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Offline Helm

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« on: June 07, 2007, 05:37:59 PM »
Yay!!!....yet again I can't fly w/ my squad cause I cant get in the arena!!

This is really getting old.  Boooooooooooooooo

What's the point of being in a squad if you can't serve with them?

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« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2007, 05:40:56 PM »
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Yay!!!....yet again I can't fly w/ my squad cause I cant get in the arena!!

This is really getting old.  Boooooooooooooooo

What's the point of being in a squad if you can't serve with them?

:furious
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1: tell ur squad to come the the other LW
2:keep hitting quit then come back and see if the cap goes up
3: quit the squad :D
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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2007, 05:42:06 PM »
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lol

1: tell ur squad to come the the other LW
2:keep hitting quit then come back and see if the cap goes up
3: quit the squad :D


4. log onto the bbs and whine.

:D

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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2007, 05:42:45 PM »
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4. log onto the bbs and whine.

:D

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that was a good one :aok
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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2007, 07:22:54 PM »
It's not really a whine, if it's a fact!  In case you have not noticed, you can get locked out of both arenas.
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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2007, 07:23:31 PM »
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It's not really a whine, if it's a fact!  In case you have not noticed, you can get locked out of both arenas.


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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2007, 07:29:09 PM »
Just imagine if you joined a squid and couldn't get in any tentacles?

Hmmm.......... tentacles......funny looking word.
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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2007, 07:36:56 PM »
so then does a squid scratch his testicles with his tentacles? :cool:

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« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2007, 07:42:20 PM »
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so then does a squid scratch his testicles with his tentacles? :cool:


Kinda hard for him to reach them, unless hes got a gaping hole in his side... I <3 Marine Biology :D:cool:

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« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2007, 07:23:31 AM »
(Same message, different thread)

There was a time when I was heavily involved with what was at the time the number one WWII air combat flight sim. They then made a number of changes to the arena's and arena systems that negatively affected squads in a number of ways. Some well established squadrons that had been the linchpins in supporting the sim for years were decimated, most suffered in a myriad of ways, and within a year or two most established squadrons were mere ghosts of their former selves.

The sim is practically dead now.

I pray HTC doesn't make the same mistake.

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« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2007, 07:38:32 AM »
The way the arena is set up now, if you sit and watch in the arena select screen sometime. Is that one arena is full, or nearly so. If the other arena is gaining numbers then limits will go up. Problem starts if blue for example starts dropping people and orange is full or nearly so.

It sets up almost like a revolving door. Orange Cap is 320 with 314 on, cap goes up, people go into orange. Cap is now 360 with 330 on. People leave blue, numbers drop in blue. Then the door revolves and it goes back to the previous cap. So now we are capped at 320 with 330 on.

If the numbers come BACK into blue because they are stuck getting into orange caps will swing back up, the door will revolve again and you can get back in. Chances are it will do it inside of 5 minutes.

The exception is as prime time US slides closer to midnight and numbers start falling the door may not reopen for some time.

But most of the time if you'll just sit in the lobby and wait a couple. Go fetch a beer, pat the kids, kiss the wife, kick the dog whatever. You can get back into where you want.

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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2007, 09:42:33 AM »
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The exception is as prime time US slides closer to midnight and numbers start falling the door may not reopen for some time.

 


The problem for most of us is Prime Time is when most of us play, That's why it's called Prime Time.  The two late war arenas put forth by HT to help control the horde has not worked.  The horde will always exists.  

The Changes to the rules of the game have done more to make it an even playing field then anything else.  According to HT spliting the players into mutiple arena for the largest number of players (late war) was not done to manage the load on the servers.  According to HT they could go well over 1000 players in an arena with no problem with the servers.  It was done to control the Horde,  Well it made it hard for squads during prime time and has not controled the horde.  Time for a change,  one late war arean, no caps, but make a few more changes to the rules of the game.

The addition of AAA at airfields and Towns helped to harden those targets and make fields more defenseable from the horde.  Perhaps another way to help balance the sides would be to increase the accuracy of the automatic defenses based on the numbers of people in a country.   If your country is out numbered the accuracy of all your field ack go up by that percentage and / or starting with a base number of 10 troops for a field capture that number goes up or down depending on your over all percentage of players. Or a combination of both.  

I know that AI has been kicked around a bit, why not have AI available to the outnumbered sides.
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« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2007, 10:29:59 AM »
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The two late war arenas put forth by HT to help control the horde has not worked.  The horde will always exists.  



The arena changes weren't about hordes.
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« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2007, 02:19:51 PM »
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The arena changes weren't about hordes.


You are 100% correct, they were about balanced game play.
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« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2007, 02:25:19 PM »
Traveler: The arena split was not about balanced game play.