4YA is my favorite server so fly on when I don't have much time to fly. I can load in and get into action within 10 minutes, it's also my favorite for learning new weapons because there's so many targets.

4YA has been absolutely invaluable to me while learning DCS. Just wish more people were using SRS, but when you're able to link up with 4 or 5 people using SRS it really becomes exciting.

4YA got me started in dcs, It was my first dive, truly a wonderful time

The fun that I have on the training server is huge , there is every sort of opponent at the same time: airborne enemies, ground targets, SAM sites, also, contrary to other servers where you have to take off and fly for 20 minutes in an F-16 to take out a target and when you arrive there the enemy has been taken out or you get killed when you arrive so you have to start again, in 4YA, usually the distance between you and exciting action is about 100km so its between 5 and 10 minutes of flight before reaching your destination

I fly pretty much only [4YA] servers and anything else just feels "weird" to me now. I don't even fly WWII, but there's a whole other WWII community within 4YA that have a real passion for what they do in their mission planning and whatnot. I am kind of biased though, I should meantion! ❤❤

I would argue no... IMO a training server should be zoned, what I mean by that is that it should divide the map up between zones for different mission types, if you're trying to learn something like say how to employ a SLAM-ER for example, you're going to want to do that without having air to air threats just spawn in out of no where and shooting you down while you're getting set up, likewise if you're trying to practice dogfighting or BVR, getting shot down by an SA-10 or SA-5 half way through that, it's not going to help you much... Personally if I was to set it up, I'd have a zone for pure air to air, a zone for air to ground, a zone for anti-ship, a zone for helicopter ops, and a mixed zone of all four combined, with at least a 20nm boundary around each, the problem with the 4YA servers and a lot of others is that they're not really set up for what they say "training", they're just capture the base PVE servers, so it is a bit misleading. The helicopter ops one is really important given the time it takes to get anywhere, it's more than annoying when you're wanting to practice, and when you've spent the last 20 minutes just trying to get to the target, and you're just a couple of minutes away, someone buzzes in in an F-16 or F/A-18 and destroys it, or they launched stand off weapons to the same effect. A training server should be that.... set up as a training server. A capture the base server should be that.... set up as that, and both called what they are.

I'm a newbie , and have been on the 4YA server for about a week now. LOve it.

My only complaint with them is the AI bad guy aircraft seem to be set to "nearly invincible"! Boy they can dodge some amazing stuff. And the ground stuff is loaded with Golden BB's! But fun for sure. My only other grief is the Mod aircraft being in there. They show up as camouflaged Su30s and hover over the runways!

4YA has good placed road bases that can be used by harrier for ground attacks and beat F16 to target

I mainly play on the 4YA PVP server. Great fun and still gives some sort of challenge. Hope to see a new version of the PVP mission soon. PVE servers are a good place to test some A/G weapons and slow moving jest like the A10. I also play on the BuddySpike server but I find the player base to be quite odd. Sometimes I join and see 20 Blue vs. 4 Red. Where is the challenge on that?

I am experienced in dcs and still play in this server because it’s just flat out fun

I like this server, I recommend it. I never understood the point of the aerobatic server. Is that where people just fly around like blue angels? LoL

Any recommendations on where to go when looking to communicate and cooperate more on a multiplayer server?

The lag has gotten pretty bad on open beta servers, I have seen plenty of people quit because of the.lag I switched to the stable version where is less people and less lag.

Does anyone know of a good server to use the a10 II on? I run into the same issue, agree its the way it goes. Still a fan of the server.

I only fly in the Cold War server bc I don’t have Syria or the storage for it

Jesus loves us God bless everyone!!!!

That is what I need… a noob server.

4YA is where I trained new weapons the moat

504 servers are good as well

289th😤 but4 4ya is almost as good.

I was banned from 4YA because some kid landed before I could pull off the active after I had landed, slammed into the back of me, and then complained that I landed on him and not the other way around. I chose not to respond to his whining so they just believed the kid and booted/banned me. If this is the type of experience you want, enjoy.

Noob indeed lol