I havent taken off or landed on a carrier a long time now using test drive , so i just did and looking at the carrier i remembered something.
I remember few years back when we played carriers there used to be a ton of crew members on the side of the landing board , and there was also a crew member who would like check on the plane and the nrun back bend on his knee waiting you to leave. There was also plenty of crew on the balconies etc.
I cannot be delusional , since i even looked it up and not even AI has source of this
It was honestly a detail that i really liked in the game , i used to shoot the crew with my machine gunner xDD.
Do you remember this? I wish to see it coming back , we anyways got a bunch of unwanted things , why was this gone in the first place.
This is what carriers look like now. Empty
Just to compare here are some screenshots from only a few years ago videos , you can clearly see there is some crew scattered arround looking

And on this one , yes i know its poor quality picture , but you can also there is a crewman standing on the side of the landing board







