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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Erkel on July 25, 2009, 09:26:11 PM
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The last couple of nights (very late) nits have been experiencing HOURS of ENY from Hell. Nit numbers are double those of the bish and rooks. The ENY was been ungodly and the arena cap never seems to kick in to balance the numbers.
The antique fighters fighters we are left to fly cant even compete with what the enemy are flying in with. Forget about defending against an enemy carrier group because we cant fly a fighter that will carry a decent ordinance load out. And offensive defense (porking enemy fields to slow their advances) was just a waste of time since the couple of bombers we were able to fly cant carry more than a few 500 lb. bombs.
So, WHERE were all the extra nits??? We were attacked by HORDES of bish and rooks but the numbers of nits there to defend are half that of those attacking. Arena cap never seemed to kick in to balance the numbers either.
I didn't check the roster to see who was actually playing and who couldn't be found. I can only guess that there must be a number of people who have been leaving the game running while they slept. Heh, sounds kind of paranoid but Ive even considered that it might be part of the bish and rook pact to attack only nits by side hop to nits at the end of their night and leaving the game running while they sleep.
I hate to admit to being a quitter but a large percentage of us decided we finally had enough with the futility of it all and left en mass to the orange arena.
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Can you define 'antique' fighters?
No 109s, 190s, Spit 5s and 9s, no 38Gs and Js? No FM2s, F6Fs, etc?
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I was in Blue last night. Both Nits and Rooks had 2x the numbers Bish had. Despite that Bish were gaining bases on both fronts. 262's were going cheap (under 50 perks) if you were a Bish.
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The antique fighters fighters we are left to fly cant even compete with what the enemy are flying in with.
The 109G-2 can compete with any unperked plane the enemy can throw at you. The 109F-4 can outturn a Spit 16.
Also there are still FW 190A8 for buff busting an ground strafing, P-38G with 2x1000lbs for dropping enemy crusiers & CVs and so on.
And these are "worst case panes" - when ENY goes to 29 they are still available. At ENY 25 you can add Spit V, Msossie, 190A-5 and so on.
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Can you define 'antique' fighters?
No 109s, 190s, Spit 5s and 9s, no 38Gs and Js? No FM2s, F6Fs, etc?
I'm talking about LATE last night and into the wee hours of the morning. There were close to 100 nits and 40 - 50 bish and rooks but WHERE were the nits. Never saw them. If you doubt what I say, ask FBDred of Freebirds.
Can you define 'antique' fighters?
OK, OK, so I exaggerated a little. Ill admit, the challenge of fighting in high eny planes was fun, to a point but the complete lack of a decent bomber just made it WAY too unbalanced.
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That would explain why Knights are always outnumbered in Orange.
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I'm talking about LATE last night and into the wee hours of the morning. There were close to 100 nits and 40 - 50 bish and rooks but WHERE were the nits. Never saw them. If you doubt what I say, ask FBDred of Freebirds.
OK, OK, so I exaggerated a little. Ill admit, the challenge of fighting in high eny planes was fun, to a point but the complete lack of a decent bomber just made it WAY too unbalanced.
I'm not doubting the numbers. I have no idea where the 100 Knits were. That they would all be holding spots while afk seems a bit silly to me. Unless HTC starts kicking people out of the arenas when they don't move for a certain amount of time, I don't know what to tell ya. Talk to the folks who preach chess piece loyalty. Maybe they'll have an answer or a justification :)
Sounds like the Knits could have used help in the other arena anyway.
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Sounds like a bad case of teamwork.
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Orange has way less knights than bish or rook. Been flying 262 all week casue they are so cheap. Hard to get into orange so I stay logged in now. Blue just sucks for knights. Knights seem to get hammered on both fronts and also have ENY to add to the mess. Should not have an ENY when your fighting both countries. Always been a problem though. Depends where your at on the map if your gonna get ganged or not. I think it would be interesting to go to a 2 country setup since we have 2 arenas now. I think you would have squads keep the numbers more appropriate than we do with a three country setup. Anyone noticed that the DA furball has been getting very populated? Something needs to be changed to keep the gameplay more consistant imho. Wouldn't hurt to try it.
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One other thing. To change to Rook or Bish for a Knight will do no good. Rooks and Bish are not fighting. I look for the fights, so I would just go fight knights. Just adding one more guy to the horde. I would not have a ENY but that dont matter because I am flying with superior numbers. I could be in a TBM and make it home.
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One other thing. To change to Rook or Bish for a Knight will do no good. Rooks and Bish are not fighting. I look for the fights, so I would just go fight knights. Just adding one more guy to the horde. I would not have a ENY but that dont matter because I am flying with superior numbers. I could be in a TBM and make it home.
Did the Bish and Rooks form an Alliance again! Damn them!
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Did the Bish and Rooks form an Alliance again! Damn them!
In the words of Matt Foley, motivational speaker:
Ya know gup, sometimes I wish you'd just: (http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8568/t7311.jpg)
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In the words of Matt Foley, motivational speaker:
Ya know gup, sometimes I wish you'd just: (http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8568/t7311.jpg)
Ahh but it's so much fun Tony when folks take this so seriously :)
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Funny I almost never have to contend with eny, because I try to fly for the side with the lowest numbers.
Plan B is that I normally fly planes not effected by eny. Sure I die a lot but at least I'm charging at the horde not with it.
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Sounds like a bad case of teamwork.
Moot, I love ya man, one of the best pilots in the game.
But, I think you missed the point of the thread. Sounds funny too hearing this from someone who's always off by themselves and doing more damage alone than 10 pilots put together. :salute
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The last couple of nights (very late) nits have been experiencing HOURS of ENY from Hell. Nit numbers are double those of the bish and rooks. The ENY was been ungodly and the arena cap never seems to kick in to balance the numbers.
The antique fighters fighters we are left to fly cant even compete with what the enemy are flying in with. Forget about defending against an enemy carrier group because we cant fly a fighter that will carry a decent ordinance load out. And offensive defense (porking enemy fields to slow their advances) was just a waste of time since the couple of bombers we were able to fly cant carry more than a few 500 lb. bombs.
So, WHERE were all the extra nits??? We were attacked by HORDES of bish and rooks but the numbers of nits there to defend are half that of those attacking. Arena cap never seemed to kick in to balance the numbers either.
I didn't check the roster to see who was actually playing and who couldn't be found. I can only guess that there must be a number of people who have been leaving the game running while they slept. Heh, sounds kind of paranoid but Ive even considered that it might be part of the bish and rook pact to attack only nits by side hop to nits at the end of their night and leaving the game running while they sleep.
I hate to admit to being a quitter but a large percentage of us decided we finally had enough with the futility of it all and left en mass to the orange arena.
Did anyone else see revenge of the
(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp193/dmbear/untitled-8.jpg)
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Erkel what I mean is... How do two countries that outnumber the last of the three on their own manage to get steamrolled by that one undermanned country?
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That would explain why Knights are always outnumbered in Orange.
thats what I was thinking
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Erkel what I mean is... How do two countries that outnumber the last of the three on their own manage to get steamrolled by that one undermanned country?
That usually depends on how much "furballing" only said steamrolled country is doing versus taking bases. Course I use the term "furballing" loosely. It's more like the hoardes "cherry picking" and "vulching" the few defenders while the rest from that country are busy steamrolling bases from them. :D
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knits are not always outnumbered in orange,most of the time they have the numbers,but in this case most of the knits the past few days have been in blue cause they had very few fields in orange,kinda like they gave up.rooks and bish both in orange had crazy eny for that time,was wondering why so i logged and sure nuff,blue was over run with knits.
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knits are not always outnumbered in orange,most of the time they have the numbers,but in this case most of the knits the past few days have been in blue cause they had very few fields in orange,kinda like they gave up.rooks and bish both in orange had crazy eny for that time,was wondering why so i logged and sure nuff,blue was over run with knits.
nits are blue dweebs
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knits are not always outnumbered in orange,most of the time they have the numbers
not true, ENY multiplier on knits very rarely goes below 1 in LWO (about 5-10% of the time when I fly). unfortunately theres not much knits can do about it, as long as rook n bish continue hording knits in LWO, many knits will log out of LWO and go into LWB. this week has been about the worse ive seen recently, took 3 or 4 days until some of the bishrooks got bored of ganging knits and finally decided to start fighting each other.
as long as its a 3-way fight this will always be a problem, game theory predicts that ultimately 2 sides will always gang up on a third side.
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So your basically complaining that while the Knits have the bigger numbers, their LACK of teamwork makes it difficult to fight against the enemy on two fronts. Its either that or a large part of Knit nation is parked under the trees spawn camping.
The is NO SIDE BALANCING in this game. ENY forces the team with the bigger numbers to work with inferior equipment, this is the only thing that evens the fight, not the sides.
So now you want HTC to fix the side balancing so that your country is never out numbered? Sounds kinda stupid when you spell it out like that don't it?
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Why not just switch to another country and get the ENY bonus?
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Why not just switch to another country and get the ENY bonus?
Loyalty to a chess piece.
They hang traitors you know.
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I don't mind being outnumbered, more planes for me to shoot at! :x
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That would explain why Knights are always outnumbered in Orange.
More or less what I was gonna say. :aok
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. Hard to get into orange so I stay logged in now.
er there you go..........
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Easily fixed...... HTC can disband all squads and when you sign on the system automatically puts you on low number team. All teams will be equal in numbers or close to equal. Don't know about yall, but I don't like that idea.
Instead of complaining try doing something about it. It is easy to do..... switch to low number side. The game is not the problem it is the players. You can choose to do something about it or have it done for you. To this point caps and eny is what is being done for us as most players have done a poor job of policing themselves.
Simply ask yourself this... "am i part of the solution or am I a part of the problem?"
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Unless HTC starts kicking people out of the arenas when they don't move for a certain amount of time, I don't know what to tell ya.
I agree HTC installing a program into the game wherein a player would be exited from the game if he is inactive for a specified period of time.