[HanzBlixz]

Edward A
In general, when flying servers that allow mods and do not have CRT2 enabled, anything is possible and when done in certain ways these cheats cannot be proven. This has been the case for many years in Il2. Mentally pilots in those servers need to except that fact, not dwell on it, have fun and not bother accusing people… just except it. Many pilots switched to flying offline because of this. If you fly in servers with CRT2 enabled you greatly reduce the ease of what most would call “cheats”. That said the type of person and age of pilot in IL2 helps reduce the numbers of players who seek an unfair advantage. A high score by itself does not indicate who, if anyone is cheating. High scores of over 10,000 for an evening of flying were once common in full open pit rooms by honorable good gamers.

There are some good tips already in the thread about becoming successful in IL2. Success in this game can be measured in many ways other than just an individual pilot’s score. I put more value on how good of a wingman/teammate you are. I sought ways to disable the score column in IL2 and ran a server years ago that measured the team win.
If the goal is a high individual score, here are a few things to consider and watch as others rack up points. Below is not a complete list …just adding to what others have said.

#1 Being on coms with a great wingman. If flew CFS1, CFS2 and IL2 with the same wingman. A good wingman helps you live longer and make it back to base to collect your points. Shooting 6 planes down per sortie and not returning to base (although fun) doesn’t help your score nearly as much as taking down 3-5 and successfully landing. With a good wingman in a full open pit server it was common to get more then 500 points per flight. Much harder in closed pit. The only thing better then a good wingman on coms, is a group of good wingmen on coms working as a team.

#2 The type of flying and type of battles you choose. In past years you could see giant furballs (some might say bait balls) of 30+ planes engaged in a turn and burn dogfight, with large numbers of higher altitude boom and zoomers slicing through… all seen from the end of the runway. Then in the same server you would see contrails from other guys way way up playing a long chess match. If your goal is to accumulate a high score as fast as possible, then give thought to the type and length of fighting you are going to do. With a good wingman a good pilot can complete a sortie with over 500 points in the same time it takes some commuters playing with CEM to get where they start their chess match up high. I can’t tell you how many times we have seen players whining about how other players fly, the methods used, how in real life a pilot would not fly that way…etc etc. To each their own… enjoy have fun. Don’t criticize they way other players fly to have fun. Some people call it a “simulator” and to others it’s just a game. The more people in the server, the more air to air targets for everyone and the longer the game lives. If your goal is high score as fast as possible, adapt your flight plan and style of fighting to your strengths to achieve your goal.

Clearing sixes: A game within a game. As mentioned above there are many styles of fighting in IL2 which makes for a great variety of games within the game. Again.. to each their own just enjoy it. One game I enjoyed we called clearing sixes. In a full server, with a wingman we would watch for teammates (aka bait) in trouble or about to be in trouble and as a team swiftly clear the trouble. We didn’t worry about scores and we didn’t seek out 1 v 1 situations (by doing so we lived longer). As a result of living longer and clearing sixes, the scores climbed on their own. If we received a thank you for a our work we rewarded ourselves with beer….cough cough… root beer.

So, one of the many great things about this sim, there are many games within the game and you can measure your success (or enjoyment) in different ways other than achieving the high score.

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HB