If it's free..it's for me

[Eagler]

ENY has never affected my game play..

Being stuck on the 3rd side where the other two sides only battle themselves has..

Not enough numbers for 3 sides anymore imo..

Eagler

[Mayhem]

Playing the devil's advocate fore a moment: You can only change sides every six hours, and ENY is swinging wildly these days.

ENY wasn't supposed to even the sides by numbers. It was meant as an incentive to switch, but hardly anyone expected to balance the plain numbers. It's a handicap for the side with too many players.

ENY would probably work a heck of a lot better at getting people to switch sides (Especially in groups) if HTC just removed the lock out or reduced it to 1 hour or less. But I've been preaching that now for over 2 decades.

[Devil 505]

We have been rehashing this old BS since ENY was put in place 2 decades ago.

We all know that there are limits to side changing, especially if you're flying with your squad and/or friends, even the Auto Changer doesn't take that into account. Be nice if it could move you as a group but it doesn't.

I would fly FSO and then drop into the MA with Drano and J0ker. We would be able to fly for about 15-20 minutes until most of (Sometimes even all of) the F4Us and P38s got locked out by ENY. We would change side and 15-30 minutes later the same problem would rear it's ugly head, Planes would get locked out due to side balance. Can't change sides again due to the lock out and with auto changer there was no way we could stay together. At most I would stay in for an hour maybe two before rage quitting and firing up DCS, IL2, or even Fallout 4.

Just uncapping side swaps or making the timer more reasonable like 1 change per half hour probably would have fixed this mess, but way to many people cried about Spying and CV manipulation. Meanwhile some shmuck is live steaming the map from his shade account to YouTube for his friends.

Sorry not worth $14.99/month so instead of changing sides, I just changed games!

I only subscribed for 2 years in the 2010s (Flown more in the 2000s and 2020s), so not playing for that 8 years saved me $ 1,439.04 (8*12*14.99) that savings paid for all my DCS modules all My IL2 games and even left with with enough money left over to buy a custom 3 axis trim controller and custom F-18 UFC.

ENY has been a contributing factor every time I left and stopped subscribing. I bet ENY has chased away more customers than even good old Jon Ray ever could.

ENY sucks, Aces High has been bleeding customers for well over a decade and even mandatory quarantines didn't really help. It can't draw in new players while crapo mechanics like ENY are driving away existing customers/players while the remaining customer still complain about side imbalances that ENY didn't fix.

Enjoy!

All that illustrates are the problems with the side switching mechanics, not ENY. ENY works as intended, mostly. Some planes need a hefty value adjustment.

But you can't claim that the plane you want isn't available at all times. It you want the plane bad enough. Switch sides. It's there just waiting for you.

[Devil 505]

Playing the devil's advocate fore a moment: You can only change sides every six hours, and ENY is swinging wildly these days.

You're preaching to the choir here. I've been against anything over a 1 hour switch limit since it was changed over a decade ago.

[Mayhem]

Eagler,

Sorry for Hijacking your thread here ... Shuffler made me dot it!

[AKIron]

There's no free lunch Buttercup. Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.

[DmonSlyr]

3 hours is the better side switch time compromise for the current #s.

Problem with the auto assignment based on #s is most of the time to get stuck on the side with no action. That's why I stopped doing it. I also got irritated if it auto assigned me during the middle of a good fight.

The fog of war is all but gone in AH, but the fights can still be a lot of fun when the battles pick up between bases.

[RUSH1]

The fog of war is all but gone in AH, but the fights can still be a lot of fun when the battles pick up between bases.

Yet, the grunts aren't supported while trying to take a base.  This, and guys seeing through mountains is why I left this toejamshow.  No one's on the same page ...

[Eagler]

Last night started auto assign as a rook..great battle with bishops..

Couple sorties into it and it auto assigned me to knights and zero fights..

A sortie later I manually switched back to rooks to get a decent fight for my time remaining..

Again we don't have the numbers to support a 3 sided war..

Eagler

[caldera]

ENY would probably work a heck of a lot better at getting people to switch sides (Especially in groups) if HTC just removed the lock out or reduced it to 1 hour or less. But I've been preaching that now for over 2 decades.

 

Last night started auto assign as a rook..great battle with bishops..

Couple sorties into it and it auto assigned me to knights and zero fights..

A sortie later I manually switched back to rooks to get a decent fight for my time remaining..

Again we don't have the numbers to support a 3 sided war..

Eagler