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Originally Posted by Lagarto
I'm not a fan of undersized maps, either. However, if you want to reenact a strategic bombing campaign - and the IL-2 fans have been trying to do that since I remember - the 'tactical size' maps are just too small.
On th MWoI map I linked above you can, for example, fly a campaign for the P-38s of the U.S. 15th Air Force, which were taking off from Algeria and escorting heavy bombers all the way to northern Italy, Yugoslavia or Greece. For some it could be boring (you can always use time compression to speed things up on the way to target), but to experience the mounting tension of such long-range missions is priceless. As fighter pilots used to say: "Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror"  |
I tried to create airfields far outside the maps borders, but this is a hard task if it is not north or east. But it is some Kind of unsatisfiying.
Maps as large as the solomons mostly create a crash at ending the mission, which makes it rather hard or a matter of luck to fly campaigns, since often you just dump the entire successful mission when trying to quit it and confirm your successs.
Funny that the finland map works, whilst Slovakia and the Iasi-Odessa map tend to crash on a lower rate than the solomons map.
Maps as large as the alps in a modded game allways crash at ending the mission with 100% accuracy.
You must not forget to shut down and restart TrackIR, since evry CTD also affects TIR.
Or is it just me at my 5th computer I'm runining with the game?