I'm not much about online multiplay in my simulations. I bought the Il-2 series for one main reason, the dynamic campaigns introduced in Forgotten Battles.
Autopilot and Time Compression are the tools that allow me to have my exciting battles in the time I generally have available to play, and you can't use those in online games. And of course there's firewall and router issues... to much headache. And then there's the fact that most of the online servers I checked out have realism settings well beyond what I'm capable of working with. If I wanted to fly something requiring the training needed by a real pilot, I'd go back to flight school and fly a real plane! And I'd be able to do it for the money I'd have to spend getting the flight controlls needed to effectively fly with those realism levels too!
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