Change how the DA works

[justIN]

How about trying to move the DA more like the MA,first thing like say there is 40 people in the DA only so many temps,51 can be upped at a time and the more players in the DA the more the power house planes can be upped at one point.What would be nice about this is say I am in a temp and I die,the cap limit is full I have a choice to wait to fly a temp fly something new
By doing this it makes you try out new planes that you never would of before.1 temp per 10layers.  1 p51 per 8players. It will make it a little more even across the boards,40% percent now has become the powere house planes,And how about auto balancing in the DA?And take F3 out of DA!

[ImADot]

What if I want to duel my buddy in a certain plane, but "someone else" is already using it?  What if he gets it, but now the limit has been reached and I can't get it?  The DA has been bastardized from its original purpose - your suggestion will not fix that.  The only thing that will fix it is the addition of private H2H arenas - which HTC said they would like to bring back at some point for registered customers.

[DrDea]

 Shut down the DA and they will then REALLY have to learn    The old head to head in AW worked better anyway.

[The Fugitive]

The DA is the dueling arena, its there for dueling. The bozo's there now a days have trashed the place and turned it into the cess pool it is today. What you have is all your ever going to get out of it. Either learn to live with it, or come join the big boys over in the MA's.

[justIN]

I do come in the MA,but I like the fast rate of dogfighting I'm not into flyin 10 min or more fore a fight to find out there is 6 waiting to die fast and turn around and do it all over for nothing.HTC needs to try some of these ideas that the DA lovers like we all no some things that can and wont work.And yes if they do open a private arena for fights it wouldn't hurt to try a number cap per people in the DA will it then.There is die hard furballers just like in the MA the DA is no better or worse then the MA its what one likes.  long strung out tactics or the fast fight

[The Fugitive]

You've only been on the boards a month, I don't know how long in the game. It was quite a long time ago that they added the present map in the DA. Originally it was just a bunch of paired bases with differing alts for the bases so there was no need to climb. When they made this new map, they got the approval to add the "fighter town" section for just that, a furball area.

 For awhile it was a good place for "quick fights", and there were players with a bit of class and didn't gang and such. Then the trash showed up, pretty much around the time when they closed off the 8 player rooms. Lots of people bit the bullet and started paying for the game, but soon found out that in a fight they really suck. They were so use to playing with other people who sucked that they never needed to nor wanted to get better. They were always getting "dead" in the MA's, but they could run their little gangs in the DA.

Instead of trying to get better, most of these people hang around in the DA and cherry pick others in their Tempests killing the fun of those who are trying to have a quick fight. The only way to make it a good place to hang out now is to severely limit what you are allowed to do and have someone in there to monitor the "goings on". HTC isn't going to waste time and energy on such a small group/arena. They have a lot more people to try and keep happy in the main arenas, and through out the special events groups.

So in the end, the DA is what it is, and it really isn't going to change. HTC said they would like to open the 8 player stuff again, but make it for the paying crowd, hosting the arenas themselves to control the software. Maybe once that happens the rif-raf will move out of the DA and the furball arena will once again be a furball area.