Moto's right.
For those of you that are rook, and are proud to point out, The rook JSO's were effective.
I think that what we'll find, in the end, is that no matter how many arena's we use, no matter how many sides or countries are put into the game, No matter what are preference as to whether we take deflection shots, calibrate the Norden, or superelevate to land a round on an NME panzer, this game is played by individuals that all have a different idea on how to play the game. And they'll keep playing the game they want to play, until either AH shuts down, or they run out of money for the subsciption. The fact is, people are sociable animals. We tend to group up, to reach our goals, rather than go it alone.
If you could figure a way to side balance, without breaking up squads, or even those that routinely fly with each other, You will probably be more than halfway to the Holy Grail of MMOG's. But, If you can make everybody happy at the same time, you will actually have it in your hand. I would think that If you truly want to achieve side balance, You're going to have to either:
Give more incentive to fight for something(How you do that, HTC, I could start another thread on, I won't do it here)
Take extremely tight control of what people fly, where, and who with.
Or, Just throw it all open, and hope things fall into place.