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I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« on: January 27, 2009, 12:10:45 AM »
Oh Mighty HTC Gods upon your Mountain...

Thou hast teased with your poll about WWI combat...any chance we will be seeing Great War air combat added anytime soon?
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2009, 12:23:49 AM »
Oh Mighty HTC Gods upon your Mountain...

Thou hast teased with your poll about WWI combat...any chance we will be seeing Great War air combat added anytime soon?
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 12:27:15 AM »
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2009, 12:44:18 AM »
I think Combat Tour will be revived before that ever happens.
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2009, 12:58:17 AM »
and the B-29



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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2009, 01:10:07 AM »
I think Combat Tour will be revived before that ever happens.
All they have to do is stick the WWI planes in their own arena. No other developments would really be needed, unlike CT.
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2009, 01:26:05 AM »
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2009, 01:26:39 AM »
I still say they should add the Swordfish and the Gladiator first and see how well they can be modeled, before they jump into the WWI planeset.
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2009, 01:31:09 AM »
I still say they should add the Swordfish and the Gladiator first and see how well they can be modeled, before they jump into the WWI planeset.

I like the way Del thinks.

If they have to do it at least do this first.

In my opinion there is still too much to be done in the WWII genre before WWI gets looked at.

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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2009, 01:35:04 AM »
WWII is fine. Can't build any more of the new generation until we get to play with their ancestors. Need to let the old folks out to play.
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2009, 01:38:53 AM »
Who knows if they haven't already done it?  Didn't they do that Red Baron thing not too long ago?  I doubt someone whose job is also his (or one of his) chief hobby wouldn't have loose ends on his mind even after the commercial project is more or less concluded.  IE if there was something wrong with the Red Baron sim's physics, I'd still be thinking about it today, even if just so it could provide an extra insight of some kind to the WWII modeling I were doing today.
Pyro said they have some stuff not shown, this is probably one of them.  Someone in the 'How do you go about modeling airplanes' thread said that there was a common programming canvas to all planes, and that all (manner of speech) they had to do was plug in the numbers and QC that till it sticks to target numbers.  With experience like Red Baron Pizza sim and DoA and anything else they've done on top of that, it probably wouldn't be so expensive development-wise.  

Just on a hunch, my 2c.

And I don't see how we "can't" have any more WWII stuff unless WWI was started.  That's nonsense.
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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2009, 01:54:09 AM »
Can we have an arena with both?  :D
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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2009, 02:03:34 AM »
I still say they should add the Swordfish and the Gladiator first and see how well they can be modeled, before they jump into the WWI planeset.

I see your point, but at the same time I think they can model any prop-driven gun-armed plane pretty easily. And the Ta152 and SpitXIV have already given us a taste of what flying with a rotary engine would be like...
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2009, 02:45:25 AM »
I don't get it.  Those two engines are almost totaly different.
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Re: I'm gonna straight up ask and get it over with...
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2009, 04:08:22 AM »
Oh Mighty HTC Gods upon your Mountain...

Thou hast teased with your poll about WWI combat...any chance we will be seeing Great War air combat added anytime soon?


Relax, it's just a poll.  It's not the opening of the seven seals.  Another thing I said at the con was that we had a number of things for various projects that have been sitting in our virtual garage collecting dust.  We're not looking to move off in a whole new direction or make a new game.  We have plenty of big projects in the queue.  If we do something along these lines, we would not make it into a big project.

A pretty definite maybe.



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