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Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Truly historical accuracy in a simulation would make it unflyable for at least half the community population. Either because it would simply be too hard to put in the effort necessary to learn it (consider the fact people said exactly that about this sim 8 years ago) or it would simply be too hard for some to learn. Add to that the ridiculously complex physics and graphics computations and it's likely most pc's wouldn't be able to run it.

And here we come to another factor. IL-2 is IMO so far the game with best scaling I ever saw and this goes to both, graphics and more importantly for this topic difficulty.
There are so many difficulty options that one can scale il2 from high fidelity simulation to sunday afternoon shootout arcade.
But what happened? The thing commonly reffered to as "elitism", some people coudn't handle more realistic settings but also couldn't accept it and simply turn off the options that were in the way of their fun. And then, on the 7th day - the whined at O.M.
Pffft one of the worst things for IL-2 was so many "inputs" on ubi...
I would even go THAT far and say that the best thing that could possibly happen for SoW is O.M.'s absence from us

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

If realistic torque were modeled, people would bitch so loud you'd think Oleg was a lunatic, but the fact is, in this sim (and likely in subsequent sims) we will really only get a glimpse of truly accurate FM modeling.

Realistic torque was modelled and people did bitch, a small but load group of weekend "war winners" ruined it for many of us, while all they had to do for their instant gratification is turn off the darn torque in the difficulty options, yes it's actually there.
I remember there was a small DF server ran by a female in the past, she simply turned off the torque, that's one of the reasons I love females so much - they usually throw much less BS around...

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Understand I'm not advocationg for dumbing down FM's. I'm just saying that in reality the market for a sim as accurate as you describe is likely not large enough to support it economically...unless of course the military were to subsidize it as well.

In the end don't get me wrong I fully understand what you want to say, I just hate the reasons that make the whole situation what it is.
This is also one of the reasons simulation genre is barely living...too many people want instant gratification. The would all like to be uber aces with no effort, well they can play Ace Combat on "Realistic" settings thinking they would be awsome pilots IRL - LOL