Good news on future of BOM

[ElAurens]

Hold on here, I'm no fan boy of the RoF enigne, so don't pin that nonsense on me.

All I'm saying is that the developer has abandoned this title. Hence the term abandonware. NO more support, NO more updates, No more anything from 1C for it.

I'll still fly it, but, over time it will end up on the heap of forgotten games, with maybe a dozen or so folks still playing it.

And don't expect this forum to stay up forever either. 1C has placed their eggs in another basket. Continuing to support this "communtiy" will be counterproductive to their goal of making the new sim a success.

Not saying I like it, just facing reality.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Hold on here, I'm no fan boy of the RoF enigne, so don't pin that nonsense on me.

All I'm saying is that the developer has abandoned this title. Hence the term abandonware. NO more support, NO more updates, No more anything from 1C for it.

I'll still fly it, but, over time it will end up on the heap of forgotten games, with maybe a dozen or so folks still playing it.

And don't expect this forum to stay up forever either. 1C has placed their eggs in another basket. Continuing to support this "communtiy" will be counterproductive to their goal of making the new sim a success.

Not saying I like it, just facing reality.

Facing reality is hard

[Ataros]

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by Ataros

Exactly! There's plenty life left in that engine. We'll still play it years from now. There's no way a ROF team can get anything at that level in the next five years....unless they go back to the CLOD engine.

[SlipBall]

Absolutely Jaws! Clod will live on for year's, nothing could come close in the next 3-4 years...when improve, they will all flock back to it.

[WTE_Galway]

I think people are forgetting the (probably optimistic) expected release date for the (initially probably buggy) new sim is not this year or next year but in 2014.

Unless people are content, in the interim, to just play ROF and IL2_1946 and/or waste time stalking the new sim forums petulantly demanding updates and complaining about the color of the trees for the next year or two ... CoD will still have a bit of life in it yet.

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

I think people are forgetting the (probably optimistic) expected release date for the (initially probably buggy) new sim is not this year or next year but in 2014.

Unless people are content, in the interim, to just play ROF and IL2_1946 and/or waste time stalking the new sim forums petulantly demanding updates and complaining about the color of the trees for the next year or two ... CoD will still have a bit of life in it yet.

In sim development terms, 2014 is just around the corner. There are people still enjoying EAW too, so I suspect there will still be people using clod many years from now.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

I think people are forgetting the (probably optimistic) expected release date for the (initially probably buggy) new sim is not this year or next year but in 2014.

Unless people are content, in the interim, to just play ROF and IL2_1946 and/or waste time stalking the new sim forums petulantly demanding updates and complaining about the color of the trees for the next year or two ... CoD will still have a bit of life in it yet.

I think it was very irresponsible of 1C/777 in opening up the new forum so soon. With nothing new to show us it was just an invitation to start arguments.

Maybe they should have waited until they had something concrete to show us like in game video's and screen shots. (I know they posted 4 on blue backgrounds. but didn't go to the trouble of arranging the views ).

Instead we will have arguments and flare ups because there is nothing else to do.

I got into ROF yesterday, and maybe I need to work on my settings because it was bland and lifeless.

I also managed to bounce on landing and put my SE5a on it's back! (yes I have been supporting them over the years by collecting aircraft as they have come available)

The sad thing was even though my Vickers gun (which is mounted on the cowling was rendered inoperative - the Lewis gun on the upper wing (buried under ground at this stage) still worked fine the rounds leaving the ground a few metres in front of the plane! Hey I even managed to reload it at one point!

Mention anything like this at the new forum and you get denounced a ROF hater and a get given a sermon by evangelistic ROF Fanatics! (I'm not sure if they've read the big "IL2 Sturmovik at the top of the page) The worst (In my opinion) is the sentiment of "It's only a game" and "entertainment title". The reason I fly CFS’s and spend hours on line and receive immense satisfaction from being awarded 0.2 of a kill is that in some very little way I get to appreciate what the veterans went through all those years ago. A ‘Game’ won’t cut it for me. I want to be working in a team using vaguely historic tactics in as lifelike a setting as possible.

With such wildly different expectations of what an IL2 title should be like there is no wonder that there are so many threads being locked.
Anyway, over at the new forum I tend to be biting my tongue a lot more than over here and ignoring a lot of one sided views.

They seem to be using the term "CloD Crowd" as a derogatory label. I for one am taking it as an honorific!

Doesn’t feel like home over there yet. I guess time will tell.

[furbs]

I hope it does improve!