Just interesting how people enjoy coming here to throw poo at one another, yet want to do nothing to help the arena...
Quite a few people have gone out of their way to help this arena
for years. Long before you came along. Every experiment has been met with disdain by some regulars. Saying things like the AVA is ruined now, it's full of insert derogatory name <here>. It needs to go back to the old days, and all the new people need to go back to the MA. Well the new people went back to the MA. A lot of us old timers went there as well. So the guys that wanted their pure 1v1 dogfighting arena have it now. Still these same people want to complain because nobody flies there. This last episode ruined it for me. After years of trying to drum up support and as well as support other peoples ideas to help the arena and have the efforts met with the same old crap time after time I'm sick of trying.
It's not just the dogfighters either, there was just as bad of attitude by some of the war fighters who thought it was manly to bang away capturing bases with 4 to 1 odds. Then would crow about it on the boards. The closesest we got to what the arena could be was the very last experiment. The campaign series ran by TheBug. Even that went stale because
neither side can stomach a few days not having the best plane. Instead of trying to get immersed in the history trying to be represented... Everybody wants to complain about what the other side is flying. Even one staff member takes it upon himself to question people when he See's them in a spit... No it wasn't me he questioned, it wasn't even a squadmate of mine he questioned. If the plane is in the setup it's no body's business what you fly. After all the constant crap, complaints and crying, the fact a staff member thought he needed to question another player's choice of aircraft was pretty much the last straw for me.
If you really want to help the arena Republic. You can start by accepting the fact the arena is open to everyone. Therefore their opinion on this BBS is just as valid as anybody Else's. The AVA is not an elite arena it never has been. It's not populated by elite fighter pilots. It's populated by people playing a game just like all the other arenas. Some people just get a little caught up and apply too much machismo to manipulating pixels.
Only here occasionally we've been allowed some say so. Theres no need that it be a dogfight only arena anymore than there's a need that it be a milkrunning arena. This arena has potential to be the funnest most immersive arena in creating actual WWII matchups. However for one reason or another staff and players cannot make it work. That reason usually boils down to animosity. You really want to help? Bury the animosity. If a person isn't flying here it doesn't mean he won't in the future. So treat people on the boards as potential AVA regulars. If the AVA and the people that fly there would get their crap together it could be the best arena in AH.