As long as Punkbuster aren't involved. Awful awful software and hideous support and help from the vendors. You can have a legal game etc and still get problems because of innocuous programs which are nothing to do with the game.

Thanks Oleg/Winny for your comments #page 31.


Cheers,
Ekar

Yes this is a personal perception for each of us. One in ten males have some form of color blindness. Men that are not color blind, see colors differently than the man standing next to him. Woman see colors much more accurately then do men, and women amongst themselves, also see colors differently. So you see the problems associated with true color interpretation, to each is different, even drastically so. I am red/green color blind, and am restricted to day light hours only piloting.:grin:

OH sure get your question answered then tell him to take off:!:

Great update and answers Oleg. Keep it up :)

In principle I think I agree with you, though to be honest the online activation etc that has been put into titles from DCS and Rise of Flight havent really been too bad IMHO.

Cheers!

Excellent point. It sure caught my eye as well. Although I'm not totally ok with your solution yet it probably is a very good suggestion to improve upon. For example make a special railway border with hedges etc. - if it is wide enough it would look organic if the smaller "over-cut" vector of the field is not too small compared to it's total size.

Actually, i don't have either one of those titles because of their activation methods and i haven't regretted it yet. If it takes 5 years of waiting before i can fly a sim the way i want to i'm perfectly content with it, assuming it hasn't been surpassed, i totally lose interest in it and end up not ever buying it by that point. I guess the effect on sales is obvious :grin:

There are a lot of arguments pro and con, but in the end when viewing entertainment software purely as a product and not something more (which is what the distributors do), i think we're entitled as users to apply the same criteria of judgement and kick up a storm if we're not getting value for money, added value to compensate for drawbacks of certain features or, as is more often the case, if the product's value is artificially diminished by features clumsily tacked on at the publisher's demand, long after the original coding work is done and usually with little thought on how it will affect the software's usability.

I think Oleg's mentality on the issue is pretty close to what most of the users agree with, as evidenced by one of his more recent interviews on SimHQ, but sadly these issues are usually a publisher decision. For now, i'm just being happy about the progress of SoW. If someone outside Oleg's team manages to screw things up for us it will really be a pity, both for us and for the developer team as sales do tend to suffer when the potential customer runs the risk of being locked out of a perfectly legally purchased piece of software. ;)

I'd hate to turn a perfectly good thread into a DRM flamefest (not implying anything about you, it just tends to happen a lot when things like that are mentioned), so i'll stop here. However, it's an issue that should be discussed somewhat as we near the release to get a feeling of the community's thoughts on the matter and avoid being faced with a "done deal, take it or leave it" scenario we might not agree with. Maybe a separate thread in free-form discussion to give us the main trends on what people think, so that we could then compile them into a poll would be a good idea.

I can't believe that after all those years Il-2 is on market there's still someone out there who hasn't seen that arrows yet.

About landscape, we'll have the same textures for both France and England?