I belive it will be exactly like IL2 in ten years, full featured and without serious competition.

In 10 years I hope for it to be finally unshackled from Steam and modded to the hilt.
Or only a distant memory.

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cant wait for the P51 D20

Wish you well
 

I am not sure that hardware development will allow CloD to grow at its pace.
Hardware goes exponential while CloD is still a premature child with a great deal of nursing needed.

Will 3D be a standard?
Will Steam be around 10 years from now?
What level of virtuality will be available at home?
Will anybody care anymore about WWII wardirds simulation?

In 10 years... I just hope to be around, having some evening great fun "mit kamaraden" flying online
maybe a North Africa map or southern Europe.
Sun, sand and sea. Algeria, Tunisia, Creta, Malta
FWs, Bfs, MCs, Spits, Hurris, P40 an so many others.
Taranto, Tobruck, Alamein... 1940-1943.

The light managing competencies of CloD seem the most appropriated.

Oh¡ how much I wish...

Salutes.

I dream of a truly dynamic campaign where taking out targets really has an impact on supply and availability. Where engine wear and building damage carries over to the next mission. Where damage to radar and communication systems hampers effective response.

Then there's dynamic weather with huge cloud formations that make you look like an insect and fog/low cloud that makes finding your base and landing a real challenge, possibly with the need to divert. Seeing a weather front rolling in would be incredible.

What I'd also like to see with time are bigger maps allowing proper bombing missions to Germany - or some means of transitioning between maps mid-flight. Also a way of storing mission state mid-flight so you can return to it another day.

I dream of 3rd parties giving us A2A style systems management too. That would be unbeatable.

All in good time........

oh good... stutts you have defined my absolute dream

Hey Woody, you been following the developments on the recent Desert Warhawk find? Great thread over at the key publishing Historic forum.

Also, Kindle has a free download of 'KittyHawk Pilot', thr story of James Edwards, who flew in 260sqn in the Desert. I've started reading it and it's great reading.

RTotally agree!! We need an immersive sim (clod can potentially get one) and afterwards a good community base to plan events.

My dream for it: 100 people are joining an "advanced SEOW" like campaign, which lasts over several months.

Addionally: If it really comes to drivable vehicles, then add another 100 persons for the ground operations.

My absolute dream is the same, as oleg had: One engine to combine all aspects. Preferably, u have il2, red orchestra and tank sim included in 1 game on a big amount of servers, building a big european theatre (something like server clusters as u already have it in worldwar 2 online). This is, what all freaks dream about, I think.

I will have to buy a monitor with uv light coming out of it, to avoid getting totally white skinned! :)

I`m dreaming of taking the Me109G6, Me109K4, Zeke, and P51C for a spin.

In other areas I don`t want to. CloD proved 7 years to be a very short period if you want things such as a pilot career, dedicated 24h war servers and MMO environment.