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Use of the used aircraft market system on the testing server

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Because the testing server exclusively uses the used aircraft auction system, It is prone to be abused. Bigger airlines can bid high on any aircraft they want, since it is an automatic bid system as I learned a few minutes ago. This means big airlines can bully small airlines, as we have seen in the past, we as a community can't have nice things as they get broken. The used aircraft auction market in the regular server has had many issues, and ultimately is why I hate the system. Ever since it's start, it has been exploited and abused. From day one people were realizing the seller got two times what they should have gotten paid, while the buyer only paid what they bid. However, Its hard not to notice how the auction system is only used by specific airlines and the number of users is very limited. Often it is dominated by certain big airlines who have nothing better to do. You can see airlines paying 200 million for aircraft worth only 8 mil. It is abused badly and is at least why I don't use it ever, period.

On the new testing server, the whole game play is centered around the used aircraft auction market, as unless you buy brand new expensive aircraft, or choose based on the very limited aircraft in the used aircraft market. Unlike the regular server, players can't avoid the used aircraft auction, and so the only option for small newer airlines or those who don't want to pay ridiculous amounts for the limited number of aircraft they have, its to buy new. This means all airlines, must participate in a simulation where its eat or be eaten, and pay a carp ton of money, or just don't play.

The aircraft market in the original game has its ups and downs, as you can make a big profit of buying and selling the aircraft you bought for more straight away. There maybe more aircraft in the sim then exist of the aircraft in real life, but this is a simulation and that would limit peoples experience. Having options that can be equally accessed by all players, if they are just starting, or have been playing for months. The only way to do this is to use the used aircraft market like the regular server is now, it limits what one can pay for an aircraft, and spawning a "new" used aircraft into the simulation every so often, allowing everyone to utilize it, and allows for us to have a nice experience.

This would benefit all players, as it would give opportunities based on what you can pay, and patience to look for a good deal, not based on if your willing to pay a ton, or just have tons of cash you have nothing else to use on. This would reduce abuse and exploitation of the game. It would control abuse of the game as a whole. Its nice to say having so many aircraft that in real life would exist in those numbers. This maybe true. But if your saying that and you own a ton of a single used aircraft that's being a hypocrite. Every player needs the same opportunities to grow, they may need to compete for routes. But competing for a extra limited number of aircraft, being prone to abuse, and as such being denied the experience and opportunity as those that came before them, is another thing.

We Can't have nice things, They get abused and exploited.

The used aircraft auctions maybe nice, but if that was how the game worked when I started what is now the regular server, I would have left the sim without a doubt.

I run Max jet, currently at 19.5 billion value on the standard server, my brother runs horizon, at 12.5 billion in value.

After the ups in downs since me and my brother joined the game, we've seen and used the system. We need to ensure that all players have the same opportunity as others. Time and size shouldn't be the defining factor of growth. We should be able to grow only based on the money we make in the simulation along the way.

I will say this for both me and my brother, If the used aircraft auction is the future of the sim we love, Then well be parting then and there. We came along several months after many started, and we are now some of the biggest in the simulation. But, If we are giving up what we have to restart, and then forced to use the auctions as the automatic location in which "new" used aircraft are added to the game, then we will be Pi**ed. I hope I'm not the only one wanting a fair game play with equal opportunity. If this is the said possible future, then I don't have good hopes for the simulations future. That is why I think the testing server and the games future needs to use the used aircraft auction market.

We can't have nice things, and while the market is sometimes a little broken, If it ain't completely broken we shouldn't fix it.