vote Drop it. a few nights flew in bombers to strike teh strats but tehy were all ready burning on both sides.
What s pack the ava Jet week, WWI week and squad night. What empties it out, BOB map and heavy rotation of PTO maps.
1azbeer,
Did you understand the objectives? Your post suggested that you saw that strats were already hit. To play the hand that was dealt last week, you needed to pull up your clipboard and check field status for your opponent's country. There you would have seen all of the percentages of the strats that were your targets. There should have been no surprises and certainly by all accounts Allies Radar was the only of these strats bottomed out to 0 % if I recall correctly. So, I have to assume that you were looking for a target that had not been hit or lightly damaged.
The rules were changed to present an aspect of winning a campaign that did not involve the number of bases that were captured.I am glad that you find some of the attractions in the arena to your liking. I probably know you very well by your in game ID, but judging from your post, it did not sound like you were familiar with this new concept, so
I used the perk system as an example of what not to look for in this type of war. Basically, you wouldn't have many opportunities to hit fresh strat targets past the first day, because once the target was hit it did not rebuild.
That seemed to be your complaint, that you flew around in bombers and couldn't find a target. That sir is a
legitimate complaint. As far as the country status goes it was by design, and a good sign that folks were actively seeking out their targets and the game progressed as one would expect a week's worth of bombing missions into enemy territory would.
I would make this suggestion, because I found it useful. When looking for viable strat targets, maximize the object detail slider (which ever one is on top). Once zoomed in you can tell where the undamaged buildings are. Now, how great of a level bomber are you? I usually compensate by increasing my salvo and spreading delay a bit longer and try to aim just on the leading edge of my target.
I too have been playing since AH1 and totally disagree with just about everything that you had to say in your original post. This doesn't mean that either of us is wrong. We just have difference in tastes. Now, if that sounds harsh, then I am sure there are plenty that share your views and would agree with you and tell me that my opinion was off base.
We are asked for our thoughts about the current idea, I don't agree with it so I am now being ridiculed for it 
. Perk points what are they? Perks points mean absolutely nothing in the AVA never have and hopefully never will.
I fly the AVA about 95 % of time so I have seen what works and what doesn't. (Always have since the Combat Arena days in Aces High I)
The AVA has always been a small group of dedicated players who for the most part appreciate the volunteer work the Staff puts in.
The war thing has been tried once before and about a week, problem was the map never rotated, numbers dwindled.
I will just wait and see what happens, but usually we go though this once a year, "we need to change the AVA make more appealing for others to come in" and which bring in MA regulars only to hasten the regulars to find other things to do till the MA'ers go home. And then its usually its a year long effort to rebuild the numbers. So try it. see what happens, try to surprise me.
More appealing yes, but not trying to put off the regulars that do attend like yourself. You say that Jet week and WW1 week bring in big numbers. It also, chases away regulars that want nothing to do with jets or WW1 aircraft in dogfights. What Jimson and staff have been doing is looking outside of the box of just having a dueling arena for historical aircraft. The key word is JUST.
That means that you can still get your dogfights going but you can also contribute to an objective to win a war. This is especially attractive to those of us who are not on in the peak AvA playing hours that seem to only last for about 2 to 3 hours. That alone should signal to you that simply catering only to the FEW die hard regular AvA dogfighters is not propelling the arena in a competitive direction. Players pay to play, so when they click that arena button, they are going to expect a rewarding experience.
