Can anyone please recommend a good CRT=2 vanilla server?
 

I only play stock game. But ever since mods came out, hyperlobby has been gradually occupied by arcade servers (external views, cockpit off, padlock on, extremely close spawning bases etc. And most of them are NOT CRT protected because they claim to accept mods)

Right now it is very hard to find a decent vanilla IL2 server with CRT=2 enabled where veteran players like me can play on.

I don't like to play with arcade players in those arcade servers because there is no fun there. Everybody is flying I-185-71M, La-7, J2M and Spit 25lb, although it is nice to practice your skills with those open-pit fliers. But you'll soon get bored in the air quakes. I was like playing Counter-Strike in the cockpit.

What's worse, because mods are allowed there. I don't know if some of them are flying aircrafts with improved FM. (Many mods do this, right?)

So, if you know any popular crt=2 enabled stock servers with historical settings where teamwork can come into play, please write them out here.

Thanks

I forward that request. Hyperlobby provides no good adress currently. Fallenangels (http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=29111) is one, but its rarely populated, same as Spitvs109.

I'm also interested in adresses (servers, online wars), running outside the HL.

Jermin, you appear to be an astute student of ACM. LOL

How true your comments are.

The problem these days is that online membership in Hyperlobby (say averaged throughout an entire week) is perhaps at most 200 guys per day, online thru Hyperlobby and another 200 guys per day, thru Xfire typically at about 8 PM EST (North America). It has really dwindled from just two years ago. And the few servers that have more than 10 guys flying now are mostly arcade open pit UFO contests. With you in mind and crt=2 (which does not stop all mods btw), try :

WarClouds (crt=2 and 4.11 patch needed) Xfire and HL
Spits vs 109s 4.10.1 version (crt=2 last I checked and full real) Xfire and HL
Grij Dedicado (no crt but uses patch 4.11, almost full real) Xfire and HL
Frontovoe Nebo (crt =2 and 4.10.1, closed pit) Xfire only
Yakutusk-Online (crt=2 and 4.10.1 closed pit) Xfire only
WD Fights (crt=2 with some special mod checks, 4.10.1 and full real) Xfire only

Hope that helps as a starting base. - S! - WD

Thanks. Just as you said, IL-2 is no more a serious flight simulation game online. I really missed the good old days when I flew in greater-green and spits vs 109s stock.

Actually a multitude of serious simmers (not those arcade gamers, no offense) has left the game since the mods came out and I've never seen them coming back. Even some large squadron completely disappeared from the community.

I really hope TD will take time to consider encrypting IL-2 in the next patch to save the dying online community.

Edit: Just noticed that most of them are still running 4.10.1m. Since they aren't running mods, why do they stay at 4.10.1m? They don't like the patch?

1. There were servers like you are looking for, especially UKdedicated2 and 3. Closed pit and/or full real and with historical missions run 24/7, but due to you guys not showing up there, they had to be closed or converted. So don't blame it all on the mods if you don't take to the services provided.

2. Childish move to abandon a game you love because mods appear... If you don't use them and don't allow them in your circles of clans and sqauds, where is the problem in the first place?

3. They are still running 4.10.1 because taking advantage of the new features takes time to implement. All the new FMB features, fuzes and such require reworking target sites and loadout restrictions etc. So give it time.

Are the XFire only servers popular? I only have hyperlobby, is it worth putting XFire on?

I also don't understand why haven't these servers upgraded to 4.11?

Mods I understand as I love the cockpits and eyecandy from Ultrapack and I've loaded those SFS files in my 4.11m.

I've only just starting playing IL-2 online coming from ROF, and I can't understand all the wonder-woman view servers as well :evil:
It's a flight sim, not Doom. To me one of the best things in a sim is the cockpits, especially the modded ones.

But I guess it's been like this for years, too late to change it now. I think ROF did the right thing by never adding a wonder woman view to cheapen the game.

My best hope might be to try out XFire.

Also

FallenAngels411 full difficulty settings except speedbar CRT=2.

You can find it on Hypperlobby

I recommend trying Xfire for a few more good servers that don't show up on HL. Only problem with Xfire is that the difficulty settings are not very readable.

Answers:

1. I don't recall UKdedicated servers being serious ones. Didn't they run on an arcade setting? Besides, none of them were as popular as the best servers on hyperlobby in the history of IL2, such as greater green, winds of war, spits vs 109 etc.

2. From where did you made that assumption? The appearance of mods has opened up the Pandora box and cheating started to spread, which drove those serious gamers away. That's why there are so many wonder-woman servers on the lobby. Because current online community is mostly comprised of new players who are reluctant to spend time learning navigation, SA, BFM, and teamwork. They love the air quakes. But that is not the best scenery you can see in a combat flight sim.

Sorry, TD, but the overheating feature you included in 4.11m has made this situation even worse. They will stuck to those UFOs more than ever from now on. They can just turn and shoot to blow an experienced virtual pilot into pieces, who won't even give those UFOs a try. Why need they learn?

3. I highly doubt what you said is the real reason. Some very popular Russian servers upgraded immediately after the patch release, AlexServer for example. But, it's pity that it is an arcade server.

1. You have so no idea what you are talking about. All three UKded servers ran historical missions with limited plane sets and the difficulty level increased by server. Open pit, locked pit and full real. ALL running full difficulty except for GUI and cockpit related settings. Plus, they always were in the top ten on HL. Besides that, I do not recall your name ever coming up in any meaningful way during the last 5 years I have been involved in this community. So there is little credit to your name to begin with.

2. Drove them away from where? Oh right, the free servers they did never support and happily taken their servies for granted. Honestly, those players can rot in hell. Either you are dedicated as you claim, which includes supporting those server that provide the service you like and therfor there is no risk of cheaters being around, or you are just spoiled and deserve no better than see your beloved environment go to hell, which in your world means is converted to a modded server. If all the oh so dedicated full real flyers would have cared they could have easily upheld their own servers free of any mods, but they didn't. So tough luck.

3. Trust me, I have build missions for the UKdedicated servers for several years and we always have taken to our maps by updating them whenever a new patch arrived. If others don't do that, it is their fault for not wanting to delivered the best the game has to offer in its most recent state. Simple as that.