Chinese IL2 player copy IL2: up2.0 mods, claims it is developed by him and sell it
 

Hi all:

I am a IL2 fan from China and this is the first time I post on 1c forum. I make this post because I read news and I am very angery. The reason I felt sad and angry is because there is a Chinese guy just copy il2:up 2.0 mods and claim it is developed by him and sell it to make a profit and fame.

This is the link of the news: http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com/2007zfwq...t_23473762.htm, it was written by Chinese hence I will make some English translations.

The title is "Chinese super player developed an awesome flight simulation game". In this news, the guy's name is Yao yao and his game id is @6, he is so called an "cyber world ace" and own a company to develop flight simulation games. After years of hard working (or copying?) He developed an awesome flight sim and sold it to schools in China and even the Chinese air force was interested in this game and plans to buy it from him .Which made him "successful and famous". The most ridiculous part of this news is Yao yao stated “under the inspiration of what he did, the Russian government decided to buy flight simulation games from 1c company and promote them to all the youth across the country “. I am not a Russian player, is it true?

I am a big fan of flight simulations and an owner of il2:1946 and IL2: CLOD. I was shocked after I read this news and wonder what game this guy develop and want to buy and try it. Then I go to this guy's company forum and download. The game is called "DOF SonicAge™ (version V.10) "(they even "tm" for it). Here is the game introduction webpage and video.
webpage: http://bbs1.dof.so:88/index.php?showtopic=105161

Game intro video: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjYzMTMxMDI0=.html
The video seems cannot play on 1c forum, just click the link in the video, you can watch. I think after watch this video, any il2 player will know it is Il2:up2.0 or up 3.0 mods. In order to make sure, I download the game and found out it is just il2:4.09+up2.0. They just change a name, they even don’t bother to change the il2:fb exe and other files. Seems the name is only the "years of hardworking" he and his team do.

As an Il2 fan, I felt very angry because I know il2 is a game developed by hard working of maddox teams and the mods are contributed by lots of players and fans all over the world. As a Chinese guy, I felt very sad, because those act of copy and piracy are very common in China. This guy just copy and he can sell it to make a profit. I wish this kind of situation can change someday.

Forgive my poor English and I don’t know whether is appropriate to post this topic here and I want this can attract 1c Company’s attention and 1c can take some action. I plan to post it in facebook, twitter and other flight simulation forums. Meanwhile I want to post the video to YouTube. However, due to the internet policy, the government had blocked face book, twitter and YouTube. Can somebody help me to spread it and make it aware? The only reason I do this is because I am a fan and I was ashamed and felt it is wrong.

Hi Cainiaofly
VERY interresting find. Please come over to SAS and make a post with this!
SAS is one of main moddig comunity for IL2: (the registration is quick and easy) I think it make more sense cause the modding thing is not very "popular" here.

http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php

regarts from Germany. ;-)

Semor, nice piece of advertisement. But I don't think, this is in first case a problem of modding, since it is 1C, who owns the core rights on the product named 'Il-2' and all its content and files.
Of course the mental properties of individual artists and authors from the modding scene are hurt here as well - still I doubt, you will find any lawer who could fight that through (especially, because the topic 'mental property' is not always that clear itself and sometimes even very suspicious inside the modding scene).

This is most important for 1C - and thats where it already went.

Thanks, Cainiaofly!

Unfortunately, there is a similar situation going on in the FSX community regarding AIG's (Alpha India Group, AI) work with AI traffic, and an individual in Spain who is taking AIG's work and selling it, claiming it to be his "team's" own work. He calls it Ice AI.

The group at AIG is not happy about this and litigation has ensued.

I hope, as long as '46 is still sold in stores, 1C will go the same way. It one of the most perfid way of stealing and I bet, a lot of people of the community would like to fist-feet their oppinions right into this Yao Yao's face.

Wow.. talk about ballsy...

to bad you cant do anything about it in China they wouldnt give a rats a&& about pirating software.

:-x I'm pretty sure that there's a chinese flightsim community who could adress this issue much better then we could. For example putting up latest version free to download links for UP3rc4/HSFX6/DBW1.71 to their sites would ruin this "business".

It's not complete truth.
Sonic Age is a Mod bases on 4.09m.
It addes Mig15 and F86 to simulate Korean War.
I know a lot of simulaters in China use it freely.I often use it but have never heard anybody paid it.

Obviously, the first poster, cainiaofly, knew very little about what he was here talking about.

So far as I know, in 'DOF SonicAge', computation of flight behaviour (is it called 'flight models'?) was substantially overhauled, mainly to make aircraft's behaviour highly realistic at around sonic speed, something that the stock IL2 or its any other mod was not able to achieve. Also they added other things. Besides, the download is completely free, and if you want to fly more realistic jets in IL2, why not try it? It being free, I doubt the softwares which the first post claims some people are foolish enough to buy are the same thing.

I once heard of it that Oleg had even given @6 some help with this SonicAge project.