If the goal is to allow multiple distinct but separated fights to take place at the same time during prime time, then the LARGE MAP fad of the last few years is working. It also allows for choosing to avoid conflict in the massive empty territories in between the fights. Most humans by natural temperment are individualy risk adverse. The real humans who live to fight are in the militairy, jail, or combat clowns on television for our amusment.
A unique phenominon of games like this is the reversal of human survival nature in some players. Normaly they are conservitively risk adverse in life where thier physical well being might be exposed to danger. But, in anonymous virtual environments like this, with the lack of physical consiquences, become hyper agressive and insensative to anything but thier need to dominate others for that primal endorphin fix their other wise conservitive nature deinies them in real life.
If this game were named "Duel of the Aces" and the DA was the primary environment, Hitech would be broke. The few times lately that I've stayed around for the late night arena, the culture is a bit different than the prime time arena. Players appear to not be as interested in "fighting" as they are in prime time. This observation may be an over simplification. Late night does not have sufficient enough players to create the illusion of groups wanting to fight which tends to concentrate an availability of easy protaganists for conflict seekers. As a result you have a diffusion of players across the arena due to the realities of human risk aversive nature.
Each player is paying $14.95 to be a winner in their own fantasy. And a winner they will be, or they will stop paying Hitech $14.95. They are not required to live up to anyone's ARBITRARY standards of playing this game or hitech would have written that in stone when you login to the game on the splash screen. Shouting at a mountain won't make it move. But it's your $14.95 and blood preassure levels.
The illusion of a fight takes place during prime time due to numbers. The reality of human survival conditioning is show cased in the late night arena due to the lack of numbers. Life is about choices. Wonder what the mountain thinks about all this shouting? But then, an endorphin fix isn't a very logical thing to be shouting about. Though it is by definition a legal opiate. But, it is related to cocaine and heroin......just musing here......
