Poll: ideal arena balance

[MrRiplEy[H]]

AKAK I've stated several times that the odds are practically never in rooks favour on our timezone. Last night I played untill 3 AM and rooks finally reached 90% of bishop numbers after having 50% of their numbers for at least 8 hours or more.

The funniest thing is that my suggestions would stop any side from becoming the underdog. There would no longer be a constant 'hole' where one country has to be. That would benefit the community as a whole, not just a single country.

Just don't talk about something you don't know anything about please.

[Boozer]

It's pretty obvious from watching the arena that most AH flyers prefer local 3:1 or 4:1 odds favors

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Exactly boozer.. Everyone wants to have 3:1 advantage, now we only need to find the players who want to be banged 3:1 constantly. AI drones?

[edited for Toads convenience - euro zone]Bishops have already agreed to AI opponents judging from the amount of empty bases they capture daily.

[lazs2]

rude... sometimes when a person gets really old they fear change.  Not sure if there is any help for that.
lazs

[AKIron]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Just don't talk about something you don't know anything about please.

Sure hasn't stopped you Ripley.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by Boozer
It's pretty obvious from watching the arena that most AH flyers prefer local 3:1 or 4:1 odds favors

I don't think preference necessarily has much to do with it. When a lone enemy wanders near a group they are going to attack it. The group of individuals may or may not be flying together. They may all simply be going to the fight by the most expedient route and happened to up at the same time.

Now, what do you think they should do? Select one to challenge the enemy? Hell, they all want the kill and aren't too concerned about providing a fair fight. That's never gonna change and happens on all sides.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Poor AKiron is totally clueless..

Like we're talking about individual groups of players on the arena hitting lone enemies..

Sure hasn't stopped you Ripley.

Please tell me what makes you think I don't know the situation during the hours I play on the arena? And what is the method by which You know it better than me.

[AKDejaVu]

The only real way to achieve balance in the MA is accomplished by having everybody log off.  Any other way and there's just too many variables.

Most get that.  One doesn't.

AKDejaVu

[PrillerJ]

I always flyes for my team (rooks) no matter the ods... though 120 vs 34 with no Dar, is kinda boring.. but I always fight too the end. And if more people likes the Bish (well thats their problem.... not mine .

"They where young, and brave... but they where very few" Rook figthing spirit

P.s I am always a suporter of the underdogs, but I have nothing against people who fly for the side with the most numbers... (I dont understand their "Honour Code" or the challenge (more lack of challenge)... but it is not my plase too judge others, so *S* all AH'ers) .... (excepte the 2 cheating bastards bish,,whoms name I shall not mention.)

[MrRiplEy[H]]

The only real way to achieve balance in the MA is accomplished by having everybody log off. Any other way and there's just too many variables.

You people don't seem to grasp the idea of balance.. LOL. Can you really be that retarded? Most of you keep shooting comments like people would be forced to switch sides every 10 minutes in order to achieve a perfect balance on the arena while I'm talking about preventing a huge mismatch in player numbers.

If the other side constantly has 200 players and the other 100, it's no longer a variation but a flaw in the design.

Let's see anyway, today's player numbers were quite promising with all countries more or less. Maybe the long-last imbalance finally ended.

[AKDejaVu]

LOL! You go ripley.  You remind me of a Monty Python skit where John Cleese ends up marching all by himself.

AKDejaVu

[SOB]

I thought this was supposed to be a poll, and that you were done whining on and on and on and on and on and on and... about this.


SOB

[Fatty]

You may want to rethink your social comparison.  A larger share is not a monopolistic share, to step in at that stage would indeed be a state run economy.

[Packy]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Since there seem to be as many opinnions about this issue as there are players, a poll would be in order.

So, give us your opinnion about the perfect gameplay balance.
In your opinnion on general fun factor, which is the best;

a) Flying as underdog with 2-3 enemies for each friendly?
b) Flying as underdog with 1.2-1.5 enemies per friendly?
c) Flying on fair terms 1:1


Thanks for replying.

the poll needs more choices to make it more inclusive of player habits/wishes/desires ...
so i must choose d) all of the above
followed by e) none of the above

side note: I was in the MA last night and for about 2 hours (10pm-12am PST) the rooks (~95) and the knights (~85) were only attacking the bishops (~80).  Is this merely a serendipitous (sp.) event or was this by design of the rooks and knights?  Can anyone tell me if this happens often (i.e.  do countries make alliances with other countries in the MA or, like sharks detecting blood, do countries gang up on weaker country?)

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Fatty when a side grows larger than the both other countries together it can be seen as monopoly.

SOB yes it seems that nobody attended the poll with a couple first replies sabotaging it. Or then as I thought, the poll shows that nobody really want's to fly at a disadvantage on regular basis. Therefore there can't be people flying at a constant advantage either or the system doesn't work.

BUT...

As I said today the arena has been balanced. There seems to be a chance that situation HAS changed.. I really hope so.