Author Topic: What Next (Read 444 times)

Gary26 · « **on:** December 03, 2006, 02:51:44 PM »

Ive heard talk of arena change's to curb number problems and war wins. I think all these changes have started more problems. Two days in a row I've seen one country lof off in droves so they could go to another arena where they had numbers leaving others to suffer eny penalty of 29. Thats crap! So basiclly we have to 1. change to another country. 2. Follow them to other arenas. That sucks! The set-up in the orange is lame. Seems we are being told where to fight by the staff. There was a staff member that said the "hordes create a slum like enviornment" What then what the heck is the orange arena.

hubsonfire · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:23:40 PM »

Either switch to the lower numbered side, or get used to not flying what you want, where you want. If you had an ENY of nearly 30, what kind of odds were your opponents facing? I'll guarantee a lot of them were having a far worse time than you were, tucked safely away in your horde.

pluck · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:58:43 PM »

i believe the changes were to get people fighting. the slum behavior was from the first set of changes, making different arena's. the idea being a lower number of people flying in an arena would create more friendly arenas and a better sense of community.

the latest changes i believe are targeting the hording which was attacking bases where the other horde was not at. this type of behavior takes away from gameplay, as you are basically attacking an empty field with little to no resistance. yes you got easy kills and frequent vulches, but i wouldn't consider that gameplay. some squads like the challenge of coordinating attacks on bases where it is challenging. after all, that was a main reason people said they used to like to take fighter town....because it wasn't as easy.

if you consider actually fighting for stuff slum like behavior, then i guess there is nothing to discuss with you. if you don't want to be penalized by eny. then switch countries. it really is the communities issue when they always try to take the easiest path. it is not HT's problem that people log off one arena and go to another because they want to horde in another arena. if many log off because of overwhelming numbers, causesing your eny to go higher, can you really blame them? who is really at fault? maybe they just wanted to go someplace where they can have competition, not be swarmed by 5 to 1 odds. maybe eny needs to be even more restrictive to keep people from logging off one arena and going to the next for hording purposes.

so now since the community has been losing its way and the gameplay has been following a similar path, HTC has stepped in to try to bring the game back to how it was intended to be, don't be upset, it's just how things are.

john9001 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 03, 2006, 04:37:56 PM »

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Originally posted by hubsonfire
Either switch to the lower numbered side, or get used to not flying what you want,

or i could just watch TV.

Gary26 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 03, 2006, 04:43:23 PM »

Why should we have to change sides? Multiple arenas gives countries the chance to become a horde. Right now rooks have logged off of Blue and went to orange where they have numbers to steam roll the side the want to hit. Im open to change but when the change means that people have to change where the fly and with who they fly with isnt right. I fly on the knights. I like alot of the guyz i fly with, therefor we I dont want to change sides. Why should i have to. I guess with the problems these changes have made I've lost touch with what problems they were supposed to fix. "Well just change sides" , "well go to a diffrent arena". Why should I have to? People are dedicated to one side and it seemed to work fine before. Didnt have ENY's of 29 on a daily basis. We didn't have one side getting beat in blue and jump to orange so they have advantage. It's stupid that the thinking is "well they'll still play". In a way they are right, I love this game and have made good friends in it, but my 14.95 says that i can have this post and gripe about what i and many think are bad decisions.

Raptor · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:03:04 PM »

If you don't like it, take that 14.95 and gripe elsewhere

Kuhn · « **Reply #6 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:06:45 PM »

I think its funny that no matter what is done people will complain.

Schatzi · « **Reply #7 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:10:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Kuhn
I think its funny that no matter what is done people will complain.

Kuhn, thats an universal law.

Kuhn · « **Reply #8 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:13:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Schatzi
Kuhn, thats an universal law.

And its proven here quite often.

thndregg · « **Reply #9 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:18:14 PM »

Ran across a quote from Cosby that applies to this whole issue and Hitech's business.

pluck · « **Reply #10 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:20:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Gary26
Why should we have to change sides? Multiple arenas gives countries the chance to become a horde. Right now rooks have logged off of Blue and went to orange where they have numbers to steam roll the side the want to hit. Im open to change but when the change means that people have to change where the fly and with who they fly with isnt right. I fly on the knights. I like alot of the guyz i fly with, therefor we I dont want to change sides. Why should i have to. I guess with the problems these changes have made I've lost touch with what problems they were supposed to fix. "Well just change sides" , "well go to a diffrent arena". Why should I have to? People are dedicated to one side and it seemed to work fine before. Didnt have ENY's of 29 on a daily basis. We didn't have one side getting beat in blue and jump to orange so they have advantage. It's stupid that the thinking is "well they'll still play". In a way they are right, I love this game and have made good friends in it, but my 14.95 says that i can have this post and gripe about what i and many think are bad decisions.

well thats fine. if you have friends you like to fly with, then you can still fly with them, but then you have to accept that you may have to deal with eny. guess it shouldn't be a problem though because you enjoy flying with your friends. maybe your friends would like to switch sides with you? personally i enjoy fighting with my friends as much as fighting against them. i think there are solutions and you are not without options. from my point of view these changes are furthering the game of AH as it grows. the old MA was horde fest. overwhelm one base, while the other country is overwhelming another base. that's not gameplay, imho. i think it's rather lame to switch arena's to go to an arena where you have an overwhelming advantage. but that door swings both ways; it's just as lame to have 100 fighting 50 and 50. all in all these changes are still new, they still have some tweaking, but once again it is trying to integrate 2 styles of play into 1, which is good for gameplay and good for community. you can't have good gameplay and overwhelming numbers. the community it general can't seem to right itself, so to insure a healthy competitive game, allowing the game to grow, the developers are doing it for us.