kweassa, I dig your posts and have always welcomed/respected your opinion. In this case, you don't speak for me. Sure I could learn to know how much ammunition is left in a plane with no ammunition counters. I could learn to fiddle with trim and cowl flaps. You can call it immersion, I call it unnecessary busy work.
I have a house full of kids and run a small business. I don't want to become so immersed in the game that I can literally think of nothing else; not even getting a fresh beer, or soothing a hurt a one of the 3 yr olds, or answering the phone, etc. Heck, sometimes I'm dogfighting a gang, on the phone, and with a 3 yr old(or 2 or 3 or 4) on my lap who wants to watch daddy shoot planes. I've got all I can handle. I want to be able to fly around and BS with my friends on Vox, not worry about whether I'm going to overheat my engine because I forgot cowl flaps.
OTOH, I don't want to play an arcade game either. It seems to me that Dale and CO. have just about found the perfect compromise between the two. Are there things that could be improved? Sure, few things in life are perfect but this game is the best fit between realism and playability, IMHO.
Nothin personal Kweassa, I admire your depth of knowledge and your thoughtful posts, but I like the game about how it is.
Steve
eidt: my kids love the check 6. My wife has taught them to say "Daddy watch out, there's a Focke Wulf behind you!" It cracks her up, 4 of them at once... lol.
