Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[Fafnir_6]

Hello,

I agree that the B-24D and B-26 would make excellent additions (as AI) to the game. I also second the motion for an early mark of the Beaufighter (this matters especially to me since I have been flying over the Med a lot recently). I am more hesitant to support cockpits for 4-engine bombers as I understand they involve exponentially more work than single or even two seaters do. If adding a B-17 cockpit means we won't see 3 or 4 other planes in the sim then I am against it. The best bet for 4-engine cockpits may to co-ordinate with the various modding teams out there and see if the existing B-17/B-24 cockpits can be bought up to DT standards.

Fafnir_6

[Fafnir_6]

I have a request for an upcoming DT patch (I'm not sure if it has been requested before). Would it be possible to add the ability to skin static (stationary) aircraft in the FMB? I am running a Cyrenaica (Libya) 1940 dogfight server with restricted 1940 British/Italian plane sets and the parked Blenheims at the British base with their Finnish Camo is a real immersion-killer.

Cheers and thanks for any response,

Fafnir_6

[goshikisen]

It would be great to see the B-26 Marauder added to the sim... even if just AI. I wonder if Team Daidalos would have the same issues that 1C ran into with Copyright infringement if they did tackle the Marauder?

[bf-110]

Originally Posted by goshikisen

It would be great to see the B-26 Marauder added to the sim... even if just AI. I wonder if Team Daidalos would have the same issues that 1C ran into with Copyright infringement if they did tackle the Marauder?

Why the hell a cockpit would be copyrighted?
It´s from a plane with more than 50 years old,and that was made for the Navy.

[Ernst]

I would like to ask a question about new g loading limits in 4.10: All fighters with no bombs, no rockets and no fuel tank ll have the same structural g loading in service limits, i mean 8G? Or this structural limit ll vary from aircraft to aircraft based on its project? For example, russian and japanese fighters wooden builded ll have minor structural in service limits?

There ll be some kind of reference where i ll known about my aircraft limits? Thank you!

[goshikisen]

Originally Posted by bf-110

Why the hell a cockpit would be copyrighted?
It´s from a plane with more than 50 years old,and that was made for the Navy.

Did you scan copyright as "cockpit"? I'm talking about the Marauder overall... which was designed over 50 years ago for the USAAF.

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by goshikisen

Did you scan copyright as "cockpit"? I'm talking about the Marauder overall... which was designed over 50 years ago for the USAAF.

The 'copyright' saga is long-winded and confusing, and nobody directly involved seems able to comment on it - possibly as a result of a settlement in a legal case. You might get a clue as to what it is all about from here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...hlight=grumman

Messy, unjustifiable, but something that 1C:Maddox have to take care over.

[bf-110]

Now that was the cumulus of avarice.
So many games,movies,drawings,comics have pacific airplanes,planes that have more than 60 years and are (obviously) not produced anymore.Do Grumman still even exist?

[goshikisen]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

The 'copyright' saga is long-winded and confusing, and nobody directly involved seems able to comment on it - possibly as a result of a settlement in a legal case.

I was kinda hoping that Team Daidalos being (I think) independant of 1C and also creating content on a not-for-profit basis might change things slightly for them. They could also avoid using any trademarked names and stick with the USAAF B-26 designation.

I remember well the ridiculous days of the Northrop Grumman dispute. I can understand wanting to protect intellectual property but I also understand that common sense is an uncommon commodity.

+1 the Shakespeare quote.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by goshikisen

Did you scan copyright as "cockpit"? I'm talking about the Marauder overall... which was designed over 50 years ago for the USAAF.

The American legal system is copyright obsessed, they recently changed the law at the request of Disney to extend copyright to 95 years for corporations with an option to renew after that.

Ironically it goes completey against the original views of the US founding fathers who basically believed copyright should quickly evolve to public domain after the creator has had a reasonable chance to benefit from their ideas.

Personally I believe if Americans start to see their own favorite historical aircraft disappearing from games and the model shelves in hobby shops because of the stupidity of litigious US lawyers trying to make a few quick bucks well thats America for you


Meanwhile ... here is the top of MY wish list for a future patch