Friday 2010-02-25 Development update:Interview by Grégory Lemasson/Discussion Thread

[dce21b]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

I hope that in time some of listed of your dreams will be possible.
Its way aleady in BoB we put so many ground objects, AI for them...
Simply because BoB shouldn't be limited only for battles over channel.
It is important for online gameplay, for other than channel scenarios, developed by users and of course by third party.
It is important for futures modifications...

You also should understand that we unable to make everything by our small team.
Say... that to contro tank there should "cockpit", system modeling, charging shells system and o on, control system ... and... command interaction with other such units doesn't matter AI or player controlled.... It is simply sim in the sim.
But it is possible in future if, i will reapeat:

1. Success of BoB.
2. Support for and from third party
3. Probably understanding of publishers or other owners of my team to invest in that direction even with separate team inside. 1C has other teams... but they are busy with other projects. That is a problem.

So without item 3 - just part of my and you(all) dreams are possible...
Howver is possible licensing of engine and work in cooperation with other teams...
But it shouldn't be like it was in the past with Il-2 where finally we simply gave sourse code for nothing....

Just so everyone understands what I wish for is a quality in all aspects of a game. The one thing that erks me about WWIIOnline is that the flight model of planes is childish and the FPS aspect of it is primative I only enjoy the armor in that game.

When you say its sim on sim I understand that then maybe yes it wouldnt be to much to have all at once since it is already there. But the manpower to make it all work and to share your hard work with someone for nothing doesnt make much business sense either.

But if you were able to make an arrangement with a 3rd party such as Gaviteam the makers of STEEL FURY that benifited both parties and added more to SOW why not.... thats a big IF of course.
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They too are a small team and have a wonderful tank sim which can be found here http://graviteam.com/games/steel-fury-kharkov1942.html

Maybe it would be possible that since you both have a quality sim you could team up together.

LoL im such the match maker anyways I know its all far fetched and its alot easier to say it then to do it. But like I was saying the people that play SOW and Steel Fury are hardcore simmers that demand the best. And since it is after relatively a small niche in the game market if you could put multiple great sims into one it would benifit both parties.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by dce21b

Just so everyone understands what I wish for is a quality in all aspects of a game. The one thing that erks me about WWIIOnline is that the flight model of planes is childish and the FPS aspect of it is primative I only enjoy the armor in that game.

When you say its sim on sim I understand that then maybe yes it wouldnt be to much to have all at once since it is already there. But the manpower to make it all work and to share your hard work with someone for nothing doesnt make much business sense either.

But if you were able to make an arrangement with a 3rd party such as Gaviteam the makers of STEEL FURY that benifited both parties and added more to SOW why not.... thats a big IF of course.
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They too are a small team and have a wonderful tank sim which can be found here http://graviteam.com/games/steel-fury-kharkov1942.html

Maybe it would be possible that since you both have a quality sim you could team up together.

LoL im such the match maker anyways I know its all far fetched and its alot easier to say it then to do it. But like I was saying the people that play SOW and Steel Fury are hardcore simmers that demand the best. And since it is after relatively a small niche in the game market if you could put multiple great sims into one it would benifit both parties.

Mergin of two different base codes isn't possible. Cooperation could only be by other way: SoW is the main... others can add or in cooperation with us to make cockpits for tanks etc.... that will corresponding to our engine features or programmed by us additional features.

Then online code will define everything if we would like to "get all in one"

True not so easy.... and direct merge is impossible.

[dce21b]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Mergin of two different base codes isn't possible. Cooperation could only be by other way: SoW is the main... others can add or in cooperation with us to make cockpits for tanks etc.... that will corresponding to our engine features or programmed by us additional features.

Then online code will define everything if we would like to "get all in one"

True not so easy.... and direct merge is impossible.

I understand what you mean about the code what I was suggesting was that since their are people out there with this work done as far as all the armor values, true ballistics data, modeled interiors and optics etc. that they could add their work to your exsisting models and suggest how the characteristics should be. See how you guys are the experts at flight maybe not so much for other stuff.

Because like you said its alot of work to do but if most of its is done or at least all the data was there and needed to be remodeled for SOW engine it could be done. Steel fury also has a good mod community that has made some excelent mods.

Perhaps you could take a poll or ask your team members how they fell just to see if people are interested in the idea and its worth pursuing.