Originally posted by trotter
I'm sorry but what does this really mean? I've heard this floated around a lot, I believe even HT himself referred to the old MA as a "slum"
Huh?
What, were so many people in one arena making for poor sanitary conditions? Did anyone get sick from flying there?
Does it mean that it was dangerously lawless? Did anyone get mugged flying late night? The only thing I can think of was that people had bad attitudes. If the MA was disbanded because a few peoples feelings got hurt on channel 200 that is truly sad.
For real, though, I'm sure there is an explanation for everyone using such similar terms to describe the old MA. Can someone fill in those of us whose memories of the place resemble nothing like a sewer?
Edit- I'm not complaining or whining about bringing the old MA back, just curious about the terminology. Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread.
It was worse than any of the things you've mentioned, endless processions of high alt 1 pass and run late war monsters who's only intention would be to catch you afk or wait for their 40 friends to turn up. Its not healthy.
It has created the kind of player we have now, and this is unfortunately real, who will bail if they see a red dar bar in the sector. One player in the MWA does this regularly when he's dive bombing HQ in his Lancasters. He does nothing he couldnt do offline, as he never actually fights, apart from being able to blah about it on 200.
He will bail if you get into icon range, and if you manage to catch him, tell everyone on 200 how your entire squad cheats while pm'ing you with idiotic ravings which would get him muted.
The old MA and this behaviour is directly linked in my opinion. In my experience playing this game, people have always run, and I'm not advocating every Dora turn fights a Spit, but I've never seen people bail rather than fight till recently, and this guy isn't the only one.
