Yet another arena cap idea

[Tigger29]

OK I get it.  I'm not going to argue the presence of the caps here, but what I will do is mention this.

It's no secret that the Orange Arena is almost always more popular than the Blue Arena.  The question is: Why is this?  Surely enough time has passed since there was only one arena years ago to where both arenas should typically be 'equal'.  So why does this bias exist?

I personally feel a big reason for this is because the Orange Arena is listed first!  People tend to associate 'higher on the list' with better... more popular... etc.. etc.

How about make it so that the late war arenas are random as to where they appear on the list.  It could be orange on top.. or blue on top.. or if the game ever gets popular enough we can introduce a Fuchsia colored arena as well and it might happen to be on top.  This way when people who don't care about which arena click on the first on the list, it is more evenly populated.  The people who are dedicated to a specific arena will take the time to click on whichever one they want, and while this won't fix everything I feel that it will definitely help.

I also think a 'squad invite' should be available so if an arena is full, someone's squad can invite them in anyway (with the necessary amount of votes of course... perhaps 3 or 4)... but maybe that's asking too much!

Haha thanks for listening!

[ImADot]

Been said before.  That won't solve anything.  Horde mentality dictates that the most populated arena must be where we all must go.  Won't matter where it's listed.

[maddafinga]

A lot of the time I go to blue first, because usually the better fights can be found there.  Less hording and more fighting so to speak.  Right now however, I hate that map in blue so much that I don't plan to go back until it changes.  The canyons are neat, but flying for a half an hour to get to any fight at all really sucks.  On the whole however, I like blue more.

[AWwrgwy]

The Training Arena should be listed first.  Seems rather obvious.

To extrapolate on Tigger's idea though, just get rid of the numbers, then make it random.  Either space is available or it's Full. 

No more 103/100 or 64/150.

Wouldn't that leave everyone  ?


wrongway

[grizz441]

Sometimes Blue is more populated than Orange, but this is uncommon.

[SlapShot]

Simply get rid of the numbers.

An arena is either "FULL" or "OPEN".

[Spikes]

Sometimes Blue is more populated than Orange, but this is uncommon.

Yeah...usually only happens when there is a reset in orange and the new map sucks.

[Tigger29]

I've seen maybe twice since the arena splits were introduced that blue was more populated than orange, and both of these time were when the arena caps take effect.

So.. the question is... what is the cause of this?

[Lusche]

I've seen maybe twice since the arena splits were introduced that blue was more populated than orange, and both of these time were when the arena caps take effect.

So.. the question is... what is the cause of this?

Maps. There are one or two maps in rotation that will people drive away from that very arena they are up.

[hitech]

I've seen maybe twice since the arena splits were introduced that blue was more populated than orange, and both of these time were when the arena caps take effect.

So.. the question is... what is the cause of this?

It is just above the other, so it is the first one to populate, I even just switch the names once just to prove the issue. But random reorder does not really help the issue, people will still go to which one populates first.

HiTech

[WMLute]

It is just above the other, so it is the first one to populate, I even just switch the names once just to prove the issue. But random reorder does not really help the issue, people will still go to which one populates first.

HiTech

Rename Orange to Pink and keep it listed above Blue.

I bet Blue will be more populated.
(just curious if this would work)