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Originally Posted by salmo
Spare a thought for the Aussies at GMT+10. When we're online most of the US & Europe are offline which makes a bad situation much worse. We regularly see just 2-6/99 players in ATAG & similar in Repka#1 servers.
The problem isn't so much the time-difference for us, it's the lack of a critical mass of players who play the game. This will not improve until the game is fixed & (perhaps) becomes more popular.
I'm extremely disappointed in the direction the game development is heading. I do not think that the old IL2 development model (serial releases of different theatres with expanded game content) is appropriate for todays sim market. I believe that community &/or third party involvement in expanding/improving game content while 1C & the Dev's work to improve the game core is the way to go. The sooner the Dev's release SDK's & open the game to user-made content the better.
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Look I totally agree with you. The servers are never full. Its a self-perpetuating evil - empty servers means people don't want to join.
The demographic is clearly posted in my original post. More people prefer object icons, and I believe its because it is a direct cause of more engagements.
If we can keep a server populated that more people enjoy, they're more likely to play multiplayer. If they play multiplayer, they're more likely to join ATAG and go full realism at some point.
Right now we're asking anyone who joins CloD multiplayer to take a plunge off the deep end. They're coming from 1946, from Aces High, and from Rise of Flight. I've already shown what most of the folks prefer.
CloD offers exactly what they're looking for, but there are no populated servers running it, therefore they just play single player or quit. No one is going to try to do what I'm doing and actually get one of those servers off the ground. We don't exactly have a huge pool of players, so I think it takes advertisement like this thread.
I appreciate everyone different preferences, this is why 'preference' is in the title. I'm simply endorsing the more popular one so that we might actually get people into MP who don't enjoy the full realism of ATAG - because there are more of them.