Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max

[DREDIOCK]

Logged on hoping to get a few flights in

Saw this 
Players 350 /Max 100

Other arena nothing even remotely interesting going on

Players 75. Max 150

I logged off

C'mon man, 350/100???

Should never reach that kind of ratio.

Suggest using the Titanic Tuesday type arena on weekends as well.

Orr find a way that there isnt that kind of ratio.
I can understand being over by 50 or 100
But 250 over?

[Bronk]

Get on before noon cst .

[DREDIOCK]

LOL I usually dont schedule what time Im going to be able to play. I play when I can.


Suggestion to HTC
Set the initial limit on the arenas to 400 and dont have balancing kick in until that number is reached.
Then until that number is reached in either arena,players can choose whether or not to be in the arena with more numbers, or the one with less.
Once an arena reaches 400. then lock it down until the other arena comes to within say 100.
Then bump the limit on each arena accordingly.
Personally I think 400 is the perfect number. At that number you will rarely see overflow problems.

But IMO 350/100 is jussst a bit on the ridiculous side.

[Fulmar]

Whew, I thought we were done discussing arena limits.  I got worried it might end!

[GREric]

lol, maybe I should donate some of my servers to them. Im only using 8 of my 15 for my MMO. Maybe if i dontate i should get to play for free. 

[The Fugitive]

most likely someone won the war in the other arena giving the big number difference. Would have settled down pretty quick. Easiest solution, turn off the "win the war" on weekends   

[AWwrgwy]

How do you know nothing was going on in the other arena?  Maybe start something?  More than likely it is the "no limits before noon" thing and after noon it throws things off for a short time.

2pm central:  283/300 and 177/350

I think you were just a bit early or a bit late.  Bad timing on your part.

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wrongway

[SlapShot]

lol, maybe I should donate some of my servers to them. Im only using 8 of my 15 for my MMO. Maybe if i dontate i should get to play for free. 

It has absolutely nothing to do with the amount and/or power of the HTC servers.

[SlapShot]

Whew, I thought we were done discussing arena limits.  I got worried it might end!

 

[DREDIOCK]

How do you know nothing was going on in the other arena? 

And

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wrongway

Probably because I was there.
Didnt have the time to start anything.
Actually I was doing stuff around the house and was only planning on running a couple bomber missions. Figured I'd take off, go do stuff around the house and listen to the speakers or check back every now and again to see if anything was going on.
Yea I coulda done that in the smaller arena. But a darbar of bombers woud have been just a bit more noticable then what I wanted to be.
OR it would have been a milkrun.
Neither is what I was looking to do.

As for the beating a dead horse.
Since when is that out of style around here? LOL.

[DREDIOCK]

Whew, I thought we were done discussing arena limits.  I got worried it might end!

LOL In case you havent noticed. I dont spend alot of time in this forum.

And Im not looking to end arena limits. Just improve on how its set up now.
First choice would be to end the limits. But I understand that for whatever reason HTC has a good reason for having them.
Im just suggesting a way to get the most people where they want to be,when they want to b there. Which is typically where the crowd is.

A 100 player max is a bit on the small side doncha think?

[Nilsen]

Some dead horses deserves to get beaten!

Bad horse BAD!! *whack*

[Shuffler]

Suggest using the Titanic Tuesday type arena on weekends as well.

Titanic is for you...... persoanlly I think it is the worst day to fly.

[Lusche]

A 100 player max is a bit on the small side doncha think?

No. Because it doesn't stay at 100 for very long.

What you have experienced was the switch from "no caps" to caps. This happens at the time when there is the biggest grow rate of player numbers. This ensures that the second arena will fill up most quickly, and that will push the Orange arenas cap up from 100 again. It's made that way so both LW MA's get some balanced numbers in the quickest way possible.  

[whels]

No. Because it doesn't stay at 100 for very long.

What you have experienced was the switch from "no caps" to caps. This happens at the time when there is the biggest grow rate of player numbers. This ensures that the second arena will fill up most quickly, and that will push the Orange arenas cap up from 100 again. It's made that way so both LW MA's get some balanced numbers in the quickest way possible.  

dont know what dream world ur flying in Lusche, but at cap switch 1 pm eastern. It usually takes 2 to 3 hours for the new arena to get
a playable # of people in it, and then its a crap shoot to if the few who where there before havent milk ran the bases to
nothing worth going in to play on.

alot of people dont have 2 to 3 hours to wait to get good fights, when  a min ago they had a 150+ pilot arena  to play in.