despite how long ah has been around, the paltry numbers of players at any given time tells me ah is having trouble attracting and retaining new players. so to help ease them into the game, i'm wondering if ah has ever had, or would consider having, a "beginners arena"? i'm not asking ah to dumb down the game, just a place where beginners can learn the ropes for the first few months.
let's face it, combat flight sims have probably the steepest learning curve of any game genres out there. so when you put newbies in the same arena as people who've been "flying" for a decade, it gets ugly and not so much fun for the noobs. the new guys can go to the training arena all they want, but the fact is they just don't have the skills yet to be effective. in air warrior, that wasn't so much of a problem because you had a constant and large influx of new guys so proportionally, you stood a good chance of meeting someone of similar skills in the sky. in ah, my guess is the influx of new people is probably a trickle. so for a noob like me, i'm probably flying with mostly vets. while i like combat flight sims, i might not stick around too much longer because it's just not that fun getting waxed while i'm just trying not to stall.
with the introduction of world of warplanes, there'll probably be a resurgence of people interested in combat flight sims. if wowp is anything like wot, emphasis on arcade rather than realism, i'm sure quite a few of those people would get bored and graduate up to ah. i hope ah finds a way to attract them.
