The state of EW

[1Boner]

One guy can really throw a wrench in the works of the overpopulated side, especially if you're sneaky about it.

I almost forgot all the fun I had chasing base taking squads around in the EW. Great fun!!

The battles I had for the most part were easy to find and very low.

No wasting time climbing to ridiculous alts.

Hunting the goons, porking troops and ord etc.

Jeeeez, those were the days.

Apparently its still going on, I WILL be going in very soon to join the festivities!!

Great arena for guys complaining about not being able to find a fight.

[falcon23]

DO we care how fast the maps get reset in EW or MW???DO we care how many perks someone gets milkrunning??

 I dont,why do you? Is someone resetting maps in an arena cutting into your $15 a month FUN? If it is,then go and do what boner is talking about,go in and HAVE FUN shooting them down,I mean,if you dont ever go in there WHY CARE??????

[Spikes]

EW arena is simply worthless.

[flatiron1]

EW arena is simply worthless.

LOL more negativity with no worth while input.

[BiPoLaR]

But why Bi-Polar


How about coming up with some ideas to make it better or more populated.

How about this. FSO and scenarios are popular. EW is a good places to come practice those plane sets in context.

#1 it is Bipolar. One word no dash

#2 HTC or you pays me money. Then I will invest the time to think. And sell you my ideas.

#3 Why practice in EW when you can get the same planes and more players in LW?

[ImADot]

EW arena is simply worthless.

98% of the planes available in LW are worthless.  Let's just have 2 planes, 2 GV's and one arena with one map and only one side people can be on.  Choice is a bad thing. 

When is the last time you spent any time anywhere other than your vaunted Late War Orange arena?  How would anything that happens anywhere else in the game affect you? 

[BiPoLaR]

98% of the planes available in LW are worthless.  Let's just have 2 planes, 2 GV's and one arena with one map and only one side people can be on.  Choice is a bad thing. 

When is the last time you spent any time anywhere other than your vaunted Late War Orange arena?  How would anything that happens anywhere else in the game affect you? 

What is the fun in hording a base that has no defenders? And the chance of it having one are about 0.000001%.
Bet you WTG yourselves after each take don't ya?
Its hard work killing buildings isn't it?

You EW boys stay there cause you cant hang in LW.

[R 105]

 I first started out in the off line arena about five years ago. I then went on line in the old big map system. Then HTC spit the arenas about that time. I went to the EW arena because it was slower paced than the LW arena. For me it was a great place to learn the game. I liked the fact that there was a limited set of planes all pretty much on the same footing in performance. Even the FW190A5 can be handled with the 109-F4 and the right pilot. I liked the folks I met there and we had a better turn out in EW at that time.

 Later as I got the hang of things I went to the LW arena just for more action and a bigger set of tanks to pick from. As for using EW for a perk farm. I have a combined total of near 20.000 perk points save up. It they were S&H green stamps I could have got a new car buy now. The fact is I almost  never use perk points because I just don't fly perk planes and only lately with the perking on the M4A3/76 do I use GV perks. So when I drop into MW or EW it is not about perks or bombing towns. It is too bad the arena is not used more maybe we need a EW night once a month where only EW is available and do the same with MW. Then see how your skill is with a P40-B a Hurri 1 or the F4 because it is a new ball game then.

[Spikes]

Woo 2 bites in 40 minutes.

[BiPoLaR]

Woo 2 bites in 40 minutes.

Can you imagine all the bites you would get if you said the spit was worthless? wow

[Spikes]

98% of the planes available in LW are worthless.  Let's just have 2 planes, 2 GV's and one arena with one map and only one side people can be on.  Choice is a bad thing.  

When is the last time you spent any time anywhere other than your vaunted Late War Orange arena?  How would anything that happens anywhere else in the game affect you?  

Whenever I go in there there is always 5 squads hording 1 or 2 players. whats the point of even defending? Upping your skills in a 15v1 dogfight? Though I always enjoy a good dogfight, I'd rather fight a battle where I have a minimal chance of me getting out alive.

A typical 'mission' in the EW:
T34s roll to a town, Ju88s or Lancs up, Hurri IICs up and both attack the base. WTG's all around the arena. They freak out when one con ups. I think I went in there a couple other times to burn some perks since the 234 wasn't working for me.

Can you imagine all the bites you would get if you said the spit was worthless? wow

LOL! We could try that some time.

[ImADot]

What is the fun in hording a base that has no defenders? And the chance of it having one are about 0.000001%.
Bet you WTG yourselves after each take don't ya?
Its hard work killing buildings isn't it?

You EW boys stay there cause you cant hang in LW.

I'm mostly defense.
Hordes provide me with lots of targets.
I enjoy flying EW planes.
I enjoy not having to fly up to 20k+ to find a fight and hope I'm at least co-alt at the start.
I can hang in LW just fine, but choose to stay away because of the constant BS attitudes, chest thumping and elitist comments like what you've provided here.

[Oldman731]

I can hang in LW just fine, but choose to stay away because of the constant BS attitudes, chest thumping and elitist comments like what you've provided here.

Heh, this is funny, but true.  Odd to think of LW flyers thinking of themselves as "elitist" though.

I get out of the AvA arena once a month or so.  Very late one night last weekend I went into EW.  The sides were fairly well balanced in numbers, everyone was flying fighters in aerial combat, I saw lots of talent.  Could have been a Twilight Zone aberration, I suppose, but it was certainly not what the OP's snapshot captured.

I think it's sad that all of the people I met picked the most uber of the available planes, but they do that in LW arenas too. 

- oldman

[lyric1]

not everyone who goes in EW are "score hoars"...

A lot of of the P40 kills of late are just blatant. Take off in plane fly out to awaiting P40 Dead wash rinse & repeat.

[Masherbrum]

But why Bi-Polar


How about coming up with some ideas to make it better or more populated.

How about this. FSO and scenarios are popular. EW is a good places to come practice those plane sets in context.

You mean to milkrun bases.    One idea jumping out at us is looking at the 8 vs 1.   But then again, if you switched sides, you couldn't get the reset perks as easy.