Once a month RPS

[Ack-Ack]

It is a "show of support" for the under-utilized arenas,and planes, and is a boon to the MANY people who would like it (add up responses to thread). If the groundswell of hatred for the idea is as you say then stop the event after 1 or 2 tries. Maybe, just maybe, people would like it .

Forcing people to play in an arena and fly a certain plane "as a show of support" is bad for business and the game.  If you want to support the Early War arena, fly in there yourself (2 sorties in two tours hardly counts).  Help promote the arena, talk your squadron into flying in there regularly and convince some other pilots and squadrons to try it out. 

If you're going to try and convince people to support your idea, it would help if you at least engage in it yourself.  How many sorties have you had in the EW arenas in the last two tours?  How many flights have you had in an EW plane compared to a N1K2, La-7, or Spitfire Mk XVI? 


ack-ack 

[Anaxogoras]

Forcing people to play in an arena and fly a certain plane "as a show of support" is bad for business and the game.  If you want to support the Early War arena, fly in there yourself (2 sorties in two tours hardly counts).  Help promote the arena, talk your squadron into flying in there regularly and convince some other pilots and squadrons to try it out. 

If you're going to try and convince people to support your idea, it would help if you at least engage in it yourself.  How many sorties have you had in the EW arenas in the last two tours?  How many flights have you had in an EW plane compared to a N1K2, La-7, or Spitfire Mk XVI? 


ack-ack 

I think it's up to HTC to decide what is good or bad for business and the game.  That said, if they implemented even the tiniest RPS, it would hold my interest, and my money is as good as anyone else's.  Moreover, how do you know that a 1-day RPS would be bad for business?  Warbirds went on for years with a successful full-time RPS... it was lack of development that killed it.

Obviously most of us don't log any time in the EW arena because no one is there when we see the arena selection screen; but I can safely say that I haven't logged any time in a N1k2, La-7 or Spixteen.

I'm honest: I'm not good enough to fly a 1940 bird and still have fun in the main arena, but it sure would be cool to have the opportunity to try it in a place where I would.  Sometimes the AvA offers that, but the axis-allies opposition makes people go crazy.   Perhaps the best part of the warbirds RPS was when it was still a 4-country war in 2.0.

[Ack-Ack]

Warbirds went on for years with a successful full-time RPS...

Then why hasn't the creator of Warbirds implemented such a feature to AH within the 8+ years the game has been open to the paying public?



ack-ack

[Anaxogoras]

I don't know.  Do you?  It could be for any number of reasons.  I can think of the following:

Personal preference
A desire not to mess with something successful (this one is the most likely, imho)
Fear of player reaction

But it's certainly not because HTC likes it that a huge chunk of their hard work goes unused a great majority of the time.

[Impakt]

And again, RPS was a misnomer by me---oops---it would have been better to say "once a month no Late War," or "once a month Late War Disabled," or "Once a Month Fixed Early/ Mid/ Axis-Allies Planeset" as an EXPERIMENT. I suppose I'll get my satisfaction in the upcoming European Timezone Sunday Event---though these are somewhat different in feel than an open arena.

[JimmyC]

slightly off topic of one day experiment but:
I had a thought that we could have a war arena that started beginning of war plane set & slowly (historically time set) introduced new planes that came into production. giving it quiet a realistic feel to have an uber plane then enemy get an ever uberer(!) plane..so over a month (or week or whatever) the stakes rise.people might only join in later when "their" plane comes in but even that is realistic as USA entered war later & Japan.it would give a truer historical feel to the advancement of plane type and give u a chance to ride some planes u would not normally pick....anyway just a thought
  Jimmy

[moot]

"Once a month not-your-15$" 
No thanks. 

[gpwurzel]

Whilst I like the idea - Im with Ack-Ack on this one. Taking away peoples choices is a great way of upsetting them. Flown a couple of times in Midwar - no la7's etc in there - had some good fights, had some great fun - the choice is yours people - if the ew/mw arena numbers are low, go in and boost em up. Fly on different sides - if nothing else, at least you get to fight people you normally fly with - which increases your experience levels and makes it better for you in the long run.

just my 0.0000002p worth, ymmv,


Wurzel

[spit16nooby]

I don't know much about EW fighters, but I do like turning on a dime in a spit 1 in base defence and watching 500 hits not killing something.

[bobtom]

I love EW and MW planes. I go to the EW often not as often as the LW though, I do love flying in EW planes in the LW. Its nice killing a spit 16 or lgay w/ a a6m2 and getting 20 perks, so I like the idea. 

[Bruv119]

what your looking for impakt is called Combat tour and it is coming to a screen near you soon.

Be patient Grasshopper.

[chewie86]

what your looking for impakt is called Combat tour and it is coming to a screen near you soon.

Be patient Grasshopper.

ROFL .. only 2 more weeks ...


I agree with impakt's Idea... A Titanic Early war Tuesday ... Gorgeous

[SlapShot]

I would love to see this idea come up for a player vote like the last plane choice did.

There is a HUGE difference between players voting for a new airplane addition to the game ... that only adds value to the game, versus players voting on the possibility of dollars going into or not into HTC's wallet.

When it comes to dollars and cents ... there is a very very small group that gets to give input in this aread and when all is said and done ... there is only ONE vote ... and I'll bet you can guess who that is.

I think it's up to HTC to decide what is good or bad for business and the game.

Bingo ... and HTC has already weighed in on this notion, and as AckAck has pointed out ... it's ain't gonna happen ... especially when there is an AvA arean ... an EW arena ... and an MW arena. Plenty of CHOICE there for all to take advantage of without having to FORCE something upon the "whole".

[Impakt]

  Ack-Ack

If you're going to try and convince people to support your idea, it would help if you at least engage in it yourself.  How many sorties have you had in the EW arenas in the last two tours?  How many flights have you had in an EW plane compared to a N1K2, La-7, or Spitfire Mk XVI?

  Your attempt to paint me a hypocrite is going to fail miserably. I don't fly the other arenas because the #s suck----if I want to be where the #s suck---I'll go back to Warbirds. My squad is 80% European and the #s are even WORSE at our squad hours 1500-1900 EST.

  I have only been in four "tours of duty" 97, 98, 99, 100. I gathered these scoring stats for the Late War arena for me, Impakt, in those tours.

       Kills in P-40E = 201

      Kills in F4F-4 & FM-2 =  65

     Kills in C-205 =  211

    Kills in the rides you mentioned COMBINED (Nik2, Spit 16, LA-7) = 88 (lion's share in Spit 16)

   So in the Late War Arena my P-40E kills are more than double my "uber ride kills". The ratio of the # of sorties is even greater since my kill/ death ratio is much worse in the P-40E. Nice try Ack-Ack at more ad hominem attacks---maybe you should do some homework first.

  You can have a look yourself herehttp://www.hitechcreations.com/frindex.html  type in "Impakt" under relevant ToD and see for yourself (in expanded format scores).

  I reiterate it is "forcing" for 1 night a month, 12 days out of 365. I still think it would be a low pain show of support for the other arenas and would make some use of the hangar queens.  Doesn't matter to me if "it ain't gonna happen"----I can hold my own against the uber ride dweebs in my P-40.

  Ack-Ack   can't seem to find your scores. What is your in game handle?? Do you actually play?? What % of your time is in uber rides??

[moot]

There's a good reason those arenas are empty.