I voted for the option of server side enforced settings. But I don´t really mind.
Finally it is up to the player himself, what he wants. If you want realism and immersion, you can switch this all off and fly on a server with similar minded folks on. If you find yourself in the situation in which you start worrying what is balance and what is fair competition, you are likely not looking for realism and immersion, but rather for the sportative aspects of the player vs player contest. For a player vs player conest, may it be 3 or 5 vs 1 or 2 vs 1, where it is about competing skills, it would probably be the best to give the option to set it on the server side. But then you would also need icons to identify friend and foe, because all players should be using the same plane and fly on the same altitude, like in the good old league map.
I personally flew IL2 1946 for the last 3 years with deactivated Hud-Log. Knowing of the disadvantage I have from the player vs player point of view I had more fun this way. But the disadvantage in competition was more obvious in 1940, especially with the inaccurate (if working at all) temperature gauges. In my squad formation I always had problems keeping the form, because I always wanted to keep my engine temperatures in the gauge range (no overheating warning, a problem especially in the 190, where the gauge limits are off), while all others constantly flew with X% power settings, I just had to figure what that means in ata and rpm. Now in Cod, the first thing I switched off were all the hudlogs and little throttles and so on. But I still have not figured out how to switch of the top left hud-log for the messages: Gear up, gear neutral, Gear down etc. Has anyone figured out how to get rid of that?
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