Desireable level of realism in a comabt flightsim?

[ElAurens]

If this were a scalable option, as it should be, I will guarantee you that in the online side of the game it will be an almost universally unused feature.

Some of the mods have the selection of using a proper warm up time before taking off. It's a nice mod really, but not even the most dedicated online realism fanatic uses it. Why? Because it adds not one thing to the air combat experience. Please remember that this is an air combat simulation, not a takeoff proceedure simlulator. Now I know this will raise the hackles of you offline, total realism types, but that's the way it is. It doesn't have any thing to do with "furballs" or "vulching" or any of the other stereotypes that offliners use to disparage the online side of the game. We "fly" the sim to "fly", not to be bogged down in the minutiae of proceedure. I would welcome realistic engine heating and cooling effects in flight, because as they are, most aircraft overheat far too easily (I know this goes against the common belief as well, but, you is wrong, be sure!) And some improvements in maximum boost use times are certainly in order. But totally modeling the start up porceedure for all the different aircraft is a waste of time and will take enjoyment away from the majority of users.

So, if you offline guys want it, that's fine, but make it a selectable option, so those of us who have better things to do, can just get on with it.

Oleg has understood this from the start, thank goodness.