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Originally Posted by Feathered_IV
What happens if you rise in rank? Will you just get a warm fuzzy feeling and fly at the front of the group? Would a rise in rank from Staffel Kaptain up to Kommodore be completely meaningless in your SoW? How should such a promotion effect your game? How would it effect, "the role of a pilot in WW2"?
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I think everyone is losing sight of the fact that this a Battle of Britain simulation. Taking place in a very short time period, only a few months at most.
So ranking up etc would seem a bit of a major stretch.
One would hope the SOW features stats recording server side and that this is expanded expecially as more campaigns (expansions) are added.
I honestly expect to see life (active ai) around the airfields in the initial release as this is a next gen flight sim and something that would be expected.
What is the point of running to AA guns if you are not protecting a living vibrant airfield.
Again this is purely a Battle of Britain thing where airfields were mostly permenant structures.
I would obviouly expect a pilots log book and lists of claims, confirmed kills etc.
But all this is purely me, me, me and somehow I doubt Oleg really cares what i want
This sim has been many years in the making and I trust the developers, publishers all know what works and what does not.
A sim like WOV Bob while stunning too look at, failed because they ignored the online community.
While it may be fun to shoot down ai at some point you will want to take down your fellow human and with the proliferation of broadband that is now possible.
I fly ADW from South Africa with a ping of 250-290 and still enjoy the ride. I shoot people down and get shot down often. Honestly once I flew online for the first time I never touched the game offline much again.
The only time I do is to practice take-off and landings in various planes and bombing practice.
This I can mainly attribute to IL2's totally lacking "soul" in offline play as one poster posted previously.
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