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Offline HawkerMKII

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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2013, 05:54:48 AM »
I guess 30 bish going rook and sitting in tower did'nt help :rofl. So whats to stop me from upping a gv in a rear base and sitting there till i want to come a play again?
« Last Edit: February 19, 2013, 05:59:02 AM by HawkerMKII »
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2013, 07:20:50 AM »
I guess 30 bish going rook and sitting in tower did'nt help :rofl. So whats to stop me from upping a gv in a rear base and sitting there till i want to come a play again?

And that is the reason you won't see it happening any time soon. With out a bunch of coding to monitor packets to "see" what each player is doing then you really cant tell. Personally I'm all for bumping GVs after 30 minutes too. It would help clear those spawn camps out  :devil

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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2013, 08:58:31 AM »
Sorry.....I left my post as tower bouncer for a few minutes.


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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2013, 04:58:09 PM »
 :airplane: I think the ENY should be based on the number of players "on line" and logged into the game! If one side or the other wants to tolarate 1/3rd or more of their pilots sitting in the tower, then that is their "bad"! But the rest of the players shouldn't be penelized based on who is in flight and who is not.
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2013, 05:50:42 PM »
HiTech,

I may be taking something you said in the past out of context but.....

I beleive in the past the Boss's answer to this was: It's their $14.95 and they can do what they want in the game.
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2013, 07:06:29 PM »
HiTech,

I may be taking something you said in the past out of context but.....

I beleive in the past the Boss's answer to this was: It's their $14.95 and they can do what they want in the game.

Except it's also everyone else's $15 a month, too, and it prevents them from playing how they want.

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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2013, 07:43:10 PM »
Except it's also everyone else's $15 a month, too, and it prevents them from playing how they want.
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2013, 09:19:49 AM »
 :airplane: Said it once and will say it again, the way ENY should be figured should be by the number of Players on line, not in flight! I don't really agree with ENY anyway, serves no useful purpose to satisfy a paying customers desire to fly what he wants to!!!
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2013, 09:29:44 AM »
Except it's also everyone else's $15 a month, too, and it prevents them from playing how they want.

They can switch countries.
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2013, 09:30:22 AM »
:airplane: Said it once and will say it again, the way ENY should be figured should be by the number of Players on line, not in flight! I don't really agree with ENY anyway, serves no useful purpose to satisfy a paying customers desire to fly what he wants to!!!

it's already figured that way. by total online, not by in flight.
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2013, 09:53:32 AM »

I won't disagree on the nature of the 12 hour limit  :noid

But to be fair, ENY isn't swinging that wildly in Late War. Most of the time you can almost tell the clock by ENY limits, there are distinct times during which Bish, Rooks or Knights usually have more players on than the rest. If you always play on the same day/time,  chances are high that you frequently witness the same ENY situation
16 ENY isn't bad, Ive seen 26 ENY on bish side with only 40 or so more players.Is HITECH getting better christmas presents from the rooks. :O

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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #26 on: February 23, 2013, 09:59:15 AM »
16 ENY isn't bad, Ive seen 26 ENY on bish side with only 40 or so more players.


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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #27 on: February 23, 2013, 12:44:21 PM »
Except it's also everyone else's $15 a month, too, and it prevents them from playing how they want.

That's actually the object of the game. You want to shoot me down, I want to prevent you.



With 180 rooks on, 120 knights and 100 bish, the big problem is 60 rooks aren't flying?
I understand the ENY complaint Pand, but you're supposed to hate being on the side with 50% more players.

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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #28 on: February 23, 2013, 02:30:37 PM »
That's actually the object of the game. You want to shoot me down, I want to prevent you.



With 180 rooks on, 120 knights and 100 bish, the big problem is 60 rooks aren't flying?
I understand the ENY complaint Pand, but you're supposed to hate being on the side with 50% more players.

This also doesn't take into account how many GVers are sitting on the ground.  Right now in the MA the Rooks have 20+ more players than any other country, yet we are considerably outnumbered on every front vs the Knits and Bish.

I'd like to update the wish to include on the Country Status tab, GV Inflight, Aircraft Inflight, instead of the combined Inflight total.
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Re: Tower Timeout Inactivity
« Reply #29 on: February 23, 2013, 03:14:03 PM »
+1 Million
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