And what do you expect them to do about it, its almost as impossible as the hiding in grass problem for modern day fps, aka you get an advantage with a certain setup (in the case of fpses you often dont see grass on low setting hence hiding in grass is useless against those folks..) There is no other way really other than locking the game to certain resolutions or hardware but then you'd lose a huge playerbase.

There's some presets just like in Il-2, rookie, normal, veteran and ace. However the AI is much more flexible. It has various skills such as shooting, maneuvering, morale, awareness, etc. Each of them determine different behaviors. For example you can have a guy with 100 shooting and 100 maneuvering but 0 awareness, i.e. a blind ace, or a guy with 100 awareness but 0 flying i.e. an eagle-eyed idiot.

The rookie and other presets simply set every single skill to 0 or 25 or 50, etc. Or you can reset them any way you like.

These colors are used in different places in different planes. To further complicate matters, they're not used on many planes at all. That's why they're so vaguely named.

I just change all the colors to lime green and rotate the plane to see what looks ugly, is what I do.

I always thought Il-2's landings and gear compression was pretty good.

We disagree as much as it's possible to disagree. At this point nothing can change even if you built a time machine, took us to August of 1940, drove us on an inspection tour of all frontline Spitfires, and proved without a shadow of a doubt that you're right.

Yes, exactly. Slower machines will run at much worse than 1 fps, but yes, you can render a giant high-res full settings video on a minimum specs machine. You'll probably need to leave it rendering for the night.

Yes, that's what we hope to see, real humans teaching you to fly online.

I understand exactly what you mean. I have no idea what kind of resolution you'd propose.

At certain distances, planes become smaller than a pixel. At 1024x768 that'll probably happen at less than 2 km for a fighter. What do you want us to do with that pixel?

whataver you di please dont use retarded solution from Rise of flight with using max zoom for spoting planes at distance (with max wide zoom you cant see them at the same distance) like we have a binocular or super sniper scope sticked onto our faces.

That is really annoying. Hope something is done to fix that problem.

Sure the Plane must disappeare if Distance / Size gets to the border of being one pxel of size at a give resolution.

But will the Size of the Dot vary with Resolution of screen?

e.g.
Single Seater appearence in Distance of 2 km with different resolution

1024 x 768 Distance 2 km 1 pixel of size
1280 x 1024 Distance 2 km 2 or more pixel?

DOT resolution, resolution: Use two monitors. Show the same on each but set the resolution way down on one. Use this one to spot the damn 109's and the other to really enjoy blowing them up in full resolution! ha ha ha..... I'm sooo looking forward to win the Battle of Britain (cliffs of Dover.....?) in my Spit. Don't understand why people want to fly the inferior, mediocre, 109?! (oooops; OT, sorry)

Will this be possible with 1 seated planes, too?

Can't you just let it be more pixels the bigger the resolution?

What people really mean when asking about the "dots" is this: will LODs only depend on distance, or also on object size, resolution and field of view? Because if the switch to a dot representation only happens when the render size is about one pixel, then there's no issue anymore.

One more question Luthier and I'll leave you alone :)

Probably the one feature I really hope to see in CoD is improved crew interaction. Can you comment on AI crews, will gunners call out surface and air contacts? Will navigators give you course headings and corrections, and will bomb aimers guide you in on the bomb run?

The crew members of other sims are really only decoration and it would make the player feel far less alone (and much more immersed in the sim) if their virtual comrades could fulfil their basic functions within the aircraft.

Hope you can answer!

First of all thank you very much Ilya and Oleg for your time and for answering all these questions. So here are mine:

1. Can you comment on the maximum number of planes that will be used in a mission in the stock campaigns?

2. Will the Lysander and the Ju52 make it into the initial release?

Not sure if you have answered these before, if so I missed it and probably someone else can aswer :)