Side Switch Penalty and EMI Off Peak -- Something's Gotta Give

[FLOOB]

You should be allowed to switch sides as often as you like. But HTC should charge the player for that, like they do in other online games.

+1

[guncrasher]

At 12 hours you can switch anywhere you want.

At 1 hour you can switch to any country with lower numbers.

Too Simple?

will switching to the country with lower numbers guarantee you a fight?  when it was the one hr switch, I would switch often specially at night, just moving to the lower number country meant nothing.  it was more like timing to the one or two red bar zone that meant the different.  then as quickly as it started the fight would be over, due to some guys also switching and you find yourself flying along the same people you were just fighting 2 minutes before.

it didnt happen every time but it sure did happen often.


semp

[Aspen]

will switching to the country with lower numbers guarantee you a fight? 

No, but it gives players a choice when trying to.  When there's 30 people on, the action is never going to be consistent.  Allowing side switching may not change anything other than quieting some complaints and igniting others.  But, when choosing between more or less restrictions, I will choose less unless its clear that the benefit of more restrictions clearly outweighs the drawbacks.  I don't see a lot of drawbacks to allowing folks to go to the low numbers side.   

I never switch due to squad, so sometimes I'm part of the problem.

[Changeup]

At 12 hours you can switch anywhere you want.

At 1 hour you can switch to any country with lower numbers.

Too Simple?

Here is the solution.   

Aspen shades as a Muppet.  Thought you all should know that...it's the right thing letting them know

[icepac]

I usually only switch country when I see an enemy country is in a position where it affords a super rare opportunity to attack a field or see things you don't see often in the arena.

A few times, I have switced country when I answer the call for troops or leveling of a field/town and find the people who called for help won't advance on the field.

I have also switched sides to fly the wing of a whiner and not give check six calls when he's in trouble and then type "lol" when he get's shot down.

Any country is the same as the next and it's good to meet, befriend, or sometimes even anger all who are in the game because you could likely play for years and not meet a significant percentage of the players if you fly the same side and sortie type every time.

[wpeters]

1 Have the side switch rule down to six hours. ( you can change to any country)

2 Like what has been said. Allow the MW settings. You can change country every hour if you are changing to the side that has the lowest amount of players.

3 Finally you are not given perks for winning the war unless you have been on the other side for 12 or more hours.



I have to agree with everyone one on this side switch deal..  I had day here not long ago that switched in the afternoon and couldn't make squad night do to the fact that I was on the wrong county.   Made me

[MrGeezer]

Please do not cave to the back seat drivers.

The 12 hour rule is just fine as it is.

[Vraciu]

Please do not cave to the back seat drivers.

The 12 hour rule is just fine as it is.

You're outgunned, daddy-o. 

It is about 90 pct in favor of dumping it.  I bet a scientific survey would be 2:1 minimum.    It is a rule that hurts more than it helps.  Adapt or die.   If ya' ain't growin' yer dyin'. 

[Changeup]

Please do not cave to the back seat drivers.

The 12 hour rule is just fine as it is.

Please define front seat driver and then let me know if your monthly 14.99 is more than mine, mmmkay?  Let me save you the trouble Rox, it ain't so contribute to why or why not or zip it.

[Aspen]

Popular vote on the BBS may or may not mean squat.  This is a dictatorship (as it should be).

[Vraciu]

Popular vote on the BBS may or may not mean squat.  This is a dictatorship (as it should be).

And customers hold the pitchforks.....

What the "dictatorship" is doing isn't working on this issue...    A really great idea (yours) has emerged from this discussion.   It is worth a try.   Or with some of the tweaks above--no penalty if switching to the low side, for example.

[Fulcrum]

[Zoney]

You're outgunned, daddy-o. 

It is about 90 pct in favor of dumping it.  I bet a scientific survey would be 2:1 minimum.    It is a rule that hurts more than it helps.  Adapt or die.   If ya' ain't growin' yer dyin'. 

90 percent of those responding have shown favor to changing the rule.  Trust me, there are many who do not agree who are not bothering to argue (again) on a subject that comes up once a week minimum.

[Vraciu]

90 percent of those responding have shown favor to changing the rule.  Trust me, there are many who do not agree who are not bothering to argue (again) on a subject that comes up once a week minimum.

The ninety percent who are asleep when this is an issue, Zoner...   So we are hosing the off peak crowd for a peak crowd "problem".  Just doesn't make sense to me.

[Fulcrum]

90 percent of those responding have shown favor to changing the rule.  Trust me, there are many who do not agree who are not bothering to argue (again) on a subject that comes up once a week minimum.

There are also those who are indifferent but want to see the rule changed anyway, if only so the constant weekly whinefest is of a different tune.....

I believe we make up a small percentage of the total population.