I understand how ENY works and stuff from reading about it ad nauseam. But what the hell do the letters ENY stand for?
I guess it rarely affects the FM2 and Brewster as I've never noticed it in action.
Sounds like tower lurkers have an effect on it. About a month ago I logged on at 22:00 PAC time only to see 11 people in the main arena. I figured there'd be a couple skirmishes I could make myself a target for but nope, nothing. The text buffer was blank and not a sole was in the air as far as I could tell. There was a person who frequently posts here in the arena and I hailed him a bunch of times in hopes he'd want to shoot me down and whatnot. He never replied and the text buffer remained silent. The only action was Dale's voice telling me my base was under attack. It wasn't.
As far as I can tell, based on that night, people forget to log off and they become tower lurkers.
I've seen other nights close to that. I saw a couple of nights where Yarbles was the only one in the air. I hailed him but he'd perhaps fallen asleep or didn't monitor 200.
I need to move east in order to be able to participate more during prime time.