Update today:


QUOTE by Luthier/Ilya:

'Good evening gentlemen!

We're down to the wire! Just a few days left before this kickstarter ends.

I really hope we can energize the community enough not to just hit the 150K Me.262 stretch goal, but to get as close as we can to the 275K Southern England stretch goal!

We can do this in one of several ways.

We can find a large new community that has never heard of this project and get them excited. That's certainly very possible. We're getting virtually no exposure outside flight sim forums. If you know of a gaming resource that could be interested in our project, please help us out!

Secondly, we can get some extra help from existing backers. If you've backed at a $40 level, it may seem like you're already getting everything you want. If enough others come in and pledge, you'll get the Me.262 at no extra cost. However what if they don't? No one gets anything. We're getting into a very interesting field of psychology here, but basically we're in a situation where inaction gets everybody nothing, while a seemingly altruistic action benefits everyone, including the actor. In other words, if you can, please bump up your $40 pledge. If enough people do that, all $40 backers get the Me.262. In yet other other words, while on paper the price of the game with the included Me.262 is $40, in reality it is probably a bit more. The way things stand today, a $40 pledge may not actually buy the 262.

Lastly, we hope that some people who were on the fence about the project will be finally converted by today's video. If you have not yet backed the project but were watching it, please get involved! Even a $1 pledge is absolutely great. It still gets us a bit closer to our stretch goal, and, even more importantly, it increases our total number of backers. That, at this point in time, is at least as important a number as the dollar amount below it.

So, without further ado, here's a long extended conversation with Dmitry "Yo-Yo" Moskalenko, the lead aircraft programmer in DCS. He'll talk about the long evolution of the Eagle Dynamics flight model, and puts forward a great case for it being the best flight model on the market today. Yo-Yo created the P-51, our flagship prop-driven fighter simulation, and we're very fortunate to announce that not only will Dmitry be involved with and supervise and quality control all aircraft built by RRG, he will also personally work on our Spitfire Mk.IX, a project of a great personal interest to him.'

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6zO...ature=youtu.be






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Another video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYy5MgFd7ME

Pay Pal payment option has been added to the payment options.

48 hours to go, and 134,307 dollard pledged.

Will they make it to the 150,000 dollar 'stretch-goal' giving a flyable Me 262 (new stretch goals have been added since the start of this Kickstarter project)?

Link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ope-1944/posts



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The Kickstarter deadline has been passed.

The 150,000 dollar stretch-goal has been reached!

Hmm . . . well I wish them well. Have to say I've been so spoilt by the number of flyables in IL-2 modded, or even the original IL-2 stock. Disappointed to not see any Hurricane or P-40 flyable listed. Well, maybe in time.

And thus will Second World War Combat Flight Sims remain stuck in the past and therefore remain a dying genre.

Whilst the so called 'fans' of the genre remain obsessed with choosing which of 350 flyable aircraft to fly, with the most simplistic of control systems, how do we convince those same people that specialising in one aircraft can be just as satisfying?

Ilya needs your support, unless you want to be flying those ancient IL2 cockpits for the next ten years.

And thank you Major Setback, for conducting a one-man vigil on this forum. Good job mate, thanks.

It's basically a bunch of people who enjoy WW2 combat flight, but have no desire to spend any of their own money.

Do you know for shure that no own money is involved, including missing paychecks, etc..?
Or are you trying to slight them?

that seems a pointlessly negative post.

there's a bunch of software devs who want to make a new game. new games require money to make, and they've asked for and received said money.

so it's basically fans funding a game they want to be made.

I think you might have misinterpreted this poster. I think he is talking about the complainers, not Ilya/Luthier and Co.




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