Sure, that does happen from time to time, while other times its almost instantly.
One could say the same for aces high, unless your taking off from a base already under assault, you still must fly 10-15 minutes to get into the action.
Its a tit-for-tat kind of thing, guess it just depends on how much time and money someone has. ( i have substance abuse problems
) For me if i have 15-20 minutes before work ill jump into a plane and go into instant action knowing my limited time WILL be spent doing some pewpew.
One thing i highly dislike is the rpg, plane lvl's and upgrades/enhancements and such.
But imagine if Ah had that type of system where bombs, bullet types and maybe even better octane for "perks" could be implemented.
Apples & oranges.
Im waiting for bigger and better games honestly, everything right now is still So stale. I want to play a war or combat simulator, not a one off of everything, or a one of everything arcade game. Something "like" ww2OL, but without everything that made it SUCK. "good luck with that one future game company's" Untill then im going to have to gravitate to games and company's who have that same outlook on future products, where "the sky is the limit, after that is space..and after that is another sky, on another planet..far far away"