Fugitive,
I like to fly with my squadmates, and we have agreed that we are a Bishop squad. I have, on occasion, gone over to the Knights and Rooks to wing up with an opponent, but have never fought against the Bishops. I like to fly with the guys in Bishland. If loyalty to ones friends is a bad thing in your world then I am indeed a BAD person in the Fugitive universe.
Instead of debating the merits of my proposal, you chose to rip me because of loyalty toward the group I prefer to fly with... Have you no shame sir?
LOL !!! Its a game !! you mean to tell me you have never fought anyone in your squad? I'm not the best cartoon pilot in the world (but I do have fun trying to be), but after flying aginst my CO Twinboom a number of times I think I have gotten much better. Not to mention running into Delirious, CorkyJr or a number of other "HeadHunters". I enjoy flying with them, as well as against them, its always fun (except for the occasional cherry picks grrrr). So by being "loyal to ones friends" means not fighting them and having some fun, ya I'm much happier in my universe. I didn't try to "rip you", I just pointed out a few facts. Its the truth you have a problem with, not me.
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In particular the Saturday morning splits. 150 in orange, 75 in blue, and the caps in orange won't let you in. I can see the point, I guess, that the arena's need to be split. I think there should be a bottom number though, the example above is rediculous. I mean, perhaps when the arena gets to 300 or something, maybe then the splits can occur.
agreed, morning US time is a problem, but where would you draw the line? Use the above numbers you can't log in to orange, and blue only has 75 people. Say they make a hard cap of 225, and you log in at the same time with the same population. That means that you can't get into orange because it has hit its hard cap and now you get to fly in blue by yourself untill other log in. Yup, that sounds like a lot more fun than the way they have it now doesn't it? SO far, the way they have it set up is the best anyone has come up with. Is it perfect? nope, there will always be someone complaining about it.
Wasn't my narrow mindedness at all.
Each country has it's own distinct feel (played all three), and I think like minded players tend to stay with the country they feel most comfortable with.
As for the right answer - We will have to disagree. I have seen nothing on the forums that show it is any different now from when it was one big arena without caps.
Same old posts about hoards (although smaller, proportionatly about the same), same old posts about ganging, same old posts about running, same old posts about cherry picking. ONLY difference is it now happens across multiple arenas instead of one. Plus now you get posts about arena caps.
So if the one main arena was split because it was so unhealthy, what happens now there are multiple unhealthy arenas? Split them again? Lets go all the way and have 100's of arenas with a cap of 3, 1 for each country! Oops can't do that what if 2 gang up on one.
If anything the caps have caused more problems that they solved.
I agree with you on most of these, yes some people feel more comfortable on one team or another, but switching for an hour or two just to have some fun isn't going to stop the world from turning.
Ya maybe the arenas are still "unhealthy", but I think they are better, and its much easier to find a fight now a days than it was of the big hordes.
The only way to know for sure if splitting the arenas was good or not is to take a look at HTC subscription numbers. During the single arena days they were loosing bunches of people, and now a days he has bunches coming in, sounds like its fixed to me.
Ya I miss the old days where the single main arena had only a couple hundred people flying, there were missions that were put together that used strategy instead of brute force, furballs developed once or twice a night and people didn't grief them, Mindanao was the preferred map ...unless you were in the lower left... Things change, either you change with them, or you can sit in the corner and complain about what isn't right any more, or you can change with them. Me, life is too short to waste it pissin and moaning, I just have to continue having fun with what we have.
