might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?

[The Fugitive]

The thing about "that's the penalty for being on the team with numbers" ....   well, it's not my fault that the numbers drop on one side and I'm suddenly on that "team". I just want to fly and shoot at planes and I don't feel like being penalized for anything like that or coerced into hopping around countries. I couldn't care less about winning a war or taking a base.

I don't agree with the ENY "working as it should" unless the goal is to stop people from flying or making them log off until the ENY goes away. That's what I do. I'm sure I'm not the only one that waits it out. Sure, that gives the balance back - but I don't think it's a great idea. 

What about just having the penally be losing your bellybutton if your country can't maintain numbers? lol. Map gets reset faster and then it starts again. just let it all play out and leave the coercion and manipulations out.

Numbers of maybe a maximum of 100 players at the VERY peak times ( I actually don't remember being 100, always lower) since I've been back and online. I've been playing hours and hours every day, and mostly its around 60 or less players online. I think leave ENY off. I don't like the principle of the idea, but I also just don't think it helps the game experience for anyone.

Leave it off is ideal. If it must be on, don't let it even kick in until total numbers are 200 or more, and then only cap it at 5 ENY planes.

Nobody is stopping anyone from flying, that is your choice, the same goes for logging off. When my squad logs on on Thursday nights we ALWAYS hit ENY. With anywhere from 10-20 guys in the squad showing up we pop ENY all by ourselves. Some nights it doesnt matter, other nights we are dodging 262 all night which kind takes the fun out of it but we adapt and hang out and have some fun.

ENY slows us down faster than and group.

[-gg-]

I also wanted to add that when I'm on the other end of that stick, like when I'm on a country where maybe we only have 10 and the other guys have 27 and 20....

I've never even noticed or had any kind of desire to stop flying or fighting anyone. All I've ever noticed was that hey, I'm getting more perk bonus. I never think oh now I got to get some kind of concessions from these guys. Like 27 players online on one country versus 10 is not some giant horde that makes gaming impossible.

I've never even noticed when I'm on the lowcountry. I wouldn't care if it's just me against 20 people because somewhere on that map I can go somewhere and and fight somebody. But on the other way around, if the eny is preventing me from flying any kind of a decent plane,.... And I suck so bad at any plane, that it doesn't make it fun for me at all try to fight somebody and something that I totally suck at anyway.

[-gg-]

Nobody is stopping anyone from flying, that is your choice, the same goes for logging off. When my squad logs on on Thursday nights we ALWAYS hit ENY. With anywhere from 10-20 guys in the squad showing up we pop ENY all by ourselves. Some nights it doesnt matter, other nights we are dodging 262 all night which kind takes the fun out of it but we adapt and hang out and have some fun.

ENY slows us down faster than and group.

I never mentioned that anybody's forcing anyone to do anything. But it's called coercion. And it's effectively making people think about not playing until that goes back down. And I know for a fact that people do that. They wait in the tower or they will log off until that comes back down. So is that really good for the game?

[-gg-]

Sorry I don't mean to be posting why I'm in the middle of something and I'm on my cell phone talking into it. So I don't need anything making a whole bunch of posts. Should be in one post.

Yeah nobody's forcing anyone to log off. But the Dynamics of the system are in place to coerce people to change their behavior in some way, and on principle I'm always against that. I don't think that penalizing people with the eny with these numbers are so low in the game makes any sense at all. I don't think it made sense anyway. Who cares if there's an occasional hoard somewhere? That never lasts very long anyway. It's not like this giant horde of people is like a gang that's always rolling the maps. The numbers fluctuate all the time it's not like it's somebody doing it on purpose or some giant bellybutton squad coming in and ruining the game for everybody else. Those days are long gone.

[Animl-AW]

What you see now is not how it was not too long ago.

They still happen, just not quite as bad. Rook and Bish full country hordes constantly piling on Knits. I happens to every country, but 70% of the time m, or 3-4 days a week, that’s how it was.

Several times is tolerable, constantly is not.

Lets not conflate forcing people to log and it’s no linger fun to stay logged in.

70-80 vs 27 makes that 27 turn into 18. Thats how bad it can get. You could not fly without being ganged by 5-7. Many times I had/have 7-8 on my 6 for a kill. I find humor in that while they all dump ammo and probably shooting each other, when I watch numbers at primetime drop from 30 to 12 ya start understanding the negative effect on the game numbers.

I’ve many times literally watched 40 vs 5.

There is no forcing, it’s there’s no fun. If there’s no fun, those things I put off for play time, that stuff gets done.

Ya gotta spend a little more time in game to start seeing patterns.

In those cases and you’re the one being hit at 70 vs 30 ENY is suddenly your friend.

ENY has 2 true problems
1) counting tower sitters who have been there from 20 min to hrs.

2) 2 country gamgbangs. The target country has 33, the two gangbanging countries have 25-27, the country getting ganged then also gets punished with ENY on top of it. Yep, expect major log offs in targeted country.

Other than that ENY does as designed, whether people like ENY or not.

It cracks me up, a country of 40 banging a single base of 5, then cry about ENY is hilarious. Thats when I love ENY.

[Mayhem]

ENY

Oh look! it's my favorite Aces High Subject.

((Censored)) ENY!

On a positive note; When Aces High is not running a scenario, ENY gives me $15 to buy a really good cigar for my monthly Masonic Cigar Night at my local lodge.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1376851441146282&set=a.459331212898314

[Animl-AW]

Some games have enough action to maybe need it.

Ha!, You also only get to smoke it once, 1-2 hrs of one day. Of course, ya also run up a bar tab to do it, that would cover another 3 months. Watch out for those sobriety stops.

Subject will repeat in two weeks

[Mayhem]

Ha!, You also only get to smoke it once, 1-2 hrs of one day.

Spending about 4 hours with my Fellow Brother Masons smoking a $15 Perdomo Maduro or La Flor Dominicana is more than worth it. We bring our own booze and share. Some one always brings food.

This is a Freemason lodge not your local pub or gentleman's club.

A few brothers are local police officers and they make sure every one gets home safe.

It's just as much fun as FSO and there is no Rage Quite in the MA due to ENY afterwords.

Edit: We are getting a little off topic, this is about Gina coming back to play. I just saw some one make a comment about the ENY BS and I couldn't resist taking a pop shot at it.

[Animl-AW]

Spending about 4 hours with my Fellow Brother Masons smoking a $15 Perdomo Maduro or La Flor Dominicana is more than worth it. We bring our own booze and share. Some one always brings food.

This is a Freemason lodge not your local pub or gentleman's club.

A few brothers are local police officers and they make sure every one gets home safe.

It's just as much fun as FSO and there is no Rage Quite in the MA due to ENY afterwords.

Edit: We are getting a little off topic, this is about Gina coming back to play. I just saw some one make a comment about the ENY BS and I couldn't resist taking a pop shot at it.

Ya when I used to drink in bars, like A LOT, local police would escort me home, beep when I pull in drive, and drive on.

Gina is still a newish return, she'll get used to the 20,000 time repeat subjects. ENY, Perked planes, 2 countries, all endless repeats. Just bring up one, you'll be talking about all.

Glad to have her back, she good company in game. Watched her handle 3-1 quite well a few times.

[Mayhem]

Lets just say ENY touched me inappropriately, and lets just leave it at that. 

[RELIC]

Lets just say ENY touched me inappropriately, and lets just leave it at that. 

Can you show us on this doll where ENY touched you?

[Mayhem]

Can you show us on this doll where ENY touched you?

Lets just say I think ENY celebrates International women's day DeadPool style with no lube.

Every Night in the MA about a half an hour to an hour after FSO ENY would SCREW ME which leads to me rage quitting.

I'm never going back to the MA until ENY is fixed or done away with.

Sadly after Nef left and the 412th closed shop FSO has been "Meh" at best (for me anyway.)

The only thing left for me is Scenarios and the F2P arena's and I have a Blown Shoulder (Torn Rotator Cuff and labral tear)

[Animl-AW]

In general,...
I'm not sticking up for any setting design, ENY nor Icon Dar (they seemed to be the most obsessed about).
I can do with or without either.

But, I don't think I'll ever understand why some players allow such small beans to get to them so deep.

Just speaking in tongue and cheek terms,..it's kinda like a form of OCD.
A cycle of unwanted, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) performed to reduce the anxiety caused by those thoughts.
Not meant as an insult.

It's like if everything isn't exactly perfect to their liking they boil and no compromise.

Some barely notice ENY or Icon Dar, better yet as a deal breaker.

The MA will never be perfect for everyone. Where is the honey spot that appeals to all?
No different in Live Sound, to please every single person in the audience with perfect sound. It cannot be done. Perfection does not exist.

No TV show or movie is perfect and pleases everyone.
No Scenario pleases everyone
No FSO pleases everyone.
The MA will never please everyone.

So, do I want to compromise on what is vs what I want to play the sim?

Here, nor in AW was the Main arena designed to be 100% realistic. Scenarios/FSOs are.
If you want realism play the events, again not every one will be perfect.

I'm in both for the dogfights. I'm in the air looking for a reason to fight. I'm not consumed with some ENY or Dar setting that it ruins my time. When I am in a fight, nothing else matters.

Players should expand beyond nothing but uber planes anyway. However that looks good on paper and human nature always succeeds.

Point being, relax.

As in a earlier reply. If AH was gone, would you tolerate your dislikes just to get it back? Because there's not another one like it. Game play in others seems to be Meh!. Even with it's quirks it's still better here for actual action without it being AI.

It just doesn't affect if I play or not. I'm weird like that.

[-gg-]

So an update.

Since I've rejoined ( May 8th, 2026) , I've been on for hours every single day - lots of hours.

I'm on knits because that's where I was defaulted to.

Started flying around and going where the fights were. Talking on vox and fighting with the same people and making friends. LCA Raiders asked offered to have me in the squad and I joined. These guys are great. I feel like they're old friends already.

So it's been a fun time and I'm glad I rejoined AH.

[Mak333]

You all are making me want re-up too after like a decade lol. 

Hmm...