It is a good simulation but there are a low number of players and many of them have dreadful attitudes towards other players. For example there is a high level of superficial charm but after a while the real personalities start to come through and then you realise there is something very wrong with many of these people and you are probably dealing with an unusually high proportion of psychopaths. There are no new players and when they do get new players, they tend to leave very quickly because of the dreadful social interactions. When these problems are raised in the community they are denied and burried. The community argues that their community is friendly and supportive: let me make this very clear, they are friendly and supportive of each other but not outsiders. Having said all that, there are some decent human beings in the game but they generally let the psychopaths ruin it for the nice people, probably because they do not want to be attacked like the other victims.So if you can handle personality disorders and you like to fly a very well built air combat simulation then go for it.
Most of you are telling everyone the solution is to de-tune 200, so Hitech really should give it back. Because you just know we will play nice after this 10,000th attempt by Hitech to rein us in. And the previous 9,999 times the same things were said by this community and promised to Hitech if he would just leave us alone. And the same player during one of the more recent rounds said the same thing about how bad these things are in other games so get over it. And the same cast of characters are verbatim saying the same things to Hitech they always say. Using anecdotal evidence, then finally agreeing everyone who can't take the heat just de-tune 200 and all will be OK. A new development at least is pointing out country text and VOX is just as toxic as ch200. Hitech didn't go there, you gents just volunteered it and I can verify after almost 20 years in this game, you are telling the truth.
All is not OK and it is us who are causing reviews like the one in quotes Hitech shared that are the norm now when strangers describe our game. The new game about to be released in January on Steam if you check that site, is one way to distance new customers from old dysfunctional customers while Hitech figures out how to change things in AH3 to save it from itself. I suspect ch200 is only an initial step.
Once in AH2 the MA was split becasue the community was too large and promoted a vile environment becasue it exceeded Dunbar's number. Too many players disassociated the community from itself removing the peer pressure of knowing everyone in the community which acts as a curb on negative behavior and impulses. On the opposite end of that, small insular communities with no outside input will normalize bad behavior and defend it from outsiders with that bad behavior to keep the comfort of the status quo. This is what Hitech is facing today and for him it translates into paying his bills and providing for his family. I've been wondering when he would start doing something like this.
