Message to Oleg and Ilya

[smokincrater]

Hello gents

Thank you both for the fun and enjoyment that you have brought to me and my friends. Whatever the reason for the current sitution with the franchise. I hope that whoever commands the next release lives up to the detail and commitment shown by yourselves.

I really hope that your involment in flight simming is not at an end, and whatever you decide to do in the future. I will make the promise purchase whatever games you develop in the future.

When Il-2 was born those many years ago Microsoft Combat simulator and it`s sequels were the only serious hardcore flight simulator out there. IL-2 and Il-2 cliffs of Dover (despite being never quite finished) has raised the bar for serious flight sims for years to come.

It's quite clear that Cliffs of Dover was a very complex game to develop that it's aims and outcomes never quite matched and the problems of getting a very serious program to run on everybody's machine have proved to be impossible. Even so I am glad that you gave it a red hot go. The only pity is the great potenial that the game would have had all the features been used, would have knocked all the socks off any rival product. Particularly when you look at Il-2 1946's list of flyable aircraft.

Even so thank you for trying and I will keep an ear out for your next projects.