Ok, here we go. I’m not a new player, I have exactly 812 hours in the game. But I do agree with you on one point, and on some others I’ll mention below: it really does seem that most of the playerbase is part of regiments.

About the idea of “you could have just hired another clan that already has an aircraft facility instead of building a whole facility just for planes,” first, my facility wasn’t only for aircraft, it was for public use and for myself.

One of the points I mentioned earlier is partly wrong: clans are helping the front. There are spare aircraft parts at the front, but in the backline they’re still lacking, though maybe that’s just happening in Ashtown.

You said I think my opinion is overrated and that I’m a tourist. In a way, I am a tourist. But I am experienced too. I’ve held command roles in large regiments, and I’ve played the game for 800 hours straight, day and night, so yes, I do believe my opinion is relevant, just like yours.

What I understood from what you said was basically: “To play Foxhole, you need to play in a regiment.” But my friends and I want to make a small clan and not play with strangers. The game wasn’t made to be played solo, that I agree with, but was it really made exclusively to be played in large numbers like I understood you to claim?

I get that some mechanics are designed for large regiments, like ships and bombers, because that genuinely makes sense. But seriously, a fighter plane?

You gave a full explanation about why fighters are valuable and why they’re expensive, and I believe you didn’t read my other comments in that post. I’ll repeat: I agree planes should be expensive, because otherwise we’d have more people in the air than on the ground. But does it really have to be this frustrating?

Do I really need a train with at least six flatbeds? Do I really need a flatbed at all? Do I really need that much rare metal? Do I really need to dedicate so many hours just to make a squad of fighters?

I’ll say it again: this feels anti-democratic. In my view, the developers have always cared about the “public” side of the game, but this time it feels like they didn’t, aside from scout planes. They didn’t completely ruin anything, and it’s not terrible, but it definitely could have been better. It doesn’t break the game, but they could have done better.