Battle for Moscow

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

Just a thought - but why don't the developers release tools and get the community more engaged in developing and fixing the game? It might be the best way to save this thing.

They plan to but only when they have a solid and stable code base in place, otherwise chaos will reign and modders will be complaining when the code changes considerably with the next patch, breaking all their hard work.

Personally, I can't wait for the map editing tools to be released. I'd love to see a pilot's map with the rail network added....really missing that in my navigation.

I'm sure the talent in the community will produce some outstanding map mods with time. Also from the devs comments it seems likely we'll be able to mod the AI routines too which would be amazing.

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by mcdaniels

Would be nice, if BOM would be given away cheaper for CloD Customers .

The fact is: There are only a few (2?) really good Combat-Flightsim Devs (Companies) out there. So, we can only hope, they get it up and running.

Unfortunately that would mean less revenue to continue the development and a weaker 1c which is not in our long term interests really.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Sutts

Unfortunately that would mean less revenue to continue the development and a weaker 1c which is not in our long term interests really.

Sounds very simular to a Ponzi scheme

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

Just a thought - but why don't the developers release tools and get the community more engaged in developing and fixing the game? It might be the best way to save this thing.

With inclusion of what Sutts said, I think you might be missing something here. The plan is to released the SDK once it is ready for use . But even if it gets released, it fixes just one part of the problem. As I understand , CloD is coded to have an open module and a fully closed official module. So that modders do their stuff and create their game, while the official development goes on just like with IL2. And that means a very wide timespan with at least few addons made in a "Forgotten Battles" manner.

So for people doing vanilla only such as me, the game won`t get fixed even if SDK is released. So the developper must work on the game in order to keep the official version of CloD running and expanding anyway. That is ofcourse not without numerous fixes the community might bring into the official version as it was in the past ( numerous examples of it ; the track recording memory issue for example - hotfixed by 3rd party, acknowledged and released in official 1C patch).

[mcdaniels]

Unfortunately that would mean less revenue to continue the development and a weaker 1c which is not in our long term interests really.

...but it might be some nice offer, for people who spent round EUR 60,- or even more for CloD and got a sim in Alpha/Betastate?

If BOM has all critical issues ironed out, i cannot see a problem, which makes 1C "weaker".

It could be like any other "Upgradepack" for existing "Basesoftware" Base = CloD, Upgrade = BOM.

No CloD = Full price BOM. Thinking of Steam this should be possible...

Just my thoughts...