How many spend more time here than playing CLoD?
 

I spend more time here than I do actually playing the game. Just curious, anyone else doing the same?

Not played for last 3 month maybe, but lurking here everyday and hoping for patch :mad:

I dunno, I glanced at my Steam stats for CloD the other day and was surprised to see I've spent over 200 hours in game. The only other Steam game I have that is over that is ARMA 2 (where I have over 400).

I have 70 hours but i think 60 hours is configuring sim and so on :)

Not played for last 1.5 month, waiting for patch and new graphic card generation :mad:

~S~

LOL i havent started the game in at least 3 wks but i must check this forum 10-15 times a day,mainly for skins(which at the moment have got to be best part of the game(for me) and also FMB).

Your right though,just waiting for that elusive patch :)

Cheese

Also (apart from the idiots on here) there is a wealth of interesting info that is very interesting and helpful.

Cheese

Guilty.

And I don't spend much time here anymore.

Have not touched CLOD in some time, and only flirted with IL2 after the 4.11 release.

I want to fly again, but none of my guys are here anymore, looks like I may have to eat crow and install R0F if I want to fly again.

myself.

always lurking for an update, some very good threads that pop up, and raaid posts.

hobby - culture - comedy

I'd play online more if there was more than one populated (ATAG) server with just one map going. Like most people, just waiting on the patch and new video cards to come out.

I fly a couple of hours just about every day.

I'm one of those that has played too many of all the games released since 1984, and I notice that for decades I've been "searching for the Grail" in many different gaming categories... Some way I end up waiting for some game, then when it arrives I play it for a week or two only to realize it was not the Grail - again! I pick up some game years before the release like "Combat Mission Battle for Normandy" for wargames, "Star Wars the Old Republic" for an MMO, Silent Hunter 5 for a Naval simulator but mostly flight sims naturally. I waited for Rise of Flight since that first thread in the SimHQ forum etc... Every time I get a bit disappointed even though some get close to the mark. And then I friggin start waiting for something else to be the Grail. Right now I'm waiting for the CloD patch thinking it may be the Grail ;)

I guess the chase is better than the catch? ;)

There are a few games that I really played for years, like the Dynamix series, the Falcon series, the Combat Mission series, the Steel Panther series and of course the mother of all goats IL2 that's been on my hard drives since the first release ten years ago... But I do play Steel Panters (WinSPMBT) occasionally on PBEM so I guess that's the winner in longevity even though It's very far from that first Steel Panthers it's still the same game at heart.

Thinking of it I will start a new thread in the Pilots Lounge taking a screenshot of my current "games" folder with my current game shortcuts I have on my desktop and see if others chime in for some inspiration ;)

And yes - I do spend to much time here in my grail hunting quest. A good relaxation from a high stress load at work and all the other demands of life :)

EDIT: And to the original question I just have 55 hours on Clod, still waiting to start the campaign after the Grail patch - but It's working multiplayer that I'm really waiting for...

Haven't played since laid off work ( had it installed on the test server with other games) . And no it wasn't playing that got me axed. It was acquisition and political intrigue. I don't have a beast pc strong to run Clod

So yeah I spend time here until I save and build a dream pc for the sim

Oh well, didn't fly one mission since 2011/11.

Last flew beginning of December if my memory serves me right. Waiting for patch and next generation of AMD budget video cards...or maybe the generation after the next one rather. :)

I get about an hour or two of CoD online most days, usually late at night after household asleep. But I check in on forums periodically through the day with my ever present iPad and/or iPhone.

About 8 hours a week online with JG52 in ATAG, over 2 nights, and 3-4 hours on my own,either offline learning the bombers, or occasionally online.
I am in the forums a lot though...
During the day I am on a laptop, when I fly I use my other computer, which is set up with my flight gear.

Dito. Sad but i dont play at all currently until the game gets decent performance and Anti Aliasing.

Winger

More here than ingame... playing is somehow "postponed" until the patch´s out.

But just today I flew half an hour and it was nice...

I added it up recently and found I averaged 2.64 minutes a day in clod since release. I look in here several times a day however

the expectation of pleasure is itself a pleasure

More like agony in this case because of the long waiting.

Me .. Im so bored of the game and need some fresh content, it's really gone so stale for me:-|

Like many others I play a bit--usually an hour or less a couple of times a week--but I visit here at least once a day looking for information about the next patch.

May this should be turned into a pole.

Yeah me too. Seems to be the only server anyone is in most of the time. And i dont enjoy flying around for hours not being able to shoot at 1 enemy...

I haven't started CloD in months and have pretty much given up any expectation that it will be sorted to a level where it finally becomes enjoyable. However, I still check the forums regularly just in case there has been a "magic" patch that might make it worth trying again. The triumph of hope over experience!

Waiting on the new patch, mostly. Like everyone else.

i have much more time here than playing time with CoD :D
But actually its not t he game itself:

i tried some few singleplay missions from the Desastersoft adon, but singleplay with flightsims was never my thing and will never be.
Online well, i get bored on dogfightmaps VERY fast. So i leave it alone.

I am happy i was there in the IL2 classic decade with its numerous COOP online wars ! That was my time. Wondering if it will happen again. But i am now 45, so, my PERSONLA wild time is over i guess. In around 2004/5 to have several hours a day in the HL flying COOPs and building COOPmissions with FMB was not so seldom :D

438 hrs Played...Last played today..

Ouch! ..Hope my wife doesn't see that! :shock:

In ways I understand that people don't play single player...Im really having a hard time waiting for the patch.. I'm on these forums everyday looking also. :grin:

I do have a harder time understanding why more people don't play online though... Yes the game has its problems and studders. yes the game sometimes becomes a slide show if the furball gets too busy over a base..

Adapt and adjust..is all I can say.. because there will be a time when you are in the right situation and it will all come together and is a blast to play!:grin: It definitely has its ups and downs.. but it is also up to the player to get the most out of the game. Concentrating on what the game is lacking instead of enjoying what the game does well...I believe is alot of the problem. I was guilty of it in the beginning, trying to build missions.. and becoming increasingly frustrated with the game. I decided to just get the game running the best I could and just enjoy the game for what it is ATM.
AND a big thanks to the (ATAG) guys for giving us a place to enjoy the Sim while we not so patiently wait for the rest of this (eventually) great Flight/ Ground war... Sim S! 8-)

Very, very true -- the map is huge with a low density of players. The odds of randomly encountering another aircraft, Red or Blue, is quite low. If flying alone it's likely that encounter, if an enemy, will not be a good one. Actually, this mimics in large part the Real Life experience of a solo fighter pilot of either side over the Channel in the Summer/Fall of 1940 if his radio was U/S -- a very dangerous situation for him, and certainly fruitless from a hunter's perspective.

There are several things you can do to increase your odds of a successful encounter (ie you score a kill) and increase your overall enjoyment manyfold. Hey, if it ain't fun, what's the point? ;)

1) Right click on the screen to build a "custom window" to monitor "server" messages and "voice" messages. This is where you get a frequent stream of enemy sightings (a/c type, # of a/c, map grid, altitude, and course). These can be either enemy AI bombers or human-flown enemy fighters or bombers. You can quickly determine your position on the in-game map and decide if you're in a position to intercept.

2) Use Teamspeak 3. It's free, easy to use, and extremely effective for locating enemy a/c. Plus we're a friendly bunch! :) Here's a how-to: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...w-to-set-it-up!

3) Chat window. Not very effective IMHO. I always keep one going to monitor any problems online, but I rarely spot useful/specific info on enemy a/c that I can use to advantage.

There are other things such as in-game settings to help spot other aircraft at a distance which can be discussed. I hope we'll see you gents back on the ATAG server and perhaps evaluating the points above to see if it improves your own personal online experience.

Let me know your thoughts!

I do enjoy what the game does well, but the things it lacks more than outweigh the things I like.

I'm utterly bored with the map. I'm tired of flying the Hurricane. I don't fly German, I would fly the G.50, but it is a joke. The only good Spitfire usually is not available, etc...etc...etc...

I eagerly await the expansion, so at least I can do some proper ground pounding with the IL2.

On a fresh map.

In a different season, with varied climatic conditions.

I hope.

1-2 hours a day on ATAG or offline bomber training. I find online too hard until I know what I'm doing since there are no external views to easily see the bomb release (indicator is bugged in the HE-111) and the target.

Snapper's post pretty much sums it up for finding contacts. Definitely jump on TS3 - even one other person on comms can change your whole evening. Just yesterday there was a 110 and a 109 buzzing Hawkinge. Four of us on teamspeak converged at the same time from different directions. I think it was Snapper who said, "Those poor guys, they're already dead but they just don't know it yet!" He sure was right - great fun! A 110 that has lost its energy is such a nice target.

And I don't know how many times I have seen a 109 closing on a red's six who isn't on teamspeak. Usual procedure is to call 'checksix' or 'break' but when they aren't listening they just go down in flames.

Edit: Definitely with you there, ElAurens. Very much looking forward to the expansion even though I'm still enjoying the channel.

Yep, that was me! You guys were a bit ahead of me and I knew that 110 was in for a world of hurt. Then a 109 squirted out of Hawkinge and went feet wet at wavetop height in a desperate run for home with a Spit in hot pursuit. A couple of us in Hurries decided to give chase -- why not? ;)

I was low on fuel, but "for King and Country -- Tally Ho!". We slowly overtook the Spit and passed him, but we couldn't gain on the yellownose. He dragged us clear across the Channel to France and I was fully expecting his pals to greet us as Cap Gris Nez approached. I was surprised when he suddenly went vertical over his coast and opted to engage us; I figured he'd simply lure us over one of his airfields and let the AAA do its work. Just then my engine spluttered and died. Bingo fuel! Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! I left him to you guys and plonked unceremoniously down in a French seaside field. In self-loathing I signed off and went upstairs for a ham sandwich. Oh, the shame!!!!! LOL

Did anyone get that 109?

Haven't played for a while. Simple as this, I will not play until it works.
No working single player-not interested.

i think that 109 was me snapper....and no i evetnually landed savely on an airfield

Not flown in months and months, CTDs, stutters and dodgy sound wreak the sim for me.
Ive been flying IL2 and having a great time, no crashes, super smooth, FSAA lots of people, COOPs, lots of maps.

in fact this thread sums up CLOD perfectly....we wait....still.

One more month until CLODs anniversary, i think we get the patch around then. Lets hope its worth the wait.

I have flown once this year but got a CTD in less than 15mins, Im waiting for the patch to fix this and the stutter and the shimmering etc etc.. Like Furbs been flying Il21946 again and having loads of fun with old squad mates, theres 15 of us flying Il21946 and not one flying CLOD. We need the patch to save Clod,

played maybe 10 hours till release and spend way more here
at the forum. waiting for performance patches and better
nvidia cards... :/

its no fun to me since release. :/

A month after Euro release I uninstalled 1946 FB. Ive played 410 hours since then. Love it, just dont love the launcher errors.

So no, Ive spent more time playing the game.

I just moved on to other flightsims.

Out of routine I hit the bookmark every now and then. But since there is no "patch-here-sticky", I'm usually off after 3 seconds again...


I've flown like 3 hours in total, 2 of that after the last patch-release.

Good one, David! You flew that 109 really well! :)

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... spend some time here on the forum every week to see if patch news arrive.

Dont fly CloD online, rarely offline, although there is a good campaign addon available. In my view, the sim is still not in good shape almost one year after release, sorry.

Prefer flying "Rise of Flight", much more fun, campaigns and multiplayer.
:razz:

Not flow since December. Check in here every now and then to see if there's much going on.

If the Patch is a good one I'll be back flying online again.

I only use the editor and just make up a quick attack battle , play it once then usually quit. Once they get the fps sorted ( if they will ) it'll be good but until then it's pretty meh.

I do spend a fair amount of time in here, well its on most of the time so...... but nowhere near as much time as playing it.

I've done 507 hours of play since installing it in mid-end April 2011, 10 months ago. Thats 50 hours per month or ~10-12 hours per week. Usually Sunday, Wednesday and Friday evenings plus the odd sortie here and there. Actually I thought I had done more hours than that.

Almost all of that has been on-line, I'd say less than 10 hours offline for some setting up or checking etc.

yep,. only waiting for East Front!

want Crimea & Odessa too!:grin: He112:-P

+1
Same here. :-|

I also have almost 500h logged and i am not bored.
At almost every night i find something new in this game.
To get bored so fast means imo only having scratched the surface.

I'm always F5 for the new beta patch due out in 2 weeks.

Waiting for the patch that hopefully makes offline play better and more enjoyable.

Fly offline almost every night for 1-2 hours. The feeling of flight to me is still amazing and I love it. Cross country navigation, landing circuits, practicing fast climbouts and attack positioning, gunnery practice. Checking how temps and pressures react to various power settings and speeds......never a dull moment for me.

CloD will get better - just a matter of time and patience - and I'll be ready, hopefully with some new hardware by the time the patch arrives. Lots to look forward to.:grin:

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
46.4 hrs / 212.5 hrs

I Enjoy warming up vs 2 or 3 offline for a few hours every night.

JG53 Host's missions 2x a week for all 3 time zones, Uk/EU USA/CAN Aus/NZ many options to get air time.

Also i enjoy the fun to be had at ATAG.

This forum i check about every 2 days for a grand total of 10 minutes.

So i don't spend more time here than flying.
As we all know if you wait looking at the water boil it takes longer, or as a wise man once said .."just 2 more week's"

~S~

I spend ~30 minutes a week on this forum, usually to get my disappointment fix on Fridays.

Playing time for CloD? About the same.


And until CloD gets fixed I'm busy with DCS:A-10, RoF and with the Yankee Air Pirate and Rising Sun addons for Strike Fighters.

I think this is a troll quistion. May I ask why it have your interest to know this? Are you seriously interest to know, or does this quistion serves an othere purpose?

~S~ smink1701

To answer your question - Im playing Clod more, than Im here on the forums. Eventhough Im here everyday I dont spent much time here, just checking updates from the community.

Also interestet in knowing where your interest are comming from ;)

Theres no issue with Sminks motives for this post, it's obviously just another bug in the game...the CTBF (crash to banana forum) which automatically opens up a new complaint thread.

I don't play the game but find this forum an interesting place to visit a few times a day for the sense of community, info on updates and the general soap opera-like ups, downs, disputes, etc. There are some interesting characters here and I was just wondering if anyone else spends more time here than actually playing the game...like myself. If so, it's a bit odd. Don't you think? :rolleyes:

Heheheh he was right. Thats so funny. :-P

I have 87 Hours on total, i have the game 5 Days Ago, Playing like a besat ;)

I was playing maybe one time a week but then my family has gone skiing and i have a whole week to myself so every night this: meet friends at bar or cafe, have beers, go home, eat pasta, watch news, fly either Cliffs of Dover or Rise of Flight maybe an hour, look at couple of forums, do email or call wife 'how is skiing? no, here is boring'...in other words a GREAT week and two more nights left!

Good for you mate! Get your teeth into it tiger! :-P

Great that someone is having a good time with the game in the current state! If they succeed with the goals of the patch I guess your new hardware will not be needed though ;)

Mmm, i'll go skiing WITH my family next week so I'm pretty sure they will do a surprise release of the patch so I can think of you enjoying it all week while I'm stuck in some avalanche ;) Thinking of it, there always is a goal when you go fetch a new beer - so I have a strong feeling of patch release as I'll be gone 10 days starting Saturday morning :)

Are you facinated by finding and pointing out potential 'trolls' as you call it? what is the point

Yes its a hobby I have. Do you think I found one here?

Myself have over 420 hours in the game and bloody love it despite the bug there is. The more you fly it, the deeper it get, but just sitting here read about it and complain all the time don't make it better.

I've clocked up around 120+ hours now, I'd say around 100 of that is online either on ATAG or with II./JG53, the other 20 have been spent with FMB or otherwise getting things setup on my end.

Sure, there are issues with the game, and sure we have been waiting FAR TOO long for a patch to fix the launcher crashes but overall the game is most certainly playable and I;ve been having a lot of fun with it.

I only really visit here to see the updates and catch up on any eventful news with regards to the patches or BoM. Overall I don't participate in conversations here too often as it is just rehashing the same old tired arguements from a lot of people who don't actually spend that much time flying the sim but rather spend time on the forums making unconstructive posts.

Sure, Cliffs of Dover has had it's fair share of issues but for me it's been a great experience and as a group we are working around the bugs in the game to make sure we can progress our virtual campaign and above all enjoy flying together in a co-operative nature.

Each to their own though, I can understand why some may find CloD very fustrating at the moment, but from my viewpoint I think unless you put the time into the game at the moment you'll not be able to see the beauty that is present but just needs a bit of shining to make it what we all want it to be. Of course I get fustrated and irritated with it at times, but the amount of great fun I've had with the sim has just outweighed that immensely.
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I tried to fly again last evening.

I really wanted to after posting in this thread.

ATAG server, I took off from Manston in my trusty Hurricane and flew to mid channel at about 10,000 ft. to intercept a flight of Ju 88s, made a pass on them and...


...launcher crash.

Less than 20 minutes.

Call me when it's done OK?

I am hoping for patch the last 2 month. I spent most time looking the forum for any news.

Do you use the .bat file to connect with? I'm not kidding in saying that we rarely have launcher crashes now. We all would have launcher crashes if we continued to fly sortie after sortie, sure. But to have one in 20 minutes sounds like you are pushing your resources a bit.

The majority of us have turned our resolution down a bit (saves on memory and tbh doesn't effect much visually other than you can see cons better), and I can fly sortie after sortie in a 109, running it out of fuel (from 100% at take-off) and never get one. The biggest thing, again, is using the .bat file, and restarting the game after every sortie (regardless if it's only 5 minutes). The .bat file makes it a 20 second process to reconnect/restart the game.

I know this is just avoiding the real problem, but the fact of the matter is we honestly rarely have launcher crashes by following this guideline. Obviously, we want a fix as bad as everyone else, but we can enjoy it now.

When last I tried your launcher it did not make any difference.

I realize that you guys go out of your way to be helpful, and I appreciate it, but disconnecting/reconnecting after every sortie, and lowering resolution, just to be able to play a title that has been in release for so long now is a band aid at best, and I just don't have the patience for it anymore.

The game should work now, it's been too long.

I still support the efforts of the deve team, and will purchase every new addition to the series.

But I'm done until the game works properly.

Life is short, time is precious, and I do this for fun, not as a second job.

I'm with Bliss on this one .. there is something in your configuration that is causing your launcher crashes.. 20 min into the game.. I remember you having your system specs in you Sig at one time I thought.. but they aren't there now... Mind posting them again? There has got to be a way to fix this problem. I do realize all these ideas are work around.. but if they allow us to enjoy the sim now, it is worth it! I've flown with you on the ATAG Server, and would like to see you and anyone else get their game in working order. There are a lot of talented and knowledgeable people that Im pretty sure could assist you and anyone else having troubles. (Maybe a teamspeak workshop dedicated for people having problems getting there game to work right, or optimized.. ) could be organized in either the Tech. Section or Performance Sect. In the forums for a time to gather and meet on TS.8-)

Haven't had a launcher crash this year (knock on wood) and I fly on the ATAG Server at least 1 to 2 hours per night (after family goes to bed). My PC is hardly cutting edge, the 2.67 Mhz cpu can't be overclocked because the BIOS is locked (boo! hiss! to Gateway). I have 12 Gigs of RAM for video work I do on this PC; it doesn't play a role for Cliffs of Dover......but I'd still want to have at least 6 Gigs for CoD + 80 gazillion background Windows processes.

I have a very basic start up for CoD which I consider as no more hassle than the basic start up procedure for a Spitfire:

1. Navigate to the 1C Softclub/IL2 Sturmovik folder and delete Cache
2. Start Track IR
3. Start FRAPS (optional -- George Lucas & Stephen Spielberg insist on this)
4. Start TARGET (that's my Warthog HOTAS scripting software. Didn't need to include this; just bragging)
5. Start Teamspeak
6. Start CoD (from the Teamspeak link)
7. Do a quick check in Options/Controls/Axis to make sure that all control levers are still correctly assigned. Sometimes after a PC reboot after doing video editing (a REAL memory hog) the CoD axis on my CH Quadrant change values. Takes literally 30 seconds to check and reassign if necessary.

That's it. I don't bother exiting and restarting CoD after each sortie, but even that is no big whoop using the Teamspeak start-CoD link. The whole 7-step procedure takes, what....5 minutes? 4 minutes? Considering the huge enjoyment I consistently get out of hooking up with the guys on Teamspeak and frequently responding to emergency calls like "I need help guys.....there's three 110's diving on the radar towers at I12 and I'm all alone here!" --- a 5 minute get-it-all-started routine is NBD, IMHO.