Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Well ... only a couple nights a week. The rest of the week the undeclared truce seems to kick in and the other two countries enjoy superior odds without an ENY or perk penalty.
I can understand this, mind you. Someone hordes you and the natural tendency is to get even. But lets not pretend the truce isn't happening. You can just read the ebb and flow of this forum and see what gets complained about which days - or look at the bar-dar on most weeknights.
If ENY is here to stay then cap it at 30 and put in logic to better determine to whom it gets applied and when. Adding more "2nd line" Jabo planes (P-38D, P-39, P-40N, etc.) would also help ease the "pain."
If you look back at the original thread HT posted pre-ENY implimentation you will see my two major concerns:
Concern #1: While the ENY system provides a handicapping system based on raw numerical disparity of forces it affords no provision or modification for how those forces are arrayed. There is every possibility that the numbers could be-- Rooks:150; Knights:100; Bishops 100, causing a major ENY penalty against Rooks. But, Knights and Bishops may only be devoting 25 players each to fight one another leaving a combined force of 150 players against a severely handicapped, but numerically equal 150 Rooks. This is just an example, but it happens alot, and not just to Rooks. I see Bishops getting the short-end of this stick very often. It's just proof that the ENY system is overly simplified and therefore deeply flawed at its core.
Concern #2: The ENY modifier is based on total players online, including those on extended AFKs and dual-accounters who have their 2nd account signed on with their laptop to another country for whatever reason, skewing the numbers. There is no time-out for AFKs, alot of people even go AFK to take a four hour nap, or leave their computer on all night hoping their country resets while they're sleeping to get perks. I've seen situations recently where Bishops had 150 people online but only 85 in-flight at any given time, whereas Rooks and Knights had 100 people online but 90 in-flight each. But, Bishops were the ones heavily 'modified', this also happens to every country if you observe the 'country status'. The ENY modifier is based on total people logged into the game not the total people having an impact on gameplay. This is a very deep flaw and patently unfair.
A system that attempts to mollify gameplay based on only one set of data, but does not take into account the intracacies and the contextual disposition of that data is incredibly flawed, prone to abuse and unfair to everyone.
Zazen