Local rather than Global ENY

[FiLtH]

   How about ENY affecting zones rather than whole arenas. Most times it isnt the fact that there are 30 more people on the team, its that they all are at the same base.

Way it is now:

Arena: Bish 70  Knit 65  Rook 115

Base A1: Bish 0  Knit 30  Rook 65

Base A35: Bish 0 Knit 30  Rook 10

Even though the 10 rooks were willing to leave the hord and find a fight elsewhere, they are penalized with ENY,even though they face huge odds at A35.

If it were a local ENY, the knits would face an eny hit at A2 as the rooks would at A1.

[waystin2]

+1  I have always favored an idea like this.

[oakranger]

That dose make better seance to do it that way.  +1

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[Clone155]

Hmmm. What would happen if one bish decided to go to A1? ENY Sky rockets for rooks and nits? Idk about this idea, it seems buggy.

[BrownBaron]

What is to stop me from upping my 5.0 ENY ride from a base slightly offset from where the horde is to avoid the high area ENY at A1? Buggy indeed.

[hitech]

Local superiority is what tactics are about. ENY is about evening the sides, not trying to spread out the fight.

2nd the basic idea does not even work, because the imbalance happens after you already have the plane.


HiTech

[guncrasher]

Local superiority is what tactics are about. ENY is about evening the sides, not trying to spread out the fight.

2nd the basic idea does not even work, because the imbalance happens after you already have the plane.


HiTech

but eny doesnt really even out the sides.  I have seen many, many , many times, when knights have more people and yet we are being losing base after base. because not enough people are in the air.  I really suspect that some people will switch to another country then go to sleep or whatever. I know you already said you wont kick out the sleepers, but how about not counting them as far as eny goes.  you have no activity for 20 min then you wont affect eny.

semp

[hitech]

but eny doesnt really even out the sides.  I have seen many, many , many times, when knights have more people and yet we are being losing base after base. because not enough people are in the air.  I really suspect that some people will switch to another country then go to sleep or whatever. I know you already said you wont kick out the sleepers, but how about not counting them as far as eny goes.  you have no activity for 20 min then you wont affect eny.

semp

You do realize that not county the sleepers would tend to make the imbalance larger?

HiTech

[Masherbrum]

but eny doesnt really even out the sides.  I have seen many, many , many times, when knights have more people and yet we are being losing base after base. because not enough people are in the air.  I really suspect that some people will switch to another country then go to sleep or whatever. I know you already said you wont kick out the sleepers, but how about not counting them as far as eny goes.  you have no activity for 20 min then you wont affect eny.

semp

I'd chalk it up to Knights having "more physical numbers", but those "Trying to Run the Country", are not ones who "get things done".   A couple of nights ago, the Rooks lost about 5 bases and a CV parked off of our own Port, because I used common sense and drummed up like minded countrymen.   We rolled heavily defended bases until A140.   Then "someone" entered in the fray and kibosh-ed the works and dropped "F-bombs and cussing every other word" on range channel.   So rather than start what I finished, I saved my ears.   

[grizz441]

2nd the basic idea does not even work, because the imbalance happens after you already have the plane.

HiTech

You know though, there are a lot of pilots that take off still, even when their side has 4:1,5:1,8:1 odds at a fight?  It would at least cap the endless flow of Spit16/P51D horde off with a discretionary reason to reconsider ones choice of fight.  You could make the local eny requirements more lax than the global ones, but if there is an 5:1ish fight, a local eny could help improve gameplay in that quadrant to some degree.

[badhorse]

Local superiority is what tactics are about. ENY is about evening the sides, not trying to spread out the fight.

2nd the basic idea does not even work, because the imbalance happens after you already have the plane.


HiTech

I know the HTC Gods have spoken but I like this idea anyway.
 

[Delirium]

I have always been in favor of Zone (local) ENY.

+1

[Masherbrum]

You know though, there are a lot of pilots that take off still, even when their side has 4:1,5:1,8:1 odds at a fight?  It would at least cap the endless flow of Spit16/P51D horde off with a discretionary reason to reconsider ones choice of fight.  You could make the local eny requirements more lax than the global ones, but if there is an 5:1ish fight, a local eny could help improve gameplay in that quadrant to some degree.

I agree.   

HTC, this is something worth investigating. 

[Chalenge]

Sorry. Disagree. You cap the launch of numbers from a field and you cap fun for a lot of people. Its bad enough you cant get into an arena and then when you do you want to cap taking off from a certain field? Do you really think that makes sense as a business plan?

Besides its the defending from the hordes trying to hoard fields that is the greatest fun. I thought you learned that already?