I've had a lot of fun on Spit-109 and Zeke-WC, but I have experienced lag with many players on the server at once, sometimes quite radical lag. Then again, I don't fly on many servers with quite so many people on, so for all I know it's a limitation of the game engine.
The other issue are the people. Kill stealing is common, often at the risk of collisions. I'm not one who thinks this is the ultimate damnable offence worthy of the 5th circle of hell, but it does break the mood to have a zero snake across your flight pass when you've done a lag displacement roll to get behind a wildcat, and proceeds to get the kill. Or if my target is smoking. Fair enough that he is not down, and still a threat, but courtesy should dictate that I can handle him, since he's smoking.
This is not directed only at the WBoP servers, but all large servers. The small group dynamics seem to be missing somewhat, which is a shame. I've had some really great fun there randomly flying with people I'd never met before, but overall the experience of others is one that annoys me. People are selfish, in the end.
I'm keen to try out Guts_Glory, but I've yet to find anyone on. Unless the IP changes periodically or something, I've once seen one guy on, and not since. Further, I do get a kick out of the full real environment without any compromises. A speed bar is still 3 glowing lines of red text in the corner of my eye, and navigation was a very important part of flying.
So back to the question: what servers are full (no compromises) real, feature great maps, and have a small, hardcore group of flyers that work as a team? Warbirds of Prey has disadvantages, but frankly I've yet to find a rival.
ADW is heaps of fun for more structured play though. The tension when your actions matter is indescribable, and the action is perpetual.
What's AW like? I see it on HL (though I'm an ASE user mostly) but how is it set up? I take it it's a set of coops? Are the settings Full Real or is it up to the host to choose?
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