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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: F4UDOA on January 03, 2003, 09:39:06 AM

Title: Pyro/Hitech idea for your Web store
Post by: F4UDOA on January 03, 2003, 09:39:06 AM

How about selling some scanned documents you guys have in that vault on performance data for AH A/C?

You could say scan your charts for various A/C and sell them in a CD. It is the easiest possible format to distribute and cheap as hell. All you have to do is pay somebody to do your scanning and I know there are quite a few companies out there doing that sort of thing.

So put together a CD of Aircraft of Aces High and I'll be first in line to buy it.

Thanks
F4UDOA

Title: Pyro/Hitech idea for your Web store
Post by: Fariz on January 03, 2003, 09:41:34 AM

Would be nice, but not any easy. Any materials are copyrighted, and you will spend half of your life finding and getting permissions from right holders to publish their materials.

Title: Pyro/Hitech idea for your Web store
Post by: F4UDOA on January 03, 2003, 10:02:25 AM

Fariz,

I mean like NAVAIR docs or old German wartime stuff. I don't think that stuff is copyrighted is it?

Title: Pyro/Hitech idea for your Web store
Post by: crowbaby on January 03, 2003, 11:03:53 AM

I love all that old stuff - but we'd have to sign an agreement promising not to point at some 1941 drawing board prototype's projected speed for our favourite plane and say "why don't we have this in game - look! it's in a document you yourself provided!"

There are always dozens of different documents for each aircraft, projections, prototype trials, then tests on captured aircraft, etc. All of which take place under different conditions and with different biases. There's also differences of construction and quality of materials as the war progresses, particularly in Germany. Then you've got differences in gauges for measuring speed, climb, etc. - it's possible to argue forever over which figures are accurate.

Much as I'd love to see it, i'd be worried that if HTC released a portion of their base data, people would see it as definitive and argue 'til hell freezes over.

Title: Pyro/Hitech idea for your Web store
Post by: SlapShot on January 03, 2003, 11:13:18 AM

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Originally posted by crowbaby
"why don't we have this in game - look! it's in a document you yourself provided!"

Much as I'd love to see it, i'd be worried that if HTC released a portion of their base data, people would see it as definitive and argue 'til hell freezes over.

Nice idea, but for the reasons stated by crowbaby ... when hell freezes over.