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Offline Kazaa

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« on: September 25, 2007, 07:15:28 AM »
What do you think about having only one of the two late war arenas open until a respectable amount of people show up, then implement the caps for example at peak time ?

Playing in the highest populated arena before peak time with only 120, 170 or 200 people in an arena is starting to get some what stale, even more such if your in the less populated arena.

HiTech and everybody else, what do you think ?

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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 07:31:50 AM »
at the moment it kicks in when the first arena reaches near 200 people then cuts back to 120 forcing everyone into the 2nd arena.

This can be annoying for maybe an hour but the second one soon fills up.

If they raised it to 300 then cut it back to 200 near the limit that would then get 100 guys in the 2nd arena and still a possibility of more action.  This would put the daily cycle back a couple of hours and help Brits in prime time to get into the action.

But whatever way you look at it your damned if you do and damned if you dont.
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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 10:54:44 AM »
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200 people then cuts back to 120
I do not believe it does this, and the arena is already acting like the original posts.

Between Midnight and Noon ET the starting cap is 200. At Noon the cap drops to 120, his is the reduction you are seeing.

120 is plenty to have fun in an arena, raising the starting cap would just move the time where the 2nd arena is not populated, but the exact same problem would exist. The only differences is one arena would have 300 and the other empty making the time of one arena not having critical mass even longer.

We choose the numbers and time where the most people are entering arenas to minimize the time that one arena is has low numbers and is growing.

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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 12:05:35 PM »
I see your point HiTech.



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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 12:56:10 PM »
Thanks for clearing that up HT.

I will make sure I get online before 5:59GMT   :aok

I was just trying to explain what Kazaa was getting at, I myself think its the best way to deal with a tricky situation.




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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2007, 02:09:41 PM »
I see your point Bruv.

Why don't we just have one LW arena...



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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2007, 02:58:36 PM »
personally I am bored with the low numbers in the arena, it becomes a furball fest and no cooperation for base captures or defense until the numbers top 300.

I wont argue the point much further here, i have said it all before, even left the game 6 months because it bored me and has ruined our squad nights... whereas we used to have 75%+ participation we are lucky to get 25%
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2007, 06:14:20 AM »
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Originally posted by Mr No Name
personally I am bored with the low numbers in the arena


isn't that the truth :aok



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