Who has the best IL-2 Online Server?

[Erkki]

AFW of course... And of df servers, Spit vs 109 and Zeke vs Wildcat, tho both are unlike they claim only history based not historical and have a few biased maps. I guess I actually saw a map with only CW Spitties but wasnt it removed right after few first tries?

FR, or at least no external views, cockpit on and no icons, is a must.

[Thunderbolt56]

All of the DF servers, their admins and mapmakers are constantly trying to achieve a higher level of historical accuracy while maintaining playability and balance. The pilot numbers in a DF room are dynamic and too unpredictable to try to keep true historical accuracy.

For true historical accuracy, your best bet is coops.

[FA_Retro-Burn]

Self nomination --- Winds of War of course

We also host some of the Forgotten Skies campaigns.

[Xiola]

Ukdedicated2, historic scenarios, fantastic planesets, great admins and regulars, Missions have been carefully and lovingly tweaked by great map makers.

Not high difficulty, not arcade, just great settings for fun flying with friends. And NO ATTITUDE (You get the odd idiot who thinks he's the bees knees, but he doesn't last long )

if you want to show off your 'skillz' or be a 'solo ace' then pick one of the other 'ego servers'. If you want friendly flying with other pilots with a team attitude and no egos, then try Ukded2. I love it.



Other good ones = Spits vs 109's , Warclouds new server which has missions from all years not just the same old boring 1944 one. (I forgot its name)

[crazyivan1970]

You dont need to defend yourself crash, hard core IL2 junkies know that Spit vs 109s offers NOTHING, but quality simming. It`s the only server i played on for the past year (that and Zeke v Wildcat), along with other SEOW junkies... and believe me, i am picky fellow

RaVen just got too much money from Guse, he didnt mean any of that...all guses fault, no doubt

[kid_SA]

I've had a lot of fun on Spit-109 and Zeke-WC, but I have experienced lag with many players on the server at once, sometimes quite radical lag. Then again, I don't fly on many servers with quite so many people on, so for all I know it's a limitation of the game engine.

The other issue are the people. Kill stealing is common, often at the risk of collisions. I'm not one who thinks this is the ultimate damnable offence worthy of the 5th circle of hell, but it does break the mood to have a zero snake across your flight pass when you've done a lag displacement roll to get behind a wildcat, and proceeds to get the kill. Or if my target is smoking. Fair enough that he is not down, and still a threat, but courtesy should dictate that I can handle him, since he's smoking.

This is not directed only at the WBoP servers, but all large servers. The small group dynamics seem to be missing somewhat, which is a shame. I've had some really great fun there randomly flying with people I'd never met before, but overall the experience of others is one that annoys me. People are selfish, in the end.

I'm keen to try out Guts_Glory, but I've yet to find anyone on. Unless the IP changes periodically or something, I've once seen one guy on, and not since. Further, I do get a kick out of the full real environment without any compromises. A speed bar is still 3 glowing lines of red text in the corner of my eye, and navigation was a very important part of flying.

So back to the question: what servers are full (no compromises) real, feature great maps, and have a small, hardcore group of flyers that work as a team? Warbirds of Prey has disadvantages, but frankly I've yet to find a rival.

ADW is heaps of fun for more structured play though. The tension when your actions matter is indescribable, and the action is perpetual.

What's AW like? I see it on HL (though I'm an ASE user mostly) but how is it set up? I take it it's a set of coops? Are the settings Full Real or is it up to the host to choose?

[F19_Klunk]

Warbirds of Prey servers are indeed a well managed set of servers. They offer high quality objective based missions on high performance hardware. For a guy who lives in Scandinavia, I have rarely problems with lagging or high ping, and when I do it is exclusively because of my own shortcomings hardware-wise.

If you have issues with any mission, please let them know in their forum - they have always been open for suggestions regarding improvements... both the "Old" and the "New" management.

I have no complaints at all - other than rare occasional bad bahaviour amongst ceratain pilots, and that is not their responibility - but they do "police" the activity on the servers.. VERY closely and eagerly .. bad behaviour is found on any server..

I highly recommend Warbirds of prey servers - pretty much the only ones I find to meet my demands on quality "air time"

[JG52Uther]

AFW:
http://war.by-airforce.com/

[crazyivan1970]

People should also keep in mind that lag is often induced by users themselves and their weak hardware. You can put a NASA computer to host IL2, that aint going to help someone with 1GB of RAM on 3 years old system... he will warp right in the front of you whether you like it or not if there is A LOT going on around him... and no server hardware or high speed connection will prevent that...

[Adlerangriff]

"So I think that I am anything but bias."



"He who excuses himself, accuses himself."