Air Combat Flyers are Aggressive Attitudes

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There are ways to make a "realistic(tm)" combat sim immersive enough so you don't need arcade gameplay for some folks. We assume some players are only attracted to what we might call arcade.

The Sims developers have not figured this out yet.

The trick is look at the success of the more slow paced combat sims like subsims and navy sims, and the tank sims which really push the environment modelling. The last thing related to air combat is dogfighting, and no sim has ever attempted to model the air warfare environment which is one way to create immersion. Someday the developers will figure this out...Hopefully.