Was thinking in my earlier post "Last Night" was Titanic Tuesday. But "Last Night" was Wednesday night which means 2 LW arenas, in which the original post makes even less sense. This is nothing less than ANOTHER whine about "Arena Caps". Which in itself makes no sense when, if given a little patience, and a little time, anyone is able to enter into the arena of choice.
I'll not demand my squad move just because the arena is capped, heck they may be into some serious fun. I will however communicate to them I'm trying, and that there is a cap in place. What's more though is after minutes tick by the next thing I know is my Brethren have chosen to joined me, rather than see me "left at the door". Which I would do the same if roles were reversed. Regardless......I wouldn't "Dictate" what arena they'll be allowed to go to.
Perhaps it isn't a "Cap" problem after all.
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Rokit
Rokit, you're right, there are workarounds but the problem I have with the arena caps is that often it isn't just that the blue arena typically has way few people but the map often is less desirable too.
The map in blue last night is a good example. Because of the layout (most AFs had 2 VBs separating them) it made for longer than normal flight times to find the enemies. That in turn meant that you would find a good fight and then go 15-20 minutes before another one develops. That just hurts the population of the room more because the short attention span crowd will just go to the DA until they can get into orange it seems.
The lower room population hindered the action as well as it seemed most of the members of the other two teams were fighting in the NW corner of the map that wasn't accessible to us (knights.) Now I realize we could have changed teams but I happen to like flying with most of the people that fly knights regularly that aren't in my squad. It's also helpful that the squad stays primarily on one team so that when other squadmates log on, we can fly with them too without having to change sides or make them change sides. We know where to find each other when we log on, it's convenient. Anyway, we had 4 guys on last night and we really wanted to go to orange but it was capped pretty much until the caps were dropped for the evening.
Contrast that with Tuesdays where nobody gets split up, there's no need to change teams, you can always find several good fights and the fights are bigger and more epic. I love Tuesdays. The other days last week weren't terrible as the map in blue was actually preferable to the one in orange. I actually was logging on and going into blue even if orange had room. It seemed others were too as the population of the two rooms was pretty close to the same most of the week, even at off peak times.
The suggestion here seems obvious. If the arena caps are something that isn't going to go away, at least set the map rotation in blue to just the most popular maps so that people actually want to fly in there without being forced to.
