ORIGINAL: martok
The irony of the above post is simply staggering....
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Regarding pranksters (or punks); years ago I would frequent public servers to show my skill with my FW190, courtesy of IL2 Stormovik.
On multiple occasions as soon as my game opened I would see an aircraft rolling backwards on the runway-from firring its guns. Wreaked planes all over-some guys just love to strafe players that just logged in. It could take 3 or 4 tries to get airborne-then I could have some fun. I have to admit that the first time I saw this mess it was funny. IN time it grew to be boring-or silly. The missions were hard enough without the madhouse at home base.
There were some secure servers available for the guys that joined various squadrons. I never got that deep into it though.
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