How does ENY work?

[cav58d]

How exactly does ENY work?  Is it based off of total players, or players "in flight"?  Does "in flight" include those in GV's?

[nugetx]

You have it explained here


http://www.hitechcreations.com/features/perk-points

[Lusche]

You have it explained here


http://www.hitechcreations.com/features/perk-points

No, you don 't.



ENY limiter works basically like this: Your sides percentage of total players is compared to smallest country's percentage of total players in the arena. Once your you cross a certain threshold (don't have the exact value at hand) ENY limiter kicks in. There is also a minimum total arena population required before ENY limiter is enabled at all.

"In flight" would be better called "in sortie", as it coveres all kinds of sorties. However, it has no impact on the ENY, which is always about number of players in the arena.

[cav58d]

Are you positive in flight covers vehicles and manned guns?  I've had every other person say something different.

[Lusche]

Are you positive in flight covers vehicles and manned guns?

Yes.

Edit:

Yes, for GV. Oddly enough, manned guns don't show 'inflight' anymore in AH3... 

[Lusche]

Ok, this time for real: GV and guns are 'inflight' too.
There can be a delay in showing the correct 'inflight number', which lead me to believe that there's a bug now with the manned guns. But after more testing it shows that manned guns are still shown as 'in flight', too.

Sorry for the confusion 

[lunatic1]

lusche is correct.. eny counts all players logged in to the game not just the people in flight/in sortie

[cav58d]

Doesn't it seem like a better idea to have it based off of "in-flight/in-sortie", or to boot people off the server after a period of inactivity so we aren't penalized by people AFK in the tower for hours or days?

[The Fugitive]

Doesn't it seem like a better idea to have it based off of "in-flight/in-sortie",

Then you would have groups of players hanging in the tower to drop ENY and then launch in mass with their uber late war monsters . ENY would then go through the roof locking out those planes again.

or to boot people off the server after a period of inactivity so we aren't penalized by people AFK in the tower for hours or days?

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,362537.msg4823819.html#msg4823819

[hgtonyvi]

I agree with Lyme. Players that are inactive in the arena for more than 10 minutes should be discoed.

[Shuffler]

...... or when you are going to log, just change over to the high number side and leave it up.

[cav58d]

I agree with Lyme. Players that are inactive in the arena for more than 10 minutes should be discoed.

I was thinking more like 60 minutes. 

[Shuffler]

I was thinking more like 60 minutes.

How do you stop folks from just upping a gv and hiding or upping a plane setting autopilot and leaving?

Timing with no input might affect bombers that are on a long climb out.

[flippz]

shuffler, maybe have a box that comes up that have to click every thirty minutes to show you are not asleep at the wheel. 

[Shuffler]

So buff drivers on a long climbout and AFK may get discod too.

I'm no buff driver, but you see my point.