Midwar player numbers and mass deffection from Bish to Nit

[cobia38]

  if y,all  agree to fly nice and straight for me so i can shoot you down easy, i will come viset MW again 

[CAP1]

The whole point is to improve numbers in MW, so bringing squads would be the ideal situation wouldnt it?

 only if those squads were willing to split up if necessary in order to keep the fighting fun and some semblance of even......

[Shuffler]

The whole point is to improve numbers in MW, so bringing squads would be the ideal situation wouldnt it?

Only if they are capable of flying on opposite sides of the fence.

[WWhiskey]

KInd of defeats the reason for having a squad if you are not going to fly together doesn't it?
I must have missed all the WW2 war stories about lone pilots flying around just looking for a "good fight"
I thought they all flew around in squads ( squadrons ). I can just see the Germans and the Brits trying to even out the fight " you three go paint your 109's like spits and fly for the Brits today, they don't have nearly enough players"   
( pilots )
 

[Oldman731]

KInd of defeats the reason for having a squad if you are not going to fly together doesn't it?
I must have missed all the WW2 war stories about lone pilots flying around just looking for a "good fight"
I thought they all flew around in squads ( squadrons ). I can just see the Germans and the Brits trying to even out the fight " you three go paint your 109's like spits and fly for the Brits today, they don't have nearly enough players"   

Hence the problem.  In a lightly-populated arena, one squad flying together can quickly convert the evening into a gang-fest.  There is no easy solution; as you point out, squad members like to fly together, but game play can suffer if they don't split up.  Which I believe was Shuffler's original point about squads.  Ideally you can get two (or more) squads, on opposing sides.

- oldman

[Shuffler]

KInd of defeats the reason for having a squad if you are not going to fly together doesn't it?
I must have missed all the WW2 war stories about lone pilots flying around just looking for a "good fight"
I thought they all flew around in squads ( squadrons ). I can just see the Germans and the Brits trying to even out the fight " you three go paint your 109's like spits and fly for the Brits today, they don't have nearly enough players"   
( pilots )
 

Some folks will always put theirselves before the game. That is what happened to MW. That is why MW is on life support.

[caldera]

KInd of defeats the reason for having a squad if you are not going to fly together doesn't it?
I must have missed all the WW2 war stories about lone pilots flying around just looking for a "good fight"
I thought they all flew around in squads ( squadrons ). I can just see the Germans and the Brits trying to even out the fight " you three go paint your 109's like spits and fly for the Brits today, they don't have nearly enough players"   
( pilots )
 

Like all games, this one is more fun when everyone has an equal chance.  Comparing it to the real thing is silly.

[grumpy37]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  what he said.....


Last few days G3 has split up onto different sides and the fights have been 1000000000 better.  earlier today if they had all stayed nit it would have been 14+ nits with 2 or 3 bish and rook.  Best time ive had in the arena in years.

[CAP1]

wow.......i might actually hafta stop in........

[flatiron1]

pig fly, rooks win one in MW tonight.

[Shuffler]

When I logged in last night there were 5 people in MW. I went straight to LW.

Grump's post about folks evening teams is good news. If done on a regular basis MW could possibly start getting some numbers again. That would allow the squad folks to change back to their team side.

Watching...........   

[grumpy37]

When I logged in last night there were 5 people in MW. I went straight to LW.

Grump's post about folks evening teams is good news. If done on a regular basis MW could possibly start getting some numbers again. That would allow the squad folks to change back to their team side.

Watching...........   

if 30 people or more do what you did last night every night we are losing out on 30 + players every night.  A big problem is people see low numbers so they dont go in.  If all the players came in that say they dont because of the low numbers we wouldnt have a numbers problem would we?

[WWhiskey]

Some folks will always put themselves before the game. That is what happened to MW. That is why MW is on life support.

 not sure if that was meant as a dig at me ?
 I am  switching, to help the arena, and I put my squad mates above my own desires and rarely ask anyone for anything other than supplies,
I fight my own fights and help anyone who asks me.
MW is as strong/weak as it has ever been,  I have played in it since it was created, those of you who come in occasionally hoping to automatically find targets to kill,
  whine about how it is not what "you" think it should be instead of spending time turning it into something more to your liking.
No arena in this game fits "your " description of the perfect arena, yet you can create your own now! but no one does, why is that?
I do look for "player created arena's"  before I log in just to see if anyone has set up a GV map,  yet no one ever does,  so I go to whatever arena and find some fun to be had,  I don't come here to whine about it tho, I don't go telling people all about how selfish game play ruined an arena, If I can't find the fight I want,, I up somewhere and make it come to me!
 I am not just digging at you either,  I have seen you one different sides many times, I don't know your motive for what side you decide to play on, but I doubt it is for the betterment of "the arena" more likely for your pleasure, and that is fine,, it's your money  spend it any way you want!

[cattb]

No. I have preached about it to those who do not try to balance the sides. I have told them what will happen. It was well on it's way and is about done now.

When you see 15 knit against 2 bish and no rooks it pretty much paints the picture for you. To top it off the 2 bish make a stand, the mass of knits will go attack the rook side that has no one on.

I all but stopped going in there. Most of the folks in there do not care about the game. They are in there to farm perks. Many will tell you just that.

MW used to have 60 people in it. It has the best planeset in the game. (IMHO) RIP MW.

The MW was like that 2 and 3 years ago, so whats new?