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Offline CptTrips

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2025, 08:08:09 AM »
yup, 80 vs 20  :rolleyes:

yeah, 35:2 is much better.

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2025, 08:11:36 AM »
Two sided war please...that way there will always be a fight

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2 sides would be the last nail in the coffin.
Although I have faith it would be of great intention for the game. The end result would just be all all flaying to the other side.

There are no lack in fights. The only remedy to numbers is numbers. I cant even say how many times (and I know all 3 sides go through this) there is a cry for help but nobody shows up.
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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2025, 08:19:24 AM »
2 sides would be the last nail in the coffin.
Although I have faith it would be of great intention for the game. The end result would just be all all flaying to the other side.

As opposed to 35:2.

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2025, 08:21:35 AM »
2 sides would be the last nail in the coffin.
Although I have faith it would be of great intention for the game. The end result would just be all all flaying to the other side.

There are no lack in fights. The only remedy to numbers is numbers. I cant even say how many times (and I know all 3 sides go through this) there is a cry for help but nobody shows up.

Its going to be repeated in every MA convo over and over and over.
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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2025, 08:27:13 AM »
3-Sides has NOTHING to do with side-balancing as HT himself stated.  It is an attempt to create more frontage between multiple team.

2-Sides has NOTHING to do with side-balancing.  It is an attempt to make sure if there is only enough critical mass for one furball, that there is only one front so ALL the players in the arena can access it.

Side-balancing, in both cases, is handled by other mechanism.

Side-balancing is a different design problem than 3-sides vs 2-sides.   Don't try and tell me 3-sides is magically self-balancing or else we wouldn't have threads like these.  Over and over and over.




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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2025, 08:56:39 AM »
Nits thought AK rotating to our side would be a huge help, they went almost dormant, but next month well get pummeled again.

Joke, laugh, project ideas that never work,….. right into the abyss. This cannot be sustained.

All the talk about promotions, raising numbers, I/We bust are tulips to bring in a meager 30-40, which we did, and then the same make it the most undesirable place to be and laugh about it.

Thats why I quit going out of my way. Now I just tell them, you cannot win 30-5 give them nothing but beer cans to shoot, make it as painfully boring for them as possible its the only tool you have.

I’ve been helping new/return guys, just to watch them say, “ya F this” and they are gone

The fact this convo has been redundantly repeated with only 2-3 day result and recycle. its not going to change, they just excuse their way around it and go right back at it. Its fubar.

All good people individually, complete jackares as a group.

Now, I beat up rooks a bit, but same ratio on the bish side too. So ya, 70-7 is mind blowing stupid.

We’ll get a change for 2 days and back into the abyss we go snd repeat the convo again.the habits are rooted. MA numbers will fall due to nits fed up. Ya you won alright, ya also lit the trash can on fire, then complain its burning.

We do not have the numbers to overcome this, and the more nits who leave just makes the spiral speed up.

The game is fine, the players have lost their ever loving minds.

I’m not going to use my name to promote that, nope, not doing it

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2025, 11:04:21 AM »
My thoughts while all this was going on was, why on earth are we fighting the Bishops at all, when the Rooks had twice as many fields than Bish. The Knights should have concentrated their forces against the Rooks to beat them back and then deal with the Bishops, in my opinion.

When the Bish have 25 bases and the Rooks have over 50, why worry about the Bishops at that point? The problem I see with the Knights is they lack communication and refuse to fight as group most of the time. And we end up scattering like cats trying to put out fires all over the map.  :salute
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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2025, 11:12:41 AM »
My thoughts while all this was going on was, why on earth are we fighting the Bishops at all, when the Rooks had twice as many fields than Bish. The Knights should have concentrated their forces against the Rooks to beat them back and then deal with the Bishops, in my opinion.

When the Bish have 25 bases and the Rooks have over 50, why worry about the Bishops at that point? The problem I see with the Knights is they lack communication and refuse to fight as group most of the time. And we end up scattering like cats trying to put out fires all over the map.  :salute

Totally agree, as we ( including you and I) did try to spark other battles against rooks to split  their full country horde. By then nits gave up hope and logged. We did try though
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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2025, 11:27:12 AM »
2 sides would be the last nail in the coffin.
Although I have faith it would be of great intention for the game. The end result would just be all all flaying to the other side.

There are no lack in fights. The only remedy to numbers is numbers. I cant even say how many times (and I know all 3 sides go through this) there is a cry for help but nobody shows up.

Eagler just wants to fly a fighter plane for an hour or less a night and not have to travel more than 10 minutes to do so. It’s a pretty subjective viewpoint for a very small minority that speak louder than the rest. Sound at all topical?
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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2025, 11:35:04 AM »
Eagler just wants to fly a fighter plane for an hour or less a night and not have to travel more than 10 minutes to do so. It’s a pretty subjective viewpoint for a very small minority that speak louder than the rest. Sound at all topical?

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2025, 12:18:07 PM »
....or is it just Knights not wanting to fight, and so log off?
We didn’t you and you’re big ol squad swap to fight?  Maybe it’s the 70 that don’t want to fight and not the 5.

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2025, 12:20:05 PM »
Eagler just wants to fly a fighter plane for an hour or less a night and not have to travel more than 10 minutes to do so. It’s a pretty subjective viewpoint for a very small minority that speak louder than the rest. Sound at all topical?
Weird the ones that don’t return seems to be the fighters and the numbers are horrible. Some folks can’t see the forest for the trees. Especially ones at thirty k on two hour milk runs.

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #27 on: October 20, 2025, 12:24:31 PM »
I just don't want to be part of a green horde with zero fight, just pile on to take a basically empty field or have to fly 2 sectors and be the only green plane in a swarm of red from the other two countries...

I do the latter more frequently than I like to as that flying time does cut into my fighting time..but at least you get a fight out of it..

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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2025, 12:25:13 PM »
 Capt Trips is 1000% correct. It not the number of sides. It the quality of play. And some times you have to conform to the situation. Use the game mechanics. Use severe eny on the fronts for large groups. Y’all say if it’s 2 countries the numbers will be bad?  Seems y’all are able to make a whole country log off in prime time. Makes sense.
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Re: Numbers Creeping up
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2025, 12:35:01 PM »

I just don't want to be part of a green horde with zero fight, just pile on to take a basically empty field or have to fly 2 sectors and be the only green plane in a swarm of red from the other two countries...

Eagler
And this is what you get when you will only have a 2 sides.
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