If the lack of white knuckle 1v1s is the major reason you left, I'm afraid you're not going to find too much different these days in the MA. It's a free-for-all in there, and the majority either dives out as soon as they lose advantage or flies in a group.
In a cursory search of the forums, I found the first horde mention for AH that I saw was in mid-2001. I didn't look that hard, but I'm betting there were earlier ones.
I have been formulating a theory that you old guys remember about 15 minutes after the servers came up in May of 2000, before enough people logged in that 10 or 20 of them figured out that if they all go to one place and somewhat work together, they can push the other side around. That first 15 minutes when the servers opened became the 'good old days' and is what you judge the rest of your gameplay experience by.
I'm sorry you can't find enough 1v1s. I don't understand why the people who want unmolested turn-based 1v1s don't organize to go into the DA and do it, but it doesn't seem to happen for whatever reason.
Wiley.
Has nothing to do with expecting 1v1's or good ole days. It was never that good when I was here before, was still the same stuff then. No where did I mention good ole days.. Just that quality of fights has always left a lot to be desired.
The game is what the players make it. We have the tools to make it good or bad, but unfortunately it seems most are interested in just landing 4 or 5 easy cherry pick kills & getting WTG's vs pushing their own limits to become good virtual fighter sticks and maybe not landing at all because they died in a hard fight. The players that push their own limits are what makes the game better and makes other players push their limits.
It's not about good ole days or 1v1s but rather attitude of playing on easy mode vs trying to play on hard. I think when you hear people talking about the "good ole days" it's not so much that the game was different, but there were more people that wanted to play on hard mode. There have always been hoards, cherry pickers, hotards, ect, but there has also been a bit more respect for the actual fights mixed in there that keeps getting diluted.
