Das Newb + Tower + Chritsmas

[LYNX]

On goes me computer.  All loadsa up.  Turns off some stuff then Click-a-dee-click on Aces High.  Into the game.   Into LWb because it has most players and I gets "The" pop up.  My side is imbalanced.  I have the three choices.

1) Go next door to an empty arena.  Err ...no thanks.  To slow plus I'll be accused of creaming it for me rank.

2) Do the honourable thing and swap sides.  Err....no thanks.  I captured some bases for Rooks in this arena yesterday.  Yer,  OK , AH to some degree is one big hamster wheel but thats taking the piss if you think I'll dismantle my work from yesterday.  It's like unclocking me hamster wheel.

3) Wait in the tower until clear to take off.  Righty-O....that's the 1 for me.  "you are 1 in a queue of 1".  Goodie goodie gum drops this ain't gonna be long.  

Then what do I see ?  You'll love the Irony.  On country channel a newbie "anyone need a gunner"...repeated a couple of times.  Then a different newbie " I need escorts".

I was like then I was .  Me thinking "hold the F*** on.  I'm paying 15 bucks to sit in the tower while some 2 weeker takes up valuable space".  Some kid, some 2 week quitter, the fastest nintendo mouse clicker kid this side of the 8th Air Force is "tooling" around and I'm sat in tower....  

Oh well,  happy endings was cleared for "take off" inside 3 minutes.

So...I got to finking.  Christmas upon us.  Influx of the newbies.  Repeat cases of vet in tower and newbies on the loose......

Would it be fair that the "bread and butter" (paying) customer takes precedence over the free load... err I mean new potential customer ?  After all if the newbies in tower asking to be a gunner.  He stands a chance of being there some time.  Why not make the Vet "Clear to Take Off"  while the newbs doing nothing. .  

Or why not make all 2 weeks free guys auto balance in every arena on everyday they attend.... no exceptions until they sign up.   Even give the newb a "sign up now" option.  Similar to an Ebay "buy it now" option.

They'll see more of the community.  They'll take AH as it is now.

Recap :-

Paying customers to take pride of place.

New customers to be introduced to all sides by means of lowest side autobalancer.  Every day and every arena until 2 weeks up.

New customers to have a "buy it now" option if the want to pick a side earlier than the 2 weeks expiry.  (any chance of 5% royalties for that gem ? )

Newbie that quit made to apologies to every single guy they've caused to be stuck in tower.

I know we was all newbies once but we was newbs under a different system and yes "whats 3 minutes"?  3 minutes is rather trivial I'll admit but they'll be a time like school brakes, bank and seasonal holidays where ones wait may well be longer.

I submit the motion to the house.

p.s Auto chuffle of newbies would also help hinder the persistant 2 weeker.

[Benny Moore]

Or you could be half-way decent and actually switch sides once in a while.  It won't kill you.  I spent roughly equal amounts of time on each side.

[68ROX]

I guess patience is a....dying virtue.

[LYNX]

Originally posted by Benny Moore
Or you could be half-way decent and actually switch sides once in a while.  It won't kill you.  I spent roughly equal amounts of time on each side.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave a moment ago.  

2) Do the honourable thing and swap sides. Err....no thanks. I captured some bases for Rooks in this arena yesterday. Yer, OK , AH to some degree is one big hamster wheel but that's taking the piss if you think I'll dismantle my work from yesterday. It's like unclocking me hamster wheel.

Any part of the above you don't understand and I'll gladly answer.

Do you think auto balancing the newbies to be counter to game play, business acumen or just plain trivial.

[The Fugitive]

Originally posted by LYNX
Err....no thanks. I captured some bases for Rooks in this arena yesterday.

So capture some for the knights, or bishops!
 IT"S A GAME !!!

[pluck]

or try moving squad for the long term to a different country that might need you more?

[B@tfinkV]

See Rules #4, #5

[Zwerg]

Originally posted by The Fugitive
[...]
 IT"S A GAME !!!

You know what a game is?

A game is when you do as if  it is not  a game.

[Meatwad]

Originally posted by B@tfinkV

i hope one day this bollocks is all dropped in favour of the old system.

 

Agreed

[badhorse]

Originally posted by LYNX

Paying customers to take pride of place.

New customers to be introduced to all sides by means of lowest side autobalancer.  Every day and every arena until 2 weeks up.

New customers to have a "buy it now" option if the want to pick a side earlier than the 2 weeks expiry.  (any chance of 5% royalties for that gem ? )

Newbie that quit made to apologies to every single guy they've caused to be stuck in tower.

I know we was all newbies once but we was newbs under a different system and yes "whats 3 minutes"?  3 minutes is rather trivial I'll admit but they'll be a time like school brakes, bank and seasonal holidays where ones wait may well be longer.

I submit the motion to the house.

p.s Auto chuffle of newbies would also help hinder the persistant 2 weeker.

Great ideas Lynx.


To some of us, switching sides is not an option. I've been in the same country since my two-week trial period.  Loyalty to a cartoon country may sound silly, but I see it as loyalty to the friends I fly with.  So I fly for the same country whether we outnumber the opposition or are out numbered by them.

[Bruv119]

I'm with you Lynx

Nice post.  Maybe you should Bunk the queue order due to rank.

Or be allowed to remove a player that has a high pitched voice.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Bruv119
remove a player that has a high pitched voice.

That is an excellent idea

There is one guy that sounds like a kid with colic whenever you are fortunate enough to be within earshot.

[LYNX]

Originally posted by Casinoman
I guess patience is a....dying virtue.

Of which I have very little.  Hands up on this charge but guys are missing my point.  More below.

from Fugitive
IT"S A GAME !!!

It is for sure a game.  Many ways, rules and incentives to a game but I draw your attention to what I said....  that's taking the piss if you think I'll dismantle my work from yesterday.  Your assumption of AH rules are one of anarchy.  

Our person perceptions of AH rules my differ but the thread isn't about me or you swapping sides or either of us being patient enough to wait in tower.  It's about newbies.....make all 2 weeks free guys auto balance in every arena on everyday they attend

Firstly, my appols if I didn't make myself clear  

I gave an example.
Gave good account of the reasoning, so I thought:rolleyes:
Gave a fair way of helping the balance.
Gave an incentive to sign up quicker.

Maybe I need to find another way of expressing what it is, you guys think it is, I'm saying.  

[kamilyun]

"The horror...the horror..."

[Goth]

INcredible, yet another thread.