Battle for Moscow

Originally Posted by Dano

Nor me, but my brother did, some role playing game back in the windows 98 days which was so bad he uninstalled it and it wiped out a load of critical windows files at the same time and left him with an unworkable machine

lol, now that is bad!!

[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.

[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

There is angoing assumption in all discussions that BoM will fix most, if not all, of CLoD's short-comings.

That could well not happen (leaving past experiences out of it for a moment).

Having worked in a software house, this is unlikely - especially in a complicated dev like this. As with most things, I'd expect compromises and areas that receive priority.

Ben/Falstaff

[GraveyardJimmy]

Its not exactly a new game, but an expansion. They have said continued support for CoD will remain- how else would they get anyone to buy BoM?

[JG52Uther]

And there goes another thread due to a few posters who think they are more important than anyone else here.

I have said it before, this is not a school playground. If you think you are going to ruin it for everyone else, you are wrong.

[FS~Phat]

I'm not quite so forgiving - after numerous Warnings and having to delete 60 or so posts in this thread alone, a few of you deserve a little holiday because you knowingly ignored forum rules; hijacked a thread and argued like children, with wild speculation and blatant lies to top it off - even after several warnings over many threads.
I'm now banning some of you to cool off for a couple days. So you can think about what you've done and come back and be constructive, not just argumentative and off topic.

Consider this a warning Ban. Next time any of you want to test the moderators you will get a much longer ban if you can't control yourselves. This forum is here for the enjoyment of everyone, and a handful of disruptive people WILL NOT be allowed to ruin it for everyone. I suggest all of you that chose to degrade this thread go and read the forum rules again and come back acting like an adult with some manners.

~S FS~Phat

[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).