I'd like for the time to switch sides be cut in half...

[Aspen]

The wish list is here for a reason.  Knowing what your customers want is vital to any business.  If there are 3000 subscribers that means 3000 different views of what would make the game perfect but there are plenty of things many or most of would agree on even if their overall lists are different.

Businesses thrive when what people want, and will pay for, lines up with what makes good business sense.  Our job is to ask for what we want, throw it through the meat grinder of debate and put it on the shelf for HTC to see.  Its up to HTC to judge it's merits, weigh the cost vs benefit, and try and guess the unintended consequences.

I spend zero time worrying about HTC.  I want them to succeed but I have no way of knowing their idea of what success is, their goals, what resources they have, etc, etc.  The best thing we can do is exactly what we are doing.  Ask for what we want and comment on what others ask for.  Some great changes come from player ideas but it means sorting through a bunch of poor ones.

I don't expect them to grant this or any other wish.  I can't know all the factors that they consider when deciding the future of the game and their business.  

[bustr]

If 80% or more of the game population was ignorant of the side switching time limit during the two LWMA era. And then was ignorant that it was changed back to 12hrs. What scenario of human nature is Hitech protecting the arena from with 12hrs? Unless ultimately that is the very scenario which is felt lacking to maintain interest in the game by some players. Another variation of tyranny by a minority.

The best and worst thing about playing in the MA is organized groups of players. It's always more fun to terrorize the arena in the company of friends and equals until you force everyone in a sector to move to another front to change their personal odds of doing the pain stick smacking on someone else. Yes, some people actually pay $14.95 expecting to be able to dish out some pain without having to live in the game forever or the DA. If that basic expectation isn't met by Hitech. How many of you are willing to pony up $30.00 or $40.00 a month for what you are getting now with fewer players around? Many Americans can barely fill their gas tank these days. 

An unintended consequence can be as simple as helping potential new sources of revenue choose War Thunder. After 13 years, for some reason we don't see the LWMA separated by skill or "class" into some variation of AW's RR and FR arenas. Instead we see specialty arenas catering to switch at will. The MA is a meritocracy for the most part. 12hrs is a mechanism to give people the ability to get away from loosing every time they turn around by being followed from one hot spot to another all night long.

 

[guncrasher]

Genius!

 


JUGgler

hey genius, play the game first, then come and tell everybody how it should be played.


semp

[Triton28]

I haven't translated Bustr in a while, so I might be wrong, but is he saying the mythical and unbeatable AH 20%'ers are going to follow him around all the time and beat him to a pulp, so shortening the time limit means he can't switch fronts often enough to hide from them?

Did I read that right?

[JUGgler]

hey genius, play the game first, then come and tell everybody how it should be played.


semp

I thought I scraped you off on the bathroom wall?



JUGgler

[gyrene81]

I thought I scraped you off on the bathroom wall?



JUGgler

           looks like you missed something...

[nrshida]

I haven't translated Bustr in a while,...

Did I read that right?

Hold on buddy, I have a Bustr plugin for BableFish:-

[Triton28]

Hold on buddy, I have a Bustr plugin for BableFish:-

    

[Latrobe]

I had a dream last night that the timer was reduced to 5 hours. I was so happy, but then I woke up and was sad again. 

[CASHEW]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Someguy63]

+1 

[bustr]

So why can't you geniuses get Hitech to buy your sales pitch for changing the time period?

[gyrene81]

So why can't you geniuses get Hitech to buy your sales pitch for changing the time period?

because he gets confused reading your proliferation of rhetoric... 

[bustr]

What's the matter? No sales pitch of your own to Hitech?

Seems the pitch for changing 12hrs has stalled. Aren't you gents the best this forum has to offer in all things Aces High? It's on your shoulders to sell Hitech on changing the time interval, not mine. Attacking me is kind of lame, other than tacit admission of no rational argument. The country change time limit is still "12 hours". Anything else is meaningless if that number stays at 12 hours.

Who knows. Even if Hitech is glacial in his changes to the game. Maybe he will change his mind.

[The Fugitive]

What's the matter? No sales pitch of your own to Hitech?

Seems the pitch for changing 12hrs has stalled. Aren't you gents the best this forum has to offer in all things Aces High? It's on your shoulders to sell Hitech on changing the time interval, not mine. Attacking me is kind of lame, other than tacit admission of no rational argument. The country change time limit is still "12 hours". Anything else is meaningless if that number stays at 12 hours.

Who knows. Even if Hitech is glacial in his changes to the game. Maybe he will change his mind.

Personally I find it hard to have a discussion with Hitech about the side switch times if he is not here working the other side of the conversation. Everything posted on the boards other than "That's the way it was before the arena split and we forgot to switch it back" is all speculation. Other than that one line I don't remember Hitech or any one else from HTC saying why they have it set at 12 hours.

If no one knows "why" it's at 12 hours you can not have a discussion about it. It's all story telling until facts are revealed. What ever the reason is that Hitech has it set for 12 hours hasn't been address and so is still the reason why it is as it is.