One arena weekend

[oTRALFZo]

Not going to beat a dead horse here and whine about arena caps. I just wanted to point out the noticeable differences with gameplay this past weekend.

Besides the fact that squaddies and I had the luxury of not worrying about what arena we could or couldn't get into, we all noticed we were logged on more than we do on an average day. I think we all agreed this past weekend was probably the most fun we had together in a long while, but why? We have been through the Titanic Tues one arena many times but this weekend was noticeably different.

Numbers were consistently even on all sides throughout the weekend, each front had great fights. Most of all what we noticed was the great response team mates gave when either setting up a silly mission just for fun ( great responses for a stuka mission), to getting help when a horde was inbound. 200 chatter was kept great this weekend. With the exception of arguments that spurred on the hidden CV debate, which was more comical then foul.

Arena splits in my opinion bring a differnet "feel" to the game. IMO, it just naturally draws people to horde or be hoarded. 90% of the guys are off beating up one section of the map, while the other is getting rolled over. This is pretty consistent with both LW maps. Why it does this, I don't know, but it is very noticeable.

The weekly map resets have a great impact also. It seems since the TT setup, weekend play has been about hordes racing to get the most real estate the weekend and if there was no realistic chance of a reset before Tuesday morning, Mondays were typically the good days to find the "fighting" crowd.

Any thoughts?

[SectorNine50]

I wouldn't complain if there was only one arena.

Personally, I've always enjoyed Titanic Tuesdays.

I suppose what I would say is that it's worth a shot for a week to see how people respond.  No harm, no foul.

[Melvin]

Has it occured to anyone why most people were on there best behavior last weekend?

[Meatwad]

Yes!

[captain1ma]

multiple arena's means multiple maps and different people to play against. I like having a choice of arena's to go to. less arena's less fun!

[Dadsguns]

I like the different arenas as well, if 1 is overwhelmed with child like behavior I can go to another that has adults behaving badley,,, 

 

[Nypsy]

I like having two arenas, it's the caps that I hate.

[Harp00n]

Weekend was probably the best two days I had in a long time playing AH. Lots of action at all parts of the map and numbers were even.

Why we have to have two maps is beyond my imagination. Especially yesterday...the big weekend-map was locked to 100 (!) players with teamnumbers like
40 / 40 / 20. No chance for the team with the lowest numbers to get even because nobody could enter the map. 

On Saturday the same map/server could easily handle 590 players (!). Arena-split with low player-numbers: NO...give us only one LW arena!

[Lusche]

I have no real problem with having two arenas. Make sure that they are different ones (best would be one large only, one small only), and people would have a choice. Personally, I can live with resulting imbalances between countries, that's what ENY is for.

It's CAPs only why I dropped my AH account. They just do not work like they did two or even just one year ago.
My "that's it!" moment was when the large map arena was locked at 100 and the small one was creeping along at 40 players... for about 4 hours during euro primetime.

[Bruv119]

I have no real problem with having two arenas. Make sure that they are different ones (best would be one large only, one small only), and people would have a choice. Personally, I can live with resulting imbalances between countries, that's what ENY is for.

It's CAPs only why I dropped my AH account. They just do not work like they did two or even just one year ago.
My "that's it!" moment was when the large map arena was locked at 100 and the small one was creeping along at 40 players... for about 4 hours during euro primetime.

if someone like snailman can close his account over this on going issue then that surely has a few alarm bells ringing from your ever faithful off-peak population.   That has dwindled over the last few years IMO.

[dedalos]

multiple arena's means multiple maps and different people to play against. I like having a choice of arena's to go to. less arena's less fun!

You are hurting your self.  One arena, better chances someone will not like it and end up in the AvA

[Kazaa]

if someone like snailman can close his account over this on going issue then that surely has a few alarm bells ringing from your ever faithful off-peak population.   That has dwindled over the last few years IMO.

Snailman is one of the members in our community that commands my up most respect, right along side the likes of Greebo, Guppy, Karnak and Kev. It's a sad day to see you cancel your account, however I feel the same way you do and a big part of me wants to do the same, again.

[Boozeman]

if someone like snailman can close his account over this on going issue then that surely has a few alarm bells ringing from your ever faithful off-peak population.   That has dwindled over the last few years IMO.

Indeed. When TT's started, and I came on at my usual times (around 20:00 CET) there used to be already like 300 players online. The last couple of TT's the numbers were down to like 150. 

[Closer]

 This weekend was fun for our squad as well. It is sad that our entire squad is considering and searching for a new game due mainly to caps. Because we are older business men with little time for friends, we use this game as a social network as well and enjoy hangin with our buds, without annoying constraints. 

[pervert]

You can't be serious can you   I was on peak hours weekend past and it was some of the worst hoarde monkey activity I've seen in ages! Its becoming clear it is some people's idea of fun especially a lot of squads, I'm all for people doing their own thing but this is a combat sim, steamrollering bases with overwhelming numbers disabling all avenues for your opponent to defend themselfes so you can vulch fighters with GVs and planes and get a XXXX landed so many kills.

This is not really combat since their is no risk to you, and probably why the bases have been changed and the arenas split and the dar changed. The whine now is it takes to many to take a base translated that means 'it takes a lot more people to set up a score vulch and then take the base' to do that you need more numbers online which then leads to the I want the big arena back whine  

I do agree however that the caps are a little strange numbers wise and off putting at times though.