Has this become the total focus of the AH world? The reason I'm asking. The last few times i've flown, regardless of arena, that's all I see now.
Each time I log on in the evening, when I go into an arena, there are overwhelming numbers on one team and at least one other team so low in numbers, it's inevitable that the reset is coming.
It's kind of become the joke for me and the guys in the 80th. We hop to the low number side for another hopeless, against all odds defense. The problem is, no matter how hard you put up a fight, you don't have the bodies to spread out enough to stop the steam roll.
Last night I started in Midwar and a squadie and I were up in the 38s with DTs looking for the fight. In literally a 30 second time frame, 6 base capture messages scrolled across the bottom of the screen. The only kills landed were tank drivers. Those of us in the air couldn't get to the fight as they'd be gone by the time you got to where the dar bar was when you took off. I don't ever burn off all my DT fuel and we did last night and we never encountered another plane in the air.
So we hop to Latewar Orange. It's 30 Rooks, 90 Bish, 90 Knights. Ahh the hopless defense. Good fun while it lasted, but there was no way to defend enough places to stop the reset. Boom. Reset.
So we come back in and it starts again. 6-7 of us defend 49 from the crowd. Again the fight was fun while it lasted and in the end, at least by the time I logged off, we still held it. But it was the only green base in the area by that time as every other undefended base had been taken around us. Had we each spread out and tried to defend all of the bases we'd have lost 49 so it was a no win situation.
Granted it was funny to see them finally stop coming to 49 knowing they weren't going to get it, but clearly the emphasis is not on fighting other players but taking bases as fast as possible against as little opposition as possible.
So do we accept that this is now just the nature of AH, or is there a way to put the players back together in combat and change the emphasis off winning the reset as fast as possible.
Yeah I know it's an old question, but it seems to be getting worse lately and I see very few folks having any desire to change it.
You do begin to recognize the 'few' who jump to the low numbers to try and help fight off the inevitable, but sadly it's just a 'few' as clearly it's much more desirable apparently to belong to the 'winning' side.
If that's what the AH world wants, then so be it. In the end I won't lose any sleep over it, but I can't believe we come to an online world with the opportunity to fly against 'real live' opponents only to instead avoid them in the quest to get reset perks.
