put it back how it was.

[ALF]

Holy crap!

Dales done it to me again....I could have lost an entire paycheck or two if Id been offered a bet on this a few days ago.  As with all things AH, I will try it, and only after giving it a very fair opportunity to make me happy, will I come back here and scream and curse all in caps about how much this sucks........all we have to find out now is if I need to use the tag or not:D

On another note...its clear we did not get Dale drunk enough at the con....this sort of info should have easily been discovered by our Pilates spy....I knew putting the recording microphone in Dales shoe was a bad idea.