connarc

OK, I'm new to this, and I'm already tired of the crap. 

Let me explain before I hear the "gitgudnub".

I've tried both sandbox worlds only to find two things. One, there are airlines which have fleets of 2000+ aircraft. They're so large it's entirely impossible to even remotely compete. Two, they use all the airports until there's no gates and due to the PR, you can't build terminals. They effectively have become so big that 2-3 airlines will entirely gobble up all of Europe and use every single gate available in the EU. This process repeats with the US, Asia, and South America for the most part. 

What I'm trying to illustrate here is that there are very obviously not new players in the Sandbox realms. There's no way I can learn to play this game when it's an impossibility to get an airline even remotely making profit because there aren't any gates, and anything with any demand over 50/week is taken up by GIANT ASS AIRLINE, INC for comically low prices.

So low that I operate at a loss. 

This isn't entertaining. This isn't fun, It's an exercise in who can abuse broken game mechanics more. There's no way you can get anywhere unless you A: spend hours a day playing this and B: get into a world within the first few hours it's created. If you haven't, you've gotta wait, because the way the mechanical abuse goes, by the time it's 2-3 years in, good luck, it's over. Every continent has at least 2 Airlines so big they can and will simply deny you gates and any profit on any route they see you on. 

This game is arbitrarily "real" and panders to a sub-group of this population who takes advantage of broken mechanics. Airlines with fleets numbering the thousands, generating billions a month in profit, all the while they're pricing everyone else out? That makes no sense. Razor-thin margins are as much a thing for Bearskin as they are for United, or British Airways. 

The Economics of this game are BS, the mechanical abuse is entirely out of hand, and the Devs are doing zilch to control it. 

To Recap

• The "newbie" areas are full of experienced players who are at this point Trolling
• You have to abuse game mechanics to get ahead (resulting in fleets of 2k plus planes, billions in profits per month, etc ) 
• There's nothing being done about either of these facts, and people will probably argue that the game's perfectly fine

At least it's free, cause god help me if this was paid. 

PS, if you're one of those experienced players with a multi-billion dollar airline in a sandbox realm, I get it, you've got a small...wallet