has min arena cap been increased to 400?

[RTHolmes]

seems like its at 400 all the time now. if so, thanks HT for listening

if not ... um ... it should be

[Lusche]

Answer is: No it has not. It's just from midnight to 12am.

[AWwrgwy]

That is correct, during off peak times 12:00 Midnight -> noon Central Time, there is no need for arena balancing.

HiTech

Been that way for a while, now we know why.



wrongway

[RTHolmes]

That is correct, during off peak times 12:00 Midnight -> noon Central Time, there is no need for arena balancing.

HiTech

   if theres no need for balancing why is the min cap 100 then? dont understand...

[uptown]

For christ sakes  2 pm and EW is 2/350, MW 24/350, orange 134/100 and blue is 100/150. Do away with this silly cap BS! There's more bases then peoplle in the LW arenas. And why does HTC insist on even having a EW arena. NOBODY GOES THERE!.........EVER. I can fly the same planes in LW as i can in EW. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'm sure the LW cap has changed again. The whole setup is just absurd 

[Lusche]

For christ sakes  2 pm and EW is 2/350, MW 24/350, orange 134/100 and blue is 100/150. Do away with this silly cap BS! There's more bases then peoplle in the LW arenas. And why does HTC insist on even having a EW arena. NOBODY GOES THERE!.........EVER. I can fly the same planes in LW as i can in EW. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'm sure the LW cap has changed again. The whole setup is just absurd 

EW is not the reason for LW caps, has no influence on LW caps, has nothing to do with LW caps. So I have trouble getting your point on that matter

[druski85]

For christ sakes  2 pm and EW is 2/350, MW 24/350, orange 134/100 and blue is 100/150. Do away with this silly cap BS! There's more bases then peoplle in the LW arenas. And why does HTC insist on even having a EW arena. NOBODY GOES THERE!.........EVER. I can fly the same planes in LW as i can in EW. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'm sure the LW cap has changed again. The whole setup is just absurd 

* druski85 thinks Uptown's heart may have just exploded.

[uptown]

I don't know Lusche. it's just seems to me if they can have a cap of 350 for a map no one goes to, why can they leave things alone in the maps most poeple do go to? A squadie and me left orange to go to the DA to work on some ACM, and from the time it took us both to get back to the lobby, he got in but I missed hitting the cap by what...a second? I've been fighting all morning in orange and having some great fights only to have to go to another arena with a huge map with 200 fields and try to get something started......again. I don't know, as much as I try not to complain about caps, I just don't get HTCs logic. Why not let the players decide where we want to play?

[uptown]

* druski85 thinks Uptown's heart may have just exploded.

 

[Messiah]

I've never had to wait longer than 5 mins to get into any arena.

[uptown]

I've never had to wait longer than 5 mins to get into any arena.

So what's the point in changing the caps after 5 minutes then? What they want to shove 10 or 15 in blue and then go back and put 10 or 15 in orange? My question still stands: why not let the players decide where they want to play? If wanted to go to blue...i'd go to blue. But I choose not to because there's no fights there, i dont like the map and my squadie is in orange.

[SlapShot]

My question still stands: why not let the players decide where they want to play?

Already been asked and answered ... hundreds of times.

[Lusche]

So what's the point in changing the caps after 5 minutes then? What they want to shove 10 or 15 in blue and then go back and put 10 or 15 in orange?

To balance the arenas. Having them both at approximately same levels.

[iTunes]

To balance the arenas. Having them both at approximately same levels.

We should have two EW arenas and two MW arenas too then, that way when there's 10 people in EW, you split it 5 either side to balance it out, same with MW, stick around 50 people in each arena, that way all the arenas are  balanced?

[The Fugitive]

EW and MW have nothing to do with LW, and reason being is most people couldn't care LESS about EW and MW....unfortunately  So caps are NEVER an issue in those arenas so that is why they NEVER CHANGE !

LW on the other hand does have a problem HTC has deem over population of the LW was hurting his business, so he split them. Splitting them added a new problem.... the herd mentality took over... everyone wanted to be in the first LW on the list  So of the first 400 people who logged on...or never log off    350 would be in the first arena, the rest would be split in the second arena (less than 20 people per side WOW !!! some fun!) So they installed the "dynamic cap system" to grow the population evenly between the two LW arenas.

1. Split arenas are he to stay, GET USE TO IT !

2. Dynamic Caps are here to stay, GET USE TO IT !

3. Complaining about the caps will never go away, on the other hand, it won't change anything either (see #1 and #2 above) GET USE TO IT !

Couple of things to think about.....

If there was no dynamic caps setup in LW and you logged in AFTER the first arena has hit is cap, you would be playing by yourself (or is that "with" yourself) until the numbers climbed high enough for the arena to have good fights... with zero chance of getting in the other arena because they would NEVER log out.

Last thing... right now US prime time they have 600-700 people log in at a time. Whats going to happen when subscription numbers rise and the two LW arenas maintain over 400 in each arena night after night?  Can you say 3 LW arenas?