The news about RRG from Oleg

[VMF-214_HaVoK]

Originally Posted by Viking

most Americans and non Europeans will find little or no interest in the BoB scenario

Could not disagree more as Im as excited for SoW as any Brit I would imagine although Im extremely excited for the Korean sim and have been since it was rumored.

Im American btw.

S!

[kid_SA]

I think those in this forum have a more general approach to flight simming, and would be interested in anything that involved flight, from one end of the globe to the other.

However, I think that a more "random" person will be more interested in a conflict that he has direct contact with, through his country, his relatives, his schooling, whatever, than another conflict. Once he's hooked on flight, he might fly anything, but what will make him pick up that box in the first place? Will it be a picture of the famous p51 (maybe he's seen a real model somewhere) or a more obscure chinese model?

Even within the flight community, the servers are an interesting demographic. (note: this is by no means a hard and fast rule, I fly all theaters and I know many others do). Let's take the "full switch" servers, purely because that's what I know. The western crowd flies... the Warbird servers, both western in nature, and Warclouds, western front. Many Russian servers see the light of day, mostly about the eastern front. G1 (G2 being about the Pacific), ADW, NullWar, the WarForFields that I fly on is ETO and populated mostly by Russian pilots, etc.

There are obvioulsy many exceptions, but on a general level, that is a trend that I see.

It's not right (or clever) to see a whole country in terms of the vocal nationalist few, but to think that all interests span all fronts is naive. People in America will have more of a connection with an American war, and that helps. It all depends how much that matters. For the older pilots who've been flying for a while, the flying might matter much more, but that is not the case for everyone. Maybe a young man (or woman) who has talked to a relative who owns an American built plane, or heard stories from WWII from a relative, or seen an American movie about American pilots or some such, might hold a particular interests in the events that he has had contact with, using the planes he has heard of, in the battles he's learned about. That's only natural. Let's not blind ourselves, much as we'd like it to be only about flight. Oleg still has numbers to consider.

That said, the more areas that are explored, the better. My interests lies more with the early war stuff, like the Spanish Civil War or the Battle for France, but I'll buy anything with a good flight model. I'm eagerly awaiting KOTS, BOB, RRG's sim, Black Shark, Fighter Ops, etc.

[311thCopperhead]

my concern is that we're never going to get back to the Pacific and have it done right. I think everyone will agree (that for whatever reason) Pacific Fighters wasn't a compleated product and was released unfinished. Korea & the PTO holds a lot of intrest for me. BoB...not so much. But a lack of compleate interst will not keep me from buying SoW bob. I'll follow the sim from start to finish the same way i did with Il-2...in hopes that one day we'll get back to the PTO. i waited close to 3 years for a P-47 in IL-2. I'm only hoping i don't have to wait that long gaain for one in SoW.

now don't get me wrong BoB is ok as a theater....it is the start of everything.
and if olegs plan is to begin @ the begining and follow a historical time line inthe seires..then that's where we need to start. It's just the planes in BoB that i lack interst in. I'll still by SoW....i just won't be as "into" it as much as i will when the sim produces the aircraft that do intrest me.

The eastern front intrests me. So those are the three i'm wiating for, Pacific, Korea, and back to the eastern front.