That's a bit odd about the date, in theory it should stop increasing at 11 Nov 1918, I'll have a look at the logic to see if there's a way it can slip past this. My plan was to post it here in Itch first before looking at other sites, however I need to do a bunch of work to swap out the Steam services such as leaderboards, achievements, and statistics. For now my priority is releasing on one platform first before trying to post on any more, which is purely a time limitation.
Further feedback: Bombing is actually proving somewhat tricky because aiming them is tricky. You have to rely on instinct for when you release them. You can't see downwards. The rockets have a worrying pattern. Is there a single-fire option? Mission ideas: Attacking a zepplin, attacking a zepplin yard, attacking an "Aircraft carrier" (I mean a retrofitted cruiser).
I know exactly what you mean, but I think you're just discovering the challenges that ww1 pilots had with the very primitive technology available to them. For bombing they had very limited sights, and in smaller aircraft they typically relied on the mark 1 eyeball for aiming, possibly with a simple iron sight, or nail sticking out of the side of the fuselage. In practice I find the best technique is what I would describe as shallow dive bombing, where you dive at the target at a roughly 45 degree angle, releasing the bomb(s) just short of the target at the same time you start to pull out of the dive. Using this technique allows you to use the gunsight to aim the bombs, and is far superior to level bombing which is only really suitable for large area targets where accuracy doesn't matter as much. At some point I want to add a tutorial to help teach this as it's something that requires a bit of history knowledge.
The rockets used during the ware were also notoriously inaccurate, and were generally fired on mass. From my research the pilots appeared to have had two switches in the cockpit, one for each side which would fire all rockets on the relevant side with a small delay between rockets. I suspect that in practice they fired all at once to avoid the negative impacts on handling that would have existed if they left the rockets on one wing. That all said this is a game and so I've added an option to fire the rockets in pairs which you can find at the bottom of the preferences screen.
A Zeppelin model is under construction and there will be missions to attack them in the air, and on the ground. I'm also looking to add missions where you launch from a carrier and attack the Zeppelin yards as this really did happen, although I don't think any of the strike group returned. If you want to keep up to date with the latest progress then you can join the discord server here https://discord.gg/UXnD7Q4UJ4 where I post daily updates.
Ah okay, yeah the trick there is that you can usually out range the soldiers manning the MG's on the ground, and they have blind spots that you can exploit. If you can take out one head on, then you can usually work your way through the rest by attacking them from behind. There's a new mission coming out in a demo update this week where you can fly around attacking targets of opportunity, that only ends when you return to your airfield. There's also missions under development that specifically target convoys of trucks and trains.
Yes, sim-lite is probably a good description of the game, it's possible to play it like an arcade game if that's what you enjoy, but it's also possible to play it more like a simulator if that's what you're looking for.
By slower and more stable, I'm assuming you mean the aircraft handling? The next update makes further changes to the handling so it might be a good idea to wait for that version to come out, and then let me know how you find it. The landing is probably the same as the airfields will be 5 times the size, and it'll be quite a bit different compared to the current build. That said, for the build you'll be playing now you almost need to glide down the last 50 meters (~50 yards), and try to touch down near the beginning of the airstrip so that you have enough time to stop. The other thing is to make sure you flair just before touch down, i.e. level the nose so there's very little vertical drop, otherwise the undercarriage will collapse on you. One of the complaints about the current airfields is that they're just too short, and they're like trying to land on an aircraft carrier, but without the arrester hook. It should be much easier in the new build.