Arenas unfair with no order to size

[BAT31st]

Now please follow me on this.

Early war arena can have 10 or 20 players with a limit of 350

Mid war arena can have 50 or 70 players with a with limit of 350

1st late war arena can have 125 players and the limit has been lowered to 120

2nd late war arena can have 20 players and the limit of 170

This most often happen durning the day, when the fewest players are online.

Why can't all the arenas have a limit of 350 until night when the flux in limit cap needs to be in place?

The reason with I ask this, this limit on arena size only hurts game play by forcing 20 player into arena and this cheats these 20 players from the full game experience. It is not because the server can't handle it, not when you see 420 players in arena at night.

I understand that you need to balance arenas when a large number of players are on line. But why balance it, when it less then 200.

[4deck]

I guess theres now 4 posts going on about this. Right now. And if you search theres over 100 posts about this since it changed.

[BAT31st]

Well I had hoped that thier was 200 or 500 posts.

I remember when the arena was split into the 4 we have now.

HT said then it because the server could not handle the large number of players on one server.

Now I seen a post where someone said, that HT said it because squad where to big and its to make it a fair and even game and not a limit of the server.

I was here when it was all in one arena, that was fair, every one was playing in one arena. Back then if the knight had more players, it only because they had more players. Not because they got lucky and logged in before the limit cap was reached.

In one arena it was squads and team work to over come numbers, the best players were team players.

Now its the lone wolfs and the game gos on and on until one squad has the numbers and then they run the map and win the war.

Now thier is no king of hill, not when thier is another hill next door.

[WMLute]

Originally posted by BAT31st
Well I had hoped that thier was 200 or 500 posts.

I remember when the arena was split into the 4 we have now.

HT said then it because the server could not handle the large number of players on one server.

never saw him ever post that.  ever.

Originally posted by BAT31st
Now I seen a post where someone said, that HT said it because squad where to big and its to make it a fair and even game and not a limit of the server.

HiTech split the arenas because of the gameplay in the single MA was unhealthy.

Originally posted by BAT31st
Now thier is no king of hill

KOTH is going on right now in the SEA and again a week from Sat. on the 16th 9pm EST

[Laurie]

Originally posted by WMLute


 

HiTech split the arenas because of the gameplay in the single MA was unhealthy.

 


 

And the Milking and hording in our wonderful 4 arena setup isn't?

[Anyone]

Originally posted by Laurie
And the Milking and hording in our wonderful 4 arena setup isn't?

of corse it isnt... is the new Aces high way... learn to "fight" toolsheds without any defenders and capture 10s of bases each tour without defence...... if this is the way to train a new generation of AH players then the game play is going to go downhill fast.


4 arenas is too much, there aint enough players to support them... sure there may have been a big increase of players (aparently) but they all still join where the highest numbers are, just like every other game... See a quake server with 30/32 or one with 2/32 which one does everyone try and join.....


2 servers would be enough 1939-1943 and 1941-1945 arena. 500 cap on each

[whiteman]

Originally posted by Anyone
2 servers would be enough 1939-1943 and 1941-1945 arena. 500 cap on each

good idea.

like someone said theres now 3-4 topics, it might sound like whine here but the p-39 sure seemed like a lock when it came to the BBS vote compared to the actual outcome.

[storch]

oh lord

[Grits]

Originally posted by BAT31st
Well I had hoped that thier was 200 or 500 posts.

I remember when the arena was split into the 4 we have now.

HT said then it because the server could not handle the large number of players on one server.

That is not what HT said. It had nothing to do with sever capacity.

[The Fugitive]

Originally posted by BAT31st
Now please follow me on this.

Early war arena can have 10 or 20 players with a limit of 350

Mid war arena can have 50 or 70 players with a with limit of 350

1st late war arena can have 125 players and the limit has been lowered to 120

2nd late war arena can have 20 players and the limit of 170

This most often happen durning the day, when the fewest players are online.

Why can't all the arenas have a limit of 350 until night when the flux in limit cap needs to be in place?

The reason with I ask this, this limit on arena size only hurts game play by forcing 20 player into arena and this cheats these 20 players from the full game experience. It is not because the server can't handle it, not when you see 420 players in arena at night.

I understand that you need to balance arenas when a large number of players are on line. But why balance it, when it less then 200.

Do you even read any of the post in here or do you just com in here and make ridiculous statements for the heck of it?


Early war arena can have 10 or 20 players with a limit of 350

Mid war arena can have 50 or 70 players with a with limit of 350


All the arenas started out with this cap. seeing as there is no "over population" in these two arenas they haven't had to change either of them.


1st late war arena can have 125 players and the limit has been lowered to 120

2nd late war arena can have 20 players and the limit of 170
 

Yes there is an inbalance during the day, of Euro time.  Yes I think HTC could look into these numbers and maybe tweak the "smallest" cap allowable.

HT said then it because the server could not handle the large number of players on one server.

HTC said no such thing, it was a rumor a few people like yourself keep repeating. If you do a search you'll find that one of the HTC people said "the servers can handle up to 1000 people per arenas with out any trouble" but the arenas were split due to the unhealthy community of the singe arena had turned into.

The problem was that there were these big hordes steam rolling along, but never running into each other. People in the hordes would fight over the little scraps avalible, or dump their bombs auger/die and repeat endlessly. There was no organization, no strategy, no skill. From HTC perspective this kind of environment wasn't a good way to attract more customers to the game.... which after all is a major goal of his  

So by splitting the arenas, he has given us smaller hordes which now clash with each other, causing some players to "plan" attacks to thwart their advance ( taking out ammo and troops along a front), GVers now get into position to spawn camp their little hearts out with out 50 dive bombers "spoiling" there fun. Bombers make runs on towns and factories again, fighters cap, and actually get into fights midway between bases to slug it out in mini furballs.

All in all a marked improvement on what we had before, unless your one of those "baby seals" that was afraid to come out of the horde and take your beatings all the while "learning" what you need to do to survive. Come out and play the game! As you get better, it will make the game better for all of us!! Sure the EMY needs some tweaking, as well as the day time cap limits, but all in all, its a much better game than it was last year !

[derFuchs]

See Rule #10