As I recall I usually had better and more important things to do when I was 'flying' than chest pounding, insulting other players, or reading insults hurled at me. Ya know, staying alive, landing kills, communicating with my squad mates. Stuff like that. Oh sure I'd throw up a <S> from time to time after a good fight or someone took advantage of me not being aware but hey, it's a game, let's go. I'm telling you boys I am practically foaming out the mouth looking forward to being all set up and flying again.
Oh and I talked to a mod on r/flightsim on reddit yesterday. You guys complaining about low numbers should go post some films and stuff there. Maybe get some people interested and improve the numbers. They said it was cool and I quote
'You can post about any sort of flight sim. I remember Aces High— I used to play with an old friend from college. The only things we really restrict is posting links to YouTube, etc where there is monetization opportunities (and you can still post those in our weekly sticky self promotion post)
I don’t know that there’s a huge following here but I’m also sure plenty would like to hear about it.'