tower sitters--a new suggestion?

[Oldman731]

Big flippin' deal.

Really.  Learn to fly some of the other planes here.

- oldman

[Devil 505]

I fly every Axis fighter on a pretty regular basis and it's rare day that ENY personally affects me. You should direct your comment to those who refuse to leave their Pony, LA-7, Nikki, Dora, or Spit16.

[Oldman731]

I fly every Axis fighter on a pretty regular basis and it's rare day that ENY personally affects me. You should direct your comment to those who refuse to leave their Pony, LA-7, Nikki, Dora, or Spit16.

My comment WAS directed to them.  I was agreeing with you!

- oldman

[The Fugitive]

I wish Hitech would change the list so it would just show the population of each country and the ENY hit if it was applicable.

Its funny, but if you check back Id bet a vast majority of these "ENY" threads are started in the mornings eastern times and almost always by a BISH. 

[Devil 505]

My comment WAS directed to them.  I was agreeing with you!

- oldman

D'oh!

 

[guncrasher]

There have been many requests of HT in the past "to do something" about the players who stay logged on overnight, driving up ENY and thus making the game less enjoyable to play for his teammates. I've always assumed these people were simply ignorant of neglectful, but when I politely asked a serial tower-sitter to log off when he was done his answer was (summarized): "Screw you. Bish might win the map while I sleep and I want the perk points." The most often tendered solution has been for HT to forcibly log off players who have been inactive for a set length of time, but this has not been done and I'm assuming there are good reasons for it, though I can't imagine what those might be.
So! New suggestion: deny perk points to players who have not landed (not upped, too easy to just park something somewhere) a ride in six hours. I am extremely ignorant of coding and technology in general, but I assume that if HT can make it impossible for a player to change teams for six hours, he can deny perk points for someone who has sat around doing nothing for that long as well.
Thoughts?

I am curious how do you know who is just sitting in the tower.  and second if he answered you doesnt it mean he's still active?  as for his answer I think you just made it up.  there's times I have fallen asleep while playing due to work hours and I sure as hell would not have answered any questions.

semp

[jimbo71]

  I propose after X amount of time game switches to a cut scene of the O club where several soldiers file in with boot socks w/ bars of soap inside.  The go to a table where the tower dweller sits and they all beat him senseless..... followed by a host disconnect 

[SlipKnt]

Can you program the ENY based on information that is already there?

Not sure if a programming nightmare or not...

You know how you can open up and view how many players are online per country? 

You can view how many are actually in flight.  Is it possible to base ENY by how many are in flight vs. how many are simply online in a tower?

I don't think the real complaint is about people in the tower.  The real issue here IMHO is it is a burden on ENY. 

Make sense?

[Shuffler]

If they do this for perks.... they must be terrible at everything except dieing.   

[SIK1]

If they do this for perks.... they must be terrible at everything except dieing.   

 

 
Sik

[SlipKnt]

If they do this for perks.... they must be terrible at everything except dieing.   

 

[Volron]

I thought HiTech clearly stated that folks sitting in a tower do NOTHING to affect eny.   Or did I misread that?

[ImADot]

I thought HiTech clearly stated that folks sitting in a tower do NOTHING to affect eny.   Or did I misread that?

You misread it. They do affect ENY, but the numbers across all countries throughout the day even out and can basically be ignored.

At least that's the way I understand it.

[hitech]

You misread it. They do affect ENY, but the numbers across all countries throughout the day even out and can basically be ignored.

At least that's the way I understand it.

Correct.

HiTech

[icepac]

Sometimes i launch a long distance pt ot lvt mission, go to the beach, and come home to find myself in the tower.

These things happen.

Why worry about it?