Not sure I follow this. Are you concerned that the clients may be set much lower and suffering because of it or that they may be set much higher and overloading the server in some way?

btw mine was 25000 and I get pauses of a couple of seconds when, it seems, someone enters the server or at least when the logserver(?) prints out some stuff (not all) in the chat window. Could that be due to custom skins being used by some players?

Custom skins make my game lag when I get someone in my sights, today the situation wasn't much better then last time I played on ATAG, overall lots of stutters and lag. I did try to increase the net speed in my config, but it didn't help :(

Yeah, the concern is that considering the default server speed was way to low, I was wondering if it was too low for clients. The server has a 10gbps connection so I'm not to awfully worried about using that up at all lol. And yes, 99% of all the stuttering is when people spawn in custom skins. Sadly we don't have a way to shut that off server side atm. I would love to have custom skins, but until there's a way to have them load in a less abusive way, they stutter everyone.

What they need to do is have a RoF style system where everyone gets to vote for the skins that they want "Official" and then produce a official skin download folder that would hopefully mean that no one has to keep on downloading skins in game and stop stuttering the server.

Well I wouldn't want the voting system, but it would be nice if the server could put together a pack so whatever it had, along with the clients having that same pack on the pc, would be the only skins that could be used.. But any sort of system that way takes tons of time to manage. Lets just hope they get it all sorted out :)

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.:cool:

Which certainly is nonsense, as the zooming system tries to what the eyeball MKI can do all at once. Wide field of view which a much higher resolution then any monitor is capable to display at the moment. The zoom is a cheap attempt to get those capabilities into the sim, but it's better then nothing.

My cache folder is full of what I think are custom skins, logos, emblems, etc Jpeg, Bitmap, all sorts and one for a BF that looks cunningly like an allied paint job from above......hmmm? Ban them I say! :grin:

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Hmm .. And what's wrong with that?
I am 10 years flying in the IL2 and I have never seen such a statement ... It's a game! Do you have good eyesight? Large monitor? .. But in others, poor and small, so that the theme of nothing ...:)

If people are flying a lot online and have quite a few skins in their cache folder from other regulars, I assume that would help reduce stutters?
In il2 online wars most hosts asked people to set their netspeed lower, as apparently that helped.
il2 had a simple 'skins off' setting for hosts, and I'm surprised that is not present in CoD.Either they forgot, or assumed skins would not be a problem any more...