1. It is Boring.
2. See 1.
3. See 2.
No offense to anyone who took the time to set the maps and campaigns up... but it is boring.
For instance, I logged in, looked at the MA. 450-odd people, 300-odd ping. CT had 23 people, and a nice 87 ping. I figured I'd give it a try.
Unfortunately, I ended up in the "Pacific" setting (no offense Jarbo, because it is always like this.. boring, that is). 16 Allies, 7 Japs. I go Japs. Take off, see someone getting BnZ'ed by 3 people. They finally get shot down as I get there, computer locks up as I engage.
I reboot it, come back.. and everyone is gone. All the Allied 'pilots' anyway. I fly to an enemy base, by myself.. in a Zeke. I deack their base, by myself.. in a zeke. I LAND ON THEIR RUNWAY, taxi next to the tower, and turn off the engine. Still couldnt get one to fight. All of them.. ALL of them, were milkrunning a base we couldn't even TAKE OFF FROM!
Oh yes.. how fun. I took off and did some aerobatics through their hangars, landed and headed to the closest base we could actually take off from. There I discovered that even two on one wasn't enough, unless the two had an altitude advantage to start with.
The planeset we have for the Pacific isnt even close to fun. The Japanese planes are WAY to slow to force a fight, and the people flying the Allied planes (which most people want to fly, because it means they'll die less) are to chickenshit to even THINK about fighting (even BnZ'ing) unless they have both numbers and altitude.
The really sad thing is that if the N1K2 were free, all the folks flying Allied now would be on the Japanese side. Of course, at least then I'd be able to get into a fight. Same thing if it was an 'early war' setup with F4F's, P-40s' amd P-39s.... Can you say A6M2? I guarantee you the numbers would be at least 16 to 7... for the Japanese.
Anyway, thats it. I might come around again for a European planeset, but count me out of the Pacific ones (and most everyone else as well, from the looks of it).