Are you an online or offline user?

[Kaptein_Damli]

20% online (mostly dogfightsservers with almost full switch like Warclouds, playing with two or three mates).
Rest is offline. I have begun one campaing and I see there is A LOT of more campaings to finish..Homever I am a moviemaker too, so most of the time goes in FMB to make mission for videos etc. It´s a long time I did a IL-2 movie, have been doing Lock On movies lately. I have a mission/idea for my next movie though, but it takes time!

Playing offline is fun, but the AI is stupid...or sometimes über..
What I like offline is the freedom to make own missions, fly whatever I want etc. Online is also a lot of fun, more fun if you have some mates on teamspeak covering your ass! If I play alone, I always end up in a furball being shot to pieces by hardcore player. Feel it´s more fun offline as I can choose the skill of the AI. I am not that bad, it´s just that when online, it´s the same persons shooting you down...and they maybe play just online to be good. Sometime I make my own server with only myself and some mates and we often have 2 on 2 battles. That´s a lot more fun than a big server because who know who you shot down! Nothing can beat sneaking up on your friend, shooting off his wing and see him barely bail out and then make a perfect landing collecting 200 points!

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by Kaptein_Damli

...Sometime I make my own server with only myself and some mates and we often have 2 on 2 battles. That´s a lot more fun than a big server because who know who you shot down! Nothing can beat sneaking up on your friend, shooting off his wing and see him barely bail out and then make a perfect landing collecting 200 points!

The good thing about this sim is it CAN cater to whatever flavor ice cream you like to eat. Personally, the description you provide of shooting down friends, is exactly why i don't fly just COOPs or closed servers. I get little enjoyment from flying around for a couple hours shooting squaddies. The only time it was fun was when we were having a training session on a closed server and before everyone showed up a couple of us started brawling...I bailed and a squaddie popped me in my chute. We all had a good laugh and even after the rest of the squad showed up we were all so intent on chute-killing each other (and laughing our respective arses off to boot!) that the training never took place. But if all I could do was fly about shooting down my squadmates online I'd quit.

my .02c

[yarbles]

95% offline, 5% online

no online experience can replicate the anxiety or stress I get when flying a 100+ 'dead-is-dead' missions offline. flying online and furballin' quake style, you expect to die, respawn, die, repeat.. no real feeling of anxiety because there is no consquence to dying like having all of your online stats wiped or having you dofight score reset to zero. don't get me wrong - online is fun and i've flown some wonderful coops but most folks put zero emphasis on staying alive and RTB'ing.

[Zoom2136]

Originally Posted by yarbles

95% offline, 5% online

no online experience can replicate the anxiety or stress I get when flying a 100+ 'dead-is-dead' missions offline. flying online and furballin' quake style, you expect to die, respawn, die, repeat.. no real feeling of anxiety because there is no consquence to dying like having all of your online stats wiped or having you dofight score reset to zero. don't get me wrong - online is fun and i've flown some wonderful coops but most folks put zero emphasis on staying alive and RTB'ing.

Well I came up with an idea that could of made that possible (stress & anxiety) but the guys I pitched it to were not willing to try it... wonder why...

Its actually quite simple have everybodies nuts on the server hooked up to a 12V card batteries... when you get killed online your PC sends a little input via a USB link to a "relay" that closes the circuit and zap the nuts of the guy that got killed... I think that it would make for mor cautious flying LMAO...

[brando]

LOL Zoom - but are you gonna wear one yourself (and where do you fly)?

As Thunderbolt said, the game really does cater to any flavour - and as far as flying with like-minded folk is concerned, well it just needs you to find them. I've been flying with a core group of pals for many years - and keeping up a 'feud' with a rival group too - and we've all had a lot of fun over the years. No doubt we've all got well-fried testicles by now

It doesn't have to all be 'fun' though. We fly fairly full-switch some of the time - although one of our members is in his seventies and we usually use short icons when he's on, to allow for his eyesight. But none of it seems to have lost its appeal over time. It's one of the best games I know of.

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