Excessive AFK in tower

[Lusche]

Excellent info Lusche!

Thank you, but take note it's just an opinion based on a few random shots and some quite subjective experience. 

[AAolds]

I would support an auto-kick after 1 hour of AFK in tower.  Not that hard to re-enter an arena.  

[kj714]

Tonight I watched the country numbers in Blue and noticed something.
There were 27 folks in country and only 15 in flight for an extended period of time.

The negative effect of this is that the ENY was almost 20.

I a supposing that many of them simply stayed logged in to "reap" perk points should a WIN occur.
But it is possible that they were legitimately AFK for a brief period.

PROPOSED SOLUTION:  After 1hr of inactivity in an arena (defined as staying in same tower for 1 hr), a player should be auto kicked.

I am curious how other members of the game feel about this suggestion?

Jarbo

I'm with Steve, who cares?

But the foil to your solution is that if said people were gaining something by purposely staying logged on, they would simply switch tactics to launch a plane or a gv on a runway deep in their territory and let it sit there.

[AAolds]

I'm with Steve, who cares?

But the foil to your solution is that if said people were gaining something by purposely staying logged on, they would simply switch tactics to launch a plane or a gv on a runway deep in their territory and let it sit there.

To foil that tactic, someone could shoot them down putting them back in the tower. 

[Nilsen]

Who cares. If ENY bothers you then it just shows how well it actually works. Forces those who needs their "competitive rides" over on the other rides OR sends them to the country with low eny. So... it works perfectly 

Thanks HTC for ENY

[LYNX]

Perk prowlers / tower queens used to be a real problem about a year ago until it was put out that you get the perkies even when logged off.  If you have been logged to a country for more than 12 hours you will get perkies when reset occurs and you don't EVEN have to be on line.  Just needed to have been in that country the day before.  You wouldn't need to fly 12 hrs just logged to country.

There being a whole bunch of new players now that DON'T know this so it occurs again.   Where ENY is concerned it really only effects the ORDS you can carry.  Oh boy!  TBM's off a Cv FOR RESET against Lgays..... HOW JOYFULL.

No point saying "switch sides" here.  That will only be heeded by fighter jocks.  Strat players that have been beavering away for hours to WIN will laugh at you for being single minded.

In my oppinion the 1 hour boot should ONLY happen when arena cap is on.  Only thing these perk prowlers are doing is jamming out guys that want to play.....usually with squaddies. 

1)The outnumbered side can't get new players ...reinforcements.  Although their prolly laughing their bollocks off with all the easy kills.
2) Arena can't balance unless folk log out.
3) A reset / new map is foiled by those being inactive and stopping SIDE BALLANCE.

ENY is hardly a factor these days.  Can't remember ENY over 18 for some time now and the only time it's really spiked is at times of reset with arena capped. 

There ya go folks...go take this apart and tell me where I'm wrong.

[Ghosth]

Jarbo your asking HTC to tick off its own customers. You REALLY think they are going to want to do that?

[angelsandair]

I didn't feel you pissed on me, I felt a completely useless fool had responded to me, you prove my supposition correct.
Since you didn't comprehend the point of the OP's first post, let me explain:  he seems unhappy that people appear to be canting the ENY while not actually flying.  I suppose he has issue with this since a higher ENY prohibits him from flying a particular plane, why would he care about ENY otherwise?  The obvious(at least to someone brighter than you) and immediate solution would be to switch sides.

When the ENY is over 20, you cant do too much. I guess you either dont play the game or never have to deal with ENY of 20+

Kinda funny too, in orange bish are always outnumbered big time, but rooks and knits only have an ENY of 3 or 4. In blue, if we're like that, it's 20+.

[Pawz]

Tonight I watched the country numbers in Blue and noticed something.
There were 27 folks in country and only 15 in flight for an extended period of time.

The negative effect of this is that the ENY was almost 20.

I a supposing that many of them simply stayed logged in to "reap" perk points should a WIN occur.
But it is possible that they were legitimately AFK for a brief period.

PROPOSED SOLUTION:  After 1hr of inactivity in an arena (defined as staying in same tower for 1 hr), a player should be auto kicked.

I am curious how other members of the game feel about this suggestion?

Jarbo

LOL can you guys find something more constructive to do with your time rather than whine about afk pilots.
I mean next your going to tell me I have to use food stamps instead of my amex to make a payment.

[Masherbrum]

Who cares. If ENY bothers you then it just shows how well it actually works. Forces those who needs their "competitive rides" over on the other rides OR sends them to the country with low eny. So... it works perfectly 

Thanks HTC for ENY

Bingo.    Kudos as well Steve.    

They depend on the La7, Spixteen, Niki, Dora, Pony D for accruing victories.   When they cannot get into one, you get what you have in here.   More useless threads about useless ideas, when the solution is to either log off or switch countries.  

I fly Mid War Rides, I have NEVER been affected by the ENY by the planes I choose to fly.  

[Lusche]

When the ENY is over 20, you cant do too much. I guess you either dont play the game or never have to deal with ENY of 20+

Kinda funny too, in orange bish are always outnumbered big time, but rooks and knits only have an ENY of 3 or 4. In blue, if we're like that, it's 20+.

Two things:

First, there are still many potent planes to fly with ENY 20. There are 45 planes & GV's with ENY 25+, including 109G6, A20, Spit V, 190A8.  It's absolutely not true that you can't do to much.

Second, that old "they don't have the same ENY limits as we do" is getting old. It's not true, it's same for every country. Look at the realtive player percentages, not absolute numbers.
Most of the time LWO has much more pklayers in total. Having 20 players more on a given country when there are 250 players total isn't the same as when total population is only 80.

[Masherbrum]

LOL can you guys find something more constructive to do with your time rather than whine about afk pilots.
I mean next your going to tell me I have to use food stamps instead of my amex to make a payment.

You have any left over food stamps?   I really want this corn beef hash, but I'm a book short.   I have Scotch to trade though!  

[Masherbrum]

When the ENY is over 20, you cant do too much. I guess you either dont play the game or never have to deal with ENY of 20+

Kinda funny too, in orange bish are always outnumbered big time, but rooks and knits only have an ENY of 3 or 4. In blue, if we're like that, it's 20+.

Anytime you want to find out how wrong you are, you can join one of my "you can't do too much" cartoon planes.   For the last 3 years I've flown "crap planes".   

[angelsandair]

Two things:

First, there are still many potent planes to fly with ENY 20. There are 45 planes & GV's with ENY 25+, including 109G6, A20, Spit V, 190A8.  It's absolutely not true that you can't do to much.

Second, that old "they don't have the same ENY limits as we do" is getting old. It's not true, it's same for every country. Look at the realtive player percentages, not absolute numbers.
Most of the time LWO has much more pklayers in total. Having 20 players more on a given country when there are 250 players total isn't the same as when total population is only 80.

This thread isn't about why Jarbo (or Wingnutt) cant fly their planes, as they are JUG pilots, but the fact that it's harder for them to win the war.

Anytime you want to find out how wrong you are, you can join one of my "you can't do too much" cartoon planes.   For the last 3 years I've flown "crap planes".  

I fly the P-39D and the 109G6. If those are good enough "crap planes" for you.

[Lusche]

This thread isn't about why Jarbo (or Wingnutt) cant fly their planes, as they are JUG pilots, but the fact that it's harder for them to win the war.

I wasn't referring to them. I was only replying to your own statements, which were both wrong.