SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON

[rod367th]

Now it seems 1 arena for players 1 arena for milking. 2 bish squads go in empty arena earl morning milk away bases 22 players to 6 total other two teams combine, 2nd arena shouldn't open untill first gets 150 players then open 2nd arena. i'm sure it could be default setting then when main hits 150 another arena opens and cut off 100 in 1st arena to build them both up. Just my 3 cents worth.

[Tr0jan]

Now it seems 1 arena for players 1 arena for milking. 2 bish squads go in empty arena earl morning milk away bases 22 players to 6 total other two teams combine, 2nd arena shouldn't open untill first gets 150 players then open 2nd arena. i'm sure it could be default setting then when main hits 150 another arena opens and cut off 100 in 1st arena to build them both up. Just my 3 cents worth.

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[Xasthur]

I have to say that I have said this before and I still wish I would see this happen.

It's so frustrating to log on and see 83 on in Blue and 26 on in Orange. 83 sucks for fights. If you're very lucky you might find a 3 enemy-con fight. That sucks.

The extra 26 players makes such a huge difference to gameplay..... If you break it down it only adds up to about 4 or 5 extra players per side, per front but that can make all the difference between an undefended base and utter waste of time and a dramatic and tense fight on the ground and in the air.

 

[Shuffler]

Switch to low number team.... generally does not take long to find a fight.

[Fugita]

You should have just resuscitated this thread     http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,255564.0.html
or one of the many hundreds before it. IN the end they ususally wind up with the same fate. Could have started another page on that one. 

[rod367th]

Switch to low number team.... generally does not take long to find a fight.

shuffler was only 1 of 2 rooks but yu defend 1 base they all run to another with such big maps. they don't fight or defend just milk. no reason to have 2 arena up same time 60 in 1  even sides and 20 bishops 2 rooks 4 nits in other bish just milking.  makes sense to have only 1 arena open till 1st gets 100 to 1`50 players.

[999000]

Makes sence ..can't do it!
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[Shuffler]

shuffler was only 1 of 2 rooks but yu defend 1 base they all run to another with such big maps. they don't fight or defend just milk. no reason to have 2 arena up same time 60 in 1  even sides and 20 bishops 2 rooks 4 nits in other bish just milking.  makes sense to have only 1 arena open till 1st gets 100 to 1`50 players.

Can't argue against that point. I've seen an attack happening and went to defend. The folks get shot down and go to other side of map where no one will interrupt their milk runs.

[splitatom]

i would say one until the number 250 is reached

[Vulcan]

How about make it no scoring until the arena reaches a certain number of players (say 50). Or make score a function (percentage of total players online). For example if Arena A has 150 players, and Arena B has 50 players, then you score 75% in Arena B, and 25% in Arena A. So the milkrunners would have to do 4x as much work. As the numbers balanced the score ratio would be 50%/50% in each arena.

It'd be very hard for HTC to have arena's opening and closing.

[Chalenge]

With the numbers Rod is talking about I would not be worried about the numbers because they have to have an ENY and since a rook would not at that point Im sure his super UFO talents could make quick work of defense. A few encounters like that and they will be attacking knights and not rooks and you can go back to the 1:1 furball or whatever you usually do.

Changing the host setups isnt going to change anything.

[Xasthur]

Switch to low number team.... generally does not take long to find a fight.

When the numbers are that low typically the countries are fairly evenly spread with players.

[A8TOOL]

Blah blah blah

I agree but your not yelling loud enough for corporate to hear you. Scream louder!!!!!!!

[AWwrgwy]

On the one hand we have the "I can't get into the arena I want" people and now we have the "there's not enough people in the arena to stop the milk-running land-grabbers."

Call some of the "win the war" guys from the other arena and make a game of grabbing each other's undefended bases.

Basically you're asking for arena caps at all times as there are no caps before Noon central time.  I think the logic being that everyone would go to one arena, not too amny on between 12 midnight and 12 noon, you do not need the caps.



wrongway

[RTHolmes]

there are no caps before Noon central time.

err yeah there are - in fact the min cap is 100 instead of 400, so even worse

there should certainly be no base taking enabled with less than 100 players.