Arena format change

[jtdragon]

if this is the future of AH then look at only having two sides instead of the three now.

[denizen]

Hmm. I'm a new player and i'm already not liking this new arena business.

Can't find anyone to shoot at !

[Gman8]

Useless game now...SHawk is right...players will leave in droves...including me.  You've gotten your last $15 bucks from me if this is the future of AH.  If this format persists AH will half its current subscription in 90 days...and probably be out of business all together in 6 months.  Look at the arenas now...not enough players in any arena to make it worth logging on.  It's a shame such a great game is going to go down in flames due to such an ill conceived idea...stop listening to your 'buddies' HiTech and pay attention to the subscribers who pay your bills.

[WMLute]

Just checked it out.

Horrible idea.  I dislike almost everything about it.

Adding a a mid and late war arena = good idea.

Killing the Main, and splitting up the player base = bad idea.

I will wait for others to chime in before I give my full 2 cents.

[Soulyss]

Looks like Math hit the nail on the head... I wonder how the mood of this thread would change if Pyro would have locked it for one week after his announcement then re-opened it.  

Asuming of course that a million other alarmist threads wouldn't pop up in it's place.

[ghi]

Originally posted by SHawk
OK, this is Dumb. You've still got Germans fighting Japs. Mark my word, this will be the worst move HTC has ever made. I'm predicting you'll lose at least 200 players within the week. I'm totally serious about this.

  I agree,
 
I like both sides of the game, strat playing and furballing, the strat player has no logic anymore, Who's going to win the war? the team that reset all 4 arenas ?
 Seems like HTC gave up to "pure furballers "crying on BB, but they are small % of the players,

this is not a massive multiplayer  game anymore

The way is set up now, with 12 teams in 4 arenas, i can play free, other games with  better grafic and FM

[Krusty]

Bah you're all freaking out. Give it a week for cod's sake!

The reason nobody's ON right now is because it's the middle of the day in the middle of the work week! Most of us have lives! (okay, not "lives" -- but we have "work" aka "that time during which we can't fly AH2")

[bozon]

one tip:
Do not consider what happens in the first few days "the future" of AH. The dust has to settle and some fine tuning by HTC will surely follow.

I do have a slight fear that "mid war" might fall between the seats.

Why are there two "late war" areanas? Doesn't make much sense to me.

Bozon

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Krusty
Bah you're all freaking out. Give it a week for cod's sake!

The reason nobody's ON right now is because it's the middle of the day in the middle of the work week!

Unfortunately, many players in different time zones spend most of their time online when numbers are so "low". When I´m online, there are 90-140 Players on most of the time. And now that few players are spread across 2-4 Arenas...

[Krusty]

I'm guessing it's due to the small maps. Even if folks split off into the early and mid arenas, the late war will see the majority of the players. I think it's 1) to give people smaller maps but more servers (for the spillover), 2) to see if folks will in fact spill over to the other server and both will have regular following.

I'm guessing it's part of the plan for long-term expansion, should the player base grow even larger than it already has.

[Baylor]

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.

[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.

[ghostdancer]

Have they posted anywhere which planes are available in which arenas? Won't be home until much later tonight and wondering how they split things up (what year range for each arena).

[Nifty]

Guys, if this turns out to be a bad idea, I'm sure Hitech and Pyro will revert back to the old arena and say "We screwed up, guys. We'll come up with another solution for our MA population issue."

As it is, give it a chance, it might work out.

Also, as someone said, the 109F-4 is more than capable of handling the Spit V.  Of course, it leaves very little choice in that arena. Those two planes will probably dominate.

[icemaw]

But I like clubbing baby seals in thier la7s spits16's and p51 in my 109f
I guess I will have to club the baby seals in thier spit5 and p38gs now