2 side tuesdays

[caldera]

How do you guys see a 2 sided war playing out?  My money would be on hordelings all going to one side and rolling bases for eternity.

Wiley.

ENY

I still think it would wind up being one side rolling bases and the people who like it on the other doing nothing but defending.  That's not terrible as long as the offensive side will actually stick around to fight it out for a base and doesn't start playing NOE whackamole, then it gets lame and boring.

So you mean just like it is now, except 1v1 instead of 2v1.

[Wiley]

ENY

Yes, because that slows down the strike hordes so incredibly effectively now.

So you mean just like it is now, except 1v1 instead of 2v1.

If that was the case, why bother making a change?

Wiley.

[caldera]

Yes, because that slows down the strike hordes so incredibly effectively now.

If that was the case, why bother making a change?

Wiley.

A typical breakdown of daytime LW Arena numbers:

Country A - 47
Country B - 34
Country C - 25

More often than not, both the higher numbered Countries will go after the easier opponent.  Which ends up as:

A+B, with 81 players versus C, with 25 players.  Team C gets crushed until A+B have such a huge number of C fields, that they eventually have to fight each other to reset the map.

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Now with just 2 teams:

Team A - 81
Team B - 25

This imbalance will trigger a huge ENY penalty and people will have to switch sides or fly low end rides.   What will happen is the numbers will eventually balance out, just as they do now.  The big difference being, the outnumbered country can not be nearly as outnumbered as it can be with 3 sides.

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For those whines about country or ez-mode plane loyalty:

#1  It will be the only day of the week in which you will be forced to fight a reasonably fair fight.
#2  HTC already limits what you can fly with ENY and perk planes.   What about the poor folks that only want to fly the 262 every sortie and also never switch sides?
#4  By switching sides, people will fly with people that they hated and find out they're not so bad.
#5  People will get to fight their friends and find out some of them do the exact same things that they whine about when the bish/nit/rook guys do it to them.
#6  If it doesn't work.  It can easily be restored back to 2v1 again.


ps.  the teams can be called Team Ginger and Team Mary Ann

[Vraciu]

A typical breakdown of daytime LW Arena numbers:

Country A - 47
Country B - 34
Country C - 25

More often than not, both the higher numbered Countries will go after the easier opponent.  Which ends up as:

A+B, with 81 players versus C, with 25 players.  Team C gets crushed until A+B have such a huge number of C fields, that they eventually have to fight each other to reset the map.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Now with just 2 teams:

Team A - 81
Team B - 25

This imbalance will trigger a huge ENY penalty and people will have to switch sides or fly low end rides.   What will happen is the numbers will eventually balance out, just as they do now.  The big difference being, the outnumbered country can not be nearly as outnumbered as it can be with 3 sides.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


For those whines about country or ez-mode plane loyalty:

#1  It will be the only day of the week in which you will be forced to fight a reasonably fair fight.
#2  HTC already limits what you can fly with ENY and perk planes.   What about the poor folks that only want to fly the 262 every sortie and also never switch sides?
#4  By switching sides, people will fly with people that they hated and find out they're not so bad.
#5  People will get to fight their friends and find out some of them do the exact same things that they whine about when the bish/nit/rook guys do it to them.
#6  If it doesn't work.  It can easily be restored back to 2v1 again.


ps.  the teams can be called Team Ginger and Team Mary Ann

Beautiful analysis.