Lusche,
When did the mega horde become the prominent scene of action? All do respect to all squads and players, this is not a hate the player post, so please don't make it into one.
I work at night, and play during the very lean off hours, routinely. So, I have several ideas about what influences low off peak hour numbers.
1) NO FIGHTS, zero, none, nada.....
2) STAGNANT MAPS, been around more than 5 days, and every flight takes more than 8 minutes to see any action
3) FUTILITY IN DEFENSE, large mobs of players taking your stuff and nothing you can do about it..... again nada....
4) LOW CHANCES OF MAP RESET, many players will stay logged in longer if they had any feeling that maps could be won with low numbers
5) LEMINGS KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT in early morning play, the second the clipboard map is revealed to them, and those options would be either #1 thru #4.
Forum Posters asked for challenging gameplay when they had 50% towns with white flags, so this is what they have asked for. Could you imagine splitting the arena now with 65 players in the LWMA?
Lusche, the question is why are the numbers not GROWING, when HTC is rolling out better upgraded graphics and more toys? Subscriptions staying the same, doesn't sound all that convincing to me for a strong product. I believe numbers go up and down and hit plateaus as a function of external factors.
I am very excited about a number of things that HTC has released in the past few years. I just wish for a more FUN "capture / perk / eny / something", to give me a reason to want to fly with a small group and chuckle it up on the way to handle some cartoon country business.