agree's with slap shot. the old way was worse imho. Though squads did not seem to find homes in various arena's never seemed to materialize.....though i hear tell from the bb that some enjoy milk running arena's, i remember that whole discussion as something brought about by speculation from the community.
though everyone entitled to opinion, i don't see the correlation. there was milk running before, now rampant?...not a new problem, always been milking. maybe a bit easier to do now, but if you are concerned about score, you have the same opportunities as everyone else to get that score up there.
hoardes bad as ever? not a new problem.... solutions as to having bases only allowed to be taken in some type of order didn't pan out. limiting country size per arena i'm sure would be met with the same old same old.
as far as slum, there are good people and bad, with smaller arena's the bad are just more spread out, therefore i guess less of a chance to run into these idiots. Ch. 200 optional, and you don't have to listen to them. I've personally found less idiots, and had a chance to meet more people with these smaller arena's....my experience, maybe others have had different.
basically it doesn't matter what HT does. People want everything to be exactly the way they want it (fine), but won't make any compromises, leading to an impossible situation. Make a change, hopefully moving the game in the direction he wants.....makes people who like the old way mad. Change the game back, makes people mad. I am someone who believes that if you make a change, and nothing is horribly wrong, you should stay the course for awhile.....if you get more people, and more people are staying, more people are happy, then it is the right one. Sadly the people who don't like it will be filtered out. though happy people replace.
and for the prophecy, i don't think it's fair for the people who predict problems to rule on those predictions in the future, just a bit biased.