AI is on top of my list

[nearmiss]

Getting community involved in an improved AI wouldn't be difficult. Look at all the community that jumped into improvements for the IL2 Sturmovik. This would not be difficult at all. There are a myriad of enthusiasts of the IL2 series that would be very interested to help develop the AI performance.

At the least I would think the people that are doing IL2 mods would be interested to pursue such a project. The IL2 still has good possibilities from all we have experienced in the past year. The AI would be more difficult, because there are just sooooo many flight models represented in IL2. Possibly, if some type of performance spreadsheet was created for each of the various aircraft it might not be as difficult as I perceive. The data from the spreadsheet could be plugged into the Ai performance coding possibly without too much work.

I remember the 1% flight model spreadsheets made by 3rd party developers for the MSFT CFS2. All to get players on consistence basis of performance, yet the AI never were improved by MSFT to take it to the next level.

The COD devs may not have the option for opening the code for quite awhile, unless they can provide a window for coding as per an SDK or something.