I still don't get it. If being a broker is a backup to playing because there's no point to playing anymore, how is being a broker any better? Leasing/buying pretend airplanes in something that isn't even a game at that point seems like of like a child pretending to be an accountant. At that point, shouldn't you just read a book, go out with friends or watch paint dry instead?
1. I still have time to go out with friends, I don't particularly like to paint and I read too much books already for college.
2. A child pretending to be an accountant is not really a situation you can compare with being a broker. TBH, it's one of the worst possible comparisons you can make. A child pretending to be an accountant operates within a completely different context, quite likely doesn't have as much interaction with the outside world and is much less limited to his/her functions as accountant, simply because there is no definition for what being an accountant really is when you're a kid. As broker, you're operating in a context that's distinctly more real-life-business like, which can even be considered as educational for some, and you get a chance to actually do something for the people who play this game. I don't quite understand how you can not get that simple point. Maybe you don't see the use, but in that case, go read a book, go out with friends, apply some paint so I can watch it dry, and don't play this game either. Being a broker, leasing/buying pretend airplanes as you nicely put it, is in many respects the same as playing AM, but it is much more dynamic and extensive.
3. Being a broker is better than playing (when there's no point to playing) because it substitutes the main game functions with a completely different game function, which will a) make the game interesting for a longer time, b) create a good use for a website without any function and c) give you something to do that's not as non-dynamic (don't know the word) as the game after a couple of years.
