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Offline BigR

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ENY again.
« on: September 30, 2011, 12:57:53 AM »
I know this is beating a dead horse, but if you guys insist on keeping ENY, please let us do what you designed it to do and SWITCH COUNTRIES more often than every 12 hours. Right now my only 2 options are to fly something that is 30+ ENY or just log off. I have never seen a game that had a built in feature to discourage players from playing.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2011, 01:14:29 AM »
It has me wondering if maybe looking at a one front, two country war might be worth it.   I know there were reasons in the past that said it is a bad idea. But with the numbers game lately, the 12 hour switch time, and the more often then not strategy to attack where no one is, makes me wonder if limiting the front a bit and allowing for more coordination in defending would help promote the fight.

I don't know the player number stats, but it sure feels like we're down in players and it makes the action even more spread out on the larger maps which allows for avoiding actual combat that much easier.
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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2011, 03:04:56 AM »
Plenty of maps made already

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2011, 03:16:50 AM »
switch time and the more often  + 100
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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2011, 09:45:10 AM »
  The 12 hour switch time was initiated to address unfairness as some would switch back and forth to reveal enemy Cv locations, Missions ect. ENY for player # imbalance. The ENY scale doesn't seem quite right though kicking in late. I've seen a country with 20% more players than the other 2 and 4.9 ENY? Don't know what the % must be to get to 30 ENY. Maybe the scale needs adjusting.

  It is an opportunity to try out other aircraft you wouldn't normally fly. Get out of your comfort zone and have fun.  :x
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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2011, 10:41:32 AM »
I like the time set just fine and the 3 country war and the +30 planes.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2011, 11:24:28 AM »
  The 12 hour switch time was initiated to address unfairness as some would switch back and forth to reveal enemy Cv locations, Missions ect. ENY for player # imbalance. The ENY scale doesn't seem quite right though kicking in late. I've seen a country with 20% more players than the other 2 and 4.9 ENY? Don't know what the % must be to get to 30 ENY. Maybe the scale needs adjusting.

  It is an opportunity to try out other aircraft you wouldn't normally fly. Get out of your comfort zone and have fun.  :x


The unfairness you speak of doesn't justify 12 hour wait times. People use 2 accounts to do this all the time anyway. Some people have 3 accounts. There are always going to be people doing that... The ENY balancer was designed not to force people in to crappy planes, but to force them to switch countries to even out the numbers. Thats what HTC specifically created it for. The 12 hour time limit pretty much destroys that. There is no justification to have a balancer if it is not doing its job.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2011, 11:26:42 AM »
if you want low eny stay with the bishops.  they have low eny 99.99% of the time.  good fights there too.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2011, 11:39:15 AM »
if you want low eny stay with the bishops.  they have low eny 99.99% of the time.  good fights there too.

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Been thinkin about it....My squad is Rook though...and they wont be changing anytime soon. I still might do it though. What I wish would happen is that the vtards would move back to Bish to even out the numbers. We had pretty even country numbers for a good amount of time when they were Bish....Sure they still were horde tards, but it wasn't as extreme. I guess it is too much to hope for though because they are enjoying the good life in Rookland...all the willing hordlings at their disposal. The 29+ ENY doesn't stop them at all either....Which gives me a good idea...Anything that carries troops should be set at a much lower ENY than it is now....Maybe 20.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2011, 11:53:36 AM »
On planes it's not that bad but I'm usually in a Brewster with a 30 ENY so it never bothers me in planes. GV's on the other hand its downright frustrating. Once ENY gets to 10 you lose both Tigers. At 15 you lose Panther,Firefly, and the Wirble. At 20 you lose M4/76 and T34/85. At 25 you lose the Panzer and the Ostwind.

At 25 ENY there's still some planes that can compete but your left with 0 GV's that stand a chance. I personally would rather ENY be removed all together. I'm more about the fight and I really don't care which side I'm on. I don't care if a team with 30 more players than mine can up TigerII's. Just makes it all the more sweet when you kill them and they lose 150 perks instead of 100.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2011, 11:56:38 AM »
Been thinkin about it....My squad is Rook though...and they wont be changing anytime soon. I still might do it though. What I wish would happen is that the vtards would move back to Bish to even out the numbers. We had pretty even country numbers for a good amount of time when they were Bish....Sure they still were horde tards, but it wasn't as extreme. I guess it is too much to hope for though because they are enjoying the good life in Rookland...all the willing hordlings at their disposal. The 29+ ENY doesn't stop them at all either....Which gives me a good idea...Anything that carries troops should be set at a much lower ENY than it is now....Maybe 20.

yup I would agree with the troop eny.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2011, 01:00:16 PM »
I have noticed I rarely see people camping the manned guns and not firing while a field is horded since the change.

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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2011, 01:46:31 PM »
I have noticed I rarely see people camping the manned guns and not firing while a field is horded since the change.

Same for CV guns as well.

Take your ENY like a man.  Air Warrior had 24h (23?h) waiting period to change country with NO whiner.

At present even those who hopped country every hour before to the side that suited their score best now need to think strategically as to where they go every 12h.
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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2011, 01:54:32 PM »
  The 12 hour switch time was initiated to address unfairness as some would switch back and forth to reveal enemy Cv locations, Missions ect. ENY for player # imbalance. The ENY scale doesn't seem quite right though kicking in late. I've seen a country with 20% more players than the other 2 and 4.9 ENY? Don't know what the % must be to get to 30 ENY. Maybe the scale needs adjusting.

  It is an opportunity to try out other aircraft you wouldn't normally fly. Get out of your comfort zone and have fun.  :x


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Re: ENY again.
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2011, 01:56:26 PM »
Same for CV guns as well.

Take your ENY like a man.  Air Warrior had 24h (23?h) waiting period to change country with NO whiner.

At present even those who hopped country every hour before to the side that suited their score best now need to think strategically as to where they go every 12h.

lol your so wrong too.
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