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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Bizman on October 01, 2011, 03:20:42 PM
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Tonight I planned to amuse myself with some air-combatting, from about 9 to 11 PM GMT+2, i.e. Euro Prime Time. There were about 250 players on-line, 80-90 on each side, but still I found it very hard to find a fight. At appr. 10:20 PM I made this calculation:
Fields total 240
Players total 250
Flashing fields 12, which makes on the average about 20 players/attacked field, half of them attacking, half defending.
Now, I guess 10 players in a sector should make a full length darbar, correct me if I'm wrong. However, most every darbar was the shortest possible, meaning 1-2 players. Nobody was telling about hordes milkrunning, the situation was quite stable. So, if there were a handful of players at each of the dozen flashing targets on the average, where were the rest 200? AFK?
I understand it's everyone's own business how they like to use their $14,90, but: HTC has to pay for the headroom for large player quantities on servers. People who just leave their game open for sleep or work or such are actually wasting resources which could be used to develop this game.
The amount of on-line players also affects on the maps being used. If HTC believes there are hundreds of players airborne, they'll give us big maps with lots of fields. With tonight's activity a H2H arena map from AH1 with a dozen fields would have been big enough.
What I suggest, has been suggested before: To kick players out if they haven't moved from one tower in a certain time. I guess an hour would be a suitable time for that. Logging back in isn't that hard to do.
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Especially with the one LW arena we have now, there's no need to "reserve your spot" anymore. Play or get out.
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If you were only going by the size of the dar bar then you only have part of the picture. When the fights get dragged down to the deck a lot of the players are below the dar bar's hard deck and don't show. Also, the dar bar is notoriously sketchy. I've been at 15k on my way to a fight and never registered a dar bar, same for the bad guys.
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You also cannot tell how many are playing ACES HIGH in a GV.
Get a plane folks.
FYI Cleric, if it is only you in the sector it will not show you a dar bar but it does show it to everyone else, friendly and enemy, along as you are above the minimum altitude of coarse.
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Get a plane folks.
Instead of giving poor advice, why not suggest players get into whatever is fun for them, be it a tank or plane?
ack-ack
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You also cannot tell how many are playing ACES HIGH in a GV.
Get a plane folks.
FYI Cleric, if it is only you in the sector it will not show you a dar bar but it does show it to everyone else, friendly and enemy, along as you are above the minimum altitude of coarse.
I have asked squdies if they were showing anything and they said no. I think that there may some glitchyness in the system.
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You also cannot tell how many are playing ACES HIGH in a GV.
Players listed as "in flight" mean not in the tower. They could be in a plane, a gv, a pt boat, a manned gun, etc. So yes, you can tell how many are not sitting in the tower.
They may, however, be sitting in a GV 100 miles from anyone for no apparent reason.
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A little more clarification now that I'm not that tired and p***ed: I checked several flashing fields for action, but in every case there was only one or two attackers and enough defenders. I also escorted a single bomber formation on his way to enemy HQ and tried to fool the enemy away from the bomber by flashing their nearby fields in the opposite corner of the sector we were in, trying to fly NOE in their radar circle. No one of the about 90 players in that country upped to see what it was about. With a skilled bomber and a couple of attackers that base would have been an easy take. Yet during those two hours I noticed only one base informed as taken. So the evidence points to the conclusion that there were not many active players.
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I always thought "inflight" meant anything other than the tower.
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I always thought "inflight" meant anything other than the tower.
It does.
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finding a fight lately has been tough, even with a large number of folks in the arena...
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finding a fight lately has been tough, even with a large number of folks in the arena...
Sadly, I believe it's because the majority of the current player base is of the game-players mindset that it's more important to "win" than to "play".
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but what are they "winning" besides a few perks and a different Map which most already have played 100's times over? like many other have said it's the mindset of some of todays players.
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I will never understand this "there's no fights anywhere" statement. every day I log in, no matter how many players there is, within a couple of flying time i can find some other airplane to shoot at.
last night there was about 60 or 70 players and there was plenty of planes to shoot at. so I think this "no fights anywhere" statement that people like to use is just bs.
semp
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Truly...if I need a fight,and none present themselves.. I MAKE a fight, I fly over enemy base low,I roll GV into enemy camp..I may get shot down(more likely than not) but I get a by god fight....
Y'all need man up.
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last night there was about 60 or 70 players and there was plenty of planes to shoot at. so I think this "no fights anywhere" statement that people like to use is just bs.
I don't know your whereabouts, but for me finding a fight has often been difficult lately. And I know how to find or make one by flying over an enemy base. Surviving is another thing, though...
The lack of action may be due to the hours I mostly have time to play, after household duties and before slumbering. I've heard that round midnight local time the going gets tougher. I guess that's the prime time for the British, French, Spanish, maybe Germans and Italian. Maybe it's just that on the GMT+2 line there aren't very many AH'ers? Looking at the time zone map, only in Europe there are over 300 million inhabitants in the GMT and GMT+1 areas, in GMT+2 the countries are smaller with only about one third of that. I also have a feeling, that there aren't too many Turkish players around? Leaving Turkey out, the European GMT+2 area would populate only one tenth compared to +1 and 0.
This leads me to a philosophical question about people's interest in WW2 online games or AH in particular. There's been at least one thread asking for the players' location, and if my memory serves me right, there weren't many answers from African or Asian countries, if any. Am I right to suppose that this kind of gaming is most popular in the Western world or the First world or highly developed countries, whichever of the terms suits best? That would explain the silentness despite big numbers during my playing hours: The few Russians (+3), are beginning to log out, Iranians (+3:30) aren't allowed to play, the Western Asians (+5) are asleep and the Western players have just logged in but are AFK waiting for their action to begin, balancing between TV and AH.
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I will never understand this "there's no fights anywhere" statement. every day I log in, no matter how many players there is, within a couple of minutes [sic] flying time i can find some other airplane to shoot at.
Same for me, and I'm in an awkward time zone
All the whining on the BBS almost has the effect of making me forget the actual reality of the game - I find myself feeling sympathetic and wondering why HTC doesn't change it for these poor unhappy players
Then I get home from work and play, and there is always a fight to join in, or a potential fight to stir up by taking a few heavy fighters to hit a field/town somewhere
eny does need looking at though
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I will never understand this "there's no fights anywhere" statement. every day I log in, no matter how many players there is, within a couple of flying time i can find some other airplane to shoot at.
last night there was about 60 or 70 players and there was plenty of planes to shoot at. so I think this "no fights anywhere" statement that people like to use is just bs.
semp
Depends on what you consider "a fight". personally diving into a horde picking vulchers is NOT a fight, flying at 20k and popping buffs is NOT a fight, dropping bombs on GVs in a fighter is NOT a fight, fighting with green guys to get to the vulch first is NOT a fight. All of these things are easily mastered and quickly become boring.
What I am looking for is a well ordered mission with fighters flying cap. This gives me the chance to fight fighters, with the added reward..... should I survive... of popping a few buffs before I have to run home out of ammo. Basically I want someone would fights back, and that is getting harder and harder to find in the MA these days.
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Eegad! I clicked on this thread fearing the worse, but after reading it I'm happy to report that I'm still alive. :)