Please....

[BaldEagl]

Since I've been here I've been a Bish and only changed two or three times and only until I could change back.  Once I was so PO'd at the Bish I swithced to attack them and another time was to fly with someone else specifically.  But that's just me.  I was also always a AZ in AW.  Then it seemed there was always a larger rivalry with the CZ and now it's the Knits.

In all that time the fights (define however you want) have ebbed and flowed.  Many times you fly to an area and the fight dries up, other times you head for a small darbar that quickly grows or you decide to follow the horde only to find they're all RTB leaving you alone flying into the hornets nest they've stirred up.  Sometimes both opposing countries are only fighting you and other times there's no opposition on either side of you.

And all that time the game is ebbing and flowing.  It doe's it in many wavelengths and does them all at once.  Occasionally you'll find yourself at the top or bottom of all the combined cycles as they converge, other times the cycles will feel quite fast but there's always a deeper, underlying current.  That's how the game feels to me after all these years.  I'm glad I've stuck to one country through good and bad otherwise I might not have experienced it.

People wanting to switch sides are no issue to me.  It may change some of the shorter cycles but the deeper game will continue to ebb and flow and, if you're patient, the fight will come to you.

My vote would be for making side switch time equal to the historical average, which IIRC is about 12 hours.  Anything else would be a disruption in the force.

[Zacherof]

that would be much better....for those times....

peak time needs a change also...the numbers and style has just changed so much, there are far more land grabbers now then ever, and to fight that hoard as it moves around the map, we need the ability to change sides, if I am truly trying to fight the gang I wont care about losing coms and ords...that way there can be no "spying" or sinking CVs.....(of course there is always ways around that)

Hmm I would look for ink, attempt to kill him, and then...well that next part never happens



But yes! I love switching sides at night when the fight is nil. One can milk run towns for only so long

[ReVo]

Allow people to switch instantly to any side with fewer players then the side they're currently on, as many times and as frequently as they like.

[Butcher]

Hundreds of players simultaneously battle it out against each other in massive aerial dogfights and bomber raids. 

Problem is in off hours this isn't always the case - imagine you log in and see your country isn't doing anything, you switch countries and the fight brews for 30 minutes then dies down,  however your previous country starts fighting. Now you wait 30 minutes and nothing happens and log off.

I see no problem with people switching sides sooner (6 hours even 4 hours) - I will even go out and say if someone switches side (for example you can't win the war if you switched within 12 hours or so?) you cannot control CV's as well.

/Oh and +1 anything ink says

[kvuo75]

Allow people to switch instantly to any side with fewer players then the side they're currently on, as many times and as frequently as they like.

yep that's the version I like.. free switch to lowest populated country, anytime.

[kvuo75]

Question: Would a variation of this request be to have only two countries? I have read the explanation on why it remains three countries. Would that change if it were only two countries?

boo

if there were only two countries, the war winner guys truly would all change to the "winning" side.

3 sides keeps it from getting more lopsided as it is.

[ink]

yep that's the version I like.. free switch to lowest populated country, anytime.

I agree that would be the best solution.

[BluBerry]

Allow people to switch instantly to any side with fewer players then the side they're currently on, as many times and as frequently as they like.

+1

[Reaper90]

I agree that would be the best solution.

plus Juan

 

[bustr]

You guys know the unintended consequence is you will drive away the late night unskilled players because they will have no way to avoid you except logging off?

Their experience will become one of every time they up, a small hungry herd of lions will be waiting to turn their game experience into a bazar frustrating bad time. Most of them cannot, nor want to conceive of how you do what you do so very extremely well. They are paying for some fun and the fantasy of flying around doing what you do.

Guess you don't believe in conserving your source of "hunting game" to not kill the goose laying this egg.

I suspect short of posting nasty customer letters, there is no real way to tell how many in these economic times have chosen other venues than be eaten by the slightly more concentrated lions every time they up during the low numbers time in the MA these days. At least those remaining can avoid the nightly big furball because the 12 hour rule limits the participation to one side of the map.

You won't force them to become what they are not by killing their fun over and over and over. As a result, fewer subscriptions.

Ask for Hitech to add a function that can be set to player numbers, or a timer that reduces the play area down to a 10x10 or 8x8 center of the map saving all of the full map positions for the later re-expansion. Or your greed will drive out the last remaining players during late night who most are not ACM gauwds, nor care to be. Or the 5% of you can make use of that arena Hitech built just for your uber abilities called: The DA.

But, then if it was really about good quality fights, the DA would be packed with the 5% screaming to each other to get your kesters in there and away from the lameo MA fodder. This is really about feeding the fix once you are in feeding mode frenzy.

[kvuo75]

You guys know the unintended consequence is you will drive away the late night unskilled players because they will have no way to avoid you except logging off?

Their experience will become one of every time they up, a small hungry herd of lions will be waiting to turn their game experience into a bazar frustrating bad time. Most of them cannot, nor want to conceive of how you do what you do so very extremely well.

at a certain point then, we're all not even playing the same game.. what's the point of even having everyone in the same arena?

the game is hard.. boohoo.

should there be PvP limits next, so an "ace" can't kill a noob?

[LCADolby]

You guys know the unintended consequence is you will drive away the late night unskilled players because they will have no way to avoid you except logging off?

 

[BluBerry]

Ask for Hitech to add a function that can be set to player numbers, or a timer that reduces the play area down to a 10x10 or 8x8 center of the map saving all of the full map positions for the later re-expansion. Or your greed will drive out the last remaining players during late night who most are not ACM gauwds, nor care to be. Or the 5% of you can make use of that arena Hitech built just for your uber abilities called: The DA.

[bustr]

No, you are choosing to care only about "you" and not accepting the current circumstances for the near future that is keeping available targets after about 9:00 pm PST at an all time low. Until times change around the world and people have more disposable income along with the next eye candy updated version of the game. You need to consider the results of too few players, with too little skill, and what they will do with their disposable income if they are hounded everywhere on the map by no limits on side switching.

You self centered ACM, kill em all, and let god sort it out types are only 5% of the cash flow keeping the doors open. But, disproportionately effect the outcome of small and medium numbers engagements for everyone but other's like yourself. Yes the cowards leave the area because you suck the fun out of their play style. Give you unlimited jumping and they will leave the game all together. With 12 hours they have the odds on their side to play the game their way enough of the time to keep them paying a subscription.

In the past there was an excess of players to absorb the losses of the clueless weenies you guys ran out of here. 12 hours gives the survivor's the illusion that they can get some where while learning not to be cat food every time one of you self centered types eats them.

Switch at will or even every 60 minutes will concentrate you guys wherever the skill less are hiding with no respite to have fun playing the game their way. They will either quit out right, or everyone will be in tanks after a certain time every night. You may notice the being in tanks trend happening right now.

So which is it?

Shoot the goose today and feel really good in the short term?

Or,

See the reality of the times and husband your prey for awhile until times get better?

I don't see you guys in the DA much anymore. That's gotta be hard on the MA general low skilled population. It will only get worse if you can jump sides at will to hunt them down until they quit the game. 12 hours gives them a chance to learn the game while enjoying the process. 

[LCADolby]

I've spent more time this past year in the DA than I ever have done prior. I guess by the reasoning you have displayed, you must only care about you bustr otherwise you would have noticed.