S! all, from what I understand from Rise of Flight, they (777 Studios) don't plan on improving the server logging so that matches and tournaments can be scored by the server ops. It is going to be left the way it is: scoring only for their central score boards by their central data server that the various RoF servers send their data to. It appears their main business plan now is to create and then sell lots of individual planes. I have all of the available planes as of now, but I doubt I will be buying any more.
Rise of Flight has huge potential, has great eye candy and the 777 Studios team is still improving the game with patches. But unfortunately, it doesn't have the number of pilots flying online the way that RBII/RB3D and IL2 had when they were released (IL2 still has large numbers of pilots flying on the various servers every night). Last night at 8:30pm est, there was only a total of 10 pilots flying in all of the various RoF servers available. Sometimes there are a lot more pilots flying and sometimes the number of pilots in the RoF servers are sparse. I guess most of the pilots buying RoF are flying in offline/SP mode?
I personally prefer the WW1 flight sims, but a new WW2 flight sim:
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is going to be released in a couple months - March 2011. It looks to be an excellent WW2 flight sim and the hardware requirements aren't as high as Rise of Flight, so it should be flyable on lesser machines.
Fogel is right about Rise of Flight:
FogelGT wrote:Time will tell.