the side balancing sucks

[whiteman]

It can be frustrating, I usually log on and start porking ords or dropping VH's. With not much else attacking it usually just slows down the inevitable loss of fields which is mostly to GVs. The majority of Rooks are interested in fur balls which is cool, the ones that do attack could be more effective if they were coordinated.

[VuduVee]

YES!!!!!!!!!!  

Gents the time has arrived!!!!!!!!

We have recorded one of our first AH3 "there are too many players to play and it causes an outnumbered side to get horded beyond belief and I don't wanna play anymore because I'm fighting superior odds and cant handle it thread"!!!!!

Bask in its whiny goodness gents...its only gonna get better from here...

youre something else puller. why spend anytime at all typing, just to spite someone? goin for the forum gangbang? leading that charge ?  go for it cool guy

[Randy1]

YES!!!!!!!!!!  

Gents the time has arrived!!!!!!!!

We have recorded one of our first AH3 "there are too many players to play and it causes an outnumbered side to get horded beyond belief and I don't wanna play anymore because I'm fighting superior odds and cant handle it thread"!!!!!

Bask in its whiny goodness gents...its only gonna get better from here...

Puller you missed the whole point of the OP's post.  Read the title again.

ENY has little influence on side balancing.

[puller]

My reading comprehension skills are fine...

I know all too well about being terribly outnumbered... You don't see me running here and telling everyone that's its not worth playing...

You can't have it both ways...either the population of the game is so low that you can't play...or now our first example of there are too many causing a horde headache

I'm the first one to dive into a swarm of red...I'm one of those that will up at a vulched field just trying to knock one or two down before they get me so it will give other guys a chance to get up...

I get ganged constantly... 4 5 6 vs 1 all the time...

Your not gonna force people to change sides...ENY is supposed to make it painful to stay on the horde side... This doesn't bother some people...

[molybdenum]

The only way to force it to work is to log any new arrivals into the lowest number side and not allow side switching. We all go where the game puts us.

I tried helping rooks awhile back when they were far outnumbered. When I changed over there were 2 rooks wondering where the trains were as they needed to shoot trains. I changed back as soon as I could.

I tried helping the rooks too. Some of them were cool, but a couple gave me a hard time for not hitting the targets they wanted me to, and another let off several volleys of profanity at me when I tried to tell him he was messing up a base take try I was engaged in. Doesn't exactly incline me to want to help them again.

[Slate]

   As a long time Rook  I remember the knits were the team that was always outnumbered but put up the best fights. 
    Rooks are on the ropes now but we are still: 1 Rook = 3 Bish , 1 Rook = 2 Knits      

[Wiley]

It's interesting that over the last couple of months at least, anytime I've logged on at best rooks are even numbers.  Evening primetime, from what I've seen they're almost consistently low.

They need a propaganda drive or something.  Maybe "free hookers and blow Tuesdays"?

Wiley.

[VuduVee]

My reading comprehension skills are fine...

I know all too well about being terribly outnumbered... You don't see me running here and telling everyone that's its not worth playing...

You can't have it both ways...either the population of the game is so low that you can't play...or now our first example of there are too many causing a horde headache

I'm the first one to dive into a swarm of red...I'm one of those that will up at a vulched field just trying to knock one or two down before they get me so it will give other guys a chance to get up...

I get ganged constantly... 4 5 6 vs 1 all the time...

Your not gonna force people to change sides...ENY is supposed to make it painful to stay on the horde side... This doesn't bother some people...

why do you give a sht about anything i say here on this forum? why even respond at all? just cant help yourself can you, you have to troll me every single time you see me say anything at all anywhere at all. easy to do behind a computer screen.

[VuduVee]

It's interesting that over the last couple of months at least, anytime I've logged on at best rooks are even numbers.  Evening primetime, from what I've seen they're almost consistently low.

They need a propaganda drive or something.  Maybe "free hookers and blow Tuesdays"?

Wiley.

we had an ad that said, "come to rooks and die in a 30 to 1 horde", but somehow that brought no one over. ill change it to 15 to 1 horde and see if that works

[VuduVee]

Vuduvee, I agree with you, playing on a country that is vastly outnumbered is not fun when your game play focuses on base taking and team work.  I can't offer you a solution, because I don't now what the solution is.  In my case, I simply moved around country to country to avoid it.  Even now, I won't hesitate switching sides in order to get some base taking action going - even if it benefits one of the other two stronger countries.  I like the base taking aspect.  And frankly, defending a base under attack is also a lot of fun, but not a steam roll.  There is very little you can do and very little satisfaction you can get from being on the receiving end of rolling hordes along both your borders. I wish I knew a solution for you. Only thing that works for my blood pressure is switching sides or logging off.  But you are correct, the rooks have been getting quite a ration lately.  It seems like a lot of rooks haven't made it over to AH3 yet.  BigPat being one of them, although I hear he's trying to get a machine together.

yeah my squad is getting upgrades and slowly drifting back, so i think your right about people upgrading. one of the things about this whole thing is that people dont do big missions anymore. if there were missions the bellybutton kicking would be less aggravating. at least we would be giving it a good go. win or lose. thats one of the biggest reasons i play, i love missions and immersion. but the mission makers on rooks arent back yet. some guys have made missions and get a few joiners, but its rare it seems. sad if you ask me.

[Electroman]

VuduVee - I hear you and feel your pain. The Bish are constantly under Rook / Nit gang bang on a regular basis and when you guys have numbers we get into the same boat.

I do agree though the Rooks have been on a down slide it seems for some time. Probably as already mentioned the hardware upgrades hit everyone at first and some upgraded more quickly than others to get back online. Some others didn't like the new game play and choose to just move on. Different reasons.

So - I guess the question to you is - how would YOU fix the problem? What change would you make to fix or improve the problem?

A wise man once said "Don't bring me a problem without a solution". It's easy for all of us to complain about something that we feel is broken but more difficult to implement a solution that everyone feels will work and will support.

Cheers,
Elec1

[Randy1]

It's interesting that over the last couple of months at least, anytime I've logged on at best rooks are even numbers.  Evening primetime, from what I've seen they're almost consistently low.

They need a propaganda drive or something.  Maybe "free hookers and blow Tuesdays"?

Wiley.

Wiley, early evening eastern time is what Vudu is talking about.  i check the country status everyday when I log in.  Not always but say 60% percent of the time the bish will own 15 to 25% of Rook bases and the knits will own 10-20% of Rook bases.  Oddly enough, the bish and the knits often just own Rook bases and not each others.   The strats are often flat and down time in the 2 hour range.

Not sure of this but it seems like the majority of the side swapping is not to find a fight but to get on the winning side.  I would suggest the side swapping time to once everyt 24 hours.  When the side swapping time was lowered the side imbalance problems got worse.

[JunkyII]

1 hour side switch....I aint going rook for 6 hours just to have them be the ones with numbers in 2....The players willing to change sides to take on the harder fight are locked to a side and don't want to change because it takes too long to switch back and who knows what's going to happen in a few hours.

sorry but stubbornness is making this harder then it needs to be

[Vraciu]

Eliminate chess pieces.  Just label countries by color.   Then maybe the brand loyalty/identification factor will go away.

[BowHTR]

Eliminate chess pieces.  Just label countries by color.   Then maybe the brand loyalty/identification factor will go away.

Doubt it. Back when we had the different MA's people were dedicated to a colored arena and then dedicated to a specific side.