Ok, I've played a couple of games in the demo. I realize it's a demo, and a beta at that, so you may already be looking at these things, but here's some observations:
Overall, I like it. It plays pretty much like the card game, which I love. It does run on XP under Virtual PC on the Mac (at least for local games - I haven't tried the server route yet).
Here's some feedback on things I'd like to see worked on:
The messaging interface is confusing. I have to look in two places to see what's going on, in the right-hand box and the middle two boxes. I'd prefer everything in one place.
I'd like to see my aircraft's status at all times, not just when I'm firing. Yes, I can click on it to get that, but I want to see everyone's status at all times. Maybe some numbers near the aircraft themselves would do it.
I'd like a way to turn off the animations. The game is already very slow under emulation, and while they're nice, after the first few times you get tired of watching them. I'm sure if they were moving at full speed it wouldn't be a problem, but not everyone will have a speedy computer.
It took me a couple of minutes to figure out how to turn off the *&(*^*^& radio with Winnie and the news reports. Please consider making it easier to turn that off. It was quite annoying.
I had one dogfight as Brits vs. the Japanese. My primary pilot got shot down. In my second dogfight, I was flying against the Germans. But I had airframe and fatigue penalties. What, I transferred from the Pacific to Europe and got NO rest? And the same darn airplane, unrepaired? Hardly seems fair. I'd really like to see a way to just fire up a local dogfight *without* any "memory" of what happened before without generating all new pilots. I can see it would be good have things the way they are, too, so I'd like to flip back and forth.
The help file could use a better explanation of how the experience points work, and what, exactly, you're buying with them.
Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk here - overall, I like it, and I'll probably pop for it even if you don't make these changes. I'd just like to to think about it and see what you think.