This test is already running every week. There is a TT and a small two sided AvA setup. Called "AvA".
True, but TT is never capped.
I believe it's always going to be more about the numbers than the set-up.
I don't even consider the map, I always try to get into the orange arena, because that's where most of the players are.
The only time I go Blue is when Orange is capped and I am
forced in there. I may find a fight and stick around a little while but I am always checking to see when I can get into the Orange arena.
I haven't been around here for 8 years, so I only know this set-up, and don't know when or if AVA was more popular and can't say why it fell out of favor if it was, but I doubt it was because people had a strong desire to pit allied planes against allied planes.
Maybe it was because people wanted to be able to fly any plane without changing countries.
I only know that I don't go in there now because there is never anyone to fly with or against.
I'm guessing that if you could magically have 40 to 50 players in there at all times, those numbers would build, but because people are creatures of habit and stick with what they know, it will never be jump started voluntarily.
It's a waste of space to even have it.
If it was only opened one day a week without forcing people in there, it still might see more play because anyone wanting to try it would be concentrated into that one day.
Sometimes you can have too many choices.