Originally posted by Toad
Yah, and like I pointed out, they're essentially all the same argument every time:
"Why don't YOU fly the planes I want you to fly?
The answer is so bloody obvious that it's a continual source of amazement to me that it continues to come up.
The answer is always most obvious to those who won't consider opposing views. You sound like someone who is tired of making the same arguement over and over, Toad. Why doesn't the whole community just come around to your way of thinking? Perhaps you're the one who
just doesn't get it?
We've all seen this argument come up before, and as Muck points out, by many different people. But it always seems to be slammed by the same few.
Look again at Rutilant's screenshot. Sadly, its not much of an exaggeration. When I look at it, I see a colossal waste of artwork and FM modelling and testing for the vast majority of planes which go nearly unused in AH. Why bother to have more than 5 planes in AH2? Surely it could've been out a lot sooner if only the Big 5 planes were modelled?
Muck never said he wanted to dictate which planes people should fly--you put those words in his mouth so you could shoot him down with your pat argument. He was simply lamenting, as many of us do, that a sim which has been designed to be so rich in aircraft could come to be so dominated by such a small subset of planes.
There is already a proven way in the game to encourage variety without "dictating" which aircraft people should fly. The tricky part is to set up conditions which result in a larger variety of planes being flown, even while people fly what they choose to. Reasonable proposals along these lines have been put forth in the past, but nothing has been done.
Since the C-hog scourge, I haven't heard HTC comment on the issue. I assume they simply don't recognize it as a problem, despite how it seems to resurface on the BB.
