Something is definitely up with the interweb lately. I have a 30 Mbs connection and am seeing my rounds go through other guys airplanes (bummer) and, I lose every collision with critical damage. <--- Generally collisions are my fault, but there have been a few where I did not think we were even that close.
The model is imperative to the game, it gives a bit of an incentive for guys not to do gun run straight through you and to think about escape angles etc...
Must be the NSA eating up all the bandwidth lol