i believe the comment about 2 cores means that 2 cores is standard or minimum, 4 cores naturally there after recieve a bonus cookie.

How is the insta ban going to work for servers that allow mods on their servers?

I remember with the orig IL2 some servers would allow 6dof mods and I would play on them.

If I'm fooling around with mods and forget to remove them before going online I think it would be unfair to get an insta ban... What if I just forgot to disable them before playing?

A more fair idea would be a popup before joining the server saying "It appears you have some unapproved mods installed, are you sure you want to join? Yes / No". Then the cheaters can still click yes and people like me would say "Oh crap, I forgot I was fooling around with that".

Any update on the issue with Windows 7 64 bit users unable to bind joystick buttons or axes in the GUI?

Well... that would be a great measurement for the effectiveness of their cheat or hack, if they get warned. It's better to use no mods, but I do remember reading that there will be non-mod servers and modded/altered ones.

Most other games dedicated servers have the option to turn the VAC protection off. I would have thought CoD would have something similar. Just a tick box or a line in the config.

I have three cores, any improvements?

Ilya - You have mail.

question: does this mean you're also looking at increasing the current ingame server browser speed?

Off course all of us can live without it while they fix the most urgent bugs - the problems is that Ilya has never addressed this issue at all. The silence about it really is starting to get annoying. There are hundreds of posts about it and a simple answer that they will do it after fixing more urgent issues is fine.

So Ilya - just say that "Yes, naturally we will add that somewhere down the road" is OK!

We don't demand it next week - but as a rather large bunch here has G940 systems or MSFFB2 sticks it would be good to just know that we are not left in the cold? As it is now the G940 system is totally crippled in CoD. As Logitech is THE only peripheral manufacturer that the large masses know about their top of the line system not being supported in the "ultimate simulator" must be a very bad business decision?

An yes, If you think: "what a whining" bastard - of course it will will be done so why are you FF bunch whining?" The reason is JUST the lack of information which is just silly if they are really planning of doing it... FF support is not a "nice to have" feature in a modern flight simulation. Period.

And I have been accused of being a fan boy so many times the last weeks so this is really my only issue with this game! The rest of the stuff will get fixed!

Not sure that having the option to manage the gamma setting is a good thing... can only imagine people using it to have an advantage during night missions... ;)