Its an interesting idea for RRG to work their way back from Korea, but there has never been a hint of this happening. I'm sure RRG will definitely do something further with the SOW engine after Korea is done, if there is monies to be made. This will depend on sales and how effective the security is to stop it being put all over the net for free.

I think people aren't interested in BoB because it's a tired concept that's been done many many times, ad nauseum.

the interest in "BoB SoW" is in the "new game" engine as well as the "BoB"...as far as I'm concerned the "BoB" is as good a place as any to start the new series...I have a feeling that their are going to be so many new aspects to "game play" (with the new engine) that we will have fun exploring the new "IL2 universe" for a few months...

But if thats still not enough for you, don't fear...I have a feeling that the "add-ons" and "up-dates" will come fast and furious once the "basic engine and game is out"

...I have a feeling we will be seeing the "BoB" in a whole new way.

As long as everyone is speculating, I'd love to see an add on of the air war in China before the arrival of the AVG.

So may different aircraft types on both sides.

From Curtiss, to Fiat, to Nakajima.

Biplanes vs. early monoplanes.

It would be amazing.

I would too

Hi Terry

Cheers Chris.

:cool:

That's the problem with theories, we're all wrong at least half the time; the problem is figuring out which half. ;) (I think I'm wrong at least 52% of the time, but it's only a theory)

But hasn't that "theory" and it's implementation hurt us over the years?

It's assumed that the US market wouldn't want an Eastern Front flight sim- that was wrong

It's assumed that the Western market wouldn't car for Sturmoviks over Manchuria or 1946- that was wrong

It's assumed the "German community" says the VVS planes are too good

It's assumed the "Russian community" says that Oleg screwed the VVS planes

What needs to happen, and not just at Maddox games, is that the people who make combat flight sims must realize that their player base is not made up of rabid ultra-nationals who fit some boardroom's neat little graphs based on where the borders of countries lie, and wake up to the fact that we are enthusiasts who are interested in ALL aspects of combat flight simulation overall and specific aspects in particular.

And in our own flight sim community, we also must abandon these silly assumptions like "US players don't care about the Battle of Britain". It's a dismissive and wholly incorrect attitude we must get away from. We as players are not our country's stereotypes

We are flight sim and history enthusiasts. Don't assume we "don't care for" something. The history of this sim shows that line of reasoning has always been wrong

Well said sir.

Agree 100%

We all have our favorites (see my sig pic), but most of us want the whole thing. Some of the best times I've had in the whole IL2 series were back in the old days of the original IL2 when the BlitzPigs ran a series of coops for ourselves, I-16s, Mig3s and Sturmoviks over the snow covered landscape of the Eastern Front agianst horrible odds.

Nothing better, and not an American or British plane to be found. And at that point the Pigs were Americans, Brits, one each from Germany, Italy, Israel, and a hanger on from France who later became a Pig.

You are spot on. Give me the Med, Spain, China-CBI, Poland, BoF etc. and all of the interesting, never done before, aircraft and theaters:!: