Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Drane on October 08, 2013, 09:45:46 AM
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If a player is logged on and inactive, meaning,
*sitting in the tower not typing,
*in play but not moving, shooting, or typing,
for some yet to be determined amount of time, can they be booted from the late war arena?
What would be the correct amount of time?
This could prevent some serious game play problems that occur mostly in the early morning hours where 1 or 2 teams get unrealistic high ENY as a result. This can ruin game play for 20 or 30 people.
Most likely cause for this is players staying logged on to get war win perks.
Possibly put the timer in the local copy so no bandwidth is used up except to report a time out.
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If a player is logged on and inactive, meaning,
*sitting in the tower not typing,
*in play but not moving, shooting, or typing,
for some yet to be determined amount of time, can they be booted from the late war arena?
What would be the correct amount of time?
This could prevent some serious game play problems that occur mostly in the early morning hours where 1 or 2 teams get unrealistic high ENY as a result. This can ruin game play for 20 or 30 people.
Most likely cause for this is players staying logged on to get war win perks.
Possibly put the timer in the local copy so no bandwidth is used up except to report a time out.
High ENY provides a perfect opportunity to try out some rides that aren't the P51D, LA7, Spit16, etc, etc. Take advantage of it. :)
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High ENY provides a perfect opportunity to try out some rides that aren't the P51D, LA7, Spit16, etc, etc. Take advantage of it. :)
I mostly fly planes like the LA5 and Mossie 6 which are still available with high ENY.
This wish is for the overall good of the players everywhere.
Why should a few selfish prima donnas get to screw up others fun time?
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:lol OMG just got mental picture of player sitting in a field gun going around in circles to bypass this if implemented.
Done by taping joystick a little off center. :x
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:lol OMG just got mental picture of player sitting in a field gun going around in circles to bypass this if implemented.
Done by taping joystick a little off center. :x
:rofl
thats funny.....sad...and pathetic all rolled into one. :rofl
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Most likely cause for this is players staying logged on to get war win perks.
if that true the simplest solution is to stop awarding perks for war win altogether.
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if that true the simplest solution is to stop awarding perks for war win altogether.
I could get behind this! :aok
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it's probably not actually a problem.
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What is the actual intention of ENY?
Is it so that one may fly a highly perked ac every now and then at a discount from the standard cost?
Is it to keep hordes from outnumbering the nme in uber craft?
Is it so that ppl who spend their perks can fly low eny craft and regain lost perks at an acceptable rate?
Is it to make it harder to win the war when the numbers are very favorable to one side?
Is it all of one, all of those, or some combination to include anything I may have overlooked?
To the OP, yes, it can be a problem, I have seen it many times; guys in tower that haven't had a sortie that anyone knows about for hours. Try taking a base from a cv when the eny is high...
If it has anything to do with winning the war, then get rid of it, it has never stopped a base take, or the map roll that I've noticed.
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What is the actual intention of ENY? ...
While it is used for several things, and probably things I'm not aware of, in the case of the OP it is limiting their ability to fly some late war rides because the arena balance is off. When one side gains too much of an advantage, measured, I believe, as a percentage rather than a number, of players logged in to each country, a limitation is placed on what planes can be flown by the country with the numerical advantage. This limitation is based on the ENY of the planes and vehicles.
Regards,
Hammer
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it's probably not actually a problem.
Yep. :aok -1 to idea
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If a player is logged on and inactive, meaning,
*sitting in the tower not typing,
*in play but not moving, shooting, or typing,
for some yet to be determined amount of time, can they be booted from the late war arena?
What would be the correct amount of time?
This could prevent some serious game play problems that occur mostly in the early morning hours where 1 or 2 teams get unrealistic high ENY as a result. This can ruin game play for 20 or 30 people.
Most likely cause for this is players staying logged on to get war win perks.
Possibly put the timer in the local copy so no bandwidth is used up except to report a time out.
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Omg what movie is that from? Looks so familiar...
For OP.. Understand where you are coming from.. but -1.
Wouldn't do much good as of now.
Tinkles
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Omg what movie is that from? Looks so familiar...
The Big Lebowski.
The one thing I will say about the idea of kicking people for idling is it would stop the unintentional idlers. I've on occasion logged what I thought was temporarily, but then didn't get back to the computer for a day or so. I wouldn't have had an issue if I'd been kicked.
Anyone who's using it for some purpose, no matter how lame it is, will find a way to beat it.
The question is, are the majority of these people doing it intentionally or not? If not, it might have good effects. If so, the effect will be negligible because it's too easy to bypass.
Wiley.
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:lol OMG just got mental picture of player sitting in a field gun going around in circles to bypass this if implemented.
Done by taping joystick a little off center.
No tape or other mechanical solutions needed. Just do a quick faulty stick calibration and your field gun keeps rotating.
I can already see all available barrels at base A1 turning in circles for hours... :lol
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No tape or other mechanical solutions needed. Just do a quick faulty stick calibration and your field gun keeps rotating.
I can already see all available barrels at base A1 turning in circles for hours... :lol
or up an airplane and let it sit at a hangar with engine off. or any vehicle.
semp
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It's my guess that the percentage of players doing this are about the same for all sides so it's probably not affecting the ENY at all.
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If folks are sitting in tower AFK hoping for war win perks, they are Bish or Rook, and the high eny effects only Bish or Rook. I can't see why we would want to change this ;)
Seriously though, getting booted after a couple hours of inactivity probably wouldn't have poor unintended consequences. If one minute before you get the boot you get a pop up telling you its coming unless you do something, it would be hard to see any issue.
On another note, I would strongly suggest that anyone who's gameplay is "ruined" by high eny give some of the other rides a chance. Other than running away, there are plenty of rides that are always available and very capable of accomplishing stuff.
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If folks are sitting in tower AFK hoping for war win perks, they are Bish or Rook, and the high eny effects only Bish or Rook. I can't see why we would want to change this ;)
Good point, why would any Knight intentionally stay logged in hopes they'd get an afk war win perk reward.
However, there are plenty of occasions where Knights have the high ENY. I usually see this ~3-6am PST.
The reason I say get rid of ENY altogether is because of the double team. When half your country is gv'ing and the other two countries are ganging on yours, you'll get high ENY and yet be outnumbered...w/Knights it happens a lot.
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Did they change it so you have to be logged in to get the war-win perks? I thought it has always been that you just have to be "on the winning side" for the prescribed amount of time, and you don't actually have to be online at the time of a win. If this is still the case, then apparently very few people know this.
If it were up to me, there would be no war-win perks...the only way to get perks would be to earn them through combat with other players. This all by itself would get more people fighting in this combat game.
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I believe you must be logged in to receive the war win perks.