With all due respect to everyone, this is by no means a whine, this event brings the need to address how the ENY calculations are being made, I may be looking at this wrong so please bear with me. this isn't meant to incite a riot or dig up old dirt simply to level the field of play in all aspects.
First let me say that ENY is what it is. Some people like it some do not and this is not up for debate here.
My discussion isn't so much about ENY but how and when its applied during game play and how it should be adjusted in a way when certain events happen as I will discuss the events of what I saw last night, let me give you the low down that leads to this post.
There were 73 Bish, 46 Knights, 66 Rooks in game. Bish of course had an ENY that fluctuated from 8-20 ENY. NOTE: All three fronts were fighting against each other and NME dars were evenly matched at each front.
The biggest furball was at base A1 where the Knights were bringing the fight to the Bish Field, I don't think the fight ever made it out of Bish Dar, so bish still may have had numbers but not an advantage, so ENY worked effectively keeping it a fair fight and not one base capture was made on that front.
However, on the rook side, they too were bringing the fight to Bish bases looking for furballers, yet did not defend other bases with the exception of a few defenders, we took 3 bases with 5 players, not a horde of Bish, but with 5. They continued to come at one Bish base in droves to furball, while they choose to do so they were unaware of the entire attacking front and leaving us to capture them.
The Rooks had the Knights pushed back to the uncapturables and Knights were engaging the rooks to get them back. So they were fighting for some time. Base captures were back and forth between them.
This scenario stated above was actual and ENY, well, if you agree with it or not, was in place since bish "had the numbers"..... Fair enough.
However, at a point in the game it was as if a truce was called between the Rooks and Knights since the pressure at both fronts were overwhelming and obviously something changed. This change is my concern to keep it "FAIR".
When this event happened I observed on the map that Not ONE single Con or Base were either being attacked, flashing, in air period on the Rook/Knight front. Very evident from moments before, that the bright young minds down there called a truce and decided to Push Back the BISH. "Fair Enough" This has not been the first time this has happened and by no means am I saying for it to stop, but if it is allowed and will continue than it needs to be "FAIR" for everyone. I will point this out to you below.
Now with all the dynamics of what happened above, my point is:
Bish did have the numbers and was penalized with an ENY for doing so.
When this shift happened, now Bish were out numbered at one point by 50 players by adding the Rook and Knights players together and BISH still had an ENY, the "UNITED FRONT" however did not.
Regardless of which chess piece you are and how you enjoy to play the game, either captures, GV'ing, furballs, milkruns, pick, run, etc. etc. how is this fair for ALL players that want to enjoy the game and play it the way they want?
How is it fair for a any chess piece to fight with an ENY that prevents the use of uber rides to defend against the NME, then have the two fronts attack only the piece that has the ENY?
HTC- Please make some adjustment for when this happens, so that the receiving end is not fighting a fight with BOTH hands tied behind its back thus keeping it a "FAIR" fight.
Factor in the activity or lack thereof between the other front, when there is no activity between a front they are obviously attacking in a united front. Why not implement an ENY on that united front. NME is NME, when they combine there numbers and efforts to attack one side, they have no restriction so theoretically a side could be outnumbered by 200% without no restrictions.
Don't get me wrong, if this tactic is warranted and is going to be used more often, than an adjustment needs to be made to keep it "FAIR" for ALL players. One side should not be penalized for the lack of skill or effort of the other two when they combine and this game is not about just furballing in some gigantic horde. If two sides need to combine and form one GIGANTIC HORDE in an effort to overwhelm the one side, then that should be penalized accordingly as well.
