[adonys]

I think you guys are not seeing the forest for the trees.

The very core of the IL2 CoD is pretty solid, which namely is the immersion of flight and combat in ww2 planes, and the best of all ww2 sim are offering at this point.

Everything else are details, both good and wrong, from both MG and us.

The main fault I can find to MG at this point is the lack of constant communication. And not because we diserve it, but because it's the part of the trade we're doing with MG: we bought an incomplete game, and both MG and the community knows it. It is our choice to do so, as we know there's nothing else out-there for us, no interest from any other developer regarding ww2 combat flight simulation. These days customer rights are simple laughed at by game developig companies, but while I can have no simpathies and no quarter given to giants like EA, or Ubisoft, or Blizzard, or Bethesda pulling this, it is my choice to give it to MG, as I know they are struggling to pull this up with VERY limited resources and that without them, there's no immediate future for this genre.

MG knows this too, and it should also know that they must offer something in exchange for this support. And that very thing is the communication with the supporting community.

Beside this, there are many things needing addressing in current's game state, but the most important of them are, and in this order:
a) the command system
b) the sound system
c) the AI
d) the MP
e) the FMB SDK and support
f) dynamic weather
g) dynamic campaign generator

There's almost no one (me included) playing IL2 CoD online at this moment. And you know why? Not because the sim is porked, or because of the bad performance, but because most of the people willing to play IL2 CoD online are NOT willing to play mindless dogfights (withstanding the vulching fest of the small maps, or wander aimlessly over the BoB huge map).

Most of us want to play into an online war, plain and simple. You won't see MP numbers going up until this will happen, and this can't happen until all the above points are solved, and in the order I've put it up in there.

I'm playing ww2 sims (not only combat flight sims, but also tank sims, and submarine sims) back from Spectrum times (when they actually were nothing more than simple games), and nothing compares with IL2 CoD, even in the state in which is it right now.

There's no going back for me to IL2 1946, and if this game dies, then I can't see any kind of future for this genre (at least in the following 10 years).

Just have a look at what happened with Silent Hunter or with T34 vs Tiger games (which were the spearheads of the other ww2 sims).