Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings

[HamrDown]

Something needs to be done, other than ENY to allow people to play the game without HUGE number disadvantages. This morning logged in 22 Bish, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights. No wonder no one hardly plays the game anymore. 

[Eagler]

Some don't like to lose regardless what it does for overall game play...big egos I guess

Auto assign works but some are too shallow to use it for the betterment of the game

Eagler

[RichardDarkwood]

Something needs to be done, other than ENY to allow people to play the game without HUGE number disadvantages. This morning logged in 22 Bish, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights. No wonder no one hardly plays the game anymore. 

Thats just more targets for you.

[Lazerr]

The current map has only been up 5 hours and probably just switched, contributing to the problem.

[perdue3]

My question is, how is it fun for the 22?

[AKKuya]

Just pointing out that the main arena is a sandbox for multiple players to use at the same time.  How each player decides on personal activities or a group of players decide on combined activities are fluid to the game with interaction from other players or just by themselves with no defense.

How I miss the mid war nd early war arenas where I could freely bomb everything and practice jabo runs.  Bring back my purple and green. 

[Lusche]

Thats just more targets for you.

Hardly. At this point they either clobber that single defender with sheer numbers, or they will flatten three towns at once from high altitude while the rest of the guys will play hide & seek with him in GVs, pushing only the bases he's currently not at.
Which is perfectly logical from a pure "war" point of view.

[perdue3]

Just pointing out that the main arena is a sandbox for multiple players to use at the same time.  How each player decides on personal activities or a group of players decide on combined activities are fluid to the game with interaction from other players or just by themselves with no defense.

How I miss the mid war nd early war arenas where I could freely bomb everything and practice jabo runs.  Bring back my purple and green. 

You can still freely bomb with no resistance, just fly Bishops before 6 PM.

[RichardDarkwood]

262's are only 140 perks when there is those kind of numbers on.

[popeye]

My question is, how is it fun for the 22?

Apparently quite a lot of fun, as this is pretty much a daily routine.

[Lusche]

262's are only 140 perks when there is those kind of numbers on.

While you grab altitude, they grab a base. When you reach a base under attack, they dissipate and just attack another one - in GV. They have prepped several vbases and towns. Several will flash at once, but you won't see them when you arrive in your jet.
You may finally get 3 kills on a buff formation you catch, but in the meantime they have grabbed 2-3 more bases with next to no losses or even combat.

[RotBaron]

‘ This morning logged in 22 Bish, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights. No wonder no one hardly plays the game anymore. 

Whoa 

No wonder small maps get rolled in the mornings and are up for ~6hours or less sometimes.

It’s also during the week, not just weekends.

[hazmatt]

The annoying one to me is when the numbers are equal and 2 countries decide to attack one so it still ends up being 2 to 1 odds.

[JimmyD3]

The annoying one to me is when the numbers are equal and 2 countries decide to attack one so it still ends up being 2 to 1 odds.

What he said!!! 

[oTRALFZo]

Hardly. At this point they either clobber that single defender with sheer numbers, or they will flatten three towns at once from high altitude while the rest of the guys will play hide & seek with him in GVs, pushing only the bases he's currently not at.
Which is perfectly logical from a pure "war" point of view.

I could not agree more!!
I recently started playing from years past with the big difference to the GV dar. This "hide and seek" feature is totally being abused. Now players are spawning in to enemy fields with the sole intent of heading to some bush, eating lunch/doing chores or whatever it is just either to get proxy kills or keep the opponent busy for a long period of time to find them. I have seen others that as soon as they see opposition, they head for another bush or hiding spot. Does this promote combat?  I don't think so. Often times, these guys are just waiting for these guys to bail out of frustration or them moving on to REAL action.

I "get" the war winning and the fun it is to work together to make it happen, but it has come to a point to where numbers and side balancing has been SO far off it makes you wonder why we should not have 1 side plowing unopposed fields just for the sake of winning the war?