I much preferred our old single MA and our older larger terrains even when certain squads were steam rolling. Wasn't like the hoarding or steam rolls were every 5 minutes or even every day. There seemed to be lots to do at any given point.
The guys that didn't like it or were verbal about it, were the guys that played for 20 minutes to a hour a night. Moans about "no fights" were common but only because it was to much trouble for these guys to actually spend 10 mins getting to an enemy base. THEY never THOUGHT of or more to the point PROMOTED side switching back then
I'm indifferent to side switchers so long as they don't hinder the side they switched from i.e cv position or engaging a know NOE raid.
Then we get to HTC side of the point. Why it was actually split. Obviously he wants to increase the player base which in turn increases revenue. I don't blame him for that. He has an outstanding business and I hope his endeavors are fruitful but it's close to a year now with the split. Close to or maybe even longer with the USA TV advert campaign. I have yet to see 1,000 players. There hasn't been a significant increase in players. Then again I don't have the true figures and I'm not asking for them. It's just that we witnessed some leave and some come back. We see newbies arrive daily and leave daily. Some do indeed stay put the vast majority bail even before it's time to cough up the money. Maybe a tutorial or step by step pass ya wings things would be more customer catching than a "bling TV advert".....who knows.
So we're here doing our thing with same old small maps, with the same old problem of arena caps, with the same old ENY (counter to what it was supposed to do) problem when there's a sniff of a reset and all this without any, that I have witnessed to, SIGNIFICANT player number increase. We seem to hovering around the 800-ish mark at peak times.
We did see a reduction in puffy ack. As a puffy ack magnets I welcomed that. Then we got more field ack which in turn almost guarantees a "Hoard" attack which was / is frowned upon. Then we got new style terrain which I also welcomed but it probably has sealed the fate of the older larger terrains. They would all have to be re-done I guess.
The only thing for sure is this. If it makes sense it won't happen. If you so much as put it to print it won't happen.
Us "bread and butter" subscribers us long standing players don't need to be listened to, as much as being given a bleeding medal:D