I think what happened tonight was a clear, main arena wide advertisement for the whole concept of a scenario.
There are alot of people who fly in the MA that do not know what a scenario is, or do not feel comfortable joining one as they are still considering themselfes new.
We have, not only the backup main arena, but the SEA, Special Events Arena, where we, the players, can offer up events just like Filth put on tonight.
We can run these within the normal game nights of the main arena, or run them in the SEA. Either way, to have a massive amount of players log in and join an orchestrated mission to attack and defend a target is the absolute best of what this game is built on.
I will fly formal scenarios in the SEA, Squad Ops, or missions like tonights in the Main Arena, any time. Logging in, grabbing alt, killing a base and repeat does get old after a bit.
The CM Team and Players like Filth putting together events like tonight can do any number of missions. Want a 100% ground war? Ok, I'm game. How about a Carrier battle? Works for me. We need to get the few in the BBS to translate this energy to the Many in the Arena. I think, personally, that at least Half of the participants tonight did not know about the event from this board.
How do we promote this stuff?
How would you like to be notified? Are the boards too cumbersome? Would you like to be subscribed to an email list and be notified about all events? This was fun, how do we get more people to have fun as well?
How do we get beyond the usual suspects who already know what goes on in the BBs and get to the players that don't frequent this board?