I don't have that much experience with scenarios/SLs/HA action in general. However, I have experienced and heard from others the phenomenon of people bailing out of the arena after they die in a one-life frame.
If there was a "Valhalla" room enabled where the honored dead
could go after they run out of lives and track the progress of the battle over radio and radar (no outcall available), I think more folks would stay for the next frame instead of leaving & trying to come back (thus delaying the start of the frame in some cases). I know I'd stay if I had a better way to follow the fight.
Flathat
PS-- This of course is based on the assumption that there will be separate historical action of some kind.
[This message has been edited by Flathat (edited 08-05-1999).]