Good thread but one that we cannot ever get 100% right to suit all players, however in V2.0 there are some new features I hope will address some of the gripes in this thread

Yes we can make encounters less frequent (more hostorically correct) - and yes then it will get boring..... been down this road so many times since P1. Its hard to sell boring....and as the years progress the requirement for instant gratification in this world seems to become increasingly prevalent.


WM

Good thread but one that we cannot ever get 100% right to suit all players, however in V2.0 there are some new features I hope will address some of the gripes in this thread

Yes we can make encounters less frequent (more hostorically correct) - and yes then it will get boring..... been down this road so many times since P1. Its hard to sell boring....and as the years progress the requirement for instant gratification in this world seems to become increasingly prevalent.

Looking forward to what you have cooked up for us Winder.

While I can't offer anything about the "encounter" rate, there are some things I like to do now (when I actually get the chance to fly) that helps reduce the "kill tally" rate. I follow a few simple rules.

#1. I take the soonest opportunity to escape from combat the moment my pilot becomes wounded. If my pilot has been hit by bullets or wounded by AA, as soon as it is safe to head home, that's what I do. If I'm in the middle of a dogfight, I begin searching for the safest way to exit the battle instead of trying to finish off the other guy. If I have no choice but to fight, then yes I keep fighting. But if I can climb above, dive away or extend without presenting an easy target, I head home instead of pushing for the kill.

#2. I don't drop below a certain altitude while over no-mans land or behind enemy lines. I don't care if the enemy pilot is trailing smoke and he's all alone. If he dives away low behind his lines, I let him go. Even though ground fire is not present all behind the actual front in the sim, I pretend like it really is and won't risk being shot like the Red Baron was.

#3. Change Guns setting to Less Accurate in the Workshop. There's a lot of things no computer sim can properly account for such as the biting cold, the actual fear of death, etc. Less Accurate Guns, to me, acts as a sort of "compensator" for difficulties that should be present but no sim is capable of replicating. I'm not suggesting the actual guns were inaccurate during the real war. I'm just using the setting to try to balance out other factors that can't be present in WOFF.

#4. Labels Off. Always. I understand everyone has different levels of vision and that sims have a hard time drawing out aircraft past certain distances. Like all of these suggestions, it's a personal choice. Not a matter of what is "right" or "wrong." For me personally, with labels off I'm much more likely to be surprised by an enemy flight. It also means there are enemy flights that might come within a couple miles of me that I don't turn to engage because I just plain never saw them.

#5. I don't put in claims for kills that happened behind enemy lines and there are no friendlies nearby to confirm it. Yes, the Workshop takes that stuff into account when evaluating a claim, but if there's nobody there to confirm the kill (solo mission, flight got completely scattered to the wind during the dogfight, etc) then I just call it a loss and don't put the claim in ensuring my total kill count will stay lower.

The net result for me is that I still get a satisfying number of encounters that keep missions from being boring, but it helps keep my total kill tally from beating Manfred's in the first 6 weeks of the war. Just throwing it out there for anyone who might be interested.

Good thread but one that we cannot ever get 100% right to suit all players, however in V2.0 there are some new features I hope will address some of the gripes in this thread

WM

Guys, there are settings for every tastes in this sim. Those realism buffs, like me, and others, it is great to have realistic settings, which means having 1 -3 missions each day, and also with having 5 missions without any encounter. There are possibilities to tone it down for those who want rather have quicker benefits and fun. Advancing days, busy periods, calm periods, early war, late war, always attack, labels, gun accuracy, strength etc. etc. Enough settings for everybody. So rather having it as realistically as possible, with the option to tone it down, instead of having an rather unrealistic and unhistorical base without having the option to tone it up. There are not many simulators out there with that many options to satisfy everybodies taste.

Cheers