I was looking for threads about ENY/ARENA CAPS to see what the process was that morphed into our present system.
I have been an AH subscriber on 4 different occasions (with 4 different GameIDs) dating back to 2000, and have been an advocate for a country based cap as an alternative to the present ENY system... I came across the following from Hitech that was posted on December 21, 2006:
<<Monday we will be implementing a new balancing system. It works with the existing ENY number. It will no longer limit what planes you can fly. But rather when it reaches a preset value, people entering the arena will not be able to fly in that arena for their current country.
You will get a message similar to you are 3rd in a queue of 3 .
Your choices will be
1. go to another arena.
2. change countries.
3. wait until more people come onto the other side, or some one from your country leaves.
People waiting will always be able to change countries regardless of their last country change time.
People waiting in queue will not be counted in the ENY values.
This new balancing system will be implemented in all main arenas.
The test capture lines will be taken down until we can layout and code some different options.
1. The current zone / strat setup does not lend it self very well to the current setup,We will be change the supply system to work on all your countries fields, hence hitting the strat targets will have a larger effect.
2. The war win criteria will be changed from having to capture almost all of 1 country , to having to capture around 30 - 40% of both countries fields.
3. Will also make some core fields uncapturable in each country.
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I was wondering if some of the Vets (Without my "Break in Service") could tell me how this worked out... The "Win War", "Uncapturable Fields" and "Strat Target" aspects of this are obviously still in place, but why was the the Country based cap discontinued? What were the shortcomings? I would like to know so that I can quit lobbying for something that has been tried before and failed.
Thanks