You guys are rolling bases after the lock because there is less resistance...
Actually, we aren't. We roll bases all night with varying resistance and don't always stop a good roll, let alone an attack in progress, just because the other arena opens. Or sometimes we're defending. Last night at arena lock we were defending a port that had been retaken from the rooks a while before - and there was PLENTY of opposition. I had to land due to an oil leak about 2-3 minutes after the lock so I hopped in a manned ack and sat there until the boot. Why? Because it would be stupid to let someone sneak in 30 seconds before lock and undo an hour or so of successful defense. And if they did, I'd blame myself for being careless, not them for being sneaky.
(I got about 5-6 kills and died a few times in that defense, btw. vJAZZI, vCOBRA, vWOODI, vALERIC, and a bunch of other folks (most from other squads) were there too. Oh, but I guess those must be more imaginary kills of nonexistent enemies and deaths to ack (at our own base), though, because we know the v-guys always avoid combat like the plague.)
Anyway, I think I mentioned a few pages up, there's no "rolling" bases after the lock. It's only ten minutes, time for a small group of guys to take one base at most and only if it goes perfectly and you have the goon or M3 already on the way at lock. What you're mostly seeing is an attack that was already in progress when the arena locked, and if the defenders all just go away and stop defending, that's their problem (see above.) And in case I haven't made this clear, it's still only
10 minutes out of hours every evening. No matter what happened it could hardly have a radical effect on game play for all those hours.
As to "there's no fun in the Off Hours arena because you guys are still in Orange," first, while I appreciate the implication that fun does not exist in AH without the presence of the DEVIL'S =v= BRIGADE, it's not our responsibility (or anyone else's) to provide fun to everyone else by showing up to fight when and where you choose, and the new arena is always going to take a while to warm up anyway, that's just the result of the new system. But more important, you could always stick around until the old arena closes and keep fighting us. Strange idea, I know. But even the v-guys can't take bases undefended if they're, um, being defended.
Also, though this is less addressed to bunnies than to others (like Fugitive and Tralfazz) who keep grossly lying about our squad, but I get pretty sick of this jealous slander some folks insist on bringing here, I guess because they're bitter about their frequent inability to stop us in the MA. First it's "waaah waaah hordes" even when we have 6-8 guys on and 10-12 in missions, then it's "waaah waaah NOE sneaks" even though 90% of our attacks come in at 8-10k these days, then it's "waaah waaah undefended bases avoiding combat" even after I pointed out that between us we score about 200 kills and suffer about the same number of deaths every day in the MA, then it's "waaah waaah just vulching" because even in the face of all the evidence petty little minds just can't accept the fact that they're full of BS in claiming we never fight.
I guess some folks do, and others whine.
But listening to the whining is getting awful old. Cut it out, act like men, and let your (in-game) bullets do the talking.
(I'm not claiming any amazing level of 733t skillz, btw, so don't even go there. You can say we suck if you like, and we'll just sort that out in the arena. I'm just sick of the lies about our methods.)
But
to the majority who seem to enjoy flying with or against us.
Anyway, none of that affects the point about deliberate griefing vs. playing in a manner different from what SOME others might prefer.
