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Title: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: rod367th on January 26, 2009, 07:15:39 AM: Now it seems 1 arena for players 1 arena for milking. 2 bish squads go in empty arena earl morning milk away bases 22 players to 6 total other two teams combine, 2nd arena shouldn't open untill first gets 150 players then open 2nd arena. i'm sure it could be default setting then when main hits 150 another arena opens and cut off 100 in 1st arena to build them both up. Just my 3 cents worth.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Tr0jan on January 26, 2009, 08:34:00 AM: Quote from: rod367th on January 26, 2009, 07:15:39 AM
Now it seems 1 arena for players 1 arena for milking. 2 bish squads go in empty arena earl morning milk away bases 22 players to 6 total other two teams combine, 2nd arena shouldn't open untill first gets 150 players then open 2nd arena. i'm sure it could be default setting then when main hits 150 another arena opens and cut off 100 in 1st arena to build them both up. Just my 3 cents worth.

INtresting WhINne
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Xasthur on January 26, 2009, 09:00:12 AM: I have to say that I have said this before and I still wish I would see this happen.

It's so frustrating to log on and see 83 on in Blue and 26 on in Orange. 83 sucks for fights. If you're very lucky you might find a 3 enemy-con fight. That sucks.

The extra 26 players makes such a huge difference to gameplay..... If you break it down it only adds up to about 4 or 5 extra players per side, per front but that can make all the difference between an undefended base and utter waste of time and a dramatic and tense fight on the ground and in the air.

:pray
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Shuffler on January 26, 2009, 09:17:45 AM: Switch to low number team.... generally does not take long to find a fight.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Fugita on January 26, 2009, 10:44:58 AM: You should have just resuscitated this thread http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,255564.0.html
or one of the many hundreds before it. IN the end they ususally wind up with the same fate. Could have started another page on that one. :aok
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: rod367th on January 26, 2009, 11:16:21 AM: Quote from: Shuffler on January 26, 2009, 09:17:45 AM
Switch to low number team.... generally does not take long to find a fight.

shuffler was only 1 of 2 rooks but yu defend 1 base they all run to another with such big maps. they don't fight or defend just milk. no reason to have 2 arena up same time 60 in 1 even sides and 20 bishops 2 rooks 4 nits in other bish just milking. makes sense to have only 1 arena open till 1st gets 100 to 1`50 players.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: 999000 on January 26, 2009, 07:05:17 PM: Makes sence ..can't do it!
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Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Shuffler on January 26, 2009, 07:08:11 PM: Quote from: rod367th on January 26, 2009, 11:16:21 AM
shuffler was only 1 of 2 rooks but yu defend 1 base they all run to another with such big maps. they don't fight or defend just milk. no reason to have 2 arena up same time 60 in 1 even sides and 20 bishops 2 rooks 4 nits in other bish just milking. makes sense to have only 1 arena open till 1st gets 100 to 1`50 players.

Can't argue against that point. I've seen an attack happening and went to defend. The folks get shot down and go to other side of map where no one will interrupt their milk runs.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: splitatom on January 26, 2009, 07:12:19 PM: i would say one until the number 250 is reached
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Vulcan on January 26, 2009, 08:27:21 PM: How about make it no scoring until the arena reaches a certain number of players (say 50). Or make score a function (percentage of total players online). For example if Arena A has 150 players, and Arena B has 50 players, then you score 75% in Arena B, and 25% in Arena A. So the milkrunners would have to do 4x as much work. As the numbers balanced the score ratio would be 50%/50% in each arena.

It'd be very hard for HTC to have arena's opening and closing.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Chalenge on January 26, 2009, 08:57:22 PM: With the numbers Rod is talking about I would not be worried about the numbers because they have to have an ENY and since a rook would not at that point Im sure his super UFO talents could make quick work of defense. A few encounters like that and they will be attacking knights and not rooks and you can go back to the 1:1 furball or whatever you usually do.

Changing the host setups isnt going to change anything.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Xasthur on January 26, 2009, 11:52:34 PM: Quote from: Shuffler on January 26, 2009, 09:17:45 AM
Switch to low number team.... generally does not take long to find a fight.

When the numbers are that low typically the countries are fairly evenly spread with players.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: A8TOOL on January 27, 2009, 12:41:26 AM: Blah blah blah

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I agree but your not yelling loud enough for corporate to hear you. Scream louder!!!!!!!
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: AWwrgwy on January 27, 2009, 04:15:22 AM: On the one hand we have the "I can't get into the arena I want" people and now we have the "there's not enough people in the arena to stop the milk-running land-grabbers."

Call some of the "win the war" guys from the other arena and make a game of grabbing each other's undefended bases.

Basically you're asking for arena caps at all times as there are no caps before Noon central time. I think the logic being that everyone would go to one arena, not too amny on between 12 midnight and 12 noon, you do not need the caps.

wrongway
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: RTHolmes on January 27, 2009, 05:06:09 AM: Quote from: AWwrgwy on January 27, 2009, 04:15:22 AM
there are no caps before Noon central time.

err yeah there are - in fact the min cap is 100 instead of 400, so even worse :(

there should certainly be no base taking enabled with less than 100 players.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: RTHolmes on January 27, 2009, 05:11:13 AM: Quote from: Xasthur on January 26, 2009, 09:00:12 AM
It's so frustrating to log on and see 83 on in Blue and 26 on in Orange. 83 sucks for fights. If you're very lucky you might find a 3 enemy-con fight. That sucks.

The extra 26 players makes such a huge difference to gameplay..... If you break it down it only adds up to about 4 or 5 extra players per side, per front but that can make all the difference between an undefended base and utter waste of time and a dramatic and tense fight on the ground and in the air.

very true, just as there are max numbers for a good fight (ie restrict hording) there is also a min number or critical mass for a fight in a 3-way arena...
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Hap on January 27, 2009, 06:22:44 AM: Quote from: Tr0jan on January 26, 2009, 08:34:00 AM

INtresting WhINne

Bah! Purile "lookey me!" piffle.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: rod367th on January 27, 2009, 06:56:53 AM: Its simple there is no capping arena there is no need on week days for 2arenas before 1 to 2 pm eastern. All u have is 2 bishop squads milking bases u put up defence they go away. they want to milk You up to kill they whine and move to another base or side. change over to other side and they go back to hitting rooks. keep arna closed when not needed and these 2 squads (plus a few others ) will have to learn to take defended bases which will make for fun fights. right now its 20 nits 28 rooks and 33 bishops main arena. in other arena its 15 bishops 2 rooks 1 nit. Too me its fun to try stop them had 17 kills before they decided to take out fh bhs ord. /sad that 10 guys had to resort to killing fh bh ord against 1 lone defender.

enemy is just 13 that means they can bomber hangers with lancs and ord and its hard to stop bomber s weak fighter while your trying to kill m3s and gvs at town. but that is what they want no defense just milk.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: whels on January 27, 2009, 11:40:14 AM: Rod,

I hate the 1pm cap switch. LWs go from 400 cap to 100 cap, and if u have to log out, or booted out, your
stuck for 2 to 3 hours of less then 50 in other LW. The LW cap change shouldn't happen till evening time.
Just too few on till around 4 or 5 pm eastern. Cap change happens @ 1pm when usually only 150 to 200 on
total in LWs.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: whels on January 27, 2009, 11:44:44 AM: The other real problem with what Rod describes, with 1 side having 15 to 20, others less then 5 is that
they will ruin a map before people get to play it. You log in and the over night/morning milk tards have captured
most the bases where its almost reset, or 1 side is down to a couple 4 bases , not too fun to start in the hole
that bad.

maybe disable base capture when less than 50 or 75 in LW arenas.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: Shuffler on January 27, 2009, 11:45:06 AM: It's too hot in here.
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: SEraider on January 27, 2009, 11:47:43 AM: Problem is, how are you going to merge the 2 arenas?
Title: Re: SHOULD ONLY BE 1 MAIN ARENA UP UNTILL 150 PLAYERS ON
Post by: BaldEagl on January 27, 2009, 12:00:45 PM: Hmmm... let me guess what squad(s) they might be... hmmm.

Now they truely have bragging rights... "We get all our captures in the LWA's." :rolleyes: