ENY again

[hitech]

I'm not going to go around and bad mouth Dale or the game, but I want it known how I feel about the petty attitude and outright dismissal of my concerns.

That's a classic passive-aggressive line: saying you won't bad-mouth me, then calling me petty in the same breath. That is exactly what I meant by disingenuous.

As I've pointed out before, you keep saying the same thing over and over. You don't like ENY. I get it, and I've known it forever. What's new?

Since all you say is the same thing over and over, that's why I said I'm done with you on the subject. So goodbye, and have a good life.

HiTech

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Like I said. The petty attitude. There it is again.

What I meant about not bad-mouthing you or the game is like going all over the place and talking crap about the game and you. Like on my forum or whatever or to other people. I haven't done that I've never done that.

And also like I said I wanted it to be known why I left. Not because I didn't get my way. It's because of your attitude. You did it to Shane as well. When Shane was talking about an issue that he cared a lot about. You told him you were done with him as well. The king! That's what I'm talking about. Your attitude is horrible. Grow up a little bit and maybe just ignore things like this and be the better man. You run a business and a game and you're losing people left and right and then you add on top of that your horrible attitude.

Get a PR person or something. You're brilliant at creating the game. It's a good game and you're very good at what you do far as creating this whole game. You're horrible on the customer front.

Have a good life. Lol.

You should look into the eny and how it affects the game. I don't even play it anymore and I still think you should look into it because it's probably in your best interest to figure out why the game has been consistently going downhill while you keep telling everybody how you know what's best for the game. It really doesn't get borne out by the facts does it?

Eny does not balance the sides. It causes people to log off and it irritates people. The game would run the same without it but you should actually run numbers because you have the ability to do that with a feature like e n y. It's not like radar or something like that that subjective. With e n y you could actually run numbers and statistics to see what happens at various levels of eny in the game and what happens with the side balancing or people logging on or off.

Hope the game works out. Kind of doubt it though.

[Dadtallica]

So the question remains what is ENY’s main purpose indiscriminate of the active population?

Is it to force side, balancing or to simply limit the options for the sides? Those are two different things.

While the balancing of sides could be a byproduct of the ENY and an anticipated feature, that does not automatically make it the function of the formula.

If the population balance is XXXX/YYY/ZZ… then X and Y should be somewhat limited proportionally and ZZ most likely should not. Then it becomes a choice of the variable. If an X or a Y or a Z is OK with whatever choice it’s given it will make do with it and participate. If it doesn’t like it, it will find whatever side it can get what it wants.

ENY, why does not make the choice it simply offers the options proportionally. With that said lower numbers, expose the weakness, and as already offered changes will be tried.

Until somebody actually defines for me it’s actual main function, everything around it is suspect to subjective perception. My view will always be that it is to balance options until otherwise convinced.

Then we can have a real conversation about side switching timers. Six hours might be too much but the preferred one to two hours might be too little somewhere between four and six might be the sweet spot given current numbers, but what if all of a sudden they increase.

Even 20 players a day in primetime would make a big difference so then we will have to start talking about going backwards…

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It's called side balancing. In the game it says side balancing is in effect.

Only it doesn't balance the sides. Absolutely does not balance the sides. You could take it away and the same amount of people would change countries. All it really does is irritate people that have to suffer through it until it goes away after people log off. It's detrimental to the game.

Whenever side balancing comes into effect in the game it remains until people log off. It doesn't magically balance the numbers in game. People put up with it until they wont any more than they log off. The only thing it is for the game is a negative for the people who have to deal with it and don't like it.

At the very least it should have a much lower maximum, because having half of the planes gone from your options is ridiculous.

It may have worked when the numbers were very high but it doesn't work now.

Like Dale said. 15/10/5 is bad for business. But what happens is you get 5/5/5