Hope so, but those resources could be assigned to a new series. I believe they plan a ground combat game.

Some of those new resources could well be assigned to work on aspects of the ground war. It won't be a new series per say, they will be adding ground war aspects to the existing series. A combined forces aspect to the series has been in the cards for years and the capability was being implemented in the new game engine from its first build.

I'm quite sure the developer understands where the priorities lie at the moment and that's a working combat flight sim. IMHO any work being done on the ground war should not and will not effect the work being completed on the airwar.

I can definitely see the COD map being used in the future to build air campaigns and missions over the Normandy coast supporting the D Day invasion and the ground war. I'm sure many people would enjoy driving a tank off a Landing Craft up the beaches and over the hedgerows. With those just as intent flying above them either protecting them or wanting to blow them up Every tank person they can get to buy this sim will help support and fund new features to the air war aspect.

I kind of find it the opposite, esp in the current online for CoD. Human pilots are way more predictable, as they all appear to be tasked with "see dot, chase dot" syndrome. Been back to some IL-2 1946 lately, and realize how much I missed the goal based flying there.

Yeah, perhaps you should hop on our server sometime. We usually have 20-30 people on coms, most of which flying for the objectives (destroying, defending, or attacking) the goal of the mission. Since I never see you in TS I can only think you are talking about other servers. The 20+ people on coms every night are flying towards the mission goal. I can understand where the lone wolves would think otherwise though. It's hard to know what's going in when you are only flying for yourself and not the goal/teamwork of others.

Bliss is your mission schedule on fixed start time's?...when I have had some free time, I take a look and it's always an hour or so into it...all the good stuff has been blown up by then.

No. If red or blue do not complete their objectives stated in the briefing within a 6 hour window, the server will rotate to the next mission. So the start times all vary depending on how fast people win / don't win.

This is the best part of a dogfight server thats mission based, you don't have to wait until the next sortie starts. You can go on Teamspeak find out where your side is in the mission. If appropriate jump in a figher to catch up and cover the bombers on the way into target or on their way home from the target. Then chose to fly as a bomber pilot or fighter cover on the next sortie, or go it alone to the targets in historic lonewolf Ju88 sorties. No waiting and no need to be available at a certain start time when you have time restraints. With Teamspeak you can also find out the exact location of the targets and whats left to hit at the target area by the boys that have already been there.

Used to, that's the server I think of most for gameplay I described. It's mostly AirQuake between small groups. Teamwork on an Airquake server, doesn't make it a simulation of BoB.

Ah, that's right.. You fly in your own missions shooting at robots. That does seem like more of a simulation of BoB lol.

I bet both sides during the Battle of Britain would have much sooner the other side consisted of AI fighter pilots. It wouldn't have been historical but it would have been a h*ll of alot safer. Although the AI bomber gunners would have been a different story.