This thread shows that eny is working.
If by working you mean making players leave and HTC looses an income source than ya it's doing wonders, at least if the intentions where to kill off the game.
Lets be honest I rarely see more than a 100 players in the Melee arena at prime time. At night there are usually less than 30. I have never seen the MA with more than 200 since I've been back. The game and it's community is dying, and I don't think Life support is going to work for much longer!
We got to this point for a reason and I don't think the blame lies with the player base or competition.
I log in a 11pm Pacific Time with 30 people on and an ENY value so high I can't fly a single corsair model, it honestly makes me want to cancel my subscription.
The game is Ugly, it's Buggy, there are barely enough players to support it, and while it isn't war thunder it isn't really up their in the realism department either, least war thunder looks pretty but so does IL2:GB and DCS .... Heck even Il2:1946 with a mod looks and plays better, you just don't have a persistent 1000 player server/arena. How many planes are jacked up nerfed or perked for "Player Balance" .... You can't have balance without players and we really don't have the players any more.
Ask TC Drano Joker and Bech how many times I got pissed off and logged off due to NMY. Simply put this frustration isn't worth the money I pay for it and I do it far more for my squad and the game's Community than anything else .... as many of us have notice there isn't a lot of community left. The only thing keeping me from canceling right now is the very few friends I have left in it and "The Bowling Equation" The game with FSO and Scenarios cost less, takes less effort and is about as much fun as bowling league. However my bowling ball cost a lot less than my throttle alone did let alone my computer.
As soon as DCS releases the Corsair module with the Essex class carrier and map, I'm probably going to bail on AH the first time I get screwed by NMY and can't even fly an early F4u1 at 1am PT.
To bad the IL2 Guys are fixated on Eurotrash but at least they have a p38j with dive flaps I can fly without worrying about NMY Putting a huge thick glass plane in my cockpit obstructing my view.
NMY is one of the many things hurting this game and one of the easiest to fix.
The simplest fix and easiest to implement is to disable or restrict it when the over all arena numbers fall below a certain number like 50 and enable unlimited or at least much less restrictive country changes, at least in a way that doesn't trap a player in the new country when NMY turns off.
Here is a thread that touches on the matter way back in 2011 right before I left AH for nearly 10 years (The 2 weeks I came back in 2016ish don't count) for SWTOR. It's kind of been a problem for a long time. At least then we had problem of getting into one of the first couple of 500 man late war arenas. Kinda miss that now.
https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,318265.0.html
