Historical stats show little or no use of this arena for some reason. Why do you think this is?
I have an opinion on this.
Not necessarily in order of importance.
1st. Equipment limitations. It has to be accepted that more people would rather fly any plane they want at any time.
2nd. Objectives. There is no simple way to have objectives and an automatic win the war reset like the very simple MA base capture system. We are trying to provide this sort of thing manually.
3rd. Perks. There is no way for us to set our own perk prices to fit the scenario, so we have no usable perk system.
4th. Tradition? There has long been controversy and bad blood associated with the arena, and some of that lingers today.
5th. Stability. As the arena uses custom tables they are subject to getting scrambled by server maintenance and such and the arena can often be screwed up when people log in to play
6th. Emptiness breeds emptiness. There is a lemming effect (apologies to Dawger for stealing that line) There is likely a fairly sizable population that does prefer a more historically immersive environment, but it's impossible to get them all in the arena at the same time.
Not wanting to be the first ones in waiting around for others to show up, they trade this preference for the action they can find in the MA.
Finally, the very nature of all this is that the AvA is always trying to find that magic formula that will bring the most success, continually pleasing some and pissing off others, leaving it always in a state of argument and turmoil, but we continue to try, because its our home and we refuse to give up.
jimson
