[QUOTE=Skarphol;41606]Combat flight sims, perhaps ;)

But a better question is: why does the general public care?

How's this for a parallel:

I have been into old cars for almost 20 years. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars, bought cars, sold cars, built engines, suspensions, etc, restored lenses and instruments and body panels and chrome and whatnot and gone to shows and entered cars in shows and worked 12 hours on collector cars a day AFTER my 8 hour day job and researched and helped others and chased down original reference, and scoured junkyards for the elusive parts blah blah. I know going into this it would be expensive, time consuming...and not something most people cared about, but it was a passion.

Many people appreciated what I had done, and ohhhh'd and ahhhh'd over things I did, but they never actually got into the hobby- they registered that it was "cool", and then moved on to the things that they, personally, cared about

Same thing with combat flight sims. Plenty of people might think it's cool, but most of them just register the fact and then move on without getting involved

I hadn't played a video game in like, 20 years, before I got into IL2. I thought I had matured beyond such things :rolleyes:. And I only got into it by accident. I was just buying a new laptop from a local store when I saw a boxed copy of the original IL-2 on a nearby shelf.

I'd always had a passing interest in WW2 aircraft, and the price was less than I was expecting, so I thought "what the hell....."

If I'd known I'd be still playing it 6 years later, spending lots of time thinking about it and talking to other people about it on the internet, I would probably have stayed well away......

It was only supposed to be 5 minutes of brainless fun.....

LOL.. when I started simming i refused to spend more than $20 on a joysatick... now?

http://star.walagata.com/w/bearcat/100_2686_0.JPG

You can't see the TIR.. but it is there...

Feuerfalke - you mentioned the sequel to microsoft combat flight sim is being developed. is there any place i can see pics or vids of what it might look like? i made the mistake of it a while back. it was pretty basic compared to il2.

Its EXTREMELY important we support Oleg if we dont want to lose his fantastic programming skills to the lure of the console money machine.

One day one idiot too many might just tip the scales so that he thinks, 'its just not worth it any more' and hes starts making arcade games for consoles that will make him a ton of money.

I hope this day never comes, but lets try hard NOT to make it happen.

I for one NEED Olegs fantastic WW2 sims to contine! :)

Nope ALL flight sims ;)

+1

I'll gladly support him when the opportunity presents itself.

This is the only game that I would bother to support... Oleg is an artist.

His creation is more then just ones and zeros.

Very good post. I absolutely agree and would go FAR out of my way to help in any way I possibly could to ensure his next sim's success.