demon, I understand the not getting vulched part. I am speaking of the title. GAME PLAY. we are low on numbers and I was not around for the hay day. but it seems it would be a lot more fun if the sides equaled out some how. I don't have the raw data and exact numbers but I am sure map wins for the bish are in the 90% range. that seems a little skewed to me. I guess I don't understand the horde mentality, its not really fun to me when I'm the horder or the horded. I love a great big furball, but I also like to get my butt kicked in a one on one fight. I can see every once in a while a group raids a base and closes it, but everyday every base and seems to be the same group constantly. I am still under a year in this game but I have noticed the bases that are hard to capture seems to draw the largest crowd ie. tank town on the ndislands map. also the uncapturable mountain bases with the indestructible vh. there are huge fights there and fun as well.
my point is game play, with low numbers and then numbers skewed so drastic to one side is not helping. I have read many many posts about that and seems the rooks went through this a few months ago and it doesn't seem that its going to change by player involvement. I don't know what makes people stay on a largely out numbering side 25 perks? a score that is only relevant to them that has no affect on anything in the rest of your life? bragging rights to only people that are in the game, to whom most don't care if youre 20vs2? wouldn't it be more fun if you upped 5vs5 and came out the victor versus 5 on 1? every one complains about the map close to war loss, let them win so we can move on to the next map I hear but the next map has bases and the same people are going to be playing and the same groups are gonna be hording and the same eny is going to in affect (or ineffective). I hear on 200 oh the eny sucks, oh the eny is terrible but they will not switch to help it and throwing a map to get to another map seems redundant.
and again I go back to what if that day was a persons first day in here? what we would have showed on the first impression would have been horrible. I downloaded a game and tried to play it a few months and the three or four times I flew in it the people were not helpful, and seems to be closed in to not wanting new people, so I don't fly that game at all anymore. now I'm not saying that about this game but referring to first impressions are very strong as to whether some one is going to stay and learn the game or say to hell with that. I don't guess there is a magical fix for the issue because we leave it up to man to decide and man is not the best choice making invention at times.
this is a great game in the aspect it has lasted 20 years (maybe wrong on the years). we just need to police it a bit better and look at whats best for the game to make it last for the duration. switching sides for a little while is not that big of a deal, you will not be banned from a country for going rook or knight or bish. you actually might find it to be fun and enjoy the game a little while. become a better stick for fighting guys you normally would not fight. find new guys to talk with about stuff. maybe wind up with a better score in the end because there are more targets to shoot at. '
that's all I'm getting at, enrich the game playing experience. I guess in a matter of sense we should tidy the house before the guests get here for better first impression and more enjoyable game play for all that are involved.
