Peaks and valleys, everything in life.
We can only tell from who post on the bbs about returning. Only a small % uses the bbs,.. that said, about 95% who do are in fact return players. And it's not just boomers. Some, who started as teenagers started a family, and now the kids are old enough to not need as much attention (40s-50s). I've seen this story several times. I wouldn't call the other retirees, most are not close to that age, although some are. It's a mixed crowd minus the very young. We are gaining seasoned players, not many newbies. But again, I can't see subs, and the bbs isn't a full picture. All they need is to get back muscle memory and their off killing. I see names in-game that I haven't seen before.
The most common comment I've seen on YT vids and some forums, is how much fun they had in it years ago. 2nd in line is, rude crowd, insults, politics, bashing...they aren't/weren't wrong. A lot gave me crap over attempting to clean up the bbs to draw more in... frankly, I still hate this thread, it's ridiculous to place it here. Like it or not there is skimming happening, this is just another vehicle, it's not rocket science. It insults intelligence to say it's anything else. but the boards and 200 have cleaned up, and we got results.
FSO, is easy to explain, despite your negative notes to the world. People are enjoying the numbers up in the MA, they don't want to leave what they've been waiting for,.. it's new. They get involved in a large battle and want to stay in it. I've seen mentions.
Once this style of playing is in your blood, not a person who left will say it was bad memories and crappy game. You yourselves, have not completely shaken it, because here you are. The hook is still in you. People don't break up with GFs and then hang in front of their house everyday showing off their new girl to the ex-gf. ok? so lets cut the insults to intelligence with "we're just buds talkin". i guess if I was a monkey missing half my brain and the other half consumed with worms I might believe you guys. People have hinted it's not cool and you go against them. I don't want any "I'm sorry, I don't mean to offended anyone..." nonsense. You're doing it by going against their wishes. of course, I can imagine calling someone friend while they put their arms around their wife, grabs her boob and say "hey bro,.. we're just talking." All you guys do is point out flaws in AH, and praise Pretty Manikins as the savior of all sims on AH bbs. but when we point out many flaws of Pretty Manikins, you stick fingers in ears and scream "I can't HERE you!". So really, this thread is here to skim, nothing more, nothing less. You all accelerated it during a successful scenario. This biggest turn out in 5-7 years, so scrub the FSO comment. When you go against wishes of old vets,.. you crossed the white line, and basically spit on them/us. I charge for kleenex. Don't think it's appreciated in the least bit. The only ones who approve it are those who also fly Pretty Manikins. I'm not angry, you know what I look like when I am, if you don't you will. I'm just telling you straight up... this is BS. A lot of people have Cpt.Trips on ignore for wearing out his welcome with this BS and attacking me for trying to add the numbers..which he's trying to skim. Same with RichardWoodMarks. Sooner or later they will drag you into the pit too, Dolby wised up. You're just being used at your expense.
if that game was so great, you would NOT be here selling it. You wouldn't need to insult your friends by trying to steal the population of THEIR favorite game, which would kill it.
Now that said,... this will not change. You all will ignore this and push your sim bible in everyone's face at every opportunity. Knock knock knock. Because we have 2 seriously obsessed former players, so obsessed it's getting kinda like an obvious illness. These are the guys who call a female 100 times after she said no 100 times. Just keep pecking at the egg hoping someday the shell with crack in their favor. Intelligent or not. It's freak show of escaped circus geeks.
Heres the psychological convincing process used.... point out the games flaws, followed by how wonderful Pretty Manikins is. The more the name of Pretty Manikins is spoken the more likely a new reader will see it. And by ALL MEANS POSSIBLE ON EARTH, avoid admitting Pretty Manikins has serious flaws and rated very low on fun factor. It's like a used car salesman who refuses to let you look under the hood.That used car salesman,.. always has a smile n his face,.. just like you guys.
You do not hope AH increases numbers, you want it dead to get the migration. And if it does get the numbers, you'll be here trying to skim them off the top.
I guess this would all be a lot more convincing to us, if we were 10 yr olds and have zero wisdom on life's characters and deceit mechanisms.
I'm mean? I didn't bring this, what is REALLY a discussion about Pretty Manikins, to another game's forums. Ya get what ya ask for. I feel like I'm explaining this to children. I thought Trips was 15 yrs old until I saw he was 60. Some people avoided maturity their whole life and very successful at it.
A grown mature adult with a IQ above 60, would know, this is not the coolest thing to do. But please, continue with your slow paced brain washing. It's humorous to me to think I/we cant see it.
DS Trips was even continued to mention Pretty Manikins in a scenario announcement,.. so lets get the hell off the innocent ACT. If you insist on acting like kids, I'm glad to treat you like one.
What "logs" do you have access to?
We're now at 186 in all arenas an 168 in the MA., 95-115 in the MotA scenario, th elargest turn-out in 5-7 years.,... I hope the decrease in DCS numbers by 2000 is temporary.
