AMAZING TURNAROUND! Started playing less than a year ago, and my love for planes was the only thing that got me through. The economy felt downright predatory, learning curves were impossible, and I felt like planes were injected into the game to ruin my day so that a kid could get his dopamine for a bit of mommys money. But as of the new roadmap, my patience has been rewarded. Real shatter (gun damage) has been worked, the economy makes me feel much less like Im enduring a Greek God's curse flying awful boring planes to make enough money to die nearly immediately in a cycle. Cold war jets still have an increbibly awful matchmaker, battle compression is still a thing, but with these new changes I feel like Im playing a new game. I actually get to enjoy the hard work put in to make planes feel realistic because Im not worried about SL. And now, rather than strangling my money out if me to literally grind away at a single plane, if you have a premium account its impossible to go bankrutpt, meaning I finally get to truly learn these planes without losing a predatory amount to inflated repair costs. I finally have breathing room to make the mistakes needed to learn how to play. I feel like the economic reward for paying system works much better than pay to win planes seal clubbing competent pilots who didnt fork over cash to Gaijin. I can only hope this is the new status quo, and not simply the eye of a storm.