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Originally Posted by joea
Interesting thread, but I've played DiD campaigns in Il-2 and survived a fairly long time sometimes.
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Sure, but the point is that historically MANY pilots survived the entire war. In IL-2 it's virtually impossible to survive for more than a few weeks. Surviving an entire campaign 'once' (as I did, ONCE out of about 100 careers, and I fly super-conservatively) is very unrealistic if the real life chances of survival for the entire war were something like 50%. For it to be realistic, something like half of your pilots should survive the entire air war. There is no way that IL-2 achieves anywhere near that level of survivability, EVEN if you cut down mission frequency to the minimum using the IL-2 Manager utility. Hehe, and don't even get me started on the anti-aircraft model and AI survival routines, or the fact that IL-2 is non-mod-friendly, so we can't even attempt to solve these issues in a mod.