OK, after reading 18 pages of this drama the other night I finally logged on and flew a few sorties, and I have to say I have no idea what all the fuss is about. It was still very easy to see where the action was, what types of aircraft were there and what was coming after me. Honestly for me I could get along with a more hard core version of this and go back to dots like the good old days of AH1.
I liked not knowing what the dot I was going after was. That feeling of surprise when you think "Oh crap those aren't the buffs you thought you were going to get the drop on!" and you end up having to take on some fighters instead.
The way the dar is set now I see very little difference than how it was other than the icons blink now. Even if it was set at a 60 second timer that I see was originally tried, I honestly don't believe I would have had an issue with that either. All ya need is the red icon to pop up and go hunting.
If this, what I consider a small dar change is affecting your game play so badly that you want to quit or have to come to the forums and rant then I don't know what to tell you. Maybe I'm just feeling old and over the years I have watched many things change in AH to make it easier, and it is actually refreshing to see something take a step back for a change. I know I could be on the far end of the scale here because I miss things like the manual bomb sight calibration and the manual gear box in the GV's (this one still drives me nuts) and several other things but I didn't come here crying all that loudly about it.
Grow up and learn to accept change, I and many others had to, and you can too.
See ya in the air. <S>