Sweet generalization
has it crossed your mind that all of this radar testing is for those that are just now joining us and those that are thinking about joining us?
you can't have a massive arena and just have a green or red bar across the top left corner and expect those that have never played to understand what is going down with the map. that would be like rolling up to a bar that has it's lights on but the parking is underground. Sure, the lights are on and there might be some people in there but is it a happening place or is it the bar that has three regulars and no new blood because the bar doesn't properly advertise it's events?
That's a fair point, but the new dar settings are the equivalent to many of us of having the bar i
n the parking lot on a cold and drizzly night.
And yeah, I get it that this is "just a test." But it points to a direction HT intends to take the game in order to get new subscribers. I don't see things reverting back to how they were before the test, do you? Hence the angst.
One would think that people who have been playing the game for many years are more valuable customers to HT than any newbs who might be attracted to the more obvious activity on the map because they are:
1) potential mentors to newbs in a game that has a steep learning curve, and
2) because they've been dependably forking over $15/mo. all that time.
Here's hoping HT strikes a livable balance in that regard somehow. I frankly don't see it happening: for many, the cure is its own disease.