FSO and the MA - revisited"many FSO players are playing there exclusively and never in the MA"This opinion had been voiced in various versions a lot over the years. Before I checked this, I was even agreeing with that - so much for being unbiased
I had analysed this before, but now did it again for a full month of FSO play: Three sessions in June 2014.
I found a total of 394 distinct pilot IDs flying at least once in FSO in that month (160 did all three, 132 did two and 102 showed up once).
Of these 394 pilots, less than 10% never showed up in Late war during the same month. And the remaining 91% had been very active in Late war: Averaging about 28 hours, they spend more time in the LW than the arena average was.
Again I found confirmed what I had concluded before
FSO pilots are generally just a very active subset of the general MA population.(And in some way, a 'special' one as well, as most MA players ignore FSO just like they do with all other Special Events)