If this thread is about anything it is about numbers being imbalanced and the reason that is so. And the main reason seems to be squads jumping ship when things aren't going so well. It is these "fair weathered" chickenchits that cause the numbers and therefore AH's main arena to fluctuate.
Cap the number of times a squad can move in a 3 month period to ONE and you will see more balance in the arena. Hell, you have people predicting resets trying to switch sides 12 hours before to get in on the points. Ban those bastards from jumping ship 15 times a month and you will see more balance.
Of all the numbers whining I've done
, I've never whined about 'gang-bang' itself. Numbers imbalance is something like the situations Rooks faced when numbers were like 160:160:100 few months back.
67:67:41 is not a 'distinct' disadvantage, especially when overall MA numbers are under 200 people. You guys were outnumbered where total of your men were about two-thirds of the each other countries'. The '1/3rd' shortage is about 26 people.
Now, if the case was something like 160:160:120(typical Rook situation for last few months
), it is the same disadvantge of 2/3rd of the numbers of each country, but in this case the same '1/3rd shortage' translates to woppin' 40 people.
In other words, the numbers itself in the case you mentioned is not a distinct imbalance. Rather it is a gang-bang situation that probably made it very hard on you guys. If there is anything that really 'fluctuates', it is the gang-bang situations.
Gang-bangs happen when either there is no other choice in the strat, or a certain country has so many fields that it becomes a 'common enemy' to both other countries. Of the two reasons, the first one is more common. The maps we play in MA are in truth not very fair balance. At certain points on the map, the front becomes stagnant, making it hard for two countries to fight in that front. In this case a the players flock over to other fronts and thus a gang-bang occurs. For instance, 9 times out of 10, the South-Eastern Islands are prone to gangbang in NDIsles. In the case of Baltic, the Southern country. In Mindanao the southern mainland gets gang-banged, while the West is almost impenetrable... and etc etc.
Trust me on this, we 'strat-potatos' think about these stuff everyday
