Suggestions for arena numbers balancing

[Ripsnort]

By the way, Fatty, this post is not about you, or about bish, its about a business decision that HTC must make, let it go on, they lose customers, give the underdog country a fighting chance, they may retain customer base, and/or potential.  Its not about knits, or me either, its about making the sim have alittle more game play value, when customers log in disgust, in high numbers, its not about 'losing'...its about not even having a fighting chance with numbers that amount to 5-1 odds.

[AcId]

Since noone is trying to offer any other viable solutions, I would like to cast my vote for suggestion #4. Sure, it may not be the end all but it sounds like a good start to me. Also, I was waiting for someone to come up with the "My ride doesn't have DT's!!!!" whine.   Thats why God (HT) made refuel pads     My ride doesnt have DT's either but doesnt stop me from refueling as it is now.

Edit:
After a little contemplation, I wonder if HTC would actually want to put themselves in the firing line of this BBS by implementing such a system. It would just spawn a bunch of threads complaining why disable this plane when it should clearly be that one, WTF!! why is this one disabled only one base away from default!!!

But then again, sometimes doing nothing is worse than doing anything at all.

[ 06-12-2001: Message edited by: AcId ]

[minus]

the only compromise whta you cant turn on your advantage be using game hole is the perk system changed and perk multiplicator

it can work if u atack a high number country u win with 1 kill inaf perks to go up in late 44/45 plane
if u atack  country what haz egal numbers your perk benefice will be marginal just like now\

exaple :
in that situation  if rock have 34 players
kinght have 32 players
biscuits have 80 players

rock even if biscuits not atacking they wil agres biscuits becose they win   much  much more perks like to help gangbang knights


i know U gangbanger u dont like this idea


but dont forget  , maybe tomorow your country run on low numbers , you will apreciated then the system

[AcId]

IMHO minus, in order to do something like that you would need a wide variety of perked AC/Vehicles with which to give enough incentive to attack the foe with numbers. Right now I believe the perk system is still in it's infancy.

[Fatty]

Been there Rip, prefer it actually.  The most fun I've had on the beta maps were when we were back to the 2 rear bases.  The most fun I've had on this map is when we're stuck on the home isle.  The most fun I've had on SFTerr was defending from the two rear elevated bases.  I'm not as fond of the triangle lake map, because it isn't really built in a similar fashion to get harder to take bases as you push a country further back.

I've an aversion to flying nit built over time, but I've no problem swapping to rook when they are in the bucket.  The last couple of times I was on though rooks were low on numbers, they actually had the most bases.  If someone has such deep rooted loyalty to a chess piece that they want to defend it to the last man, more power to them.  If someone has such warped loyalty to a chess piece that they don't like being the underdog but would quit before swapping teams, then I suggest a beer and a hooker.

By all means, bump this thread next time you hear me whine  

[mx22]

Originally posted by AcId:
Also, I was waiting for someone to come up with the "My ride doesn't have DT's!!!!" whine.     Thats why God (HT) made refuel pads     My ride doesnt have DT's either but doesnt stop me from refueling as it is now.

Lets just say not so many people would like the idea of flying for 15 minutes just to get near the front line. Of course if you sleep with AH on, that's not a problem, but people who log in for 1 hour of flyign a day will be hell of upset with this. I know I would, when from 1 hour of flying I will get around 15 min of dogfighting time and the rest will be spend on "sightseeing".

mx22

[Mox]

Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Thats right, that was me.  I still stand by the quote, but, when you start going on two months, and have a mass exodus because of it, then don't you think its time to modify it?

I might add, being in the barrel has brought my K/D ratio to its highest ever...  

I agree with you Rip.  You know "I" had to reply to that message!  

Mox

[popeye]

There would always be other fronts, and other planes, for a quick fight.

However, maybe #4 is too radical.  There might be a lot of people who object to ANY sort of limitation on what, where, and/or when they fly.

Hmmm...  I think I've seen this movie before...

 


 

[sling322]

I think the quote in my signature says it best.......

[Zippatuh]

A few suggestion for the game…

When one country is down to 4 bases the Kracken shall be released against the country with the highest number of bases.  It would roam through the dominant country’s bases destroying everything in its path.  To be fare the Kracken would only show itself every half-hour until the loosing side recovered a base to the number of 5.

This of course would only work for the islands map, substitute Godzilla for the lake map.  After all we have a giant squid, why not a Kracken or a Godzilla?

On the serious side I’m not sure any of the suggestions would really help balance the arena.  About the only thing you can do is give the weaker side some added weapons or reduce the perk cost.  I do think having the new players sequentially enter the arena would help but I’m not sure how much and how long it would take to influence the numbers.

Finally, all of the dominant country’s aircraft skins change to a bright florescent orange so we can see them when DAR is out and the loosing country gets a nice shinny Mylar to reflect the sun as much as possible.  

Zippatuh

[Ripsnort]

Oooohhh, Zip is onto to something here (Good squaddie, good !)  It could be a PLAYER CONTROLED Crack head, er, Cracken...yeah baby!  Gimme a Godzilla with Chog gattling cannons on its finger tips! Woooooo eee!  

[Geeb]

4th country capturable mercinary
it would be a nice prize swich sides once a month & you are a mercinary (not doing spell check)

[hazed-]

How about all the squads that rotate like the AKs etc agree on one simple rule.

when ever their rotation to a country coincides with that country having 'the numbers' they agree to switch to the country with the lowest numbers?

hell the AKs could even call themselves the fair numbers brigade  
there are enough squads with large rosters who COULD make the difference if they helped by switching sensibly IMO

[sling322]

Originally posted by hazed-:
How about all the squads that rotate like the AKs etc agree on one simple rule.

when ever their rotation to a country coincides with [qb]that country having 'the numbers' they agree to switch to the country with the lowest numbers?

hell the AKs could even call themselves the fair numbers brigade  
there are enough squads with large rosters who COULD make the difference if they helped by switching sensibly IMO[/QB]

Hell if they wanted to do that, they would just fly for the knits.  <g,d,r>  

[DmdNexus]

I love it when my country is outnumbered.... it's called TARGET RICH ENVIRONMENT.

Don't have to hunt for fights, don't have to chew on someone elses left overs.

Nexus