Auto-country swap is slowly hurting what is left of the game.

[Lazerr]

I use and don't use it.  Like mentioned before sometimes you need to make a chosen country change to find the fight.

I've also found that sometimes when you switch to fight the horde,  they don't like getting shot down.  They then switch targets to avoid the resistance.

Very few are here for the fight it appears..

[JimmyD3]

I use and don't use it.  Like mentioned before sometimes you need to make a chosen country change to find the fight.

I've also found that sometimes when you switch to fight the horde,  they don't like getting shot down.  They then switch targets to avoid the resistance.

Very few are here for the fight it appears..

LOL, not to be disrespectful Lazerr, but that is  your "mantra"

[RotBaron]

Your missing the point, it is NEVER justified, I don't care WHO does it.

When I ask Knights why they continue the answer is regularly because Bish deserve it - usually because of the morning horde. What do the Bishops give as reason?

[Lazerr]

LOL, not to be disrespectful Lazerr, but that is  your "mantra"

That is me telling you why nobody is here...

[JimmyD3]

That is me telling you why nobody is here...

Ahh but that is only part of the equation......

[Shuffler]

Now we have Auto Contry Swap ... Which is great for the friendless looser who has no squad or friends to fly with ... it even gave them perk points. Unfortunately it has 2 fatal flaws .... First you can't side swap as a group and could very well find yourself fighting the very buddy you were winging with 10 minutes earlier and secondly once you depart the auto change poney ride I hope you like the country you are on because the lock still kicks in and you are stuck for 6 hours.

Wow.... so many more friends on all sides. Not limiting your friends to just one side is a good thing in my book. Calling that person a loser is a bit much.

I use and don't use it.  Like mentioned before sometimes you need to make a chosen country change to find the fight.

I've also found that sometimes when you switch to fight the horde,  they don't like getting shot down.  They then switch targets to avoid the resistance.

Very few are here for the fight it appears..

I am inclined to agree.

[Oldman731]

Calling that person a loser is a bit much.

To be accurate, he didn't call people like me "friendless losers."  He called us "friendless loosers."  I'm OK with that. Loose is good.  Looser is better.

- oldman

[Animl-AW]

The never ending “can’t find a fight” mantra.

Seems to me my flight, death and kill ratio seems to suggest fights were found.

How can someone have a high kill rate and say they can’t find fights?

I seem to find a fight every time I take off.

Who here has landed without a fight? Do you want them to come to you or do you go to them? Is it because they didn’t get 50 kills in an hour?

IMO, repeat complaint that doesn’t seem to add up, more like complain just to complain and its a go to phrase.

Years ago in AH prime I thought the arenas were over-crowded, more like fishing in a barrel of newbs. Ya could just fly around pulling a trigger and hit something. If one is comparing to that they might be disappointed. Many times I didn’t fly . Hell you could barely get up and have room to grab alt. One of the reasons I faded.

Its not fishing in a barrel anymore, but I find it hard to believe ya can never find fights.

“I fight hordes but can’t find a fight”. <blank stare>

IMO, if your flight ratio is higher than your death or kill ratio you didn’t find enough fights.

How is it I complain about 5-1 hordes, others complain they can’t find a fight?

<drops mic and runs>

[Eagler]

I don't find flying to fights that enjoyable..

Yes I can always find a fight but I don't want to fly two squares to get to it and then be outnumbered as you are the only plane from your chess piece and are now fighting both of the other two chess piece teams..

As some of us don't spend hours a day, we want more instant action...much more than ma usually provides these days..and those of us who actually try to help by using auto assign can tell you it ain't doing what it's supposed to do these days and something new should be tried..

Eagler

[Animl-AW]

I don't find flying to fights that enjoyable..

Yes I can always find a fight but I don't want to fly two squares to get to it and then be outnumbered as you are the only plane from your chess piece and are now fighting both of the other two chess piece teams..

As some of us don't spend hours a day, we want more instant action...much more than ma usually provides these days..and those of us who actually try to help by using auto assign can tell you it ain't doing what it's supposed to do these days and something new should be tried..

Eagler

Well, I fly 1-1.5 sectors to gain alt on my way to a battle. There is a base every sector. So 2 sectors suggest its choice for alt.

Some imply they want it to be arcade, without actually saying it. There is always dweeby WT.

Again, math is absolute. I suggest study your ratios. What players say and what actually is don’t seem to compute, from my POV.

I can see when two countries are fighting each other but not the 3rd ( no I will not enter 2 country debate for the 20k time) but thats not super often when I fly. Is it great? Probably not, but seems some bank on half-truths to make a point.

Ya know where ya really can’t find a fight? DCS. Compared to that this is a hail storm. So what are we comparing it to?

Oldman comes in for 30 min and finds two - three fights.

[Eagler]

Flying to an alt 2 sectors allow creates different issues...

See Skyyr how that advantage is properly used..

Yes if you switch countries liberally you should be able to find a fight...decent fight might be a different story..but auto assign ain't doing that these days if it ever did..

I and others are in for the fight..you call it arcade lol

Enjoy your 2 sectors flight to die in about 2 minutes after you finally arrive at the fight...

Eagler

[Randy1]

Since auto swap was initiated, the number of players seem to be on a slow, but still ever increasing decline.   

[Animl-AW]

Flying to an alt 2 sectors allow creates different issues...

See Skyyr how that advantage is properly used..

Yes if you switch countries liberally you should be able to find a fight...decent fight might be a different story..but auto assign ain't doing that these days if it ever did..

I and others are in for the fight..you call it arcade lol

Enjoy your 2 sectors flight to die in about 2 minutes after you finally arrive at the fight...

Eagler

Since when is that new? I’ve been doing that since my first days in AW (35 yrs ago) Flying 1-2 sectors fir alt and speed. YKW didn’t invent that, that's my whole style. Ya fly high and slope fir E into a fight. That is preferred flying. Thats how you go in with an edge.

Arcade would be air-spawn.

[Animl-AW]

Since auto swap was initiated, the number of players seem to be on a slow, but still ever increasing decline.

I don’t think there us any one single blanket answer. Someone else says Dar, another ENY, and there’s perks. But each one will claim its THE problem.

>IMO< its lack of promoting and numbers. Numbers is the center point to most setting complaints. You need to be above 120. These issues start diminishing. I know we can up numbers, we went from 112 to 180-200 in 2-3 months during MotA…..when most were trying to promote, and it worked. But then they stopped and the decline happened. It cannot stop.

Ya know what happens if we don’t promote a concert of a know artist? No one comes. Promoting can never stop. Pepsi still advertises.

Numbers are the reason everyone gives why a setting must change.

Some may say I was obsessed, I wasn’t. I know whats required to sell a concert

We sold MotA well.

[The Fugitive]

Since auto swap was initiated, the number of players seem to be on a slow, but still ever increasing decline.

The game has been on a slow and steady decline for more than 10 years. It has nothing to do with "auto country swap", but to do with hiding in the corner of the room of many great games. The game needs updates and with those updates you would see more action on the HTC webpage announcing them which in turn spreads to other pages as people start to talk about them. This helps keep the name "Aces High" popping up here and there in connection with flight sims/combat games which adds into the google algorithms.

At this point very few hear about this game, so very few find, let alone try this game.