Would the Developers have chosen a different path if they had the source earlier?

[Mysticpuma]

I get where you are coming from Baffin but the original IL2 covered huge realms (officially) across the globe and many eras. It did okay a d was still having features and patches added.

We are fixing features in the current theatre as well creating the new theatre so it isn't going to be abandoned. I mentioned previously that aircraft from the new theatre will fit into the current map perfectly so it is in our interest to keep the current map up to date and improving. If you check the bug tracker you can see things are improving and will continue to.

Apart from the map itself the aircraft, atmospherics, effects, audio, etc, etc, will span both theatres. Work will continue on both and if v5.00 is a success....V6.00 will be a revelation!

Cheers, MP

[Baffin]

I get where you are coming from Baffin but the original IL2 covered huge realms (officially) across the globe and many eras. It did okay a d was still having features and patches added.

We are fixing features in the current theatre as well creating the new theatre so it isn't going to be abandoned. I mentioned previously that aircraft from the new theatre will fit into the current map perfectly so it is in our interest to keep the current map up to date and improving. If you check the bug tracker you can see things are improving and will continue to.

Apart from the map itself the aircraft, atmospherics, effects, audio, etc, etc, will span both theatres. Work will continue on both and if v5.00 is a success....V6.00 will be a revelation!

Cheers, MP

Thanks for the reply. I just wanted to emphasize that the simulator fan base stems from the BoB...

[DerDa]

I get where you are coming from Baffin but the original IL2 covered huge realms (officially) across the globe and many eras. It did okay a d was still having features and patches added.

We are fixing features in the current theatre as well creating the new theatre so it isn't going to be abandoned. I mentioned previously that aircraft from the new theatre will fit into the current map perfectly so it is in our interest to keep the current map up to date and improving. If you check the bug tracker you can see things are improving and will continue to.

Apart from the map itself the aircraft, atmospherics, effects, audio, etc, etc, will span both theatres. Work will continue on both and if v5.00 is a success....V6.00 will be a revelation!

Cheers, MP

I truly love this last sentence ...

[Chivas]

New theaters are the life blood of a combat flight sim series. They add interest in the series, and much needed cash for the developer to actually continue support. New theaters have never meant that the original theater was left to die. Most if not all new features etc. added to the game code automatically apply to all maps.

[Kendy for the State]

New theaters are the life blood of a combat flight sim series. They add interest in the series, and much needed cash for the developer to actually continue support. New theaters have never meant that the original theater was left to die. Most if not all new features etc. added to the game code automatically apply to all maps.

I think the new theater is a good idea, if only to generate more interest. If TFS concentrates on just bug fixes people will say ho-hum, and it would be hard to generate any revenue for that, but if they can get in a new theater many people would be willing to pay for that.

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[Diamond9]

For me a new theatre will be good news with new landscapes of a different variety - more eye candy and the new aircraft to go with it. It gets my vote !

[aus]

What a bunch of negative malarky, who would complain of MORE content! I can think of why some might, though...

Let me reiterate:

-"The Mediterranean Air War" has an immense array of possibilities and expansions
-has a huge variation of terrains
-contains the largest number of air forces each with unique and varied aircraft including Italian, American, British and Commonwealth, German, all routinely encountering each other
-all kinds of naval warfare including battleships, carriers, submarines, naval invasions, port defense to name a few -it spans nearly the breadth of the entire war
-has Malta and the Fallshirmjager attack on Crete (the first en masse airborne assault, ever)
-Rommel and the tenuous, back and forth Desert Campaign which combined with Sicily and Italy was the major western power land front against Germany... until 1944!

And so much more, it is ridiculous really. The Desert war is a DIRECT CONTINUATION of the battle of britain! It was The Front Page for Britain and especially The Commonwealth for years!

I mean GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!

[Baffin]

There's nothing negative about preferring Quality over Quantity. Some of us would simply like to see the problems in the existing game corrected before adding more game elements and content with the existing problems still unsolved. There's no need to get all aggressive about it...

I thought Mysticpuma handled the suggestion well... TFS seems to think we can have it both ways and that's good enough for me.