What is going to make this fun for you?

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Originally Posted by speculum jockey

It seems everyone is focused on the same four things right now.

Game Performance
Number of flyable Aircraft
Flight Modeling Realism
Controlable AA/Vehicles


NOW WHAT? You have all that stuff, but is it going to make the game fun for you? Are you happy to just fly around in a circle trying to spot the airplane above you all day? What manner of content or play-modes is going to make you want to put off going to work or delay getting romantic with the wife? What is going to make this fun for you?


Something akin to SEOW, where everything you do has some manner of impact on the end result. Spash 3 enemy fighters, that's three less then have to work with next mission. Let the enemy bombers level your runway? That's less fuel and fewer bombs you have to work with. Bust your undercarriage while coming in for a landing? That aircraft will be out of the fight for a good week. Lose 1/2 your squadron in a single engagement? That's going to be tricky next mission when the enemy only has to deal with 1/2 the number of your fighters, etc. Some manner of bigger battle that could take a few hours, a few days, or weeks. Have the settings and stats savable on a server so every Tuesday night is "Jakes's Battle of Britain Night" where the guy running it starts it up again, saving the stats from last time so if last week the Germans lost 3/4 of their bombers, this week they only have 1/4 left to work with. It could be some manner of "ticket counting" or the host could just set it up so each side has a specific number of aircraft and pilots to work with..

Flight Modeling Realism
Game Performance

Count into "game performance" :
online coop mechanics
effective AI radio comms and I`m happy.

I do not need more flyables. I need coops to be possible. Even if we can`t come up something along the lines of SEOW, making generic coops workable would be a great start. I am 100% sure that it would be enough for most onliners for another 10-12 months until we get an online war started. Also let me remind you that VEF/BW/IOW had far more complicated mechanics than that you list as SEOW. In wars where resources mattered, the red side often struggled, as their players were unable to withstand any type of streaks of going home in your machine (be it damaged or not, still counts as intact). I also want to type out, that with current CEM and MAYBE more realistic DM for Russian planes, things can get even harder for reds.


With listed above content we can manage a good year from now till BoM comes or even a next addon. Most of it is here in the game as of now. It needs to get working and it needs to get it working soon.