Unfortunately, Ubi did not have a historian in their legal team. NG does not have a right to prevent a WWII from being modeled. ALL US Navy vessels designed prior to 1966 were designed by the US Navy Bureau of Ships, a government institution. All the shipyard did was contract to build per US government designs. The naming of such vessels was by the Navy.

NG has absolutely '0' in the way of intellectual property in the vessel. Someone should have called the bluff.

Even calling their bluff would have cost many thousands of dollars in legal fees, which a small development studio like Maddox Games simply cannot afford, and a publisher like UBI or 1C will not tolerate on a small sales title like a flight sim.

Point of the matter is that NG has no rights to a bureau of ships design and they should have been reminded of that. The fact that the NG lawyer played that card was either ignorance or over reaching.

Admittedly, I am still grumbling as I would like to have had the Yorktown and more importantly the Essex carriers in the game.

FWIW, here is a link to a site with some images of the original Bureau of Ships drawings: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum...4759&start=120

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AI has been object of ridicule since I remember, and the original developer team never addressed the issue satisfactorily. The AI still 'enjoys' many supernatural attributes - never overheats, never blackouts, has no structural limits I know of (meaning it can pull +/- 10G), no 'blind spots', hardly ever bleeds energy in violent maneuvers, can see through clouds and so on.
I guess it was just a cheap way of making the AI more 'challenging' but an unfair challenge is just frustrating and kills much of the fun. I sincerely hope Daidalos Team will address at least some of these faults.

The Essex class are in the sim.

...hehe! :D

I emailed NG's department that deals with copyright issues a few months ago to ask them whether they claimed any copyright over images or models of USS Yorktown CV5. Funnily enough I got no reply.

If anyone else wants to enquire:

Intellectual Asset Management
Northrop Grumman Corporation
1840 Century Park East, 0181/CC
Los Angeles, CA 90067
E-mail: ip.licensing@ngc.com

You have to be at least a few million dollars large company to recieve answers... :D