An add-on to the current ENY system...........

[Hazard69]

I'm so gonna get flamed for this....... <Cringes behind Kevlar>

The current ENY system works moderately well when the differences in player numbers is, well moderate.
However, when any one side truly "hordes" theres little ENY can do. For e.g. Three knights in F4Us can't do much against fourteen Rooks in P40Es.

So I suggest an addon to the ENY system. Alliances . They happened in real life.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Thats the lines I'm thinking along.

If at any time, the numbers of any one country approach the "sum" of the other two, the two minorities form a "alliance". Maybe a 5 minutes alert message is sent out before the "alliance treaty" is "signed".
The allied countries retain their current fields, but can't "capture" anymore of each others fields. Their inflight icons turn green but retain the "airplane type" style of icon as opposed to player names. Maybe even range channels remain distinct (something like between the eastern and the western WW2 allies ). Allies cant shoot each other down, or at least lose kills/points if they do .

This effectively forces the overpowering country to fight on two fronts, making life a little easier for the minorities (which otherwise tend to squabble between themselves) and giving the majority a choice between fighting on two fronts or switching to equalize numbers .

For captures made during the alliance being in effect, the deciding factor as to who gets the base, will be whose troops got in the map room first.

My 0.02$

[trotter]

I like the idea, but you have to make the requirement a little higher than "when the sum is approaching the numbers of the largest side of the largest side"

For example, what if we had this:
115 bish
80 knit
45 rook

I have seen ratios like this from time to time. Now, knit and rook combined is 125. I would certainly say bish numbers are approaching that. Now, if all 80 knits move to fight on the bish front, you would see on that front

57.5 bish (me262 pulled too many g's, going down missing a wing)
80 knit

Now the hording just becomes the knits, and it is even lamer because a game mechanic forced the horde.


If we can get an alliance system that makes sure that it would always create equal fronts, maybe that is worth looking into, and experimenting with in one of the late war arenas.

[BnZ]

An interesting idea, particularly for those who actually care about who wins the war. There is something tickling my memory, I feel like I actually saw something done like this done back when I first started playing, but the old long term memory is fuzzy on video game happenings.

I think the ENY system needs a more basic tweak, it seems that some of the better fighters in the game have higher ENY numbers (Yak-9U and the 109s come to mind). While the P47N has an eny of five...doesn't make sense.

[Hazard69]

For example, what if we had this:
115 bish
80 knit
45 rook

I have seen ratios like this from time to time. Now, knit and rook combined is 125. I would certainly say bish numbers are approaching that. Now, if all 80 knits move to fight on the bish front, you would see on that front

57.5 bish (me262 pulled too many g's, going down missing a wing)
80 knit

Now the hording just becomes the knits, and it is even lamer because a game mechanic forced the horde.

I must be dim , but I don't get what you're saying.
If all 80 knits move to the bish front, they meet 75 bish defending them.
{80+45=125 knits+rooks v/s 115 bish. Assuming the 10 short is divided equally on the two fronts.}
I think a 10% margin is reasonably adequate.

What do you guys think?

[snowey]

its normaly larger than that for most of the time