actually I think a retro arena would be fun maybe even have a AHI, what harm would it do.
One of the most heartbreaking paths to destruction in an MMO flight sim lies in giving the players what they think they want, rather than doing what is needed for the sim. The sim I started on did this, and by the time the mistake was realized to be one, it was too late - most of those that didn't like the Axis/Allied format of the main arena or gamy fixes that resulted from trying to level the inequities were gone, and what were left were just the players (mostly flying for one side) who did want it. The sim never recovered. In fact, most of them fly here now.
While I don't enjoy the new radar settings as much as the earlier settings for the reason's put forth earlier, I've lived through a LOT worse at the hands of the developers of other sims in terms of game "enhancments" that I didn't enjoy. And if Hitech and crew feels they should not never change back (or even downward from where they are), it's not THAT big of a deal.
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