SOW Multiple sorties?

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by I/ZG52_Gaga

Dearest Thor we have met these off-liners and they quit after couple of cruel encounters with the On-liners or even forget about the game all together.... It's my strong belief though that it's the On-line Competitions that kept and still do keep the core warm....

I totally disagree.

With the obvious exception of my squad who I met online, virtually no-one I know that plays IL2 ever plays online.

Further evidence of this can be found by looking at downloads. The largest download at Mission 4 Today is IL2 joy control with 23325 downloads. Taking into account this is an unusual utility on just one download site this suggests a community of one or two hundred thousands players.

There are simply nothing like one or two hundred thousand players online. There are several thousand at best.


What the online players are good at however is whining Though few in numbers they are very vocal and very obvious in the forums.

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

...Though few in numbers they are very vocal and very obvious in the forums.

Thanks mate...I try.

Really though, trying to say one type of play is more important than the other is just people trying to embellish their favorite style of play IMO.

I play online...period. But, my perferences don't have any impact on what Oleg has designed BoB to ultimately be. Sure, I'd like for him to include a resident server-finder proggy and an easy, intuitive mission builder but that shouldn't proclude additional items like better AI commands, Tea-table scrambles from the tarmac and a detailed single-player campaign mode...that I would never use.