As stated earlier.
Look at date 
Vulching, hoing
From 2002 for your enjoyment.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,54589.0.html
Oz
Agreed as stated above, but it worst now than ever before. I've been here over 10 years playing this game.
In the old days it was a HO once in every third or forth fight you got into. Now it's every fight, every merge.
Old days you could get a horde on SOME nights but it took a bit to get it rolling, most often it started with a "Join Squad Ops" or JSO, now its on everyday pretty much all day one team or another has one rolling.
In the old days you could find a fight pretty much any time you were on even low population times. Now there are much harder to come by, you either in the horde or fighting one.
Old days you could take a few guys and hit a base to stir up some trouble and get a fight going. Now you do that and as soon as the enemy figures out your not really after the base they leave.
There is less fight and more base grabbin now.