Last few days I've been waiting for someone to post something I could relate too 100%.
Thanks El for providing me that opportunity. It seems to me from conversations with old Il2 squadmates on facebook, email and "old dusty forums" that a lot of folks are "coming back" to fly. While the software still has a bit of rough edges, it's more than good enough to fill servers with old pilots, and perhaps new ones too.
A quick, non-scientific check of CoD activity within the realm of Combat Flight Sims looks like this (online statistics checked both in RoF and Clod):
116 pilots on-line in CoD servers
89 pilots on-line in RoF servers
SIMHQ Forum count (active viewers logged in)
DCS 59
CoD 53
RoF 19
1C CoD forums
31 Members
60 "Guests"
I find the 60 Guests to be interesting. Possibly a nice statistic for those that wonder what percent of the viewing public on these forums actually post, or a surge in new people checking out CoD? I don't know.
Anyway, just built a new system - and am really, really enjoying this. For the first time in over a year I'm having a lot of fun with all my flight sims - but can't stop playing CoD to enjoy the rest
After benchmarking CoD, RoF and DCS P-51D on my new system - I found that CoD, by a large margin, utilized more of my 6 cores than any of the other titles. I was a bit worried that the extra money spent wouldn't be worth it - but it is in CoD it was.
S!
Gunny