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Originally Posted by dce21b
Hi Oleg I'm a stalker on forums usually just read a lot and ask a question from time to time so I would just like to say hello and say how wonderful your products are.
With what you are saying is possible as far as adding vehicles and people etc have you ever thought of maybe the next add on would be for ground warfare? I have read somewhere that you are allowing Human controlled AAA on airfields which is really cool.
What I am getting at is that sims for all niches are hard to sell and be profitable and If it were possible to make the community explode by having an all in one game like World War 2 online. It is so hard to find a game where all aspects can be represented.
Sometimes I will crash near a target area and just hang out to watch the AI tank battles etc and think how cool it would be if I could be in control of that King Tiger on the hill pushing through to capture a town and its airfield.
We are living in amazing times and technology is advancing everyday, IL2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles has lasted 10 years and still looks and plays great. So with a life expectancy of maybe another 10 great years would this be possible?
I know some people would say that this type of game, with this type of detail, would take to much resources. But what if the add-ons you released were stand alone as well.
For instance perhaps you are a tank simmer and you have no interest in flying at all you just want to drive tanks etc. You could buy Tubruk, Operation Barbarossa or how ever you wanted the timeline to go.
Im not sure how well the game would look to troops on ground level but you could have their stand alone adapt for them where as all the graphics and mechanics of the game would be geared for "tank simulation". And it would be able to interact with SOW.
Where as all the flight mechanics wouldnt be needed and could be instead be replace with the tanks. Then for online play the way the missions are setup you could just have the tanks spawn in a staging area on the map where as not to be too far from the frontline. Possible have tanks be AI controlled unless taken over by Human. Have breakthroughs where your line crumbles from not enough air support and now your pilots have to stop the blitzkrieg from reaching the town.... the possibilities are endless.
Point being is you make such a quality game if you could unite the differents sim communities together in one package with high quality sims that work together it would be amazing. Then that for sure would garuntee the success of the game. Imaging if you add human soldiers you would get lots of FPS players to the game. Not only supporting a great sim but helping to grow the community. Even naval warfare is possible.
How sweet would it be if you could have a Normandy scenario where everything was alive take your posion... invade or defend the beaches bombard the beaches with your ships strafing the beaches in your 109.
Wow Im rambling sorry its just that this has been a dream of mine for so long and I hope to see the day it comes true. I just know it will but when.
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I hope that in time some of listed of your dreams will be possible.
Its way aleady in BoB we put so many ground objects, AI for them...
Simply because BoB shouldn't be limited only for battles over channel.
It is important for online gameplay, for other than channel scenarios, developed by users and of course by third party.
It is important for futures modifications...
You also should understand that we unable to make everything by our small team.
Say... that to contro tank there should "cockpit", system modeling, charging shells system and o on, control system ... and... command interaction with other such units doesn't matter AI or player controlled.... It is simply sim in the sim.
But it is possible in future if, i will reapeat:
1. Success of BoB.
2. Support for and from third party
3. Probably understanding of publishers or other owners of my team to invest in that direction even with separate team inside. 1C has other teams... but they are busy with other projects. That is a problem.
So without item 3 - just part of my and you(all) dreams are possible...
Howver is possible licensing of engine and work in cooperation with other teams...
But it shouldn't be like it was in the past with Il-2 where finally we simply gave sourse code for nothing....