HQ Downtimes set for 5 minutes

[Lusche]

It was a good try but it didn't work.  HQ was down for long time again during prime time last night.

Of course it was.

It was the basic downtime was changed, just as I pointed out at the very top of this thread.

[Randy1]

Of course it was.

It was the basic downtime was changed, just as I pointed out at the very top of this thread.

Yes, you are right,  The city was involved as you posted. 

[cobia38]

Rubbish.
If a player cares about the strategic game he should bomb the city and ack/ammo factories. These have a greater effect on successful base takes than the HQ.

When HQ is down I don't see any sudden boost to base capture rate against the blind country. The vast majority of the players in the other countries don't even know that the 3rd one is blind and don't mount any special base-taking operations. The only game play it affects is the fun of the blind-country players and nothing more.

 Ever stop to think that maybe its done in a defensive manner at times ? If a country is getting slammed by 2 sides,the best way to slow the horde is to drop their HQ.
 

[Drano]

You can still bomb the HQ if you like, you simply won't ruin the game for others. You can also increase the down time by making extra effort. If the effort is worth the reward is entirely up to you. You just no longer get a big reward for little effort.

<golf clap>

[Naughty]

It was a good try but it didn't work.  HQ was down for long time again during prime time last night.

    It worked EXACTLY as it was supposed to. Serious effort had to be put in to do so. Them keeping the HQ down was their spiteful retaliation. But they proved our point perfectly by doing so.  Now lets just see how often they want to put that effort in.

[Copprhed]

Ever stop to think that maybe its done in a defensive manner at times ? If a country is getting slammed by 2 sides,the best way to slow the horde is to drop their HQ.

THIS! I've seen the rooks and bish take the knight side down to 63% of bases. The perfect counter is to down their HQs and KEEP THEM DOWN.

[caldera]

Ever stop to think that maybe its done in a defensive manner at times ? If a country is getting slammed by 2 sides,the best way to slow the horde is to drop their HQ.

The victim country was usually the one that was getting slammed by two sides.  The shorter the distance to HQ, the more likely NOE bombers or combat-averse tankers would take it out.

THIS! I've seen the rooks and bish take the knight side down to 63% of bases. The perfect counter is to down their HQs and KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS!  -  almost never happened.

[save]

Something is definitive wrong with the Yak3 damage model, I can get 20 hits by a 20mm Hispano and only receive low damage, but every time I collide with the moon when I pull up - I die 

We need a different topic now. Somebody make a new thread about collision model. We didn't have that for a while 

[Bino]

And, I'm very sneaky.

He is! He is! I've seen it!

 

[The Fugitive]

The I have been here since 200X comments amuse me. Especially if I have been there longer. Arguing by personal attack is not discussion, just the hyping of your ego. Forum is for discussion, thanks for taking that away.

You asked, I answered. Your turn,

Who are you?

[FBKampfer]

Dropping HQ will do little to slow the horde. By its nature, it relies on sheer numbers to compendate for deficiencies in Intel, timing, tactics, and skill. You just round up a bunch ofof guys like Jayro and his strike missions, and throw them at just about any old base.

[Wiley]

THIS! I've seen the rooks and bish take the knight side down to 63% of bases. The perfect counter is to down their HQs and KEEP THEM DOWN.

How does that affect the horde?  Their primary concern isn't where the enemy is, it's where the next base is.  The only downside they would get from the HQ being down is they might have a slightly higher chance to run into resistance.  If that's the case, they'll just move somewhere else after the defended take fails.

Wiley.

[Zoney]

From this:


HQ
« on: Yesterday at 12:32:05 PM »
June 8.

For the next 7 days I will do my best to log in to the arena in the morning and try keep the HQ down time set to 5 minutes.

It will revert back with any arena reset. Hence I will check it when I come in.

HiTech


Might it be possible to conclude that we will get a new release in 7 days also?   Hmmmmmmmmm...........just guessing.

 

[Dundee]

Logged in Monday night and the Bish took the Rooks HQ down.........down for over 45 mins.

[Yankee67]

Was it really the Bish that griped to Hitech about HQ down times?  That would be the height of irony.