Friday 2011-02-04 Dev. update and Discussion

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by luthier

We always held the opinion that complex start-up procedures are a waste of our time.

Everyone else does them as gimmicks. What you see is just a simple sequence of "press button A to press button B to press button C to press button D to enable pressing Start Engine." They don't model the individual systems involved. Neither do we, and we don't want to pretend that we do. We don't do gimmicks.

All the hotspots in our cockpit work. All the controls are animated. You can set fuel cock levers and work the priming pump and flick the magnetos and all. Do that if you like, or don't. We feel that most people will only try that once, if at all.

The systems we do model are crucial however. Watching the gauges and controlling mixture, prop pitch and radiator is essential. Our office is obviously filled with Il-2 online veterans, and for a while we could only play online with Complex Engine Management disabled completely. We could barely fly the Spitfire, and the 109 not at all. We fly with CEM on now, but we still to this day fly with Overheating disabled because damn it is hard!

Sounds great Luthier. You'd be surprised just how many of us love the full systems experience. I for one will always use it...when offline anyway.

Bit confused by your statement "They don't model the individual systems involved. Neither do we".

From what I understand you're modelling almost all the systems in more detail than anyone has ever done. I think we'll have almost all the items we need to do a full startup anyway. Perhaps things like pressurising the fuel system, priming and boost buttons might be missing but we should be pretty happy with what you're giving us. I hope the engine won't start with the fuel switched off!

Would be great if you could give us the option in future to jump into the cockpit with all the systems shut down from the last flight.

Really appreciate all your responses this weekend. It's been one hell of an update.