Game Server Population

EZ1 · #1 10-16-2011, 02:26 PM

Has anyone else noticed how under populated the IL-2 game servers are getting. And, people are not going over to CoD servers either. There are only about 4 of them on Hyperlobby (need beta verion of HL to see them) and they are not used much at all.

Unless there are a lot of servers not listed on Hyperlobby things are looking a little grim for IL-2 right now.

Aviar · #2 10-16-2011, 02:52 PM

It's down about 50-60% from a few years ago. Very sad.

Aviar

EJGr.Ost_Caspar · #3 10-16-2011, 03:26 PM

With all the mods, it had been gone to be an offline game mostly. Thats my bet.

Bolelas · #4 10-16-2011, 09:33 PM

I am not sure about this, but i think, maybe a year or two ago, there were other servers of il2, apart from the hyperLobby world. is it true? I chatted with some portuguese mate that told me he played somewhere else, but, as i said, not sure...

EZ1 · #5 10-16-2011, 09:57 PM

I think the main problem is that is just "too hard" for most of the younger gamers to get started. First, you have to find a copy of '46, then find and apply 4 levels of official patches, then to fly on most servers you need to install some unofficial patch. After you've done all that, you have to learn to fly and operate an array of querty old airplanes. That's a lot for someone who does most of their gaming on an iPhone!

Romanator21 · #6 10-16-2011, 11:54 PM

It's not that hard to get the patches...It's hard when ten different people who swear by their own version of the game tell you to get Mod pack A instead of Mod pack B, etc. etc.

Besides that, there are multiple versions of the game in use online. Instead of 100 servers with version A, you have 20 with A, 40 with B and 30 with C and 10 with D. No one wants ten different installs of the game that have to be switched around in order to join a server.

Mods did a lot of nice things for the game, but a side-effect was a fracturing of the online community into various camps. Once all of my favorite servers switched to one of the various mod packs, I went online less and less.

Then of course, you have a negative feedback loop: The fewer people go online, then even fewer people show up because their friends are no longer showing up, and so forth until HL becomes empty....

Since that's the reality we have to live with, I for one am grateful that DT are apparently re-working the AI. It's also great news that DGEN is going to get a make-over as well.

Fafnir_6 · #7 10-21-2011, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EJGr.Ost_Caspar

With all the mods, it had been gone to be an offline game mostly. Thats my bet.

This.

The only time I go online these days is when I start my own server and friends join for some co-op goodness. I haven't bothered with hyperlobby for years...

Cheers,

Fafnir_6