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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Laurie on April 16, 2007, 06:45:09 AM
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now numbers have ratcheted up to 900+ peak time, maybe it's tim we got some of the larger maps back, not neccesarily the very biggest ones, but just a few more thrown into the mix, the samller maps are starting to get bogged down due to over- crowding, but please don't bring them back wit the annoying blue line thing, just keep the same structure as used currently. i do miss those big old mammoth maps like donut,
any thoughts?:aok
would be cool to hear from someone from HTC on this issue
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I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
No offense but that's a stupid idea.
I would like to see donut back.
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
Rank and score is a rather poor if not outright illusionary method of saying who the "top Notch" pilots are as some of the true top notch pilots often have their rank in the thousands
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
Top score doesn't necessarily translate into "top notch pilot"...
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YEah got to give the thumbs down on that idea.
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
By the way, congrats on the completely lame thread hijack.
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
That idea has been presented before. It also has been shot down before.
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Originally posted by scottydawg
No offense but that's a stupid idea.
:rofl
While your at it through in an entire TT arena. 900 players on line 500 in TT.
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Originally posted by 5PointOh
:rofl
While your at it through in an entire TT arena. 900 players on line 500 in TT.
I'd peg that more as a map problem than a player problem.
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
Good idea except I would change one word.
Instead of "Elite War Arena"
Lets call it the "Ego War Arena"
I would log in just to listen to the channel 200 whines.
But then again, I wouldn't be able to because my ranking sux. :D
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Thats what the MA's are like on the weekends. Little skill involved. Almost a 100% crapshoot.
When you pack that many into such small maps balanced front lines would be 100 vs 100. We now usually have only 3-4 bases along the front lines so, conservatively and if balanced, each fight should be 25 vs 25. Now, go fly into a 25 vs 25 and see if you can use your skills. Probably for a few minutes. Even if you're the best in the game at SA and ACM some lucky soul is going to get a shot on you. If you're lucky you can get out and land once in a while.
Some will say... others have good scores... I can only surmise that they don't fly on weekends, they cherry-pick, they vulch or they remain in the safety of their hoards.
This has become much more like an arcade shoot-em-up game than an air combat game.
Just my 2c and no, I'm not going anywhere.
[EDIT] There used to sometimes be only 400-500 in the big maps when there was only 1 MA.
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Originally posted by BaldEagl
Some will say... others have good scores... I can only surmise that they don't fly on weekends, they cherry-pick, they vulch or they remain in the safety of their hoards.
BINGO!!
Give that man a Cigar!
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
come back down to earth and dismount your skyhigh ego horse please
and dont hijack the thread ;)
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
I think that's a great idea.
Gets the pointmongers out of the way so the rest of us can have some good fights.
- oldman
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perhaps a 3 arena system that places you according to rank? for instance arena A is ranks 1 thru 100 arena B 101 thru 200 etc.
although i dont know what you would accomplish with this. if you wanna exclude people just go open a H2H game and boot everyone but the people you want in.
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Hmm...how would you be able to fly with all your squaddies then? I'm sure not everyone in the squad has the same rank.
And yes, I would definitely like to see the larger maps back. The Uterus map and the Islands map are just starting to frustrate me.
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Originally posted by uptown
I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small.
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Um, since a number of those "elite" players got those scores by milk-runs in the underpopulated and generally unpopular EW and MW arenas, why would they come to an arena were dey could git kilt?
BACK TO TOPIC.
Just take one of the current LW arena, bump up the CAP to a high number (like EW and MW seem to always have maybe), and re-enter medium and large maps into the rotation for that arena. I'm willing to bet that such an arena will gather the most online players all the time.
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Another idea to overcome the over-crowding would be to open another LW arena but call it EW (Pink). No one would go there except the few who knew what it really was.
Seriously, it's time for the return of the big maps.
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ok, ok, crawling away with tail between legs now
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Weekends seem to need large maps now, gets pretty crowded at times.
As for the rank/score gives you access to an 'elite' arena - LOL, rank/score means absolutely diddly poop.
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New maps, of any size, would be nice. The current rotation is really getting monotonous.
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Originally posted by republic
New maps, of any size, would be nice. The current rotation is really getting monotonous.
And pretty bad... smpizza and that other one have just ridiculous elevations and terrains.
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Originally posted by BaldEagl
Thats what the MA's are like on the weekends. Little skill involved. Almost a 100% crapshoot.
When you pack that many into such small maps balanced front lines would be 100 vs 100. We now usually have only 3-4 bases along the front lines so, conservatively and if balanced, each fight should be 25 vs 25. Now, go fly into a 25 vs 25 and see if you can use your skills. Probably for a few minutes. Even if you're the best in the game at SA and ACM some lucky soul is going to get a shot on you. If you're lucky you can get out and land once in a while.
Some will say... others have good scores... I can only surmise that they don't fly on weekends, they cherry-pick, they vulch or they remain in the safety of their hoards.
[EDIT] There used to sometimes be only 400-500 in the big maps when there was only 1 MA.
Aww BS. Those big piles of furbals are much more fun for me that a handful of people jousting. It's a ton of fun to have to keep lookiong all around, even as you are lining up to shoot a bad guy, in order to stay alive. It's that much more challenging when you must rely on your SA as much as ACM to get a kill. I died plenty this weekend but I had a blast, even got a couple of kills.
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Originally posted by scottydawg
And pretty bad... smpizza and that other one have just ridiculous elevations and terrains.
The tanktown islands map is my bane. Tank town ends up being 'spawncamp town'. People spawncamp all day to get 40 kills so they can get a "omg wtg!!!1eleven" on 200. The best GV fights I've had, where nowhere near tanktown.
You don't get any good fights on that map until someone inevitably takes all of the tanktown bases.
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I want bigger maps, too. One where I don't have to fly around an 20k mountain. That would be really nice. I seen LW Blue was 95 over full...95 Bigger maps and more people allowed in. Please.:D
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Originally posted by republic
The tanktown islands map is my bane. Tank town ends up being 'spawncamp town'. People spawncamp all day to get 40 kills so they can get a "omg wtg!!!1eleven" on 200. The best GV fights I've had, where nowhere near tanktown.
You don't get any good fights on that map until someone inevitably takes all of the tanktown bases.
Well, you know what they say, it's impossible to please everyone. I wish the terrain editor was more user friendly, I'd definitely dig into it if it was... All those old school DM's out there I'm sure would too.
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Originally posted by scottydawg
Well, you know what they say, it's impossible to please everyone. I wish the terrain editor was more user friendly, I'd definitely dig into it if it was... All those old school DM's out there I'm sure would too.
Tank town is good arcade fun but it is a spawncamper haven.
What I love is to hear people whine about spawncamping when they themselves are just as guilty of the very same offense. Then you hear the ridiculous stuff like: I only spawncamp because they do. or: I only bomb in TT because they do.
I don't know what I find more amusing, the counterwhines or that these same people feel that committing a lame act is OK because someone else did it first. Hmmm... I think the latter is funnier.
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Originally posted by SteveBailey
I don't know what I find more amusing, the counterwhines or that these same people feel that committing a lame act is OK because someone else did it first. Hmmm... I think the latter is funnier.
"But the bish did it first!!!!" I love that kind of excuses too :aok
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I miss the weekly map reset on Wednesdays. I always found myself looking forward to seeing what map would be next, because there were so many more maps in rotation. Now, when there is a pending reset, I just punch my ticket for TT because it's inevitably going to be it.
Donut would be real nice.
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Originally posted by Laurie
now numbers have ratcheted up to 900+ peak time, maybe it's tim we got some of the larger maps back, not neccesarily the very biggest ones, but just a few more thrown into the mix, the samller maps are starting to get bogged down due to over- crowding, but please don't bring them back wit the annoying blue line thing, just keep the same structure as used currently. i do miss those big old mammoth maps like donut,
any thoughts?:aok
would be cool to hear from someone from HTC on this issue
FT!
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I really miss Trinity. That map had a TT also. Not to many planes would fly in there since they had to climb to over 18K just to get in the area. Plus the map was well rounded. There was something for everyone. Enough water for naval battles, enough coastline for landing partys. There was fighter sweeps over TT. The furball over A1. Such a good map. I miss it a lot. :(
-Sp0t
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Yeah, trinity was a decent map too.
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yes.... please... at least 1 or 2 of the medium ones.....
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quote:"I'd like to see a arena where only peeps with a good enough score could get into. With something like this you could get top notch pilots and gvers to battle it out. An "elite war arena" if you will. And the maps could stay small."
I suck, so what?
I like to go everywhere.
If I'm in arena full of aces, who do I kill?
:D
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PS: I killed lusche once.
:O
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I miss Trinity, the big islands map and the one with the long strings of GV bases just in from the coasts.
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why not have a map reset every friday at say 12:00pm HT time, and throw the big maps up in LW for the weekend warriors. This may have been suggested, but I'm too lazy to read stuff.
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Originally posted by lagger86
why not have a map reset every friday at say 12:00pm HT time, and throw the big maps up in LW for the weekend warriors. This may have been suggested, but I'm too lazy to read stuff.
sounds good,
still no HTC response :confused:
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Originally posted by CarlsBee
PS: I killed lusche once.
:O
Even a broken clock is right twice a day ;)