IL-2 ala Warbirds / AH Arena

[Untamo]

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Just to give attention this neat server:

http://war-birds.com/

Basic idea is that you have large number of airfields scattered over the map, divided to red/blue equally at the start, and then you start conquering

Conquering is done thusly: Destroy over 90% field objects (includes AAA, tower, fuel, radar etc.) and the field goes to "closed" state. If now you bring and drop paratroopers on it, it is conquered, and changes colour. When the objects regenerate and there are less than 90% destroyed, the field pops back online, now to be used by the conquerers.

Fields have radars(can be destroyed) with about 10km scan range, and anything that is 100 - 5000m high can be seen on the "tower"(not inflight) map screen. So, radar operators are nice to have

The server has a rolling planeset that goes from 1939 - 1945 in about 3 realworld weeks. The server itself only resets when ALL the fields are conquered by one side, so a single war can go on for weeks/years. Depends on the efficiency of the conquering/defence of course

NOTE: The server is still in beta phase. So expect weird stuff (report it on the forums to help solve them), daily database wipes (pilot registering has to be done again) etc.

-Untamo

[RayVad]

I know this concept of the past.
Was flying Warbirds at the Russian server those days and and really liked this real-time strategy way.
Something i hope for will be possible to configure our selfs on the MDS.
Would be very cool to turn IL2 into realtime strategy and trying to take all opponents fields to win the war. without every time starting a new senario/mission file.

[Untamo]

Well this is the dream come true for you then

What we need now is good number of testers to stress test the server... Last time (last autumn) the guys from TURK-squad tested this server, it hang at about 20+ players. Ping went through the roof and kicked players etc.

Now they have a new server, so stress test is in order.

-Untamo

[Oktoberfest]

Excellent idea.

[[URU]AkeR]

That really sounds fun, i´ll try to get the URU squad there for a test, tonight is Ghost skies, but maybe later.