Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25793289-20141201193257/@comment-25467429-20141202223959

I would say that this forum does only represent a small portion of the community that plays the game - the repsonders to this thread smaller still - and that there are, without a doubt, individuals who can and will spend money regardless of sales or whatever else, to top out on tournament after tournament. It's hard to know how many people are continually buying fuel, but you can be sure that there are a good few who are.

Part of the reason some people didn't/haven't bought the Elite Pack is becasue of a misunderstanding/allegation that if you did have it, it meant you were an "expert" and once a room host saw you had that little symbol you often got kicked from rooms for it. I recall initally going thorugh that a lot when I first got the Elite Pack even though at the time I had only been playing the game for a little while and had no planes even past level 4, so my MR was still in the 1500-low 1600s.