the AVA has been pretty fun the last few days with alot of new comers. unfortunately they bring with them the MA tactics. we're trying to get them to understand that better fights come 1 on 1 rather then 3 and 4 on 1. other then that, we've had more people in there then the early war.
News Flash: the last couple times I was in the AvA you guys were ganging and running away with the best of them,
in La-7s. Larry was complaining that people were not respecting his 1vs1 fights, right in the middle of a furball, while batfinkv was getting cherry picked by guys in your squad.
Here's the deal: if you want the numbers in the AvA that will make it a viable arena, then there are going to be furballs, and people are going to get ganged and picked... and that's ok, but please spare us the rhetoric. 1vs1 fights can remain distinct when there are less than 10 people in the arena, but more than that, and it becomes a furball. A furball is what people want because furballs are fun. The 1vs1 ethos only makes sense when there are few players because any side imbalance become magnified, e.g. 3:2 is far worse odds than 9:10.
Lastly, the AvA does not belong to you and you do not have the right to tell people how to play there (unless someone is breaking rules established by the CM's, i.e. in BoA). I remember Savlan and Dawger were there one night, two very good pilots, and I doubt they've come back because they were verbally harassed on 200 every 15 minutes when they weren't flying on the deck at 200mph spinning luftberries, and were using wingman tactics (oh the horror). The day we no longer have self-appointed curators for the AvA will be the day when we have 60 people there on a Wednesday night, and I don't need to point what the circumstances were the last time that happened.
