one good aspect off all this, 1c kept the CoD engine and did not transfer it to RoF
 

the best solution for this merger or cooperative agreement would have been if a management team from 777 was put in charge of completing the BoM sequel, and then develop other sequels in that line (with the same or other business model). but since that is not happening, one good aspect of this "worst of all worst scenarios " is that 1c kept the CoD game and gfx engine and did not transfer it to RoF. most likely it will just be moth balled, never to see the light of day again.

however bad the news is that we will end up with a RoF game engine and sales model for the next "RoF ww2 sim marketed as il2-sturmovik", is that there is some slim line of hope that some other team could proceed forward with the current CoD engine

maybe luthier could buy it or have a cooperative agreement with 1c to develop his korea era sim with it ? whomever would proceed with it could not use the il2 sturmovik name anymore, the other project has the rights to that but the name matters little if the end product based on the current CoD engine is good

its idle hope this early, but in a way there is a good side to 777 not getting full control over that code (since they would strip it and dumb it down). no doubt they will get the 3d models of the planes and objects designed so far by the BoN (? and CoD) teams, but game code itself they dont seem to be receiving

Certainly many questions, & unknowns...the big thing for me is realism level, no CEM no participate :-P

Sounds like its time to mod Clod ;)

Yes but, has there been official statement as to what has happened with the CLoD code?
Just because they are not using it, does not necessarily mean they do not have the rights to it?
Just speculating here...

What's stopping you from making your life best investment?
Go ahead, buy the rights and make it glow as much as you've been promoting it the last 20 minutes?
Should be an easy walk by the sound of it.

An engine as complicated like CoD one is almost nothing without the people who built it. I understand 777 decision to go with their engine. For them is not only a very good deal, probably also the only feasible. They would be lost working with another people engine that is no more working there. Of course for us the deal is not as good.

Kept the engine? Nobody apart from MG would work on it, you'd be crazy to think otherwise!

Several teams of programs were fired during the course of making it and it's still bugged, and it 's still a pandora's box where you change one thing and ten other things go wrong.

How did you honestly think new team would even begin looking at gigabytes of unknown code with loads of bugs? Come on.:rolleyes:

If they would let us buy it, I would kick in 50-60 bucks, X 1,000,000,000. pilots, then turn the modders loose on it.:-P

I suspect this is why it failed. Not a shortage of money per se but a loss of the expertise necessary to deliver it and deliver within budget. It may be a tangled mess by now.

I wouldn't throw a dime at it and am glad I never did.