You've posted as much negativity about AH as anyone here Animl. Ease up on calling the kettle black.
Not true. I've actually defended AH against the negative doomsayers most of which do not play anymore, which is predictable.
We've gone through this before many times now. Negative banter with pros of other games, by the same former players.
In 2023 I got the clubbing by the same group for TRYING to get numbers up,... how it will never work, every pessimistic thought that could be thrown out there. Not a player here in that time will say different.
When I came back it was the exact same numbers as right now. Prime-time 100-112 players. Some crappy videos and help from other players getting the word out we're still here, brought that number up to 160 2 mos before MotA.....and during MotA it hit 180-200. All at the same time that group was repeating the same thing over and over,...even while we proved them wrong, and the game they promoted could not even support their expensive AC. DESPITE 127 page thread on pretty planes. I don't need to repeat it, we all watched it and remember it, it didn't go under the rug. We met goals of 200.(s)
What broke our momentum was
1) Allowing YKW to remain way too long, making bbs and 200 completely intolerable to everyone.
2) Too much political CRAP. You split your audience when you have politics.
Otherwise I would have shot for 250, but would not lift a finger as long as idiot(s) were destroying it.
BTW, most of those new numbers were return players.
so none of the last couple replies are true.
<shrug>
Currently, compared to when I returned, ch.200 and bbs has quieted down, that was a goal.
I'm not going back into it. But I sense a few may want a repeat battle.
