Excellent OP - behind you 100% (and leading with my sights slightly;) )

I personally think that the match-making and/or server querying is slightly broken. If you look at the leaderboards there appear to be a lot of people actually playing, so where are they...?

I play from 9pm to around 3am GMT, which must equate to 4 to 10pm on the US east coast and 1 to 7pm on the west coast. These are not abnormal playing hours, yet the server list reports no games 80~90% of the time.

Maybe the match-maker splits the community across several servers, so you can only find the sub-set that happen to have been put on your server..? I dunno, but it definitely feels like something is wrong. Which is a shame because this game is great online (once you have a game) and the longevity of a game is made or broken by it's multiplayer (in most instances).

I know that I've played a couple matches against you online. ;)

Sure on your side, try this thread and we can unlock all theese planes together
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9875

Dude don't spam. And how you wrote that last spam sounded like it was a link to a porn site lol

I hope my smoke didn't get in your eyes too much... ;):grin:

I totally agrre with the OP. I'm a big gamer but really not a fan of online achievements/unlocks. Look at call of duty 2 and 4. Two of the best selling and best playing games ever made and not a single online achievement in sight.

What if your console isn't connected to the net? You can't fly the planes that are on the disc that you paid for. All wrong IMO.

sorry, not my intention. I deleted it.

Great thread Simfex - I'd join ya, but I'm on PS3 ;). But highly recommend doing something like this on both 'sides of the fence' :).

Am I the only one who actually doesn't mind the current unlocks?

Yea they require a lot of work, but at least not everyone will have them. Which gives them an extra value.

Then whats the point of them? Thats a gameplay bias towards online play that some people cant or wont do. Some of the unlocks are just plain rediculous, such as the IL2 starting with no bombs but requiring strike wins to gain. Others are over the top in the amounts required for many players.

The whole point of the game is to be FUN! Its no fun going online and getting creamed every time just because someone else (who may have a lower skill level) has played the game online more and gained (what is effectively) an unfair advatage. The unlocks are not about stroking your e-peen, its supposed to be a reward for dedication to the game.

All these players are asking for is a way to unlock them in single player mode, to allow them a level playing field when going online. Thereby still giving the same dedication to the game as online players.