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Offline LLogann

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Arena CAP mid-day USA
« on: October 26, 2010, 02:15:32 PM »
Or as Lusche would say, Euro-Peaktime........   :salute

I can understand, and appreciate, why we have the CAPs; however at the same time cant think of a good reason why at 9am ET, they are 100 & 150. 

My wish is for CAPs never to fall below a reasonable number. 

In a reply not too long ago I wrote 400...........  Maybe that is a tad high but all the same, they should never go below say 200.
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 02:21:34 PM »
I personally dont feel as being a paying customer that we should ever be excluded from any arena we want to enter.  We pay the bills there for we should get the option.  I hardly fly LW and cap has no affect of me at all just my opinion.  From what i understand as the reason HTC impose the caps im guessing that more paying players are signing on then are leaving.  Growth has been indicated as the ultimate reason for the caps, nothing else.
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 02:24:31 PM »
Or as Lusche would say, Euro-Peaktime........   :salute

I can understand, and appreciate, why we have the CAPs; however at the same time cant think of a good reason why at 9am ET, they are 100 & 150. 

My wish is for CAPs never to fall below a reasonable number. 

In a reply not too long ago I wrote 400...........  Maybe that is a tad high but all the same, they should never go below say 200.

1. There are no arena caps at 9am ET.  Caps don't start until 11am ET.

2. Caps of 400 are essentially no caps.  Otherwise, at U.S. prime time, you will see numbers like 30/450, 401/400.

Better for you?

If they would leave the numbers off altogether, have a simple Open/Full indication, maybe those who will not log in because of the low numbers would actually try the "other" arena.


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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2010, 02:39:35 PM »
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2010, 02:40:56 PM »
Make the caps 350 tops perfect for most maps
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2010, 02:47:33 PM »
Nope, I meant 9am and sorry AWwrgwy, but you are confused between the "need" for a limit vs. the limit itself..... At 9AM, there is still a limit to get into an arena.  The CAPs NEVER go away. 

The noon CT thing has nothing to do with the wish.  But thanks for commenting sir!   :cheers:
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2010, 03:02:40 PM »
Nope, I meant 9am and sorry AWwrgwy, but you are confused between the "need" for a limit vs. the limit itself..... At 9AM, there is still a limit to get into an arena.  The CAPs NEVER go away. 

The noon CT thing has nothing to do with the wish.  But thanks for commenting sir!   :cheers:

I'm not too sure about this either whenever I login at say 9 - 10 AM gmt ( minus 5 for EST ) there are both arenas available with up to 400 slots.   Usually have around 80-100 in orange, that dwindles down to a low of 60 ish when everyone has gone to sleep, then slowly builds back up through the day until we finally get some action between 2-6pm GMT.   This is Aussies / Japanese mixed in with Euros and the early Americans.  Soon as we hit 6pm GMT, the caps kick in and the arena is strangled for action.  Squaddies can't join orange,  we usually swap to Blue around 8pm when it isn't completely empty to find a small map with more fights than a large map, that has been starved of players.  End up logging out with about 150 in Orange and 110 in Blue.   

For us All I suggest is moving the cap kicking in to 10pm GMT.   This will guarantee action up until this point and no complaints from the non usa players.    The problem will then be guys logging in to see 250/100   5/150.   So this will piss even more ppl off for longer.   Unless everyday the arena takes a dump at that time and people then log back in to see  0/150,  0/100.  At least this way people will instantly fill both arenas and as long as the map positions stay the same I doubt people will have many complaints if it was a regular occurance.

The alternative is to have no caps but 2 late war arenas.  The problem then is that people WILL go into the main arena, it is undeniable.   Then you will see   501/500  and  50/500 in blue for example.
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2010, 03:18:26 PM »
The alternative is to have no caps but 2 late war arenas.  The problem then is that people WILL go into the main arena, it is undeniable.   Then you will see   501/500  and  50/500 in blue for example.

If we just drop caps during working days and keep it on weekends, we will rarely run into a 500 player arena. Unless is't such a huge success that numbers will rise again...

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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2010, 03:26:32 PM »
If we just drop caps during working days and keep it on weekends, we will rarely run into a 500 player arena. Unless is't such a huge success that numbers will rise again...

LW population on Thursday 2 weeks ago:

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that works for me lusche.  I have also suggested that setup in the past.  We didn't have much choice before, now we have a selection of other arenas to catch a break in like EW, MW and WW1 if having a MMO is such a turn off.
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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2010, 04:36:43 AM »
Let's face it, currently there are not enough players at european prime time to to fill 2 arenas. :cry

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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2010, 08:11:02 PM »
Let's face it, currently there are not enough players at european prime time to to fill 2 arenas. :cry

Are there enough Euro players to fill just Blue?  Just rename Blue to the Yurp Arena.



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Re: Arena CAP mid-day USA
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2010, 08:24:15 PM »
Ordinarily I stay well out of arena cap threads.

However I'll agree with the OP, I don't see the point of dropping the limit's below 200.