ENY ENY every time I FREAKIN FLY

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[zack1234]

Then Yak9T does not suffer from ENY

[The Fugitive]

He hasn't had a chance to get his chesspiece underoos fitted yet.  He's in an excellent position to switch to the low numbered side.  Or did his grandpa fly Bish exclusively too?

First thing people usually do when they can't up something is ask on a channel, "Why can't I fly the single plane I decided to purchase a gaming computer, HOTAS, Oculus Rift, and subscribe for a 2 week account to this game to fly?  My grandfather's spirit does not rest easy, and my children cannot sleep with his ghost wandering the halls of my home in this state of unrest that can only be assuaged by me flying a P-51 in Aces High.  Their grades are suffering for it, and I fear that they will surely wind up living a life of homelessness and despair unless I am able to fly a P-51."

Where the problem comes in is, the majority of the replies he'll get from the community will generally consist of, "Because Hitech is stoopid" but let's not dwell on that.

Hitech, do not punish 3 generations of people in this family with ENY.  It is cruel.

Wiley.

Most new players don't know how to work the radio to ASK about the game.

ENY isn't "cruel ", it's a nessicity the problem is with the low numbers. Like I sa8d before, late Saturday afternoon eastern time,  bish had a 24 ENY,  and less than an hour later it was rooks who had a 9 ENY. Talk about wild swings.

It needs to be tweaked for the low numbers.

[Wiley]

Most new players don't know how to work the radio to ASK about the game.

I think you're grossly underestimating the capability of the average new player.  Text channels are not that impenetrable to the average person.  If they can't figure that out, I doubt they'd be able to figure out how to choose a plane and launch it.

Personally, I see little difference between being horded by high ENY planes versus low ENY planes, but apparently HT feels differently.  If people treated the game more like a pickup game of football instead of sticking to their side no matter what, it wouldn't be an issue.  Unfortunately people have the attitude of "chesspiece or log out" with no room for compromise.

HT apparently made the decision that people logging off the high side is preferable to the kind of side imbalance they get without ENY.  It's designed to be punitive.  All the "tweaks" are ever talking about is making it less punitive so the side imbalance is less painful for the side on top.

Wiley.

[VuduVee]

And make things worse than they already are?

It's obvious in USA prime-time that rooks & nights don't fight for bases and double-team bish....so hop sides just to make things worse?  No thank you.

 wow wow wow. this guy is off his rocker as usual. right now at 12 pm central time, ROX is part of 20 bish and 20 knits vs literally 9 rooks. hes not on 200 crying about that though.

[Invictus84]

It has been a while since I played AH II but ENY was rarely a problem for me back then and I thought a good way to balance the sides.  Based on what I've read it seems the low numbers and longer side switch times are the main problems.  Why not lower the side switch times?  Is it a fear of cheating or game exploitation?

[Wiley]

It has been a while since I played AH II but ENY was rarely a problem for me back then and I thought a good way to balance the sides.  Based on what I've read it seems the low numbers and longer side switch times are the main problems.  Why not lower the side switch times?  Is it a fear of cheating or game exploitation?

The official story is the side switch time prevents wild swings in player numbers.  Like somebody said upthread, where it went from Bish having 24 ENY to Rooks having 9 inside an hour, I don't really see how letting people switch to the low side could make it any worse than it already is at times these days, but that's HT's stance on it.

Honestly, I think very few people would switch anyways just because the country loyalty is so incredibly firmly entrenched.

Wiley.

[Ack-Ack]

Most new players don't know how to work the radio to ASK about the game.

ENY isn't "cruel ", it's a nessicity the problem is with the low numbers. Like I sa8d before, late Saturday afternoon eastern time,  bish had a 24 ENY,  and less than an hour later it was rooks who had a 9 ENY. Talk about wild swings.

It needs to be tweaked for the low numbers.

Actually most new players tune to the Help channel but don't get any help because the majority use that channel as a back up channel 200.

[DmonSlyr]

I use to hit escape, then "radio", to type for almost a month. One magical day I pressed / and it pulled up a typing board. Sometimes the simplest things are difficult to find when you have no clue about them being there.

[Vraciu]

I find it funny that one side will outnumber the rest by 20 or 30 players and then complain that they cant fly uber rides SMH 

I don't like it regardless because ENY ALSO causes my opponents to log. 

In any case, it doesn't take a twenty player imbalance to drive ENY to 29.

[Biggamer]

the thing that bugs me a bit is when you have a 29 ENY and half the team is not in flight i know some are landing and taking off and such but for the most part its AFK people who just dont log off.  If you set in the tower for over 5-10 mins it should boot you out to the arenas menu that would help some with the ENY issue.    ENY is silly imho anyway you are gonna have peak times for each country and they may have a bit of a advantage but to take everyone ride from them and make them fly ju-88 into ponys because ENY has other bombers grounded is crazy and it forces people to log off rather then change sides because that means all their friends have to change if they wanna fly together and they all change and it shift in a hour and they get caught again by ENY guess what the stupid 6 hour rule.  robbing peter to pay paul is slowly pushing more people away.

i fly The F6F as my main ride and ENY dont allow it much anymore so i just choose to play other games the hellcat ENY used to be 15 they moved it down to 12 why? because it carrier based is the only thing i can think of. The P38 has the same ord loadout and better gun package it is faster and has a 20 ENY.    When i cant even fly a mid war plane up against the late war monsters thats when it becomes a waste of my time to log on and thats why i dont fly its not like im asking for a whole hell of a lot other then to fly a hellcat. end of my whine and no i dont want any cheese

[Invictus84]

Honestly, I think very few people would switch anyways just because the country loyalty is so incredibly firmly entrenched.

It is unfortunate that attitude continues. To be honest I never really understood Chess Piece loyalty.  In other games I understand similar attitudes to a degree since one side might have a specific set of planes (Luftwaffe) a player may be more interested in flying.  BoS is sometimes not much fun because everyone wants to fly German and the Russians end up outnumbered  3 to1 or more.    But in the AH MA they all have the same plane sets for the most part, until ENY hits of course but that is why I always thought it was a good system.

[Vraciu]

the thing that bugs me a bit is when you have a 29 ENY and half the team is not in flight i know some are landing and taking off and such but for the most part its AFK people who just dont log off.  If you set in the tower for over 5-10 mins it should boot you out to the arenas menu that would help some with the ENY issue.    ENY is silly imho anyway you are gonna have peak times for each country and they may have a bit of a advantage but to take everyone ride from them and make them fly ju-88 into ponys because ENY has other bombers grounded is crazy and it forces people to log off rather then change sides because that means all their friends have to change if they wanna fly together and they all change and it shift in a hour and they get caught again by ENY guess what the stupid 6 hour rule.  robbing peter to pay paul is slowly pushing more people away.

i fly The F6F as my main ride and ENY dont allow it much anymore so i just choose to play other games the hellcat ENY used to be 15 they moved it down to 12 why? because it carrier based is the only thing i can think of. The P38 has the same ord loadout and better gun package it is faster and has a 20 ENY.    When i cant even fly a mid war plane up against the late war monsters thats when it becomes a waste of my time to log on and thats why i dont fly its not like im asking for a whole hell of a lot other then to fly a hellcat. end of my whine and no i dont want any cheese

[VuduVee]

the thing that bugs me a bit is when you have a 29 ENY and half the team is not in flight i know some are landing and taking off and such but for the most part its AFK people who just dont log off.  If you set in the tower for over 5-10 mins it should boot you out to the arenas menu that would help some with the ENY issue.    ENY is silly imho anyway you are gonna have peak times for each country and they may have a bit of a advantage but to take everyone ride from them and make them fly ju-88 into ponys because ENY has other bombers grounded is crazy and it forces people to log off rather then change sides because that means all their friends have to change if they wanna fly together and they all change and it shift in a hour and they get caught again by ENY guess what the stupid 6 hour rule.  robbing peter to pay paul is slowly pushing more people away.

i fly The F6F as my main ride and ENY dont allow it much anymore so i just choose to play other games the hellcat ENY used to be 15 they moved it down to 12 why? because it carrier based is the only thing i can think of. The P38 has the same ord loadout and better gun package it is faster and has a 20 ENY.    When i cant even fly a mid war plane up against the late war monsters thats when it becomes a waste of my time to log on and thats why i dont fly its not like im asking for a whole hell of a lot other then to fly a hellcat. end of my whine and no i dont want any cheese

ENY may drive people away like you say, but so does fighting with half the people vs your bishop daily hordes. just about every single day the bishop have twice the people and going for the smallest team. if there were no eny, you guys would be doing that in uber rides.