Mike I also thought your post was completely understandable. It's always "to each his own" and all. You've probably already considered these points, but just in case....
1) I know it was kinda "painful" putting up with CountZero on the mission you flew. You do realize there's no need for that to ever happen again, right? We could always work it out so we have some "FI only" flights, just like the 1.JaVA boys usually do on Cerberus missions. (They didn't on the mission you flew, but have on almost every other one if 2 or 3 of them were there.) We could always make that request, and the planner would make it happen.
2) Don't be too quick to judge the whole campaign based on the one mission you flew. Since we didn't know where the fleet was early on, this campaign was always destined to have some boring/slow missions at first. Now that the fleet has been located (approaching Cherbourg), action is ramping up sharply. We're also back to days, so there are multiple flights of fighters on each side. Today's mission has most of ours escorting bombers at high altitude, with express intent of drawing the 109's into combat.
**Edit** Looks like the 6 human fighters in this role are already claimed for today's mission. We'll probably need to give advance notice next time if we want to take a flight of them. Participation is picking up, and the planners are starting to plan human fighter according to how many people they expect. Others are planned as AI only.Anyway we'll miss all who decide to bow out, but I hope some of you will think twice. Still plent of fun to be had here. We just might want to discuss it on our own, and tailor our part of the campaign to suit some of our personal preferences. So for anybody who's "on the fence," give it some thought. For those flying, see you in a few hours!
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