MPA Arena

[nrshida]

Since the servers were recently all reporting Closed, after they opened again the MPA has lost its AI drones. Nothing in flight nor on radar.

[nrshida]

AI drones still absent from MPA.

[JimmyD3]

I'll try to let Hitech know the next time we talk, sir. 

[nrshida]

I'll try to let Hitech know the next time we talk, sir. 

Thank you Jimmy! Does he not read the forums presently?

[icepac]

It’s possible hitech replaced one fiber with two in anticipation of having the arenas and bbs on separate lines?

[JimmyD3]

Thank you Jimmy! Does he not read the forums presently?

He gets on rather in frequently I suspect. He does work the Skins once a month.

[nrshida]

Perhaps someone would be kind enough to notify here when the MPA has been reset. Thanks.

[DmonSlyr]

Match play would be a great project to work on. There are many issues. Ive made my own posts about.

https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,407057.msg5390665.html#msg5390665

Here's a list of issues to make this easier.

1. 2v2 and up don't work. Tried to have some 2v2 duels the other day, it would not spawn us.

2. Once you do a 1v1 match, the map gets stuck and you cannot zoom in and out.

3. There is no where to just take off and fight with others. You can go into the area with the drones, but you cannot remove the drones. The Hurri 1s are like freaking Knats.

4. The scoring is stupid. You shoot down 10 planes and maybe Increase 30 points only to die once and lose 40 points. Doesn't make any sense.

5. No more canyon fights or anything like that.


So my point is, Match Play really needs another look at.

Can't we just make it simple?

1. Remove the scoring, it's absolutely pointless.

2. Have a separate area where furballer types can fight without the drones. Keep the air spawn though. All green chess peices if possible to avoid ganged. No bases for landing or vulching.

3. Keep the spawns and 1v1 thing. That's one of the most cool additions that was brought. Need to fix the 2v2 + matches though.

4. Make the drones fly to the planes actual capability and add more types of planes. The Hurris are tiring. This is actually great for practice but the Hurris are probably too tough for most players and again are like Knats.

5. Fix the map bug.

6. Allow players to roll down south where the canyons are so that people can have canyon fights again.


Thanks!

[nrshida]

3. There is no where to just take off and fight with others.

I'd be really happy if Dale would just simply re-open the Furball Lake bases again: A1, A2 & A3. Don't care if you ended up with no more than a dozen decent fights a week. Go ahead and make it a paid arena again and I'd immediately subscribe. Not as if you see an influx of new players coming through the free MPA anyway. Paying to be the squeaky toy of the enormously lopsided Bish-horde in the MA on European daytimes (something like 27-3 last Winter), not so attractive.

[DmonSlyr]

I'd be really happy if Dale would just simply re-open the Furball Lake bases again: A1, A2 & A3. Don't care if you ended up with no more than a dozen decent fights a week. Go ahead and make it a paid arena again and I'd immediately subscribe. Not as if you see an influx of new players coming through the free MPA anyway. Paying to be the squeaky toy of the enormously lopsided Bish-horde in the MA on European daytimes (something like 27-3 last Winter), not so attractive.

Sadly, there has been an open custom dueling arena up quite a bit lately. Have you seen it? No one is ever in there, partially because the host isnt flying, and its very hard to get a regular group in there to keep the #s flowing. The tabs also make it invisible to most since they dont have ALL tab seleted. I also think furball lake is just too big and that map is too big for custom FFA. Id much rather see a KOTH map for furball type arena with air spawns and no teams.  I wasnt an enormous fan of furball lake from a set up perspective, because its too big, but now that we have air spawns it could make it so much better. I enjoy the drones when im bored and no action in the MA, but they are pretty tough with the crazy hurricanes for most players and they just get ganged by AI there 

There should be another area on that map for open furballing in the canyons with online people only, but you cannot do that in the current match play mode.

Oh and that metric scoring system thing is atrocious, need to can that. Should not lose 30 points for dying when you have to kill 6 to get 20 points... its unnecessary and not needed..

[nrshida]

Sadly, there has been an open custom dueling arena up quite a bit lately. Have you seen it? No one is ever in there, partially because the host isnt flying

People don't like unofficial arenas in my experience. You might anticipate it'd take a long time to gather regulars. But if there's fun, they'd come 

[nrshida]

the MPA has lost its AI drones...

Any progress?

[Shane]

People don't like unofficial arenas in my experience. You might anticipate it'd take a long time to gather regulars. But if there's fun, they'd come 

I think that was because the host would mess with settings instead of leaving them MA standard...

I think you might be able to collect a group of euro players to play in a hosted arena at certain times of the week/day akin to the MNM and TNT weekly events. Might take a bit to get some traction, but I think there are enough players to create something free until the bug bites to pay again...

As for the paid MPA, yeah lot of issues, and reverting to the older, non-ai DA/Furball Lake map would be nice.

[nrshida]

I think you might be able to collect a group of euro players to play in a hosted arena at certain times of the week/day akin to the MNM and TNT weekly events. Might take a bit to get some traction, but I think there are enough players to create something free until the bug bites to pay again...

At this stage I was thinking HTC might be able to snag some old players now in retirement, say. The Furball Lake used to have a good crowd of regulars. The Breakfast Club was epic. Many of those players drifted away when their PCs wouldn't run AH3 in the parallel test phase.

As for the paid MPA, yeah lot of issues, and reverting to the older, non-ai DA/Furball Lake map would be nice.

To be fair to what Violator said, it has been a bloody long time ago since that culture existed. 2017 AH3 was introduced? I'm not surprised a player-hosted DA would be empty. Who fights like idiots for fun anymore. Lost concept / Irreversible culture change.

I do weekly miss the Furball Lake. Used to effectively live there 

[nrshida]

Still the A.I. are M.I.A.