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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #30 on: November 02, 2010, 12:12:33 PM »
No fire-mission here...just another "fun-time" poll:

Instead of asking who wants to eliminate Late War arena caps, lets ask it differently.

Who feels like Late War Arena Caps are a fun vacuum and would like them to burn in hell?

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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #31 on: November 02, 2010, 12:52:44 PM »
They may be bored with no fight. You could try to find a fight in the other arena and alert them to it.

Just because a arena has numbers does not mean the other arena will not have a better fight going on. I think too many folks just assume that is true.

If you go into the other arena it also changes the numbers and they may shift. Then when you drop out of that arena you may find the primary arena you wanted into has slots.
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #32 on: November 02, 2010, 01:24:00 PM »
CAPS wouldn't be a problem if they never fall below 200.

There is no reason whatsoever to have 150/100 caps at noon ET. 
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #33 on: November 02, 2010, 01:34:04 PM »
Not my first rodeo :aok

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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #34 on: November 02, 2010, 01:42:45 PM »
See Rule #6
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #35 on: November 02, 2010, 01:45:19 PM »
There are currently more maps and more choices :D
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #36 on: November 02, 2010, 01:49:58 PM »
Two shovels against the wall and told to take your Pick, would that be confusing to such a literalist I guess it would.

To the literalists out there, "choice of two late war maps"
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #37 on: November 02, 2010, 01:53:50 PM »
See Rule #6
« Last Edit: November 02, 2010, 02:18:06 PM by Skuzzy »
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #38 on: November 02, 2010, 02:04:52 PM »
We don't even know if players go away/play less because if caps or of any other reason or a combination. We can only see: the caps triggers & times are the same now as they had been years ago with almost double the players at euro evenings. And thats why  they do not work anymore like they used to do.

True but the prevailing attitude seems to be try over and over to get into the full arena or just log off. 

Like someone else said, you're still paying your $ to fly or not....

I would speculate that if getting rid of the caps because of dropping numbers happens then things are pretty bad off for the game overall.



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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #39 on: November 02, 2010, 02:12:59 PM »
True but the prevailing attitude seems to be try over and over to get into the full arena or just log off.  

Which is in some way absolutely understandable. When it was down to 40 or less players for almost 4 hours (and I went in... it sucked), you can't plame people if they chose not to sit there in hope someone else will finally follow. Woth only 140 players only, what do you expect when splitting them 100-40 on two arenas? That's far from being the "massive mulitplayer" many of us joined Ah for.

Oh and for the record... the action in LWO was as bad, with caps kicking in most battles simply dried out. That's what happens every evening at 7pm CET.


I would speculate that if getting rid of the caps because of dropping numbers happens then things are pretty bad off for the game overall.

IMHO, for us flying at euro times (yes, I'm selfish), it's worse keeping the same caps mechanism at only 50-66% population we had years ago, instead of saying "currently the numbers are much lower, let's dispense caps on workdays until we get more players again."
I can live with caps it it means about one hour "downtime" each evening - that's how it's been for years, and that's how it still worked on weekend. But not if it strangles gameplay the whole evening.
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #40 on: November 02, 2010, 02:20:05 PM »
It's messing things up even more
Because the caps are so WAC people stay in orange afk for hours
It's not a surprise to see twenty people on each country not in flight in orange
So even there where the numbers are ment to be you can't find decent fights....
Caps are WAC
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #41 on: November 02, 2010, 02:21:48 PM »
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #42 on: November 02, 2010, 02:31:52 PM »
I dont even remember what I said there.......   :headscratch:
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #43 on: November 02, 2010, 02:36:07 PM »
Two shovels against the wall and told to take your Pick, would that be confusing to such a literalist I guess it would.

To the literalists out there, "choice of two late war maps"

I see..... so your limiting yourself to just the late war selections and upset over someone else limiting the use of one of those.


It's all so clear now...... in a limiting way.
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Re: Late War Arena Caps
« Reply #44 on: November 02, 2010, 03:04:14 PM »
All you have to do is ask your squadmates to stop having fun and leave the good fight they have to found and come on over to the arena where nothing is happening. You're so selfish dude. :frown:

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