Let me first set the scene... It's a quiet tuesday evening... I'm in chat, there's one or two new players, one or two old players... New players are asking questions, typical day. Here's a paraphrasing of how the chat went.
New player: I have a base here or there and some routes, yadda yadda, not making much money.
Me: Here's some ways you can try to expand to grow and make more money
Old player: I'm waiting for V2, this game is dead, growth is stunted, only 5 players are in control of everything and they're all in the same alliance.
Me: Don't put new players off the game, there's plenty of room to grow.
Now that line really triggered this guy, because he spent the next 2 days rebuilding his multiple accounts and, well, have a look for yourself:
We'll start with my main line. 3 days ago I was the only flight on this route. I was charging 1600.
Look, 3 BRAND new airlines out of nowhere, each with very high capacity somehow show up the same time... interesting.
But wait, there's more.
I was also alone on this route, charging about $700, now, competition is fine, I don't expect to be able to keep a monopoly, but consider the surrounding circumstances...
And more...
and more...
LOL @ This one specifically:
That's a lot of capacity for not a lot of demand. Operating at a huge loss because you're butthurt is just hilarious to me.
And that's not even all of it, that's just what I felt like collecting.
So, let that be a lesson... If you are going to try to empower new players to keep playing in the face of an upset old player... be ready.