I joined a squad to fly with a squad. It enhances the game a great deal to be able to work cooperatively with a small group in a team.
The new arena capacity restrictions seriously inhibit a group's ability to operate in the same arena. If these restrictions in the Aces High arenas persist, I, as a paying customer, may choose to find another online war game.
Simply put, when I see my fellow squaddies are in Late War Orange, and I attempt to join Late War Orange, just to find myself in Late War Blue, I become dissatisfied with the product I am paying for.
In anticipation of obvious responses such as "just organize your group in a different arena" I must point out that in all practicality, this just does not work. This seems to be a consistent problem with many of the squads and therefore, I, along with many other paying customers have become discontented with the arena balancing changes.
Be creative and find a new means to balance the arena load capacity. For example, the ENY restrictions seem much more clever and practical to me.