The news about RRG from Oleg

[Feuerfalke]

You're sure that BoB is of little or no interest to the majority of non-Europeans, while the Korean War is much more interesting to the US-customers?

IMHO this formula is a little superficial.

How many people were interested in the eastern front-airbattle between Russia and Germany? Did this really lower the success of the series? I doubt that.

Even if BoB will not interest as many players as 1946 with all its variety, most players will see the future and they will switch to the new sim, hoping for their favourite area to be added next.

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

You're sure that BoB is of little or no interest to the majority of non-Europeans, while the Korean War is much more interesting to the US-customers?

IMHO this formula is a little superficial.

How many people were interested in the eastern front-airbattle between Russia and Germany? Did this really lower the success of the series? I doubt that.

Even if BoB will not interest as many players as 1946 with all its variety, most players will see the future and they will switch to the new sim, hoping for their favourite area to be added next.

I think actually that Korea will have wide appeal, I am quite looking forward to saddling up on an old-school jet and duke it out with guns at 500mph. Of course I'm an uncultured American, so that's to be expected.

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Viking

The news that RRG studios are working on a Korea scenario, project Galba, using the SoW engine sounds like a well thought idea since most Americans and non Europeans will find little or no interest in the BoB scenario, so this will give them an incitement to buy the sim. If then 1C will be working history from BoB forward and RRG from Korea backwards they will together be able to cover the whole era in a relative short period of time. I sincerely hope that this is the intention.

Just my 0, 2 €.

Viking

One should take into account that many non-europeans are still a bit sick of the only choice being flying for "the might eighth". Most commonwealth countries would like to see a BOB sim and would be even more interested in a Mediterranean or, better still, a Night Warfare sim.

Korea will still be nice to see - especially as a wide variety of countries participated

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing terrible in U.S.A. only sims, but if it wasn't for people like Oleg and the broader pallet of the world market there would never have been a Great Patriotic War sim (and the flightsim industry itself might be almost dead).

[Bobb4]

Does anyone remember Rowan's two big sims Mig Alley and BoB? All we need now is for Oleg to announce that KOTS are also using his engine and that would complete the trilogy, anyone remember Rowan's Flying Corps?

[skyfox]

Nationalities...pffft all sides have their own interesting histories imho. My prejudice is much narrower. "Must have props", now thats my required criteria.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by BadAim

I think actually that Korea will have wide appeal, I am quite looking forward to saddling up on an old-school jet and duke it out with guns at 500mph. Of course I'm an uncultured American, so that's to be expected.

Absolutely right. But the theory is, that people outside of Europe are less interested in BoB and more interested in Korea (especially people in the US).

But I am also very much looking forward to the Korea-Sim, so there are some flaws in this theory after all.

[Thunderbolt56]

I want them both.

I CAN buy both...right? I mean, There's not a sim-limit or anything out there that says I can't buy both of these sims is there?

Here's the deal guys. Our voice will be amplified 1,000-fold by using our wallets as our plug-in...not these forums.

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

Does anyone remember Rowan's two big sims Mig Alley and BoB? All we need now is for Oleg to announce that KOTS are also using his engine and that would complete the trilogy, anyone remember Rowan's Flying Corps?

I have two copies, but I never managed to get either to work...

[Chivas]

I would imagine most of the members of this forum are prop heads, but would buy any good historical combat flight sim. I know I bought Lomac flew it once and thought this is very good but immediately went back to IL-2. I think I have every half decent combat flight sim made in the last 10 years.

I know the server I fly on created a second server with jets and alot of the regulars moved, but most soon migrated back to the prop server.

I'm sure Oleg has put extensive thought into where to start his new series and BOB is the most logical starting point if your going to create paid add-ons for the whole WW2 air conflict. The Battle of France is much less known and will probably be done by a third party. Most of the map required for the BoF should be available on the existing BOB map, depending on how far it extends east into France and Begium.

The Med will probably be the next paid add-on, then its a toss-up from there, depending on Map size, aircraft required, as the rest of the theaters basicly overlap.

Map Size...how does it affect frame rate? Does it make a difference? Does the computer load the whole map at once, then display objects on the map as you get closer? Is it possible to create a map of the whole Med considering the amount of objects and detail in Olegs maps? Or do you think it will be a group of maps detailing only parts of the Med?

[Former_Older]

Originally Posted by Viking

The news that RRG studios are working on a Korea scenario, project Galba, using the SoW engine sounds like a well thought idea since most Americans and non Europeans will find little or no interest in the BoB scenario, so this will give them an incitement to buy the sim. If then 1C will be working history from BoB forward and RRG from Korea backwards they will together be able to cover the whole era in a relative short period of time. I sincerely hope that this is the intention.

Just my 0, 2 €.

Viking

Hi Viking

You post confuses me

The title is "News from Oleg", but you end with "your two cents"

I can't tell if this is your opinions, or what. can you clarify