There's always going to be complaints, some valid many not. If we find a valid problem, we'll do our best to fix it. But therein lies the rub. The more you do, the better you do it, the more attention you pay to it, the more people criticize and even nitpick it. That's not a bad thing necessarily, it really depends on how it's communicated. If we spend all our time chasing whines, we'd really have a screwed up game and would get nothing else accomplished in the meantime. But if someone makes a valid point to us, i.e. provides us with useful documented information(opinionated rants not falling into that category), then that makes it easier for us to either agree or disagree and act accordingly and perhaps improve things.
Probably the biggest factor in this is psychological. Bias and expectation have a big influence on how people perceive things. If you've ever studied psychology, you're probably well aware of many examples and case studies on the subject. On this subject, it's quite common for people to have equally strong and diametrically opposed views on some things. Expert 1 claims plane A is clearly "overmodeled" while expert 2 claims it is clearly "undermodeled". It's like watching two rabid fans of opposing sports team argue the validity of referee calls. Each one argues the validity of any call that goes against the team they are cheering for while the other cheers it as correct. Vice versa when the call goes the other way. If you really look at where many of the observations that are posted here are coming from, you tend to find that most of them come from a limited background. E.G. the guy who mostly flies bombers thinks they get shot down too easily, the guy who mostly flies fighters think bombers are too hard to take out, the guy who flies one particular type of plane or planes thinks his is undermodeled or everything else is overmodeled, etc. etc. I truly believe that it is bad for a player to play the game from such a limited point of view. Not only do they cheat themselves from learning the weaknesses of their opponents and building a variety of useful skills, they skew their observational capacity and perhaps vent weird rants on the board.
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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
