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Title: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: HamrDown on September 11, 2021, 08:10:59 AM
Something needs to be done, other than ENY to allow people to play the game without HUGE number disadvantages. This morning logged in 22 Bish, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights. No wonder no one hardly plays the game anymore.  :bhead
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: Eagler on September 11, 2021, 08:26:50 AM
Some don't like to lose regardless what it does for overall game play...big egos I guess

Auto assign works but some are too shallow to use it for the betterment of the game

Eagler
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: RichardDarkwood on September 11, 2021, 01:25:36 PM
Something needs to be done, other than ENY to allow people to play the game without HUGE number disadvantages. This morning logged in 22 Bish, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights. No wonder no one hardly plays the game anymore.  :bhead

Thats just more targets for you.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: Lazerr on September 11, 2021, 01:27:56 PM
The current map has only been up 5 hours and probably just switched, contributing to the problem.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: perdue3 on September 11, 2021, 02:29:53 PM
My question is, how is it fun for the 22?
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: AKKuya on September 11, 2021, 02:51:12 PM
Just pointing out that the main arena is a sandbox for multiple players to use at the same time.  How each player decides on personal activities or a group of players decide on combined activities are fluid to the game with interaction from other players or just by themselves with no defense.

How I miss the mid war nd early war arenas where I could freely bomb everything and practice jabo runs.  Bring back my purple and green.  :x
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: Lusche on September 11, 2021, 03:00:32 PM
Thats just more targets for you.

Hardly. At this point they either clobber that single defender with sheer numbers, or they will flatten three towns at once from high altitude while the rest of the guys will play hide & seek with him in GVs, pushing only the bases he's currently not at.
Which is perfectly logical from a pure "war" point of view.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: perdue3 on September 11, 2021, 03:06:49 PM
Just pointing out that the main arena is a sandbox for multiple players to use at the same time.  How each player decides on personal activities or a group of players decide on combined activities are fluid to the game with interaction from other players or just by themselves with no defense.

How I miss the mid war nd early war arenas where I could freely bomb everything and practice jabo runs.  Bring back my purple and green.  :x

You can still freely bomb with no resistance, just fly Bishops before 6 PM.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: RichardDarkwood on September 11, 2021, 04:33:18 PM
262's are only 140 perks when there is those kind of numbers on.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: popeye on September 11, 2021, 04:38:07 PM
My question is, how is it fun for the 22?

Apparently quite a lot of fun, as this is pretty much a daily routine.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: Lusche on September 11, 2021, 04:38:29 PM
262's are only 140 perks when there is those kind of numbers on.

While you grab altitude, they grab a base. When you reach a base under attack, they dissipate and just attack another one - in GV. They have prepped several vbases and towns. Several will flash at once, but you won't see them when you arrive in your jet.
You may finally get 3 kills on a buff formation you catch, but in the meantime they have grabbed 2-3 more bases with next to no losses or even combat.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: RotBaron on September 11, 2021, 04:57:40 PM
‘ This morning logged in 22 Bish, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights. No wonder no one hardly plays the game anymore.  :bhead

Whoa  :eek:

No wonder small maps get rolled in the mornings and are up for ~6hours or less sometimes.

It’s also during the week, not just weekends.

Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: hazmatt on September 11, 2021, 06:25:38 PM
The annoying one to me is when the numbers are equal and 2 countries decide to attack one so it still ends up being 2 to 1 odds.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: JimmyD3 on September 11, 2021, 11:34:37 PM
The annoying one to me is when the numbers are equal and 2 countries decide to attack one so it still ends up being 2 to 1 odds.

What he said!!!  :aok
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: oTRALFZo on September 12, 2021, 10:20:33 AM
Hardly. At this point they either clobber that single defender with sheer numbers, or they will flatten three towns at once from high altitude while the rest of the guys will play hide & seek with him in GVs, pushing only the bases he's currently not at.
Which is perfectly logical from a pure "war" point of view.

I could not agree more!!
I recently started playing from years past with the big difference to the GV dar. This "hide and seek" feature is totally being abused. Now players are spawning in to enemy fields with the sole intent of heading to some bush, eating lunch/doing chores or whatever it is just either to get proxy kills or keep the opponent busy for a long period of time to find them. I have seen others that as soon as they see opposition, they head for another bush or hiding spot. Does this promote combat?  I don't think so. Often times, these guys are just waiting for these guys to bail out of frustration or them moving on to REAL action.

I "get" the war winning and the fun it is to work together to make it happen, but it has come to a point to where numbers and side balancing has been SO far off it makes you wonder why we should not have 1 side plowing unopposed fields just for the sake of winning the war?
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: DmonSlyr on September 12, 2021, 11:18:20 AM
Watch the #s today for Mindnao.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: RotBaron on September 12, 2021, 04:41:14 PM
Watch the #s today for Mindnao.

Mindanao today  :(

I guess I’ll watch the NFL games today as painful as that’s become anymore.
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: nkp514 on September 14, 2021, 06:54:53 AM
Log in see bish have 30, nits have 5,  rooks have 4.  Joker thumping his chest while vulching 2 guys that keep upping on a field deacked by the minions.  Log out.  Pretty sure I am not the only one.  The fight was the point of the game i thought.  Now its almost like trying to avoid one is the way to go for the bish.  Even numbers and they can't do squat but it makes it fun. 
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: Lusche on September 14, 2021, 08:03:54 AM
With comparable numbers at off hours now, MA seems to mimic the old EW arena more and more. Anyone remembers Eaglehrt and SOAR?
Title: Re: Numbers of players Saturday and Sunday mornings
Post by: Oldman731 on September 14, 2021, 08:09:05 AM
With comparable numbers at off hours now, MA seems to mimic the old EW arena more and more.


One of the ugly aspects of the perk system.  And there are players who enjoy participating in a team effort, even if that effort is directed against a helpless foe.

It takes all kinds, and we have them.

- oldman