Those are contributing factors not the factor. But how can anyone truly enjoy something that continues to be buggy. I also didn't go into items I saw behind the scene when I was still a tester due to NDAs. I can't even flip a battery switch in the A-10C without potentially crashing right now. Bugs like that shouldn't make it out of the testers branch.

So some mods troll other forums in search for the next ban-hammer victim but nobody bothers to clean up their own site?? Wow.... I guess I'm surprised, but at the same time I'm not surprised. If you could give a rough idea of the number of valid users, that would be great! However, even if we were to say that only 30,000 users are "legit" and the other 29,000 are bots, that still does not look very good for the 750-person turnout.... that would be 2.5% which although better than the initial 1.3%, is still hilarously low.



Zero flight hours, Snoopy? Again, wow...



Sometimes, the honeymoon period just ends and you start seeing the flaws. The little bugs that you could once gloss over are now glaring annoyances that stares at you right in the face. When you notice something wrong and you're confident that "they'll fix it" but years and years later that "something wrong" is still broken, it takes away your confidence in the devs and takes away your enjoyment of the product.



It does. What sucks even more is when you watch those who "sabotage" your recreation move on to different projects leaving you behind to enjoy your "broken" product.



Good for you! I guess some of us are just wired differently.

What would be the point, really?



I can't with any certainty. My guess is as good as yours. I only know that they introduced a reverse turing test sometime 2012 i think, that dealt with all the bots and left only human spammers.

Cleanup.



I wonder if there's any statistic as to how many have been active over the last 6-12 months? Surely there are some statistics that are tracked on the website. Just would be an interesting thing to know, but like I said, even if we were to say half of the registered number was "legit," it still doesn't look good in terms of what the thread is about.

What for? You gain nothing but a few mb of database size. That's nowhere near worth the time of an administrator.



I think you're trying to put the cart before the horse. If ED want hard user statistics, they can get them much more easily and reliably from the master server and through their sales. People being active on the forum doesn't really tell you anything of importance. Just that they are active on the forum.

I could say the same about trolling other forums to ban the user on the ED forum.... but they've found **THAT** worth their time?



Was just speculating. The forum said there are 59K+ members, then someone says "not all of them are members, some are bots", so I'm simply asking for a much more reliable number. Since you said you guys banned the bots and I'm sure there have been steps taken to control the human spammers as well, then maybe the number of people that have posted actively over a certain time period are "legit users" and not bots or spammers.

Still can't believe that ED having seemly thought this through

There will now to several versions of DCS spreading the already smaller online community thinner :-(

For the love of god

1. Asset packs that you cannot actually PLAY in should be part of the core product
By all means later on release Combined arms WW2 for those that want to PLAY IN these vechs later on

2. Making people who want to host dedicated server have to pay for these the taking the p!ss
We are already using our money to pay for servers to allow people to play online , thus helping to promote YOUR product

No other company (to the best of my knowledge) has done such a stupid , shoot yourself in foot retarded PR move
..... hang on .......

Would you pay for DCS: Ground Crew? You'll see ground crew during startup, they'll marshall you in/out of your parking spot, and they'll do EOR checks... sad to say it, but I know a lot of people would pay for something like this!

Yeah!!, I bet ED is right now working a lot harder to find a profitable way to divide in smallest possible pieces their buggy soft than solving actual issues...but dont worry, I have a good news for you all guys, president Trump's official announcement of DCS: F/A-18 Hornet:

Welcome to the forums! interesting and mature name you've chosen.

Haha!! Nice avatar too!

I loled so hard

Ah!! cmon!!!...what happened to my nick?¿?¿?

Thanks for your comments guys!!

Now the nick is representative of the behaviour? Is this ED's forum?. Can I at least choose an alternative new nick?

LOL... yeah Spawn... better toe the line here and deliver your thoughts properly or else you'll get hit by Force10's ban hammer!
On a more serious note, bad words are not allowed here. It may offend some sensibilities.... everything else is game!

I compared with ED forums due to the "behaviour" reference, not because of my nick...but you are right in one thing, I should never compare any forum with ED's dictatorial fake forums



I will, dont worry

Is there a list of words not allowed to be used in usernames ?

Better late than never:



Obviously those 1,654 must have been reporting a serious bug.......
Never would that amount of people be online on ED's forums if the life was good.

Surely the release of Nevada and the screw up it was to download the map must have come close to that figure in terms of end user complaints?
Even took a member of the public to set up a torrent so the end user's could download the map and avoid ED's own torrent system, Or has everyone forgotten what a screw up that map release was.
No doubt it will take another member of the public to fix Ed's balls up when Normandy is released