I don't understand why you guys keep knocking me about this when it's practically the #1 thing I live for in AH. Fighter combat and ACM. Do you really think I haven't thought about this deeply with the knowledge of my gameplay?
We aren't knocking you for that Brah, we feel the same way. It's just your reasoning methods are sometimes unsound. No good thinking deeply but incorrectly.
Aside from the request to get some concession for the ACM-crowd. Let me repectully try to illustrate:-
Noooooooo Fugitive, it was cleary the water. The arena was actually populated somewhat of the time before the water fiasco.
Something happeneing at the same time doesn't evidence or prove that was the cause because there may be other factors in play. In this specific case there were known other factors in play which, some of which I heard first-hand from the sources because I spoke to many of the players who - like me - basically lived there. That's not proof either, it is evidence. If you don't have that information but someone else does then their evidence must be considered (NOT listened to blindly).
It was after the switch to AH3, the water made the arena unplayable. I saw the #s drop like flies.
You are recalling incorrectly. The old DA did not make it through to AH3. Just as the Main Arena became the Mellee Arena, then the DA became the MPA. Therefore your inference is based on a flawed premise. Logically the decline could not have been caused by the water because it was already gone before the change to the water. I could be wrong about the order of events myself. I'd then have to withdraw my understanding (and opinion) and revise it. The easiest person to fool is yourself. Feynman said that.
Do you really think I want an arena that doesn't work? That's not why Im here. I'm here because the current one doesn't work and we need a change. That's a fact.
And we agree it doesn't work, but it's not a fact, it's an opinion. We are campaigning to try and have it changed, but it's hard to convince people who don't care, or whom it won't affect.
The most common flaw in thinking is to form a hypothesis and then look for evidence to support it, dismissing data which challenges it. Ought to be the other way around.