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Title: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 01, 2009, 12:24:13 PM
Logged on hoping to get a few flights in

Saw this 
Players 350 /Max 100

Other arena nothing even remotely interesting going on

Players 75. Max 150

I logged off

C'mon man, 350/100???

Should never reach that kind of ratio.

Suggest using the Titanic Tuesday type arena on weekends as well.

Orr find a way that there isnt that kind of ratio.
I can understand being over by 50 or 100
But 250 over?

Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: Bronk on February 01, 2009, 12:25:48 PM
Get on before noon cst .
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 01, 2009, 12:51:39 PM
LOL I usually dont schedule what time Im going to be able to play. I play when I can.


Suggestion to HTC
Set the initial limit on the arenas to 400 and dont have balancing kick in until that number is reached.
Then until that number is reached in either arena,players can choose whether or not to be in the arena with more numbers, or the one with less.
Once an arena reaches 400. then lock it down until the other arena comes to within say 100.
Then bump the limit on each arena accordingly.
Personally I think 400 is the perfect number. At that number you will rarely see overflow problems.

But IMO 350/100 is jussst a bit on the ridiculous side.
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: Fulmar on February 01, 2009, 01:01:15 PM
Whew, I thought we were done discussing arena limits.  I got worried it might end!
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: GREric on February 01, 2009, 01:07:42 PM
lol, maybe I should donate some of my servers to them. Im only using 8 of my 15 for my MMO. Maybe if i dontate i should get to play for free.  :pray
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: The Fugitive on February 01, 2009, 01:52:03 PM
most likely someone won the war in the other arena giving the big number difference. Would have settled down pretty quick. Easiest solution, turn off the "win the war" on weekends   :D
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: AWwrgwy on February 01, 2009, 02:09:29 PM
How do you know nothing was going on in the other arena?  Maybe start something?  More than likely it is the "no limits before noon" thing and after noon it throws things off for a short time.

2pm central:  283/300 and 177/350

I think you were just a bit early or a bit late.  Bad timing on your part.

And

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wrongway
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: SlapShot on February 01, 2009, 02:28:10 PM
lol, maybe I should donate some of my servers to them. Im only using 8 of my 15 for my MMO. Maybe if i dontate i should get to play for free.  :pray

It has absolutely nothing to do with the amount and/or power of the HTC servers.
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: SlapShot on February 01, 2009, 02:29:58 PM
Whew, I thought we were done discussing arena limits.  I got worried it might end!

 :rofl
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 01, 2009, 02:37:09 PM
How do you know nothing was going on in the other arena? 

And

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wrongway

Probably because I was there.
Didnt have the time to start anything.
Actually I was doing stuff around the house and was only planning on running a couple bomber missions. Figured I'd take off, go do stuff around the house and listen to the speakers or check back every now and again to see if anything was going on.
Yea I coulda done that in the smaller arena. But a darbar of bombers woud have been just a bit more noticable then what I wanted to be.
OR it would have been a milkrun.
Neither is what I was looking to do.

As for the beating a dead horse.
Since when is that out of style around here? LOL.
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 01, 2009, 02:43:44 PM
Whew, I thought we were done discussing arena limits.  I got worried it might end!
LOL In case you havent noticed. I dont spend alot of time in this forum.

And Im not looking to end arena limits. Just improve on how its set up now.
First choice would be to end the limits. But I understand that for whatever reason HTC has a good reason for having them.
Im just suggesting a way to get the most people where they want to be,when they want to b there. Which is typically where the crowd is.

A 100 player max is a bit on the small side doncha think?
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: Nilsen on February 01, 2009, 02:44:22 PM
Some dead horses deserves to get beaten!

Bad horse BAD!! *whack* :furious
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: Shuffler on February 01, 2009, 03:03:54 PM

Suggest using the Titanic Tuesday type arena on weekends as well.


Titanic is for you...... persoanlly I think it is the worst day to fly.
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: Lusche on February 01, 2009, 03:35:39 PM

A 100 player max is a bit on the small side doncha think?


No. Because it doesn't stay at 100 for very long.

What you have experienced was the switch from "no caps" to caps. This happens at the time when there is the biggest grow rate of player numbers. This ensures that the second arena will fill up most quickly, and that will push the Orange arenas cap up from 100 again. It's made that way so both LW MA's get some balanced numbers in the quickest way possible.  
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: whels on February 01, 2009, 05:05:08 PM
No. Because it doesn't stay at 100 for very long.

What you have experienced was the switch from "no caps" to caps. This happens at the time when there is the biggest grow rate of player numbers. This ensures that the second arena will fill up most quickly, and that will push the Orange arenas cap up from 100 again. It's made that way so both LW MA's get some balanced numbers in the quickest way possible.  

dont know what dream world ur flying in Lusche, but at cap switch 1 pm eastern. It usually takes 2 to 3 hours for the new arena to get
a playable # of people in it, and then its a crap shoot to if the few who where there before havent milk ran the bases to
nothing worth going in to play on.

alot of people dont have 2 to 3 hours to wait to get good fights, when  a min ago they had a 150+ pilot arena  to play in.
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: Lusche on February 01, 2009, 05:18:18 PM
dont know what dream world ur flying in Lusche, but at cap switch 1 pm eastern.

In my dream world, this is my prime flying time, around 8PM. Most of the time I have to fly in LWB. And yes, it often sucks and is far from being perfect. But I have to say it had been worse before, when LWO cap reduction happened at a different time and wasn't as drastic - back then LWB took much longer to get up to any playable numbers.
I have no better solution for this problem but removal of arena caps at all - which won't happen at all as we all know.
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: The Fugitive on February 01, 2009, 10:11:21 PM
I'd like to see HT change the order the arenas appear on the notepad. Just for a month switch blue and orange, and see what happens.
Will "org" still be the "popular" arena? Will Blue be in vogue  ? Will anyone even notice?   :devil
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 01, 2009, 10:16:22 PM
I'd like to see HT change the order the arenas appear on the notepad. Just for a month switch blue and orange, and see what happens.
Will "org" still be the "popular" arena? Will Blue be in vogue  ? Will anyone even notice?   :devil

LMAO!!

I like it

hehe
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: DMBEAR on February 01, 2009, 11:02:10 PM
I would suggest a time limit between upping a plane/gv until you are kicked out of an arena.  I'm guilty of leaving my computer while logged on just so that I don't get locked out at certain times.  If it is important to keep the #'s at a certain level, then those #'s should be based on people that are actively playing.

Of course I haven't created a flight sim myself, and I don't know why I even post in here with suggestions.  :uhoh
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: AWwrgwy on February 01, 2009, 11:06:29 PM
I'd like to see HT change the order the arenas appear on the notepad. Just for a month switch blue and orange, and see what happens.
Will "org" still be the "popular" arena? Will Blue be in vogue  ? Will anyone even notice?   :devil

I've always wondered why the TA isn't first. 

First day of the split EW was full.


wrongway
Title: Re: Rediculous Arena Limit Players/Max
Post by: bull1tt on February 01, 2009, 11:40:39 PM
i'm with shuffler... I can't stand TT's.... everytime, and EVERYTIME i have asked for help to keep a base(this goes for my squadmates also), there is no reply, not to mention ppl are posting up missions at the same time...