Author Topic: Country switch times (Read 1947 times)

pervert · « **on:** July 17, 2011, 07:44:36 PM »

Finding it quite hard of late to find action (of the aircraft to aircraft type) nothing more depressing than switching countries to look for action and finding none, then having to wait an hour to switch again, any chance it could be reduced?

Although it was unavoidable the single arena has nerfed some variety of play that 2 arenas gave, the ability to switch countries faster would counteract that to an extent.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #1 on:** July 17, 2011, 07:50:15 PM »

An hour is good and if you want to shorten the time, it should cost perks depending on the time you select.

ack-ack

JOACH1M · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2011, 08:03:58 PM »

It's an hour cuz people will stalk missions and mark CV's

JUGgler · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2011, 08:04:40 PM »

Quote from: pervert on July 17, 2011, 07:44:36 PM

Finding it quite hard of late to find action (of the aircraft to aircraft type) nothing more depressing than switching countries to look for action and finding none, then having to wait an hour to switch again, any chance it could be reduced?

Although it was unavoidable the single arena has nerfed some variety of play that 2 arenas gave, the ability to switch countries faster would counteract that to an extent.

Yes switching "unhindered" would be awesome.

JUGgler

JUGgler · « **Reply #4 on:** July 17, 2011, 08:08:10 PM »

Quote from: Ack-Ack on July 17, 2011, 07:50:15 PM

An hour is good and if you want to shorten the time, it should cost perks depending on the time you select.

ack-ack

Not sure charging perks is the fix, but maybe after switching for the second time within an hour you would not be allowed to load bombs or rockets of any kind on any plane also you would be text and voice muted for an hour.

Prob not viable also but I too wish I could switch at will

JUGgler

E25280 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2011, 08:44:00 PM »

Maybe just restrict it so that you can't switch back to the same country within an hour. That is, if you are bish and switch to knights, then you can't go back to bish for an hour, but could switch to rooks if you wanted.

That should still hinder those who would switch specifically to spy but allow the "trapped" player to see if the third side's grass is a little greener.

Tank-Ace · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2011, 10:19:52 PM »

Can't change back to the same country within an hour, disable cross country comunications, and keep you from upping with ord for an hour.

I think even having squad comms cross country is a bad idea. Makes it too easy for certian unnamed squads, and *cough* TARDS!!!!!! *cough* to spy.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #7 on:** July 18, 2011, 04:10:04 AM »

Quote from: JUGgler on July 17, 2011, 08:08:10 PM

Not sure charging perks is the fix, but maybe after switching for the second time within an hour you would not be allowed to load bombs or rockets of any kind on any plane also you would be text and voice muted for an hour.

Prob not viable also but I too wish I could switch at will

JUGgler

It wasn't meant to be a fix because frankly, there is nothing wrong with the current system other than some of us that would like to not have to wait an hour to switch. My idea was that if you want to switch every 15 minutes then it's going to cost you some perks for that privilege. It's more of a way to find another thing to spend perks on.

ack-ack

HawkerMKII · « **Reply #8 on:** July 18, 2011, 06:04:44 AM »

1 hour, should be 12 hours or longer.

ImADot · « **Reply #9 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:48:15 AM »

IMO, for the less populated arenas like EW and to some extent MW, the current side-switching time limits are too long. If I switch from the side not being attacked to the side being attacked so I can find a fight, the attackers just start attacking the side I just left (which now has nobody or very few players) and continue to fight the tool sheds un-opposed. I'm now stuck for an hour with nothing to do other than attack their wickedly tough tool sheds, go to another arena, or just log off.

HawkerMKII · « **Reply #10 on:** July 18, 2011, 09:24:07 AM »

wow.......cant find a fight with 300 players on......i must be in the different game

Wiley · « **Reply #11 on:** July 18, 2011, 11:15:55 AM »

Quote from: HawkerMKII on July 18, 2011, 09:24:07 AM

wow.......cant find a fight with 300 players on......i must be in the different game

Not particularly, perhaps he's playing at some time of the day when activity falls off. I know towards the end of my evening (11:00 or 12:00 Mountain) it can be a real pain to find a red bardar that's more than a couple planes deep. Sometimes though, there's nothing on my country's fronts, and a real juicy fight between the other two countries. The danger is if you switch so you can get into that, sometimes you find a nearly unopposed green bardar there, which is no fun either.

No matter what you do to comms, people will find a way around it like TS or Vent or cell phones or shortwave radio. There's no point putting a limitation on it. I think a reasonable compromise would be you can't return to a country for x amount of time after switching from it. I'd like to see the option to hop to all 3 looking for a fight in relatively short time.

Wiley.

Vinkman · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:57:48 AM »

How about showing the map with three colors [Friendly Green, Enemy1 Blue, Enemy 2 Red] instead of two [friendlies Green, ALL enemy red]. At least when you switched you have a better chance of making the right choice.

I agree with the abuse that would happen in the times were shorter.

Spending perks for shorter times would be a reasonable method of trying to limit the abuse.

waystin2 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2011, 04:58:43 PM »

DOH!

flatiron1 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2011, 05:14:38 PM »

oh well

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