I don't understand why you are so scared... None else except people like you play this game right now...

Maybe it has to do whit the nickname itself... to fly online with a name such as "ace-of aces" demands an extremely able pilot .. ;)

I would fly with my forum name but for those that dabble in the art of "douchebaggery" tend to conceal their forum name online, it cuts down on friendly fire incidents.

And we wonder why we don't all get along. LMFAO

My message to 1C:
Dear Sirs,
please do not release the patch before it is ready, however if when the patch is released there is nothing anyone can truly see but performance tweaks include something that the community CAN see (like the Su-26) so they at least have something that they can get excited about before they start complaining again.

(Personally if the Grand Patch comes out and nothing "looks" different I see a huge amount of whining and moaning on the horizon shortly after)

Your Truly
a member of the above mentioned community

If the patch comes out and absolutely NOTHING changes EXCEPT I don't get Launcher.exe crashes, I will call it a complete success.

TOTALLY Agree!

WOW... The bar is really low... :)

I'm not going to play seriously until the FMs are fixed.

At this point? Yes. The bar is that low. There's plenty of fun to be had with the game as is, but ONLY if the game doesn't crash.

I beleive what is unaccounted for on these forums is the " silent majority". I read the update thread twice a month maybe, less as time goes on.As a cosumer I view this this sim as" competing" for my entertainment dollars. There is little entertainment value in the on-line experience that crashes constantly , off line is not much better with the constant freezes. I would venture a guess that the majority of would be consumers do not even post, they just move on to other interests or forms of entertainment.
The current state of this sim combined with the choice for the next (BOM) installment has left most folks i converse with looking for other aerial combat sims.
The graphics and damage model are light years ahead of IL-2 1946, but so are some of the other flight sims on the market. As for the potential, actions always speak louder than words.