You don't observe them to build terrains for them, the average Joe player does not see this as a combat game. They see it as playing at something resembling combat and capture the flag is the most they want to expend effort at for their $14.95. You want to harvest them becasue they are easy kills while you take the risk of occasionally running into better ACM players than yourself as the cost of doing business. Most of this is ACM players want to harvest the average players becasue it's a quick win and makes for a feel good when the kills landed message goes out. If you guys wanted to go at it all night against other ACM players hard core, you would ditch the MA and go at it in the DA or a custom arena. Even the AvA but, you don't. You complain at Hitech that he has to come up with some way to force the average players to let you harvest them and your only evidence is they are killing the game becasue they won't play the game your way.
You or some version of you has been screeching exactly this at Hitech since the beginning of this game. The average players have been leaving since 2009 when NOE was taken away becasue they were here to play capture the flag in WW2 toys, not air samurai in WW2 toys. They don't want to fight you, they want to capture your feilds. Before 2009 we just got good at determining where an NOE would popup and go whack them becasue that was the game. With 400 players there were always ACM players running around above dar to keep the air samurai occupied so both groups coexisted doing their own thing. You will not force them to become air samurai, they will just cancel their subscriptions and leave. And lately that has looked like what the experiments were trying to see if it was possible to force them to do. Because force is the only way to get them into situations they are not paying to be in. NOE is not force, it is accepting what that average customer type is really paying $14.95 to accomplish in this game which makes them happy.
If Hitech gives them back NOE at this late date, chances are people will grief them anyway by ratting them out with PM's, 3rd party VOX, or having a laptop with a two week account to watch for NOE missions logged into other countries. You will still be at this impasse, they are not paying $14.95 to play air samurai so you will still not get them into the air so you can harvest them. So far since 2009 everyone's solutions to the average player not wanting to play air samurai has been for Hitech to force them no matter what they want in this game for their $14.95.
Lets ask Hitech to test this.
Hitech,
Please turn off the ability to capture map rooms for 7 days as a test in the MA. (at this point radar settings won't matter.)
