Eny is the Enemy Open letter to HTC

[Baine]

Originally posted by storch
sir, in life and in this is and other games the only constant is change.  while I agree with what you post and understand that it can be a frustration I will point out that the game has markedly improved since these changes were implemented.  perhaps your limited time online prevents you from fully appreciating how much better the game is now even though there is still much room for refinement.

Sorry Storch, can't agree. Eny hasn't solved anything, unless you call making people who pay to play the game log off accomplishing something. It's just proved that the more you complain about a bad idea, the more the people who implemented it feel the need to keep it.
Sort of also explains why we have all these different arenas still up when only two of them are ever used. I remember when they were implemented how we had the halleluja chorus telling us that they too were great for the game.

[FireDrgn]

Why is somone always gripe'in about la7 and 16. They are almost always over confident and the easiest kills in the game.   I will engage a la7 or spit16 before any other plane. Starting to learn to stay away from p38"s <>


Of course im a a6m dweeb!!!

[BiGBMAW]

1) Vans is right about last night it was BS..We had a much larger Red bar over our base then friendly..The way I like it.

I tried to up typhoon..No....I tried to Up Hurri 2c..NO..I then said screw this Ill go kill GVs...I upped a B-25..NO

Thats when It was the final straw...Its crap.  I had no problem with these"uber" hordes before eny came around

It would be at least decent if they were going to take away planes to give us an option of perk during eny..at the most


I am canceling as a strike. If others do it when they get sick of it..All the better..If not..at least I stood by how I feel.


Maybe give me back money when they take the planes away..llol

I will fly again someday..this game is great..But the way the eny is , it makes my limited time to play "un-fun".  Now I have to fly a slow plane to chase you kooks.?.  You have to chase half the tards already

I cant remember the last time i stepped in a spit or an Lghey.

And Iron cross.. Who are you?  I'm thinking my goon would kill your sorry sulk

Anyways..My Money their planes..Its like HTC picked up the ball and left the court. I'm guessing they started the ENY because the tardlets could not learn how to fight better planes? Sounds like "social promotion" in schools.

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Guppy35
Would you not agree that much of that is normal attrition though?  Of all the folks i started flying with all those years ago in AW, there aren't that many left.

People come and go.  That's just part of the landscape.  To blame it on this part of the game or that part doesn't fit for me.

Why can i still have fun in the game if it's so broken?  I've got 11 years in and I'm still having a great time.

Isn't it on the individual player to bring the right attitude and approach to the game?

I do know that the times where I had to step back from the game I found that I was seeing things in the game to blame for what in the end was just my needing a break.

There ya go. Sense.

I heard the shrill warble-bleet of the pink breasted yellow crested chesspiece fixated sheep donut's lonely and frustrated mating calls the moment HT decided to implement some balancing features to the game. (Then it seemed to die off ... at least a little ... after some made some a point to quit "for good" to convince HT to "fix" things back.) The features may not be perfect ... but what in this world ever is? Besides, the biggest bleeting seems to center around just plain stubborn refusal to fly together as anything other than (insert chesspiece) because:

a: None of my squadies (nor I) wanna fly as anything else ... ever ... because we're *loyal* to (insert chesspiece).

b: None of my squadies (nor I) are coordinated enough to plan ahead. (Email's a challenge .... having a backup plan's a beech .... switching sides takes additional technical expertise none of us have mastered yet.)

c: Our squad(s) are so monsterously large that on squad night we *are* (insert chesspiece).

Not saying that MAWs can't understand or handle such. I hope.

I miss the game. It always got better, from my recollection. (And lawd - seeing the screenies of the new and improved hog stuff downright gave me a stiffie.) Once life settles down again ... the ENY doesn't skeer me any. I've always had more social skillz than virtual pile-it skillz anyway.

[Karnak]

Not all old timers left due to ENY.  I actually played more for a bit after ENY was implimented.

I stopped playing (I still fly now and then, but it is rare) for other reasons, some from RL and some having to do with the souring attitude of the player base vis-a-vis politics and their insistance on dragging their political poison into a game I wanted to relax and blow off steam with, not be saturated with juvenile political thoughts.

[Kev367th]

ENY limits aren't that bad, it's the ENY values that are messed up.

Sorry but the 'popularity' of a plane or it's perceived 'easyness' to fly really shouldn't be any part of its ENY value.
What it could be based on is open to a lot of debate I would assume.

[Ghosth]

First off ENY should be tied to # of fields not # of people.

Second, instead of disabling planes, lets disable ordanance.

5   eny no bombs available over 1k.
10 eny knocks the 1k bombs out.
15 eny knocks out the 500's
20 eny knocks out the all ord and troops.

Now a country can still fly, people can still have fun but the big country is not going to continue to gain fields. Plus, this system will work just as well for for a undermanned arena. Gain too many fields and you shut down the ord and troops needed to gain more. No more endless land grabbing in the empty arena's.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by BiGBMAW
1) Now I have to fly a slow plane to chase you kooks.?.

No, you haven't. The fastest prop plane between 8-25k  (and still among the fastest on the deck) has an ENY of 20 only. It's a common misconception that planes with ENY >10 are lame ducks. They aren't.
And if ENY is >20, the problem of having a huge red dar over an own base is clearly your countrymen busy vulching elswhere instead of fighting.
(Which doesn't mean there aren't any maneuverable, fast planes with ENY above 20)

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Ghosth
Plus, this system will work just as well for for a undermanned arena. Gain too many fields and you shut down the ord and troops needed to gain more. No more endless land grabbing in the empty arena's.

IF ENY is based on field #'s and high ENY shuts down troops & ords... how do we get an arena reset?
This would end all offensive action not only in undermanned arenas.

[Ghosth]

RATS, foiled again.  

Sigh, back to the drawing board I guess.

[Yarbles]

Originally posted by BiGBMAW
1)
I will fly again someday..this game is great..But the way the eny is , it makes my limited time to play "un-fun".  Now I have to fly a slow plane to chase you kooks.?.  You have to chase half the tards already

I cant remember the last time i stepped in a spit or an Lghey.

And Iron cross.. Who are you?  I'm thinking my goon would kill your sorry sulk

Anyways..My Money their planes..Its like HTC picked up the ball and left the court. I'm guessing they started the ENY because the tardlets could not learn how to fight better planes? Sounds like "social promotion" in schools.

I am sure having read this you have made the right choice and everyone will be better off as a result:aok

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by Lusche
IF ENY is based on field #'s and high ENY shuts down troops & ords... how do we get an arena reset?
This would end all offensive action not only in undermanned arenas.

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Hap]

I don't know why, but when eny kicks in it doesn't bother me.  I do understand the gripes of others though.  For many years, there was no eny.  And now there is.


The reason is "before the game was worse now it is better."  Or if I didn't say it quite right, that's the sense of it.

That's never won the day with me.

Even so, the eny change must have increased subscriptions or increased retention and lowered the rate or #'s of people cancelling.  Something measureable.

[Shuffler]

I read about half the posts and got bored. This has been talked about to the point of beating a dead horse.

Folks paying 15 bucks a month become members of the community, they are not buying the game. To be a part of a community requires everyone's input. It also requires everyone to adjust to what is best for the community as a whole. The community is in a constant ebb and flow.

A community is successful when the flow coming in is greater than the flow going out. Folks who have an inability to cope with change are better off moving to another community as staying only serves to sour the attitudes of folks that come in contact with them.

This thread was started by a gentleman that stated what he had to say and decided to leave. He did so in a way that was not attacking anyone or putting anyone down. That is his right as a member of this community to do just that.

While I hate to see anyone leave our community, his interest in the community had run it's course. He made a tough decision that is probably best for him and the community.

I for one hope that in the future he checks back in and finds a renewed interest with AH and it's ever changing ebb and flow.

BigBMAW and all of our Community

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Shuffler
I read about half the posts and got bored. This has been talked about to the point of beating a dead horse.

Folks paying 15 bucks a month become members of the community, they are not buying the game. To be a part of a community requires everyone's input. It also requires everyone to adjust to what is best for the community as a whole. The community is in a constant ebb and flow.

A community is successful when the flow coming in is greater than the flow going out. Folks who have an inability to cope with change are better off moving to another community as staying only serves to sour the attitudes of folks that come in contact with them.

This thread was started by a gentleman that stated what he had to say and decided to leave. He did so in a way that was not attacking anyone or putting anyone down. That is his right as a member of this community to do just that.

While I hate to see anyone leave our community, his interest in the community had run it's course. He made a tough decision that is probably best for him and the community.

I for one hope that in the future he checks back in and finds a renewed interest with AH and it's ever changing ebb and flow.

BigBMAW and all of our Community

Nicely put.  I agree.

- oldman