making CloD a success

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

@carguy - I'm fully aware of SEOW and the likes, but those weren't hosted on HL (the point of this discussion in the 1st place) That is a completely different animal and one that vanilla IL2 could never do. The online Wars were all made 3rd party including the software to make it possible.

Ofcourse, but that doesn`t change the situation one bit. There is a big online crowd waiting for generic and historical coops to happen. CloD badly needs to get something closely similar to il2 coops or provide something better, meaning an evolution of that concept. It is a popular idea which has proven itself. It is entirely unknown if 3rd party crowd will be able to do the same as with BW/VEF/AFW and the like.

If you`re saying that it is a "takeoff on either side of the map and meet in the middle" then you are oversimplyfying it.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by carguy_

A ONLINE WAR coop

IMO there is an advantage of running online war coops on a dedicated server: it can be powerful enough to run 3-5 coops at the same time. Even if all other details are programmed in the old-coop fashion (same coop menu/GUI, simultaneous start, predefined target for both teams of 8-12 players, etc.) it will be still fun to meet another group flying a different coop mission in the same airspace. If there are 3-4 simultaneous coops they would start every 20 or 15 minutes. Between the coops pilots could be allowed to fly a quick CAP mission over their airfield too