Friday 2010-07-30 Dev. update and Discussions

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by BG-09

Luthier, and team, look at this picture oh Hurricane below, and see that even the pilot has bent his head forwards, the top of the head of the pilot is at the level equal to the cockpit's roof! Now look at the picture from the current 30/07/2010 weekly update and see, that there is a plenty of room above the head of the pilot of the Hurricane. It is obvious then the pilot's figure is smaller than it should be! It hurts me a lot, straight in to the heart!

Please do something...

If you had bothered to read Luthier's replies, you would've seen his response in post #103 in this thread.

[Friendly_flyer]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

I find this new's, VERY disappointing, but I realize the position the law places you in. It certainly will affect the immersion level for some players, this one included.

In IL2, there is a way to manually edit the campaign file so that you can make the whole squadron use a particular skin. If this feature is made s a tad more accessible in SoW, a user-made skin and such a feature would probably solve that problem very easily.

[ChrisDNT]

Sad, about the swastiska thing, I wouldn't have imagined that the "PC brigade" would also be able to operate within Russia. But just curious, who obliged the Douma to pass this law, the same lobbies like in the Western world or specific Russian interests ?

[tourmaline]

Originally Posted by Stukadriver

I agree with you, WUTZ. I hope that Oleg and team stay steady in their excellent efforts. Too many wish lists and peculiar requests from the peanut gallery. If all were satisfied, the game would never be finished and there would be no commercial computer strong enough to play it.

+1

All looks fine to me and one other concern is gameplay, you have to give up on realism somewhere to make it playable...

[Fansadox]

Originally Posted by luthier

Russia recently passed a new law similar to the German one making any kind of Nazi symbols illegal. The law does not have provisions for historical context. 1C being based in Russia, if we were to manufacture a product with swastikas in it, we could be taken to court for Nazi propaganda.

Wow thats not good news... I have an idea though. I assume that there is a company lawyer? You could try and find out in a testtrial what thersult would be cause the context where the swastika is being used in your product has nothing to do with propaganda for the Nazis. That way a court could judge that the new law isnt intented to be used in this context.

Its just an idea but worth a try in my opinion.

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Even if they find a way in Russia, they will have a problem on the German market. And I must say, as a German I couldn't care less about the swastika. In the strict sense, thats a party symbol, not a military marking. When the sim comes out there will be an explosion in custom made skins with the swastika for those who want, and I wouldn't be surprised if some nifty guy finds a way to enable it with a little program on the default skins as well.

@ Oleg and Team:

Don't worry about swastikas, just make it very easy for us to include the skin ourself.

[esmiol]

Originally Posted by Hecke

@ Oleg and Team:

Don't worry about swastikas, just make it very easy for us to include the skin ourself.

like in il2

[Splitter]

As the Russians head down their fairly new path of freedom and democracy, I would have hoped that they would have learned from our mistakes here in the US. Apparently the PC brigade is in full swing there too where people believe that learning real history is somehow harmful. I had more faith in the Russians given their tradition of learning the lessons history teaches.

+1 on the option to set individual aim points for the guns. Pilots had differing preferences on how they liked their guns set up. I remember distinctly a former P-51 pilot saying he liked to have all of his rounds from every gun pass through a single point (he said the size of a quarter lol) at a certain distance for maximum hitting power. Other pilots wanted a spread, especially in heavily armed craft like the P-47 where the outside guns were set to converge further out than the inboard guns (or vice versa).

One of the advantages often talked about in the P-38 was that all guns were centered in front of the pilot with no need for interrupters and such.

Any hint on where the sim stands as far as being on schedule for a 2010 release?

Splitter

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

Sad, about the swastiska thing, I wouldn't have imagined that the "PC brigade" would also be able to operate within Russia. But just curious, who obliged the Douma to pass this law, the same lobbies like in the Western world or specific Russian interests ?

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

There is a very real reason for the prohibition of Nazi symbolism in Russia, being that Russia contains more than half of the worlds Neo-Nazi's (estimated at around 90,000).
These knuckle dragging Gorrilas ironically do not seem to comprehend that Russia suffered terribly fighting against Fascism, and that Hitler considered most Slavs to be 'Untermenschen' and sub-human (lol.....what a f*cking dick). I'd love to know what (if anything) goes through these peoples heads. Hate crimes against those from the Southern Caucausus, Tajiks, blacks and anyone who is not ethnically Russian, as well as anti-Semitism are on the increase. It is a very real problem.....not just in Russia but elsewhere too.

I would agree that in the context of a computer game this is quite ludicrous, historical veracity never turned anyone into a Nazi, unless they were f*cked in the head already.

1c are being very wise in playing it safe IMO, it would be foolish to jeopardise development over this frankly inconsequential point. It is of course a simple matter for skin makers to overcome this 'problem'.....end of story really.

Glad to see that things are progressing Ilya, some of the criticisms have merit but its WIP, you guys are probably tearing your hair out over some of the OTT BS comments. Constructive criticism is of course a good (and necessary) thing, but some folk take things a bit too far IMO.

Carry on, it will be out when its out and keep up the good work. Don't let the b*stards get you down.