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Offline mERv

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2025, 01:48:06 PM »
Dale's answer to high eny = switch sides to balance the game

Dale's answer to 5 to 1 numbers during primetime 5 out of 7 nights a week = Switch sides to balance the game

When everyone does what they want the system becomes broken = the opportunity to GOAT my way through this time of unbalance and chaos.
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Re: Game play?
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2025, 01:56:24 PM »
If you haven't noticed. The majority of the players don't care about the game, gameplay, or anyone else. All the want to do is run players off in their horde, gang them to death in their easy mode top ENY plane, so they can bomb and take fields by themselves because "it's muh $15". And no one's saying you can't fly a tempest/262 into the horde and fly smart, but thats not what most are using those planes for. They are flying them IN the horde and making it even harder. I've watched players fly 262s when they have a 2-1 advantage of the fight. I see temps/262s all of the time in fights they dont need to be and thats what Im pointing out. Thats not good either and that is what I'm talking about.

And ohh btw, Skyyr and his crew were a perfect example of chasing players away in their 190Ds, TAs, and La7s, even when their side had the advantage. And I saw the massive drop in #s. And while sure they were within the rules of the game to fly them, it was the targeting that did it for me, and why I became so vocal. But again, they weren't doing the arena any favors either flying the easiest fastest cannon planes in the game.
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Re: Game play?
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2025, 03:15:27 PM »
How or what people fly doesn’t concern me. Watching log offs at prime time because they are burned out going 5+ to 1 with whole country hordes does. Its no diffetent than morning milk runs, which the same players complain about

What Skyyr and a cpl others did while flying was not as bad as the senseless gutless drama that came with it.

I’ll end with, if the power of suggestion doesn’t work nothing will.

If they do this all through summer just stick a fork in it.

Offline Lazerr

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2025, 05:51:11 PM »
The current game player base will kill this game before the game engine does.

It's getting pretty pathetic. 

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2025, 09:57:29 PM »
It didn't matter then as much then as it does now. We're at the warning's edge.
But, I predict they will excuse it all away and be obstinate into the abyss, then be shocked.
Tonight was just repeated of the last 5, or 10k. Didn't even move the needle.

I'm kinda just wasting my time promoting just to have a crowd come behind us and pork it all.

I'll leave my account running and play with it's finally not limp wrist night. But I'm not going to feed them kills and have bad night after bad night after bad night....that's not in my book of fun.
But please, continue, I have home projects I can finish.

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #20 on: Yesterday at 01:46:44 AM »
Remember the Mid War Arena, a place where you could escape the mindless Late War Monster filled hordes?
This is why the loss of the MWA was so great, (the most competitive planeset almost perfect for great fights) its gone, along with the opportunity to to have a breather from the realty at all cost MA pace.
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Re: Game play?
« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 06:56:52 AM »
Remember the Mid War Arena, a place where you could escape the mindless Late War Monster filled hordes?
This is why the loss of the MWA was so great, (the most competitive planeset almost perfect for great fights) its gone, along with the opportunity to to have a breather from the realty at all cost MA pace.
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Yeah I think they should have tried to experiment with a little smaller map. I don't believe those arenas had map rotations and it was same Ndsisles map, which is okay, but gets old and is still IMO, had bases too far away for most mid war planes. The timing still was just too long to get into action. Had that map been Smog8 or something a lot smaller for quicker engagments, I think it would have been way more popular. Buy I completely agree that mid war planes are the overall best planeset for the best balanced fights.
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Re: Game play?
« Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 06:58:20 AM »
Started off as a knight last night..next death I was a rook..stayed rook the rest of the hour as they were outnumbered..by a bunch..

Only had 2 other auto switchers and myself..

And you wonder why sides stay imbalanced?

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 08:38:11 AM »
Side balance is not the problem when two pile on one country almost every night. If side  balanced covered GBs Knits would need 60 when 30+30 come after you.

I heard a whine last night that we complain about no fights then when they fight us.
Well, when two countries each put the whole country in one horde you do only get too much fight or no fight at all because there is no middle ground, no gray area. You either get beat to crap or you get nothing. Ya, no gray area is a valid complaint.

What would even it out if I had my way, while all their eggs in one basket,  I’d send 2 groups of 3 sets of B-29 with escorts a 30k and completely dump both strats to dust, If ya want to play dirty lets go full bore. Ya either break your front line coming after us or eat dirt trying to fly.

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #24 on: Today at 10:08:44 AM »
I thought this was only happening in the mornings. When did it start happening in prime time?

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« Reply #25 on: Today at 12:38:30 PM »
I thought this was only happening in the mornings. When did it start happening in prime time?

I'd say, in the end his is all a result of lower numbers.
Even at prime time, there are now often just two battles on the map, as each country apparently can often just muster enough pilots for one "blob", one centre of activity. So even with even numbers, there's a good chance one side has no real opposing force for some time. When numbers are uneven (which again happens more often and more volatile because of overall lower numbers), it's getting much worse, of course.

It's actually a pretty interesting phenomenon.
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Re: Game play?
« Reply #26 on: Today at 12:42:57 PM »
Small maps and only two sides with side balance enforced..

Boom! The game is fixed!

Are there any other ww2 flight sims with three sides?

Today's numbers don't support it imo

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Re: Game play?
« Reply #27 on: Today at 01:05:36 PM »
Small maps and only two sides with side balance enforced..

Boom! The game is fixed!

Are there any other ww2 flight sims with three sides?

Today's numbers don't support it imo

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Sorry
But no.
It would get worse. Everyone would pile into one side, the sngle winning side.