I think the problem is from looking at my pager messages and general discussion in a few threads........
Coops are not liked too much by some of the dogfight types so they are not interested and unsupportive to the whole CooP thing as they see its not necessary or they hate/dislike the concept.
Also the whole IL2 1946 CooP scene requires pilots wait for the mission to launch and cannot be joined once its launched they cant just hop in and out.
So we have the lone wolf types that like to browse servers.
CooP is the only way to put a missions parameters precisely where you want it with pilots where they are supposed to be.
This allows us to host say 4 missions in 2 hours from attacking shipping off the Murmansk coast to Level bombing Monte Cassino in Operation Husky to Dive bombing tanks in the desert on the MTO map or a Torpedo run on a carrier.
The pilots are able to choose what side they want and after the mission see thier mission points or if they won/lost.
Shameful as it is the points system does invoke some aggressive flying styles, but not the usual over the shoulder dogfight server stuff.
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