VO101_Tom made a good point. So far while playing online, I took Bliss´s advice for high alt combat to an experiment and flew around at +4000m altitude. My results were inconclusive since it was hard to find any opposition in shape of Spit IIs or 109 E-4s over ENgland and France. After having askedd people why they fly mostly between sea level and 2000m, they answered that there is nothing interesting up there and therefore it was so darn hard to find any opposition at high altitude. People said, when they wanna bomb ships, they can do that from "relatively" low altitude and when they just look for trouble they gonna strafe planes landing or taking off at the opposing airfields.
My suggestion, in order to drag more people into a historic correct and realistic altitude to observe how Spit II vs 109 performs at high altitude, I would say, remove the ships and add large bomber streams between France and England at 4000 to 6000m so that people find their targets up their. Whenever you wanna seek a dogfight you can protect your own bombers or hunt the enemy bombers. Alternatively, one can still bomb the enemy airfields, but the high alt. "pulks of bombers" (somewhere between 10 and 20 in numbers) should be the more tempting targets.
This would be an idea to focus dogfights higher in the skies, where the aformentiond handling of energy gets more important, even for the plane with a bit less overall speed performance.
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