Jimson, I read almost all the posts from 2009 link. What became apparent is that HT got a real bad taste in his mouth once. We all know, how that effects the rest of your senses. You don't even want to look at the thing that gave you that taste. If you smell the thing that gave you that taste, it gives you a bad feeling in other places than just taste buds.
After that read, I am sorry Zoney, but
an entire day might be more than the game can tolerate (even though I like the idea of 2 sides and axis fighting allies and even made a similar proposal,
but just for off hours game play.
My feeling was that with smaller numbers during off hours, the type of game play that works during prime time,
has given some of us a bad taste when the population can't afford to spend much time dealing with resupply (non fighting) type activities.
I also feel that it would be a good time to relax some other limitations, as well as, rewards (perks, score, rank, etc.) to invite old an new alike to take interest in enjoying the flight models provided for reasons beyond Top Gun bragging rights.
I do feel that off hours would see a significant bump if something like this was properly announced. A great big, "THIS IS NOT YOUR REGULAR MAIN ARENA" flag plus Arena Message of the Day, explaining how and why settings differed and when to expect them to return to their regular settings.
So, I am not suggesting anything that looks, smells and definitely does not taste like the Axis and Allies "forced" game change of old....... let me add..... doesn't even SOUND like the same thing.
The largest difference is that the population during off hours is generally made up of folks who have a schedule that does not allow them to participate in FSO or other Scenario events (Aussies and European time zone folks included). This could be their
opportunity to grab a taste of the thing that maintains subscription of those very players as well as attracting newer players for THE INTERNATIONAL TIME ZONE that needs it mostly.
