Hi @ll and S!
During my career as a LockOn online squad pilot I encountered two noteworthy efforts to boost the community´s international/intersquad activities:
One being the late Crimean Airwars (CAW) online campaign featuring promising mixed fighter-bomber wars.
The other one being the venerable LomacLeague (LL) http://www.lomacleague.com/index.php by S77th-Dante featuring gunzo, heaters-only and unrestricted (BVR) ladder action for single-pilot-, two-pilot- and unlimited-pilot-teams.
I recognize the admin workload problems crippling CAW but as for the LL there is an existing league system with rules, missions, mod and reporting system ready to use.
Over the last year, the LomacLeague suffered from the general recession of interest in LockOn that is slowly undermining the community, which is understandable, given the age of the game.
More and more pilots and teams quit and wandered off to mind their own business or to nowhere...
From former 70+ players in the 1vs.1 ladder we are now down to only 5.
And that despite the European Dogfight Champion 2005, =RvE=Paploo, joined the ladder only 2 months ago.
It´s getting boring to always fight against the same two or three guys...!
I see the huge amount of interest still present in this game and I don´t see any good reason not to revive the grand old online ladder of this community!
If you lead a squad and occasionally organize yourself some wars against other squads, why not use the LomacLeague for setting up the match and get the chance to meet further possible squadwar opponents?
If you love dogfight, why not challenge the official european champion in a well organised ladder system to see if you´re up to it?
In times where for several reasons community member numbers shrink around the globe we have to consolidate and focus our efforts and activities on things like one big online league that provides enough diversity for the veterans while being big enough to stand out and attract new community members.
Are you a vet that even only hazily remembers the fun he had in the good ol´ days? - Rejoin!
Are you a newbie that considers himself combat-ready and that hears from all this for the first time?
Join the LomacLeague!
Woody out.