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Offline KaK3

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« Reply #465 on: September 14, 2006, 01:04:44 AM »
I CANNOT SEE HOW SPLITTING UP THE COMMUNITY  COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD FOR BUSSINESS. when we had 600 people in 1 arena the game play was great, the only times it was porked was when there was a massive furball going on, but with 600 people online there was always womewhere to go to have a good fight, without having the server pork the framerates. Now, with only50 - 150 people in an arena, everyone will gravitate to where the action is, so we have mega furballs resulting in porked game and  pisspoor frame rates, and oh by the way,. there isnt anywhere else to go in the arena to find a fight, so we are forced to fight in crappin gameplay  mega furball, or go fly by yourself .
 But, i can see an upside to having an arena with 27 knights, 17 rooks and 13 bishops( as there was when i logged into late war arena)-DURING PRIME TIME PLAY HOURS; i can now go an milk run perk points  without worrying about enemy . I guess though it ill only be a matter of time till HT does something to remove that option, untill then , i'm gonna stock up on perks, or fly in mega furballs with UFO darting through the air.
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Offline Arlo

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« Reply #466 on: September 14, 2006, 01:05:28 AM »
"Sky is falling .... sqwad's gonna die" generally accompanies every change made to the game to date, doesn't it? `Course, I've not been active for awhile ... but my squad still lives. Go figure. And I plan to rejoin them ASAP. What I've read about the changes is only inspiring me to do so quicker.

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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #467 on: September 14, 2006, 01:05:31 AM »
well you have a valid point there.  But I stayed away from those missions so I dont feel the loss as you do.  Might want to consider adapting, changing.  Who knows...things might revert back to the old way but HTC rarely goes backwards after making a gameplay change.  

Change we must.
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« Reply #468 on: September 14, 2006, 01:07:57 AM »
seconded.




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« Reply #469 on: September 14, 2006, 01:09:13 AM »
The reason they cant have a MA with all the plane sets enabled is because it wouldnt work.  No one would go into any of the other arenas.  They tried this with the combat arena which was later changed to the allied-vs-axis arena and no body played there.  As for the other aspects of this new change I prefere to keep my comments to my self cuz they wont be positive concerning the community. But I wasnt having fun in the old syle of arena play so maybe this will change things for the better.
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« Reply #470 on: September 14, 2006, 01:11:52 AM »
Im pleased as well, but I understand alot of peoples hesitation and frustration.

Just let some time pass and I think most everyone will settle in.
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Offline Arlo

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« Reply #471 on: September 14, 2006, 01:12:17 AM »
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I CANNOT SEE HOW SPLITTING UP THE COMMUNITY  COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD FOR BUSSINESS.  


"Splitting up the community?"

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when we had 600 people in 1 arena the game play was great


A horde isn't a "community." And you may be surprised how much a community benefits from:

A: A smaller/more intimate server enviroment.

B: Experiencing more of the planeset that makes for actually having fun in such a planeset.

My cents. And again, looking forward. My best memories come from the CT.

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Offline Amigo

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« Reply #472 on: September 14, 2006, 01:17:16 AM »
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well you have a valid point there.  But I stayed away from those missions so I dont feel the loss as you do.  Might want to consider adapting, changing.  Who knows...things might revert back to the old way but HTC rarely goes backwards after making a gameplay change.  

Change we must.


Change we must?  We pay the bills every month.  The customers ALWAYS have the power, don't forget that.

I, just like the people that applaud the arena change, want to fly aircraft that are appropriate for the time period that those aircraft were used.  I don't want to be raped in my beloved P40b by an LA7, pretending I'm re-living the heroism of the Flying Tigers in China just to have my little fantasy destroyed by a late war dominator.  It's not fair, it's not historical, and it's not realistic.  I love the idea of time-period segregation.  I just think this is an astonishingly bad attempt at such.

Historical era segregation of aircraft can be accomplished without segregating the COMMUNITY of AH pilots onto different servers.  Does nobody get this?
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Offline SFCHONDO

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« Reply #473 on: September 14, 2006, 01:21:36 AM »
At first I was pissed and hated it. After playing in each arena for a few hours tonight, I am starting to like it as far as the plane sets go. It's the numbers that I guess I am having a problem with. If each arena had the numbers like the old MA it would be perfect.

Wonder what the chances would be to have 1 week EW setup, 1 week MW setup, 1 week LW setup, then the final week of the camp have the old MA setup. Utilizing 1 Arena. This way each week offers something different and we still have good numbers in the arena. IMO that would be the way to go.
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Offline Saxman

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« Reply #474 on: September 14, 2006, 01:24:12 AM »
WHAT fights? There was almost nothing happening in the midwar arena except for a few small and scattered furballs.

Late-war #2 was just a pure horde fest. Rooks couldn't go ANYWHERE to find a fight without being outnumbered about 4 or 5 to 1. How does shrinking the max cap of the arena discourage hordes? If anything it ENCOURAGES it by one country arranging to fill up all the spots to block out players by the other two.
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Offline asilvia

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« Reply #475 on: September 14, 2006, 01:25:11 AM »
HTC!!!! Been here 8 months and by far this afternoon/tonight had the best time. Early era is excellent. Have a thing about a hurri1 and spit1 and its very nice not get HO'd, Cherry picked but uber planes (Although I do like the la7 but fly it low and slow and turn and burn). Being in a squad that primarily flies spits, I found them no problem.....sorry RedTop about my voice problems.
All and all I think this is going to work and if it does thin out "some" people then so be it.

as with everyone else just my .02
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Offline ramzey

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« Reply #476 on: September 14, 2006, 01:25:14 AM »
its called RPS and HT state thats never going to happend
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« Reply #477 on: September 14, 2006, 01:25:58 AM »
Too bad many have yet to realize that the best plane matchup and choices isn't the early war arena but the mid war arena.  



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Offline KaK3

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« Reply #478 on: September 14, 2006, 01:27:32 AM »
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"Splitting up the community?"



A horde isn't a "community."
Look up the definitoin of Community, i certainly isnt 10 or 15  people. Just use SA if you dont like large numbers, myself,I always love attacking hordes, I get more for my money and am not afraid of a lot of bad men coming at me.
Hordes are  looked down by those that have no sucess against them, I  have been frustrated many times by bigger numbers, but I'm not gonna whine if someone wants to organize a mission and bring 20-30 targets to one of my bases,
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Offline SHawk

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« Reply #479 on: September 14, 2006, 01:30:46 AM »
OK, I'm daring HTC to put back the regular MA and still have the 3 seperate arenas with higher caps on players allowed. If at least 75% of the customers don't end up back in the old MA I'll cut my Mullet:D
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