For some of us there isn't. I've been playing online flight sims for a lot longer than you have, around 15 years now. In that time I've pretty much done all that these games have offered and yet there is one thing that keeps me playing these games. It's not winning the war, bombing bases to oblivion, milk running an undefended base that keeps me playing, I've done all that and still have the t-shirt somewhere. What keeps me coming back all these years is the enjoyment I get from fighting in my little twin engine plane.
One day you will realize that what is fun for you may not necessarily translate into what is fun for someone else.
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Good for you you old geezer.
I'm 56 years old, played US Navy Pilots, Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1, 2 and 3 and now AHII.
I think it's YOU that doesn't realize what might be fun for you could become MORE fun for others.
Frankly, I get bored just flying fighters all the time. I fly bombers, gv alot, get on the big guns on carrier groups, even fly RV8's when they're available.
And when I do fly fighters, it's not always to shoot down other fighters. I'll do ack runs, ammo bunker runs, radar runs. It keeps the game more interesting than going up, shooting my gun and going down, going up, shooting my gun and going down...ho-hum.
I think it takes ALOT more brain power to think far enough ahead to see what would be a good strategy to bring to the capture of a base than to just take off in a fighter, point the nose at the red icon in front of me and pull the trigger.