remember that famous WWII photo?

[icepac]

[hotard]

Except for turn rate, the La7 and La5 holds all the cards below 8k, including top speed, acceleration, climb rate, and roll rate against the 38G and J and most of time vs the L. Above 8k, the P38 has a slightly higher climb rate until 15k when the difference is remarkable.

Having seen some of the whines from Hotard in the past (ie 'HTC hates the bish'), I know talking to him about reality is a waste of time.

Flamming aside,

HTC doesn't hate bish, but in my experience there are a few players, country affiliation unrelated, that seem to be able to bend HTC's ear, then there is the rest of us.


Simplistic comparisons aside, every plane has it's coffin corners.


If I flew the LA as a BNZ plane then, yes, like the Mustang, it's hard to touch and I would say get some skill. I don't fly the LA that way except horde busting, or the once in a week urge to vluch the runway. Get near me and I'm going to see just what kind of stick you are. LA vs Spit; KI; Nik; easy mode?? Not in turn fight, not in my book.

 

[Delirium]

HTC doesn't hate bish, but in my experience there are a few players, country affiliation unrelated, that seem to be able to bend HTC's ear, then there is the rest of us.

I rest my case.

[hotard]

I rest my case.

Then please explain why the IL-2 doesn't have f3 mode anymore.

[The Fugitive]

Then please explain why the IL-2 doesn't have f3 mode anymore.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with unbalancing game play.

[Wmaker]

[uptown]

You guys shut the lights off when you're done 

[hotard]

I'm sure it had nothing to do with unbalancing game play.

Yup 1 guy in an IL-2 pwns a chosen one in his duce, presto no f3 mode in Il-2. I can see where that threatened the balance of game play all right. HTC doesn't seem to be likewise concerned with the furballing a-20's where the f3 mode allows a plane to be used in a way it never was in the real deal though.  

[MK-84]

Yup 1 guy in an IL-2 pwns a chosen one in his duce, presto no f3 mode in Il-2. I can see where that threatened the balance of game play all right. HTC doesn't seem to be likewise concerned with the furballing a-20's where the f3 mode allows a plane to be used in a way it never was in the real deal though.  

So you have trouble against A20s in a dogfight.   

AKAK was right in his first post 

[The Fugitive]

Yup 1 guy in an IL-2 pwns a chosen one in his duce, presto no f3 mode in Il-2. I can see where that threatened the balance of game play all right. HTC doesn't seem to be likewise concerned with the furballing a-20's where the f3 mode allows a plane to be used in a way it never was in the real deal though.  

No it wasn't just one guy, but GHI was the best at it. The reason you see the A20s now is they are trying to use that as the replacement. It not as good so you see much fewer of them than you ever did with the il2s.

[hotard]

So you have trouble against A20s in a dogfight.   

AKAK was right in his first post 

Only if it's Cobia38. U run across his A-20 1v1 and let me know how you do. 

[mthrockmor]

I understand why they do eny, wish there was a way to do local/regional eny, completely understand when people log-in to fly ponies but instead have to fly Sopwith Camels.

What is a proper fix? On the one hand, paying $15/mo means you get to fly P-51Ds. On the other, having sides so overloaded you have almost no chance of winning sucks just as much. Being jumped by a dozen Fw-190A5s is workable if you have a ponyD to work with.

I actually exchanged a couple emails with Skuzzy on this a while back. They have noted that without eny, and massive imbalance of numbers with no equalizing factor, game participation drops as well. No easy answer.

Boo

[hotard]

I understand why they do eny, wish there was a way to do local/regional eny, completely understand when people log-in to fly ponies but instead have to fly Sopwith Camels.

What is a proper fix? On the one hand, paying $15/mo means you get to fly P-51Ds. On the other, having sides so overloaded you have almost no chance of winning sucks just as much. Being jumped by a dozen Fw-190A5s is workable if you have a ponyD to work with.

I actually exchanged a couple emails with Skuzzy on this a while back. They have noted that without eny, and massive imbalance of numbers with no equalizing factor, game participation drops as well. No easy answer.

Boo

Guess skuzzy is away on mars or somewhere.  if +60-80 players isn't a massive imballance I don't know what is.. Just tonight 1 country had +50 players compared to lowstest country, and an eny of <3. Now there's a real ballancer for you. Naturally it was a win for the mob.

[OldBull]

Thanks for the photo JimmyC, aside from that I'm with Uptown, ya'll shut off the lights when you leave, this has made me so sleepy I need a nap

[715]

Another suggestion is get rid of the 12 hour side switch.. it seems to have had the unintended effect of keeping players on the overmaned side in place rather than encouraging them to switch to a more advantageous eny country, since they would be stuck there for 12 hours (log on time).

It's 12 hours of log on time not real time???  That would seem to defeat the whole purpose of ENY as no one would want to switch if he's going to be stuck there for a week or more.  Surely it's 12 hours of real time?

I kinda like the solution posted recently elsewhere: allow side switching with no time limit, but only allow switching to countries that have lower online population than the one you're coming from.