Ok, this is bugging the crap out of me and its got to be said, and I'll try not to screw this up. I've only been playing this game for about 9 months so I'm not going to set here and preach to y'all about whats right and whats wrong about AH, the MA or the CT. I like the MA and the CT and I think they can exist together. Alot of you guys (and gals) have way more time with this game than I do and I trust the CT Team to know whats been tried and what will work and how to put it all together. I just want to point out a few things that seem to have been overlooked in a lot of the discussions we've had in this forum.
1. Aces High and the current state of the MA did not happen overnight. It took what, 3 years for AH to get to this point? Hell look how much the MA has changed in the last 8 months. Its not the same. That didnt happen in two weeks, or even a couple of months. It takes time to develop something from nothing. I know the CT was actually created a few months back but until now, noone has really put much effort to really do something with it. You have to give it time, give the CT team time. There is going to be a lot trial and error. And we are a critical lot so its never going to be "perfect", but theres got to be some compromise.
2. The name of the arena means absolutely nothing at all, I can call the CT "The DogHouse" (i spend alot of time there since I started playing AH
) Content is what matters and only content. Finding the perfect name for the CT is not going to attract new people to the arena, period.
3. IMO, the way I understood it the CT was created so we (as in those that desire it) could have historical matchups of WW2 aircraft. We have that right now, its just we found out we wanted a little more than that, like strat and objectives. So, if you like the CT setup but you are so uncompromising that you only like to fly the P51 and wont fly anything else (just an example I'm not picking on anyone) then when that plane set is active you can fly it, or you can fly in the MA.
If you like the MA style and want to shoot down B17's with your P38 go for it. But please stop coming to this forum and jerking everybody's chain. This is the Combat Theater forum, not the "MA is better" forum. In other words "stop letting your dog toejam in my yard". Constructive critisim, suggestions, and ideas are whats needed, not name calling and finger pointing. That kind of crap will definitly kill the CT.
So thanks to the CT team and all the hard work they've done and all the hard work thats ahead.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. A photograph and autograph session will be held later at the reception.
AirScrew