Arena format change

[Murdr]

Originally posted by REP0MAN
I never got to vote. That would be a Dictatorship, right?

More like a monarchy.  The king does hold court, and may grant pettitions from the citizens...but he doesnt have to grant them.

[hubsonfire]

I'll bet a buck that it has nothing to do with the server, and that HT couldn't find you guys in a list.

I will say that you've become very representative of the type and style of gameplay that I personally hate, but that's just me.

Kudos to you, Shubie, for encouraging moderation. Many of your comrades are already freaking out.

[Verbal]

i want to agree, and disagree. tonight was my squad night. by the time we formed up the 2 main servers, early war, ans late war 2 were full, so we went to late war 1, 60 people. Now thats not a great experience. Ithink the 1 server was a better concept, because we built a community of squads, made alliances, and formed friendships with other players which are now dissaranged. yes i think this sucks. Now will this kill the game, i doub it. we will ***** for a while, then go about our business. if we miss our friends we will say stuff like "remeber when we used to run missions with jujubees90" and sigh, then go about our business. i asked tonigh what made AH2 a great game to play. and not 2 people had the same answer. so, it is what it is now. lets see what happens.

[Valkyrie]

Seems like the only ones complaining are those lgay7 drivers that I see bang the older birds all the time.


Vlkyrie1

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Valkyrie
Seems like the only ones complaining are those lgay7 drivers that I see bang the older birds all the time.


Vlkyrie1

Sorry, thats complete & utter nonsense

[Toad]

Thank you HTC!

[Spatula]

I agree with ya on this one. Rolling time periods would solve most of the probs, except some people who only want to fly late war planes would have to wait several days till they can, and thats no good for business.

[Amigo]

In my opinion, no.  The population is not large enough for this.

I'll cite one of the most ludicrously successful MMO's on the planet...World of Warcraft.  Servers are added as population can support.  The idea is to keep communities TOGETHER.  This move has split them up.

But I'm not just b|tching about it.  I have an idea too to preserve 2 key desires from AH players:  (1) large, cohesive community, and (2) balanced aircraft, appropriate for the time period they served.

See my other post...  Amigo in the Author column.

[Spatula]

Especially the population which flies during the off-hours - eg non-US people.

[Amigo]

Do you think it's worse for business to have to wait a few days to fly your trusty LA-7, or have your tight-knit alliance of 4 squads broken apart?

Heck, think of it this way.  You LOVE that Spit14 and don't want to fly anything else.  You now have a whole new incentive to (1) win the Early War and Middle War rotations, (2) get to the Late War rotation, and (3) keep from losing.

I just absolutely loved the massive wars and big alliances formed with squads.  To me, this is far more important than being able to fly the 1 or 2 planes that I'm uber in.  Any of us can adapt to new aircraft, especially if those aircraft are on an equal playing field.  So yes, I love the idea of segregation the aircraft by time period, but not at the expense of losing my brotherhood.  A rotation on time periods on one supermax server would provide (1) better balance, (2) the opportunity to try new planes like old craptastic ones without being raped by late-war dominators, and (3) still keep 500-700 pilots going strong together with their Squad/Alliance Ops., squad recruiting, newbie help, you know...the "little" things that help a game grow expontentially in subscribers.

A step further.  The maps and plane sets rotate through time.  Each time, there's a winner.  First side to get 3 wins (and the maps progress to then stay on Late War until that happens), wins WWII.  Could be exciting.

[MIShill]

Can we do old main & new split arenas alternating every 2 nights, perhaps? That would allow those, like me, who alternate rides frequently to test matchups with the new adrenaline hit of a more balanced arena.
-MI-

[RacrX]

Pissed off enough to post for the first time in months!

Change is rarely a bad thing but I am not liking this to much...

I too have logged into the MA on many a night and groaned at the same old map with the same old pattern of warfare but I still stayed on and flew.

I think the community would have been better served by a Main arena with four sections protected by fighter town like uber mountains with these plane sets available in the different sections...or greatly expanding the plane and vehicle models available.

This will fracture squads and the sense of community that comes with a "Mega" arena and that is my main concern along with a lot of other posters. My favorite way to end the day was to log on to MA join up with a dozen or more friends and go looking for the s**t, looks like those days may be numbered. I had to go to all four arenas to scrounge up 6 pilots and half of them were mad about the changes.

I, like anyone else hated getting jumped by two or three or four or more Laffers and Spit 16s when I took up an early model plane for some fun but hey alls fair in war, you roll the dice you take your chances.....

I think a good old fashioned poll to see if this is what the community wants is in order but I doubt we will see one...We should at least still have a mega anything goes arena as an option.

I will give it some time but I sure am not happy about the changes so far.

Everyone!

RacrX

[rpm]

Originally posted by Grits
This is not a democracy, HT has the one and only vote.

I beg to differ. My vote is $15 a month.

[MIShill]

Air Warrior supported multiple arenas, The Shills were mostly a "relaxed reality Pacific" squad there and squads will work out what they do here too.
-MI-

[Warchief]

If you want to spread out the numbers more evenly then how about this then. Limiting the number of peopl a certain country cane have. Tonight in the Early aren both Bish and knit were way outnhumbered by at least 60+. The Bish outnumbered the Knits on average about 10-20.

OK a night comes up where the total number of one country outnumbers the other by around 100 but the arena is full. Which every countries are outnumbered can not expect help of any kind. They are stuck. So many will log off or switch arena then you will have the Mid Era Arena like tonight where the KNit outnumbered everyone picked the weakest side and had a reset in about 30 minutes. So even out the numbers in such a way that people wont walk into an arena and find themselves completely outnumbered in such a way that gameplay is no longer fun or entertaining. Other then that I still had a great deal of fun. Was able to join up with my squad.

Big oir even medium size squads now face a new problem. If they want to go to a certain arena but it is full what should they do. Go to arean where barely any one is on and have no fun what so every. I know my squad likes to take on people. Makes alot more fun when you take a base and all people can do is sit in the tower and complain on 200 about it.