Ya that did suck didn't it. I'm not in your click, not ever going to be in your click. I'm your in-game enemy are you guys really this naive and ignorant to that? Think I give a darn about your respect lol? Some of you have been playing this game so long doing the same thing over and over to stroke your ego that you have grown out of touch. Don't like it have yourself or someone else buy a shade account and hunt me down to the ends of AH earth.
If I can see but my enemy can't who cares? I have a war to win 
Once there was the EW arena. Much smaller numbers than the LW for sure, but stable activity, fights and battles 24/7.
Then a group of players thought it's a fun idea to roll the arena. Gathering likeminded individuals they made the arena their home and massively outnumbered their opposition. Not only that, but they were using the number discrepancy to their advantage in such a way as to always pile onto the country with none or almost none defenders. When encountering substantial resistance, they would just switch their target to the other country.
The important thing: They used a very similar line of argumentation "It's not our problem the rooks/bish/nits don't have enough players to defend" "suck it up loser" "it's a war out there, not going to play to please you"
In the end, they made gameplay very much unbearable for anyone but their two "supersquads". Either they totally dominated their opposition or totally avoided them, using the arena settings to their advantage.
The result: First about anyone but them left for good. Then they finally got bored themselves of winning wars against nobody and mostly left AH for other games. And the EW arena is now mostly functionally dead.
If you wanna displease me by shooting me down, grabbing my bases, sinking my CV's - go ahead by all means. All that means battles, which is what I joined AH for. And you can bet I lost a lot of battles, fights and planes in my time.
But when I'm displeased because I can't find any battles at all (which is, at low hours, aggravated by having the HQ down for hours), I will simply go away.
Like I said earlier: I will not leave because of the HQ only. But it would be because it's one of three or four of them.
