POTW swapped to bish on Friday night becasue the last month and a half have been pretty much ENY heck. 12 of us were on and that evened ENY out for the arena and we did our favorite thing, broke toys and red boys in late war rides we hadn't been able to play in much for past month and a half. Saturday we went back rooks and weeeeee, ENY heck was back. POTW members have been around long enough we can make due with garbage rides against 262, dora, 152, spit16, P51D, P47M and so forth. It's more like working a bad day job than having fun for $14.95.
We don't pay Hitech $14.95 for the pleasure of getting our teeth kicked in by greifers who know we are stuck flying garbage planes against their late war rides. Since the max population during prime time is more often 120 customers across three countries, maybe Hitech, reduce the minimum ENY trigger from the 400 customers a night setting. Why do I say greifers, once the 12 of us were bish and back in late war rides, we no longer had the garbage ride problems towering other late war rides. Shades of the good ride side garbage ride side problem with FSO scenario's.
We have a POTW member who logged rather than switch to bish becasue he has very long standing issues with some bish players and didn't want to be around them. That is an unspoken reason customers have such virulent country loyalty, along with not wanting to fight their friends. Team player type personalities have those kinds of loyalty traits. Solo players don't and the MA is still biased in numbers towards the team player personalities. POTW has been Kinghts and Rooks for 15 years and in both countries customers refused to jump to other countries becasue of personal disliking of other players and their feelings about being a member of a team. It did not matter even when those disliked players were not logged on and it would have helped ease ENY for that night. Loyalty to friends and team were more important than ENY. That's why the rooks and knights will suffer 30+ ENY over and over again. Friday night the MA sucked for everyone until we switched, no one in POTW has friends on the bish side, we do have friends on the knight side. Originally we switched to rooks after 10 years becasue the knights refused to address being in ENY heck for months. Now the rooks are doing the same thing.
When the MA is down to 120 from 400 customers a night, especially with the numbers of long time customers making up the core of that 120, the reason for sticking to ones long time freinds is why Hitech still has 120 customers during prime time. They are friends and the game is their social media app. Being with longtime friends trumps ENY heck, they can tough it out becasue they are together suffering it. I don't think newer customers have that kind of bond or any understanding of that kind of toughness to keep them here.
