Most of these complaints seem to be from forum\community members who like playing the game solo. Understandably large scale imbalances in the game effect them first and more drastically than those who are loyal to a country\group and want to play the game as a group member. After POTW recently switched to rook trying to help balance the eny problem, a single constant held true.
The bish have a substantial group of players who log in around the same time during week days. This allows them to enjoy a localized evening of smacking down which ever country they pick on that evening. My experiences of the past few years with knights and now rooks, everyone appears to be waiting for someone else to create the fun so they can tag along. This bish group still has the energy level that has waned a bit in the other two countries which they use liberally to generate action favorable to their evening fun goals.
That group by being chess piece loyal is still having lots of fun by being a group. And eny is supposed to limit them if it's working correctly. Though I've seen that group logged in fighting the knights while the knights had eny limitations during the last 2 months. Respective of the time period at around 9pm pacific time.
So is this POST strictly about solo players at off peak hours and related ENY issues? Or solo players trashing groups of paying customers who like playing together as groups which tends to generate more fun for the group? By definition loyalty to a group will most of the time go hand in hand with loyalty to a territory that group defines itself by. Humans have an ingrained hard wired tendency to king, country, and brigade. If that could be changed, Hitech has had 15 years to do it up to the time of this POST.
I suspect ENY in AH2 can be adjusted just like the percentage of a town down for a white flag. You will have to ask Hitech if he wrote into the ENY code that given some minimum number of players in an arena it would turn itself off. From being on late at night with small numbers when it was in force, I suspect it doesn't have a minimum number disabling function. It does detect country player number imbalances.
So maybe you can ask Hitech if he would lower the ENY thresholds for the rest of AH2. And wishlist for AH3 a minimum arena population number shutoff. After all, AH2 is EoL while AH3 has years ahead in it's life cycle.
