We will get there! After the next update is out you will see growth. If you don't see anyone on your server now you will get there. Just hang in there they will come!

I will come visit your server!!

Dude you're missing my point. I already know what full realism is about. I've heard what you guys are saying, it's not news to me though. I prefer the big red hud (markers ON SCREEN!). I proved with the stats that other people like the big red hud.

It puts a giant red marker where to shoot, and yes I like it on weeknights. It produces shorter sortiers, and more kills and deaths per hour. I get to use the trigger a lot more.

That's not a sin!

And I proved with numbers that those people MUST BUY THIS GAME TOO. There is no doubt! It would be silly to think there are that many more of us (WW2 era flight combat simmers, or in whatever particular genre you see fit at a similar level of specificity) out there, and yet we see maybe 100 people online at a time. This is the newest prettiest and most sophisticated thing out there, and it's not perfect but it runs.

So I'll bet a lot of the folks I just generally defined already own the game, and they boot it up every so often for whatever reason. They're on the fence between playing Cliffs of Dover, or RoF, or 1946, or Aces High. These guys like the settings I've described, and I tried to prove that with numbers so you guys would see my point.

The problem is no one wants to be the only guy in the server.

I'm trying to do something that no one wants to do, and now I've just evoked wrath from the "faithful purists" by trying to get a group together, and maybe get some people who wouldn't always play with these settings, to come and help me get it started.

It will help bridge a gap and I think could definitely support itself on its own from the people who are moving from the games that I've given the statistics for.

I'm sorry for getting a little irritated, but if I could just get you to understand I'm really not trying to get better at spotting the enemies. Whether or not I become good enough at it to be an Ace does not matter to me. It's the gameplay that it produces - THAT is what I want.

:rolleyes: I must have been so terribly disrespectful to you.

I wouldn't know mate, your tag isn't one I recognise. But I have this sneaking feeling.....;)

No clan affiliation and madman is a pretty common game tag. I'm fairly sure whomever you could be confusing me with are not one in the same (see forum join date, and posts, etc.). I play online as Madman. I think it shows a little square next to it because my steam name has a character the game doesn't recognize.

But, seriously? To think that if I was someone you did have time to get to know and respect, that this would be something you could not stand to hear from a close friend... confuses me to a degree. So, if I said something so offensive I apologize, it was not my intention. If you would, please, be more specific I'll attempt to explain myself in defense.

But, I now believe you guys, that this does not really have any good possibility of succeeding, so I will give up and stop trying to get more folks to join in.

Not offended at all my friend! I haven't offered an opinion either way as far as the thread topic is concerned. But I'd simply say 'To each their own and the Devil take the hindmost!'

See you on the server soon mate! ;)

Good to hear. I don't know if you noticed ;) but I give your clan server a lot of praise. It's king for a reason. Wait until those arcade-lovin' newbies show up and give it a run for it's money though! :grin:

At least I'm not flying alone in an empty server anymore... HAHAH! I'm too old to be doin' this crap..

This is such an old and tired argument...full switch vs dealer's choice..Well here are the facts...and I do mean facts just not my opinion.

A. whatever!! gets player/pilots into our little niche market is welcome! someone may start in airquake get bored and say ...hey maybe ill try fullswitch! which means there still here unlike a lot of games where once you hit the peak there is no where else to go....except to another game.

B. when the fight starts whether you are on a fullswitch or other you had better know your plane your tactics and what you can do...if not your dead.


the online community is sooooooooo small there is no room for posturing...support each other and sell the game to friends however we can because the WW2 genre is a dieing market and the WW2 flight market is even worse.

Heh heh! Understanding is achieved. You can't say fairer than that.

Good night me ole pal! :grin:

did you think he was MADMAN from II/jg53?