I've seen a lot of posts from folks saying they can't find a fight or nobody wants to fight anymore.
Well, I'm one of those that comes here to shoot at aircraft from my aircraft. So after some chat with HT, he directed me to the CREATE ARENA button at the bottom left of the Online Arena choice page.
I've decided that for a while I am going to hang out in my own arena which I'll call FIGHT'S ON! In this arena I will always be picking fighter v fighter missions that have been created for the various terrains available.
Please feel free to join in. The missions can have up to an 8 v 8 situation. It can be 16 players or any combo of players and AI with AI filling unassigned positions.
I can tell you that I have had fun just against the AI. They have....um.....advantages...n ot available to human players so they are not necessarily easy kills. As HT said, it's easy to make dumb AI, it's hard to make smart AI. So he gave them....advantages. I think they may have higher g tolerances than human pilots and they shoot pretty straight even from 600-800 out.
I've been in these missions with Rude and Vraciu and I can say we all had a good time. Lots of turnin' and burnin', lots of shots fired, kills, thrills, chills and upsets.
So if you see FIGHT'S ON! on the arena list, you'll know what it's about. As I said, come one, come all. An 8 V 8 with all human players would be a lot of fun I think.