I can't help but feel there's something, or someway to better integrate it all. Call me an idealist, or call the idea utopian, but I don't think its impossible.
Back in the days of AH1, everything worked well. Occasional complaints on "ganbanging" or "uneven sides", but never before were so many people so discontent with AH as now.
I know some people will just say "the MA is fun for me as it is". I don't really want to rain down on their parade, but I think the concerns are mounting up to alarming levels with most everyone around. Besides, even if the MA is fun for some people I doubt those people really disagree that there can be something better.
So maybe it is a "utopia" I'm thinking of - a place that doesn't exist. I'm thinking of a well layed out format of a MA equipped with logical components of strat system that can satsify BOTH the furball folk and the strat folk. Some place where we don't have to split everyone around into multiple arenas, but instead, all of the massive player base of AH can fly in an integrated, single arena.
Ofcourse, like bozon said the timing is quite bad. HTC is currently working on ToD. But the problem is that the development of the ToD has been going on for such a long time with no information at all concerning its progress, that people are starting to wonder if perhaps HT just forgot about the MA. They are growing discontent with everything AH has to offer.
The good ol' veterans are sad because they can't find any decents fights any more, strat fliers are angry because people just flock to a single place and completely abandon other areas of the map, furballers are bored because all they every get is either be a part of the horde and fight against hangars, or become a prey of the horde and fight against 20 to 1 odds in a vulched situation.
The only people who are actually enjoying the MA seems to be the totalitarian "Borg" types who are single minded in their quest for victory and conquest of airfields and assimilation of enemy territories with least opposition as possible.
Everytime I log on I am given a choice; we have two areas where we can fight. The first one is where we have full friendly darbars 3 sectors full with almost no enemy darbar at all, and the other is where we have full enemy darbars 3 sectos full with no friendly darbar at all. This is actually greatly discouraging for someone wanting to find a good fight, whether be it a part of a capture attempt, or just a plain ol' fighter sweep.
I mean, I've been hearing that people just want fun fights.
But it seems my definition of a "fun fight" is something which has opponents I can fight against, as compared to the definition of a "fun fight" for the Borg, which apparently seems to have to do nothing with opponents, but just expansion of the territories.