The new QMB

[ICDP]

Please please, PLEASE don't use the god awful IL2 1946 QMB, yes it was better than the current one but only slightly. It was good for a quick dogfight generator for target practice but a good QMB needs the ability to create missions with take-off and landings etc.

Also don't use the old IL2 GUI, it was boring and had no period feel to it (no neither does the new one). I suggest creating a new one with WWII character to it, EAW had a great feel to its GUI. Have a look at the EAW manual to jog your memories. http://vztimg.exent.com/Prem/products/190450/manual.pdf

Barracks, Hangars, Squadron rosters, Squadron Leader's office etc, the ability to turn on the radio. Also add the ability to pick who flies the missions from the roster and so on. You know, the kind of things sims were doing 15 years ago when immersion was still something sim developers strived for. Something the entire IL2 series has lacked in every single iteration... oh wait, this doesn't bode well. Another IL2 sim that caters to the online mass... er I mean tiny minority

[CharveL]

If I never see an IL2 drop-down list again I will be happy.

Even with the crappy Win95 windows they're currently using, but I expect it's just another one of those details they've used as placeholders for functionality until they can whip something better up.

And QMB improvements aren't likely too far off anyway.

[SEE]

Any changes you make in QMB (except weapons) have to be saved as a custom mission with new name to take affect. QMB currently loads the dafault file first...... then offers you the choice to make changes......too bloody late....its already loaded the damned default MIS file and does not ammend the data. Sure they will sort it!

[ElAurens]

I don't care if the GUI looks like a bridge simulator for the Startship Enterprise, as long as it is easy to use and works.

Currently the GUI and QMB are neither.

OH, and how about functional skin selection online and offline with noseart files and the specs to create same.