[nearmiss]

Your apprehensions maybe be misguided.

Oleg has promised alot of new things in SOW, among them is a much improved mission builder. The mission builder is very important for Offline play. Also, Oleg knows as well as most of his users the Online game can get very boring.

Looking for targets, manuevering for the kill, making the kill has rewards. Night after night of that action gets old fast. Coops help of course.

The AI is supposed to be improved a great deal. I would expect that to be a for sure improvement that will be done. Explaining things in AI performance could take hours. I think you'll not get a complete response in that area. I'm not sure if Oleg has ever made a thorough explanation of the IL2 ai performance, it was best explained by doing the sim.

If you have time go back through some of the postings where Oleg has answered questions.

The game will be for worldwide distribution, therefore a lot will be done for non-broadband players to play it.