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Title: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 27, 2011, 08:54:03 PM
this has been happening all day, you think perhaps you can losen the caps a little more than this?  will allowing a couple more players in blue really turn it into a cesspool?  its been frustratring getting discoed and having to come back to this all day.

semp

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_18-50-25_437.jpg)
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: Spikes on March 27, 2011, 08:56:46 PM
Give a guy an inch and he'll want a mile.

However I do think that if a disco happens or something, the server could somehow reserve your spot or remember your IP address for say 5 minutes to allow you to log back in? This could also help for Special events.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: ink on March 27, 2011, 08:59:48 PM
what the problem there?    seems to me that Hitech has done something, for every time I log in the numbers seem to be very evenly spaced between the two arenas :headscratch:
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 27, 2011, 09:04:20 PM
well when did it happened?  little warning would've been nice.  most likely sombody fell asleep this is 10 min later.  this will be the end of the squads since they wont be able to switch to play with their squadies.

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_18-57-26_949.jpg)

semp
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: The Fugitive on March 27, 2011, 09:04:57 PM
Once what.... 31 more people enter Orange it will open more room in Blue. Help out the "cause" and go fly in Orange for a bit until room opens up in Blue.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 27, 2011, 09:07:13 PM
I did been doing it all day.  but what's the point of having a squad if i cant play with them and if they switch then we are royally screwed (excuse me ht) since we wont be able to play together in either arena.

semp
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 27, 2011, 09:10:29 PM
oh here's the mistery this picture was taken 10 min after the last one.

semp

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_19-08-09_832.jpg)

Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: EskimoJoe on March 27, 2011, 09:11:52 PM
Dude, seriously. Print screen.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: Spikes on March 27, 2011, 09:15:19 PM
Dude, seriously. Print screen.
There is nothing wrong with his pictures, they are clear.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: FLS on March 27, 2011, 10:15:56 PM
this has been happening all day, you think perhaps you can losen the caps a little more than this?  will allowing a couple more players in blue really turn it into a cesspool?  its been frustratring getting discoed and having to come back to this all day.

semp

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_18-50-25_437.jpg)

What makes you think you'd be one of the 'couple more' players?

Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 28, 2011, 03:01:25 AM
you mean to tell me that 111 players logged in 10 minutes while i was posting the pictures here?

my point is something was really wrong today and I wish ah will really look into it.  too many times we will try to get into an arena and it will be locked then 5 or 10 minutes later there will be 100 more.

btw the pictures were using my phone. if your only complain is the quality sorry my phone will load to photobucket in about 2 seconds.

semp
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: MachFly on March 28, 2011, 03:07:27 AM
oh here's the mistery this picture was taken 10 min after the last one.

semp

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_19-08-09_832.jpg)



That usually happens if you wait a few min. The caps never stopped me from entering an arena.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: BrownBaron on March 28, 2011, 03:32:45 AM
what's the point of having a squad if i cant play with them and if they switch then we are royally screwed (excuse me ht) since we wont be able to play together in either arena.

semp

Looks to be plenty of room for you and your squadmates in green, purple, orange, WWI, AvA, TA, and DA.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: FLS on March 28, 2011, 04:20:59 AM
you mean to tell me that 111 players logged in 10 minutes while i was posting the pictures here?

my point is something was really wrong today and I wish ah will really look into it.  too many times we will try to get into an arena and it will be locked then 5 or 10 minutes later there will be 100 more.

btw the pictures were using my phone. if your only complain is the quality sorry my phone will load to photobucket in about 2 seconds.

semp

The arena doesn't show the number over the cap any more. Now it just shows the cap number when it's full.

Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: Avanti on March 28, 2011, 05:06:15 AM
Why can't we just have a que?

so instead of it saying 'arena is full etc' you get put into a que

so for example it would say 'Arena Full, qued xx/xx'

it will make getting into a full arena easy mode

Avanti  :salute
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: ImADot on March 28, 2011, 08:55:49 AM
well when did it happened?  little warning would've been nice.  most likely sombody fell asleep this is 10 min later.  this will be the end of the squads since they wont be able to switch to play with their squadies.

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_18-57-26_949.jpg)

semp

Oh noes...only room for 95 people in Orange.  Damn, my squad has 96 people.  Blue is full so I MUST go to Blue - I gonna quit because of this.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: ImADot on March 28, 2011, 08:56:51 AM
Seriously?  Why does everyone NEED TO BE IN THE FULL ARENA?
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: hitech on March 28, 2011, 09:37:24 AM
What happened is simple, the caps are currently triggered at 70% so once orange hit 210 the cap increased.

The force is so strong pulling people to the bigger arena that once 210 is hit , it no longer really grows and people continue in the blue.
One person leaves and the cap goes down on blue.

HiTech
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: Knite on March 28, 2011, 11:17:36 AM
you mean to tell me that 111 players logged in 10 minutes while i was posting the pictures here?

No, when the orange arena hit 205, it also lowered the caps on the blue arena, which only shows maximum amount of pilots... i.e. 200/200, even though 300 might have been in blue at the time, the MENU showed 200/200. When Orange hit 215, it increased the limit on blue as well, so it showed the full amount of pilots in there, because it was below the maximum allowed in that server at the time.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: LLogann on March 28, 2011, 11:44:54 AM
People are complaining about not getting into BLUE?

 :headscratch:
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: curry1 on March 28, 2011, 11:46:17 AM
this has been happening all day, you think perhaps you can losen the caps a little more than this?  will allowing a couple more players in blue really turn it into a cesspool?  its been frustratring getting discoed and having to come back to this all day.

semp

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_18-50-25_437.jpg)

Did you take a picture of your screen? Lolz
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: ImADot on March 28, 2011, 11:46:20 AM
People are complaining about not getting into BLUE?

 :headscratch:

Lemmings, man...lemmings.  It doesn't matter what arena is full- THAT'S the one they HAVE to get into.  :lol

This made even more absurd when the open arena has numbers +/- 10 of the full one.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 28, 2011, 02:19:24 PM
What happened is simple, the caps are currently triggered at 70% so once orange hit 210 the cap increased.

The force is so strong pulling people to the bigger arena that once 210 is hit , it no longer really grows and people continue in the blue.
One person leaves and the cap goes down on blue.

HiTech

not embarrased you ht, but the last picture was taken about 5 minutes after the second.  all picutes were taken withing 15 min of each other.so over one hundred people came out of nowhere and joined the blue arena and the blue arena only?  I bet next months due that there's a bug in the system where it doesnt report the true number of players.  (not all the time, but sometimes).  I shouldda reported this is a bug instead of manking it a joke, but seriously i tried for over 1/2 an hour to enter.  not just because the orange map in arena sucks, but more because i was curious about why blue kept at 200.  I have noticed this several times, where there's only a few people in one arena and all of a sudden about a zillion people show up.  and it's not because some special event ended.

semjp
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: AWwrgwy on March 28, 2011, 02:23:35 PM
was my dream to join ah where i can play with a few other players on empty arenas while everybody else is having fun with hundreds of people.

semp

When was 205 people "empty"?

Are we spoiled or jaded?



wrongway
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: guncrasher on March 28, 2011, 02:30:31 PM
When was 205 people "empty"?

Are we spoiled or jaded?



wrongway

point was cap never changed when it should, there's a bug.

semp

edit: arent you one of the people who said that map sucked?
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: kvuo75 on March 28, 2011, 03:13:58 PM
not embarrased you ht, but the last picture was taken about 5 minutes after the second.  all picutes were taken withing 15 min of each other.so over one hundred people came out of nowhere and joined the blue arena and the blue arena only?  I bet next months due that there's a bug in the system where it doesnt report the true number of players.  (not all the time, but sometimes).  I shouldda reported this is a bug instead of manking it a joke, but seriously i tried for over 1/2 an hour to enter.  not just because the orange map in arena sucks, but more because i was curious about why blue kept at 200.  I have noticed this several times, where there's only a few people in one arena and all of a sudden about a zillion people show up.  and it's not because some special event ended.

semjp


100 players didn't come out of nowhere.
the cap increased so blue wasn't full anymore and was showing the true total


It's not a glitch.

Arenas now show the max when then are full instead of the overage.

HiTech

Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: jimson on March 28, 2011, 04:41:30 PM
Why can't we just have a que?

so instead of it saying 'arena is full etc' you get put into a que

so for example it would say 'Arena Full, qued xx/xx'

it will make getting into a full arena easy mode

Avanti  :salute

This que idea seems to be the best idea Iv'e heard.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: Avanti on March 29, 2011, 03:09:23 AM
This que idea seems to be the best idea Iv'e heard.

thank you
BFBC2 have done it and I think it's an amzing idea, kills the whining and the problem at the same time
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: ImADot on March 29, 2011, 08:38:59 AM
Let me see if I understand this...

You cannot get into the full arena, so come here and whine about it while you wait, but all of a sudden would have no problem waiting because now you're in a queue to get in?  Anyone else see the humor here? 
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: jimson on March 29, 2011, 08:58:00 AM
Let me see if I understand this...

You cannot get into the full arena, so come here and whine about it while you wait, but all of a sudden would have no problem waiting because now you're in a queue to get in?  Anyone else see the humor here? 

I think the point is so you could be in line to get in rather than randomly refreshing and trying to get in by chance.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: ImADot on March 29, 2011, 09:27:25 AM
I think the point is so you could be in line to get in rather than randomly refreshing and trying to get in by chance.

I realize that, but my point is they would be willing to wait in a queue as opposed to continuously trying to get into the full arena (and still waiting to get in), when they could just go into the open arena and actually play.
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: hitech on March 29, 2011, 09:31:45 AM
My goal is to have both arenas open at all times along with both arenas being in a playable state. With the latest changes I believe we are getting closer to that goal.

The queue idea actually would worsen the wait. I believe more people would go in queue vs trying , and then going to the other arena.
This would have the effect of keeping the cap down for a longer period of time and hence be further from my goal of minimizing the arena caped times.

HiTech
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: LLogann on March 29, 2011, 01:51:37 PM
Although I would think it impossible to forever quench the wine, with the good cheese, I do think that if one arena had a small map (always) and the other had a large map (always), much of the debate would disappear. 

My goal is to have both arenas open at all times........................ ....

HiTech
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: AWwrgwy on March 29, 2011, 02:05:30 PM
point was cap never changed when it should, there's a bug.

semp

edit: arent you one of the people who said that map sucked?

I was just repeating something I read about the map.
My only issue with any maps is my computer doesn't like some of them. Frame rates in the low teens to single digits and using too much CPU. Memory leaks?

My point was, why not play the game with the other 205 people?


wrongway
Title: Re: i know arena caps are needed but i have a better idea
Post by: Shuffler on March 29, 2011, 03:06:35 PM
this has been happening all day, you think perhaps you can losen the caps a little more than this?  will allowing a couple more players in blue really turn it into a cesspool?  its been frustratring getting discoed and having to come back to this all day.

semp

(http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr285/semperac/2011-03-27_18-50-25_437.jpg)

What is wrong with that pic?