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Offline vonKrimm

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Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« on: October 14, 2009, 12:35:47 PM »
I'd rather have a new plane.  Although (at a guess) it takes as much time to research a variant as it does a new model, same for coading; but a variant would take 1/3. the time to model and skin in my guesstimating.  So I postulate that we could have 2 new planes for every 3 variants.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 12:42:47 PM »
Added variants.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 12:50:58 PM »
Depends.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 12:57:46 PM »
Quote from: Dragon on October 14, 2009, 12:50:58 PM
Depends.



That should be easy to coad.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2009, 01:01:06 PM »
Quote from: dunnrite on October 14, 2009, 12:57:46 PM
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That should be easy to coad.

is that depends...with wings???

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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2009, 01:06:27 PM »
Quote from: vonKrimm on October 14, 2009, 12:35:47 PM
I'd rather have a new plane.  Although (at a guess) it takes as much time to research a variant as it does a new model, same for coading; but a variant would take 1/3. the time to model and skin in my guesstimating.  So I postulate that we could have 2 new planes for every 3 variants.
I would bet your numbers are way, way off and make the two much more equal than it is.

In addition it is a matter of who does the work.  The 3D artists don't have to do anything at all for a variant like the P-47M and can continue to spend 100% of their effort on new content.  I'd also expect that the time to build the flight model of a variant is significantly lower as the airframe's handling is already there.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2009, 01:06:40 PM »
Take what I can get.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2009, 01:10:57 PM »
New plane and new variant of a plane are very similar.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2009, 02:18:05 PM »
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2009, 02:19:01 PM »
New Plane, although variants are cool a whole new plane adds something for people to get good in and fly.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2009, 02:19:59 PM »
Same thing. Ill take either
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2009, 02:20:42 PM »
I like both options, but if I have to choose I would say new plane/vehicle.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2009, 02:33:21 PM »
Question:

Why one rather than another? I highly doubt that with as little effort as the P-47M needed that it took any sort of resources away from developing new features or aircraft.

I'd say that if HTC can sneak in "new" planes by modifying existing one with little effort while they're actively working on the next BIG update, I say go for it. Right now I feel a little spoiled by getting three updates in as many months.
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2009, 03:45:46 PM »
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Re: Which would you rather have: A new plane or a variant of an existing plane?
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2009, 03:47:01 PM »
A new plane, then a variant of it.  :D
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