BR brackets 5.0-6.0, 5.3-6.3, 5.7-6.7 6.0-7.0 (and then 7.0+ is dead because it costs 18K to spawn a horten and you can, at most, make 19.7k without premium doing a perfect UA cycle).
What do all these brackets have in common?
This image alone speaks a thousand words, so I think there’s no need to elaborate.
Another issue I’ve observed over-time:
A lot of new players coming to sim, unfortunately - a concept that eludes me I’ll admit - just click “air simulator” and hit “to-battle” without performing prelimary research (watching guides, looking up advice, etc.) I don’t fault them - modern games you expect to have the tutorial inside the game, not in manuals, gamefaqs or random forums or youtube videos.
Either way. They don’t realize there’s a “Room selection button.”
PvE lobby is made, prop BRs on denmark with swarms of ju 288.
Denmark is an awful map for props with terrible balance, broken airfield AAA and bluefor spawncamping redfor’s sole forward airfield more often than not while brain-off farming A points and groundbattles knowing redfor has to fly 100 km in a 450-550 km/h topspeed aircraft.
It is also perfect for bombing undisturbed due to size of the map, the aforementioned terrible balance and where bases spawn.
Older sim players see denmark and avoid it like the plague and join lobbies manually and look for fun matches.
New player comes along, presses to-battle and the game looks at the available lobbies for their lineup and… oh look, denmark props with lots of “Players!” and drops them in there and gives a terrible first impression.
And at the same time, player numbers on more interesting maps with fair objectives that even offer rudimentary engagement and for new players (Siciliy, Tunisia, (Winter) Stalingrad, Ruhr, Kursk, Bulge and their ilk) - learning opportunity in intercepting a.i bombers/attackers/survey planes… are lower because of the “to-battle” sorting putting players elsewhere.
Now, I do not have solid data to back up this claim only my impressions and experience in the few times I bite the bullet and go for denmark maps hoping for the rare map layout that offers fun for both red and blue as i couldn’t get in on the tunisia/sicily/fun maps…
Almost always when I play on SB, I end up seeing at least one person asking how to start engine, asking why their plane goes rogue into a nearby hangar and why it keeps rolling whenever they let go of controls. I see this far less often on other maps (it still happens, and I don’t mind it happening - just more… why does it happen more often on denmark? Why is it not more spread out and visible in every lobby, on every map? My hypothesis: “To Battle” and PvE grinders favouring denmark )
