My god would you please quit with the arena crap Hitech!

[Motherland]

     Obviously HiTech has never tried to organize squad ops. Arena caps make this almost impossible. The population of the arenas has nothing to do with my arguement. Because of "Floating" arena caps the most populated arena will switch over the period of an hour.

Orange is the most populated arena almost all of the time. In fact I've never seen blue with more people than orange.

[hitech]

SHawk: wrote

     Obviously HiTech has never tried to organize squad ops. Arena caps make this almost impossible. The population of the arenas has nothing to do with my arguement. Because of "Floating" arena caps the most populated arena will switch over the period of an hour.

Interesting, I just ran a data base queary of the last month Blue has NEVER had more than orange, so I once again call BS on your line of thought. There has not been 1 time when you squad could not have gotten into blue except on TT, when obviously they could be together.

HiTech

 

[Guppy35]

A very simple way to do it, which is why I use it when we do the occasional SAPP night.  38 drivers like myself are a bit slow

Meet at the time designated, in the low numbers LW arena on the low numbers side.

Works every time.

[DMBEAR]

SHawk: wrote
Interesting, I just ran a data base queary of the last month Blue has NEVER had more than orange, so I once again call BS on your line of thought. There has not been 1 time when you squad could not have gotten into blue except on TT, when obviously they could be together.

HiTech

 

I definitely see this playing out soon...

Squad CO "Hey guys, there's 20 guys on each side in blue!"

Everyone else "What are we waiting for, lets go?!?"

 

[batch]

I do not buy the argument that everyone thinks that flying with squad mates is the most important thing to people, I do believe that people like to use this as an excuse to complain about not being able to get in the most populated arena. In reality they want to fly in the most populated arena with their squad, but each person in the squad is saying that it is more important to them to fly in the higher populated arena, hence why they are in the most populated arena.

It does not take a rocket scientist to understand all it would take for a squad to agree  to always fly together is that they all agree to fly in the 2nd arena on the list.

HiTech

I must have missed the class where they taught the customer is always wrong. How dare anyone want to choose which arena they want to fly in for whatever reason they want. I didnt realize a person had to have a valid justification for the way they think.

Maybe all companies should operate this way........ sorry sir I realize you already paid your money and you want a blue pickup truck, but we have decided to only sell red station wagons today...... you are required to take the wagon or you can ride your bicycle home.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[moot]

How dare anyone want to choose which arena they want to fly in for whatever reason they want.

The players choose an arena where they know their squaddies can't follow, and it's the game owners' fault?

[WMLute]

The players choose an arena where they know their squaddies can't follow, and it's the game owners' fault?

    

[batch]

The players choose an arena where they know their squaddies can't follow, and it's the game owners' fault?

Apparently youre missing the point.......... there should be no reason their squaddies cant follow......... I guess you think its the guy who wants the blue trucks fault for wanting a blue truck?

Theres no legitimate reason

[Motherland]

I must have missed the class where they taught the customer is always wrong.

This is an MMO, that rule doesn't work.

Apparently youre missing the point.......... there should be no reason their squaddies cant follow......... I guess you think its the guy who wants the blue trucks fault for wanting a blue truck?

Theres no legitimate reason

It's to balance the arenas.

[Kazaa]

You gents do realise that AH2 isn’t the only game with server waiting times?

I would rather have an uncapped arena, but what we currently have is better then 16v16.

[moot]

Apparently youre missing the point.......... there should be no reason their squaddies cant follow......... I guess you think its the guy who wants the blue trucks fault for wanting a blue truck?

Theres no legitimate reason

That's a bad analogy.   I want a blue truck, I buy it.  If it has only two seats and a no-return clause in the sale contract, and I intend to keep my promise to 6 friends that we'll depend on this truck to go on a road trip, then it certainly isn't the dealership's fault when 5 friends are left out to dry.
If you want your squaddies to fly with you, you go into the arena where they can get in.  The alternative is no arena caps, which leads to all but a minuscule number of players in one of the two arenas.  Which is back to the same bad gameplay dynamic that we had a couple of years ago. The only way to keep the arenas well distributed in players isn't to depend on them to evenly distribute themselves (as history shows and as you admit yourself) but to enforce it with caps. 

[batch]

maybe if all the people who use bad gameplay as the reasoning would never enter the orange arena then problem solved...... seems to me the majority think the gameplay dynamic is just fine .... otherwise they wouldnt want to go to the more populated arena

[moot]

maybe if all the people who use bad gameplay as the reasoning would never enter the orange arena then problem solved

This sentence's grammar prevents me from understanding what your argument is.

...... seems to me the majority think the gameplay dynamic is just fine .... otherwise they wouldnt want to go to the more populated arena

In fact, the subscription numbers were hurting back when the single arena formula was up. 

[1Boner]

I must have missed the class where they taught the customer is always wrong. How dare anyone want to choose which arena they want to fly in for whatever reason they want. I didnt realize a person had to have a valid justification for the way they think.

Maybe all companies should operate this way........ sorry sir I realize you already paid your money and you want a blue pickup truck, but we have decided to only sell red station wagons today...... you are required to take the wagon or you can ride your bicycle home.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

You also must have missed the class where it teaches "the customer is always right".

I can see the Parker Brothers BBs now: You guys hafta do something about this game, I can never get past Go and always wind up in Jail. This game must be rigged.

[SectorNine50]

I like the fact that HiTech comes out here and straightens people out.  Customers are almost always wrong, even if business etiquete says otherwise.