I'm totally with you. I miss the personalization of the H2H arena's. Usually you knew everyone in the arena's and what they flew, and most of the time, how they flew it. In the H2H arena's you'd have the good 1v1 fights goin on alot of the time and if they saw you screw up, they'd let you know once the fight was over how you could do better. The MA isn't like that, it's too much about score and what not.
Once read a siggy that was pretty good, can't remember who's it was though.
"Being ranked #1 in Aces High is like being the skinniest kid at fat camp or the smartest kid on the short bus"
About the low alt. fights... I love em.
I fly the p51D Mustang and it's a blast to get 'em down low and see people flock to you. Been in quite a few really good fights, one of the best, a rolling scissors with a YAK where there was more than one issue of staying out of their pipper and keeping co E, but the trees, we were in the middle of the dense tree area and at the bottom, we were scraping the ground ( fuzeman)
I tend to carry my H2H attitude into the MA's and I try to give advice, but usually people say something along the lines of "you got lucky noob/dweeb" something along those lines. Once I was flyin my Lancs at 20k and shot down a 262, tried to tell him not to fly straight on a bombers 6, he ended up loseing 4 more 152's before he cussed me out and left.
The H2H if you were to try something like that, you'd be gone in a heartbeat. Do I miss em? Yes. But I make do with what I have, and that's the MA's.