+1 @ klem
I also do not want sims to end up in that "wanna see stats and wanna be better than others" or "I buy more, so I am better" mentality. That is, why I do not want any total online stats. Servers can count each by each and a carreer mode can also count, but not globally presented. This would totally destroy the whole flight sim comunity, shouting at each other "You are not good enough to fly with us. Look at your stats....etc.".
Paying for each plane in the manner of RoF? The essentual idea behind it could work. It is just a matter of how it is done.
To topic: Donate on clod after all this? Spending money for new just to fix? Are you serious? And do you really think, that a donation of 20000 bucks helps? This is no money and the 1000 guys actually playing perhaps do not worth it. Donate will only motivate them to built up more insufficient stuff, instead of getting rehabilitated (right vocabulary?)
