A year and a half ago you would have been in there pretty much by yourself.
I am not arguing that the AvsA is not doing very well at the present time, but to keep on making that blanketed statement is just wrong... the AvsA is still pretty much un attended through 75 to 90 % of every day...... just like it was through out the entire time of existence.....
and the only way for anyone to really know is to have someone like Lusche do a chart/graph of gameplay attendance /etc for the CT/AvsA from the 1st Day up to current day........
outside of seeing several nights of "burst of people in AvsA" here and there, I still see no difference in the AvsA population , the AvsA still has very limited attendance........it has been better lately, but it is stil limited, and it is still mainly limited to the hours of 7PM EST +/- to 1 AM EST +/-...... just like it has always been......
All the AvA people, the new ones and the one's you know from CT would turn the icons back on like you wish if they felt it would be more popular than the current settings.
All the AvA people, new and old, actually can not do like we wish, if we indeed wanted to turn the icons back on. that ability lyes soley in the hands of each and every AvsA staffer, but it doesn't matter either way.......you either accept the settings for whatever arena you fly in or you go somewhere else
you and TC have been going on about the No-icon settings for months now. we get it. you don't like them. but until everyone else hates them, they're here to stay.
I wish you would not have included me in the above quote..... I have been flying and participating in the AvsA and have personally asked for people to quit arguing over the icons/no icons discussion... like I have posted several times already.... one can accept the AvsA for the way it is and fly there and have fun or they can go fly somewhere else if the AvsA is not their cup of tea....
just because I openly state that I hate the "no enemy icons' setting, does not mean I am arguing it like I did when the AvsA Staffers or soon to be New AvsA Staffers originally decided that this was a new approach they wanted to try, and any discussion I may have posted to was to show that their is no "realistic immersion factor" to flying with no icons, because of the limitations of our current PC's...the only "TRUE" immersion that one can get in the AvsA is the fact that it is Allied plane types verses Axis plane types
but again..... I am not fussing...... I have ben having fun 95% of the time.it is only when certian people or squads come in and don't go along with the status quo of balancing out the sides when the numbers are low, like 6 vs 2 or 7 vs 2 or 6 vs 1 etc..... and the fact that you are already fighting 1 or 2 and #3 & #4 and even #5 want to jump in and help out the #1 & #2 against lil ole you, by yourself...... so they can practice their "wingman / squadron tactics"....
as for the Mentoring comment: Mentoring can be done on Country channel and on a private tuned channel, when mentoring a friend or new comer..... Menoring on Channel 1 or channel 200, is more of encouragement and suggestions along thelines of "hey players, lets even up the sides a lil bit until more people show up" or things in that nature....... Mentoring is completely different than people or a person trying to make another play "their Way"...
btw: USRanger, really like the "FOG effect" where it hovers he ground and flaots across the bases every now and then ( or if it was someone else, Thank You, sorry I got the name wrong )
see ya all in the AvsA, lets have some fun
TC
