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Offline ACE

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Side switch timer
« on: March 29, 2019, 11:02:01 AM »
Why not lower the time between switching sides? It would for sure promote more combat. It is a bummer to change sides and then you find no fights and you can’t switch...
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2019, 11:43:44 AM »
+1
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2019, 11:54:20 AM »
Maybe they could tie it in to the ENY, a countries ENY goes up, time lowers.
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2019, 11:58:18 AM »
Maybe they could tie it in to the ENY, a countries ENY goes up, time lowers.


Hey there’s a good idea.
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2019, 02:38:00 PM »
Should be able to switch to the lowest country at any time... maybe within a percentage threshhold or something.

+1

Its obvious we wont go to two counties to concentrate the action, so at least let us pursue it on our own terms.

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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2019, 02:47:16 PM »
Should be able to switch to the lowest country at any time... maybe within a percentage threshhold or something.

+1

Its obvious we wont go to two counties to concentrate the action, so at least let us pursue it on our own terms.

+1
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2019, 02:51:19 PM »
Should be able to switch to the lowest country at any time... maybe within a percentage threshhold or something.

+1

Its obvious we wont go to two counties to concentrate the action, so at least let us pursue it on our own terms.

I like this idea aswell. Really there are a few good ideas that could be implemented
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2019, 03:08:46 PM »
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The majority of peeps just want good fighter action. A 2-3 hour switch time would be much benefitial for the players if the tide changes after you switch. No one could spy after waiting 2-3 hours. The tide and fight changes about every hour to hour and a half. Would be nice if there was a way to see whose winning the dar bar on the other side of the map or order to switch to the team that is fighting the hoard. 
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2019, 04:01:18 PM »
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The majority of peeps

How do you know this other than by projecting what you want Hitech to change the game for yourself to?
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2019, 04:26:28 PM »
How do you know this other than by projecting what you want Hitech to change the game for yourself to?

It's called statistical #s and common sense.   :aok
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2019, 04:33:12 PM »
It means you are projecting your emotions on others as the outcome you want without ever contacting all the customers who play in the MA who never come to these forums. And the tiny fanboy group who agree with you here in the forums, like you, want Hitech to turn the MA into their personal utopian vision of Hitech's game.
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2019, 04:41:53 PM »
+1

The majority of peeps just want good fighter action. A 2-3 hour switch time would be much benefitial for the players if the tide changes after you switch. No one could spy after waiting 2-3 hours. The tide and fight changes about every hour to hour and a half. Would be nice if there was a way to see whose winning the dar bar on the other side of the map or order to switch to the team that is fighting the hoard. 
I think 1 hour is the better number. Really any number closer to 0 will do for me.

The time HAS to be lowered regardless.
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2019, 04:47:11 PM »
It means you are projecting your emotions on others as the outcome you want without ever contacting all the customers who play in the MA who never come to these forums. And the tiny fanboy group who agree with you here in the forums, like you, want Hitech to turn the MA into their personal utopian vision of Hitech's game.

Lmfao. Typical BS.
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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2019, 04:55:19 PM »
The tide and fight changes about every hour to hour and a half.

That is the thing that I disagree with HT on.  The side switch time is there as a damper to prevent swings from being too quick.  Just naturally, at certain times of the day numbers swing much faster than his 6 hour switch time damper.  I've seen ENY switch from massively in one side's favor to even to heavily against that side over the period of a couple hours.  That seems to me to render the damper pointless because the arena naturally changes at a faster pace than it does.  But, it's been brought up a few dozen times, the answer's always been no.  This doesn't look to me like the thread that will convince him either.

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Re: Side switch timer
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2019, 05:00:26 PM »
Maybe they could tie it in to the ENY, a countries ENY goes up, time lowers.

There's a good idea!
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