sinan,

did you ever play air warrior or air warrior III? we had this stuff back in 1989 on the Genie network from Kesmai corp. great fun! you could play in the pacific theatre or the european. yes, multiplayer, real time, high res. at first it was limited to 40 people, but they eventually opened it up to even more. great fun dive bombing japanese carriers with f4's or whatever it was. massive furball dogfights and even historical events hosted by the devs. they also had a great player rating system which kept track of missions flown, kills, things destroyed and so on. bombers could hold multiple real players to fill all the seats and even some of the fighter/bombers could crew more than one person. they modeled everything off real plane specs and i'm telling you now that flying a b-17 off a runway with a full bomb load was no easy task. that sucker would lumber on forever and finally, just barely get its wheels off the ground. once you got up to altitude for a bombing run, it was just as realistic. the 'bombadier' took over control of the bomber and using his pinpoint bomb site would steer the plane over the bomb site and drop his load. control reverted back to the pilot and it was a race to get the heck out of there before the enemy fighters could reach altitude and knock you down.

i loved that game!

if il2 pacific comes anywhere close to this, i'm there :)

K.