A very bad learning tool.....

[Jumoschwanz]

Hi all,

I recently set up IL246 on someone's computer for them along with Teamspeak and Hyperlobby because they wanted to try it all out.

My advice to them was to try flying on as hard a settings as possible so that they would learn as many skills as fast as possible, instead they did the exact opposite, flying on servers with very easy settings, arguing that they could learn easier that way. I backed off on the pressure and thought that it is okay, they are still going to learn something flying on any settings, but after trying the server they fly on I went back to my old way of thinking really fast.
Yes, I did try it, and I am pretty sure that there is zero to learn on some servers, it is simply reduced to the level of a small child's video game.

To me every box unchecked is something someone is not learning, a skill they don't have an won't have. Even though "realistic gunnery" is checked, it is negated by not having any cockpit, which makes it more like practice for watering flowers with a garden hose. On top of the easy settings they go beyond that and ban energy fighting, something that was sort of important to pilots in WWII.......

I was game to try and find something interesting or fun about flying on the server, but I just could not do it as I had become bored of Pac-Man about 1981 or so.
Hopefully over time I can get my friend to see the fun in using IL2 as a simulator instead of a game.