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Offline BaldEagl

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Arena split
« on: January 14, 2009, 02:25:46 PM »
This came out of the "Why are they leaving" thread.

Why not have early to mid and mid to late war versions of European Eastern Front, European Western Front and Pacific Theaters each with their respective plane sets and get rid of the free-for-all main arenas?

Eastern front would include primarily Russian and German equipment, Western front would include American, British, German and Italian equipment and the Pacific would include primarily American and Japanese equipment.

That would be a total of six arenas each with it's own plane/GV set. Then add a WWI arena as a bonus  :pray  Oh, and keep the TA, DA, AvA, etc and of course retain the 3 country set-up.

This would have several advantages for the game:

Smaller, tighter communities.
Easier for n00bs to learn the planes they have to fight against as there would be fewer in each arena.
Arena specific squads, hopefully breaking up the mega squads into more manageable units.
More opportunities for more players to achieve rank/score recognition.
While you'd still have P-51's against P-51's it would move the game closer to historical match-ups.
More arenas/choices for the players to break up potential boredom.
Less likelyhood to be chess piece loyal outside of your "home" arena should you decide to adopt one.

I'm sure someone will say I want to fight Zekes in 190's.  Well, you could still do that in the TA or the DA.

I'm not sure I really see a downside to this.  Plus it should be a marketing ploy for HT...  MMOG in seven period and front specific arenas...

Your thoughts?
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 02:35:36 PM »
no.
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 02:36:43 PM »
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 02:37:22 PM »
The most frequent comments I hear about why XX person doesn't like EW or MW is because they can't fly the planes they want to fly.

Doubt your proposal will help with that or keeping squads together...
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 02:38:39 PM »
I think theater specific arenas deserve a shot. The time-based arenas are virtually empty. If theater specific fails, at least we would know.

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Re: Arena split
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 02:40:04 PM »
Would be eve better just going to 2 teams. Allies vs Axis in all of them..

The current AVA has too many issues as is.

The PTO and ETO is good though.
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 02:40:28 PM »
Quote from: ScatterFire on January 14, 2009, 02:37:22 PM
The most frequent comments I hear about why XX person doesn't like EW or MW is because they can't fly the planes they want to fly.

There would always be an arena where your favorite ride was available. I suspect the Eastern Front would be mainly La vs La, but still worth a try to see what would happen IMO.

Quote from: ScatterFire on January 14, 2009, 02:37:22 PM
Doubt your proposal will help with that or keeping squads together...

That might be true of some squads. But new ones would form to take their places. Some would only fly ETO. Some would only fly PTO. Some would rotate through so as to fly all the planes.


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Re: Arena split
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2009, 02:41:20 PM »
Quote from: ScatterFire on January 14, 2009, 02:37:22 PM
The most frequent comments I hear about why XX person doesn't like EW or MW is because they can't fly the planes they want to fly.

Doubt your proposal will help with that or keeping squads together...

The whole idea I believe is to move away from the perk planes I believe.
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2009, 02:44:42 PM »
I think this is a great idea, but the fact that furball lake attracts more players than the AvA makes me believe that this isn't what the masses want.
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2009, 02:45:05 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on January 14, 2009, 02:40:04 PM
Would be eve better just going to 2 teams. Allies vs Axis in all of them..

The current AVA has too many issues as is.

The PTO and ETO is good though.

This, IMHO, would not work. Side imbalance would be rampant. Of course, it already is, so who knows!

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Re: Arena split
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2009, 02:45:56 PM »
Quote from: hammer on January 14, 2009, 02:45:05 PM
This, IMHO, would not work. Side imbalance would be rampant. Of course, it already is, so who knows!

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Re: Arena split
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2009, 02:47:26 PM »
I like this idea. I can also see it being a way to justify certain plane additions that people are resistant to now (IE, adding a B-17F).

And you can also do this without it being a strict AvA setup. The idea seems more along the lines of the old Air Warrior arena splits: All planes in a given theater available on all sides.
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2009, 02:47:31 PM »
Taking the liberty of quoting myself.

Quote from: Murdr on December 14, 2006, 04:19:48 PM
Im begining to wonder if leaving the orange and blue effectively as the old MA might need to go by the wayside.  As long as there are multiple open plane sets, I dont think people will settle on a favorite, instead they will jump in the one with either the most people, or the most squadies.  If LW options were instead (pto/eto, or pto/westrnfront/eastern front) there would at least be a reason to think before trying to cram into the fullest arena.  Would be nice if the arenas would become 'neighborhoods' with regulars in it rather than 2 MA's where the only preference is who and how many are in which one tonight.

Just thinking out loud and remembering the flavor of the old  AW ETO1, ETO2, and BIGPAC arenas...Dont mind me.

By the way.  I knew when I said that it would be unpopular, but I also did not see the neighborhood idea working under the current conditions at that time either.
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2009, 02:50:32 PM »
Quote from: Murdr on January 14, 2009, 02:47:31 PM
Taking the liberty of quoting myself.


Ha, that idea is over 2 years old. BE's is new and fresh. I bet you recycle minutes, too!   :D
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Re: Arena split
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2009, 02:52:22 PM »
Quote from: hammer on January 14, 2009, 02:50:32 PM
Ha, that idea is over 2 years old. BE's is new and fresh. I bet you recycle minutes, too!   :D

LOL, and not just the obligatory kind...getting a pretty good chuckle  :rofl
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