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Offline rpm

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« on: February 11, 2008, 11:19:10 PM »
I know this has been hashed over 1000 times, but I'm gonna biatch about it again.

Bish are getting stomped in Blue and ENY is in effect. OK, I'll switch arenas and see if there is a better fight. Arena cap has me locked out with a crazy set of numbers. :furious

Dale, you ain't gonna win a J.D. Power award.
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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2008, 11:30:03 PM »
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I'll switch arenas and see if there is a better fight.


And if that fails then just go back after 30 minutes or so. That's what I do.
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« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2008, 11:34:22 PM »
I ain't paying $15 a month to get a busy signal.
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« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2008, 11:53:52 PM »
Hmm, pretty good numbers for mid war.  Not great, but not bad.  Try that.:aok

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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2008, 12:15:20 AM »
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I ain't paying $15 a month to get a busy signal.


Man that's hilarious, how far we've come from pay per hour.
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2008, 12:19:30 AM »
I bet that was SAT night too.  when i got on early in the evening it was 418/420 and after i played for an hour i got disco'd and found the cap 480's/120 cap on the next refresh it went to 480's/220 like you show there.

then after 30 min or so it went up to 360/320 and the cap never went higher and it was an hour or so befere i could get back in there.  so i know what you mean by having the saturday night fun cut short like that.
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2008, 05:57:10 AM »
If it was Saturday evening then it's probably not long after the arena reset - that always whacks things up...

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« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2008, 06:47:52 AM »
is there anyone at all who thinks the caps dont suck?
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« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2008, 06:53:05 AM »
I agree nothing against the cap. I just wish it would not read 300/220 makes no sense to me :huh.
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« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2008, 07:08:39 AM »
I think the caps are there for a reason and the way it is now is the best solution.

Obviously when they get out of sync it is because the second arena has had a drop in numbers and the arena that is nearly full needs to come down again so both arenas can have a fair share of the action.

If HTC has said NO to 1 main arena then 2 arenas need to be balanced fairly.  Forcing people by having no other choice except EW/MW is the only way to keep balance.

Obviously if you were getting into "the war" and you get kicked, booted or disconnected and can no longer fly with your squad, you need to go sit in the corner and cry until you can get back in.  Grow up fly elsewhere until you can.

Personally I would like to see one main arena midweek and put wider cap margins on the weekend when more people are online.  Say 100 odd at a time.


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Re: Arena Limits
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2008, 07:25:08 AM »
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Originally posted by rpm
I know this has been hashed over 1000 times, but I'm gonna biatch about it again.

Bish are getting stomped in Blue and ENY is in effect. OK, I'll switch arenas and see if there is a better fight. Arena cap has me locked out with a crazy set of numbers. :furious

Dale, you ain't gonna win a J.D. Power award.



What I don't understand is this..... If bish are getting stomped and EMY is in effect, and you are Bish I'm guessing (other wise why complain) Whats the problem????

 That means Bish have numbers, and if they organize a bit even with out the "uber" planes should still be able to push back the other countries. There should any number of battles going unless you were down to your 3 uncapturable bases. I don't see what the problem is, why would you want to leave the arena?

This dynamic cap system is here to stay. The community has already proven that it can't handle it on its own, so we have to have a baby sitter in the form of a cap system.
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« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2008, 07:26:11 AM »
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Hmm, pretty good numbers for mid war.  Not great, but not bad.  Try that.:aok

donkey


In this situation, I'd go for Mid-war, that is of course because I don't fly a lot of the uber-rides late war has. I have no trouble doing without them.
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« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2008, 08:52:29 AM »
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is there anyone at all who thinks the caps dont suck?


I don't think they suck. If one LW is full, I go to the other. If they both are full (somehow) I'll go to the TA and have some fun for a bit.
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« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2008, 09:38:15 AM »
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I agree nothing against the cap. I just wish it would not read 300/220 makes no sense to me :huh.


I think when you see something like 300/220 what happened was the cap was higher (at or higher than 300) but the number of people in each arena changed enough to cause the cap logic to calculate a new cap of 220.  While it may not look right, it looked just fine moments before when the cap was at or above 300.
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« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2008, 10:21:01 AM »
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is there anyone at all who thinks the caps dont suck?




I never have a problem getting into the LW arenas.

Might have to wait 10 or 15 minutes sometimes, but no big deal.

I can always putz around in the other arena till there's room in my arena of choice.




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