Luthier...The Council of Stellar Management....

[ElAurens]

Ham, I see where you are coming from here. Not sure a middle man is a good idea, but clearly we need a way to address issues without every thread turning into a shouting match, or devolve into Red vs. Blue drivel as some are doing already.

And I do agree that we don't want a repeat of what happened a lot in IL2 over the years. Plane Y behaves in a certain manner. After patch Plane Y behaves in a totally opposite manner. Wailing and gnashing of teeth ensues on forums, another patch is deployed, and Plane Y behaves in yet another totally different manner.

This destroys credibility for the developers FM/DM structure and hence the integrity of the sim as a whole comes into question.

The current questions of the RAF Merlin Neg G cutout is a fine example of the sim starting down the path that IL2 took. A small component of the Neg G behavior is not quite right, yet the devs take a sledgehammer approach, probably misreading the sentiment on the boards, and change the whole behavior instead of just tweaking the tiny bit of the behavior that is actually in question. Then it turns into an ugly Red vs. Blue thing and the threads devolve into school yard dust ups.

I hope my rambling makes sense.

Luthier cannot possibly parse this forum and still do the job he is getting paid for. The devs need some way to get info in a more easily understood manner.


O/T: Good to see you again Jimmy. Hope you are well.