Q. Jason what order will the planes for BON be released?

A. This is the proposed order in the schedule, but I warn you that it will likely change, some may finish early and some may take longer then planned. Also, dates will shift so I'm not going to assign any dates to them. They will be released as soon as they are ready.

Yak-9/ 9T
P-47D-22
Hurricane Mk. IIb/c/d
C-47 (AI)
Fw-190 A-6
Spitfire Mk. XIV
Typhoon Mk.Ib
P-51B/C
Bf-190 G-6 (Late)
Ju-88 C-6a
B-26 (AI)
Mosquito FB Mk.VI
Me-410
Ar-234
V-1

Aces_Wild napsal:

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No decision has been made yet. Infer from that what you will, but I cannot get into confidential info, my bosses would get quite angry. My desire is to always make more products, I create products, that's what I do. Any new products have to make business sense for not only us, but our partners who share in the work. The concept of FC1 presented an opportunity to take a larger than usual gamble and do an experiment. As we know in Las Vegas, once you lose, gambling again may quickly become throwing good money after bad, not a wise move. Same in business. Asking the community to re-invest in a technically improved WWI sim, but with lesser installed content while our earlier title ROF is still a fun, good-looking sim may have been too much to ask for. But this was the only way to try and make a new WWI anything, going back to work on ROF is simply not an option for the team. It's kind of in the hands of the community at this point. I can add some more non-Career SP content (which I have stated already) and adjust the price when I can, but the question becomes how bad does the community want an FC2 to happen? The only way that it will get a green-light is if FC1 proved there was an appetite for more WWI. And even if we say yes we want it, does our partner want to do it? Do I have the resources to make what the community says they want after FC1? So there are many moving parts to this.

To be honest, I'm a little disappointed with the critiques about FC1's content, because there are infinite SP and MP possibilities with the ME, PWCG and Vander's new EMG. Lots of fun to be had regardless of what we put into it. Many say PWCG is better than our Career so I felt it would be less of an issue it apparently is. But everyone is entitled to buy or not buy. I'm just explaining my side of the story. As I said many times, this was my only option to do anything WWI related any time soon, so I went for it and thought a lot of flyers who owned ROF or owned IL-2 would be interested. No matter what happens, I don't regret it, FC turned out very nice and it's fun to fly. Everyone worked hard on FC1, so I hope I can move forward with another one. Time will tell. Please don't ask me when. It could be next week or next year, I really don't know right now.

That's all I can say on the matter at the moment and probably more than I should.

Jason

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Hot_Dog napsal:

No vida, 5 různých letadel za $14.99 v předprodeji, a pak že je to drahý

Hot_Dog napsal:

No vida, 5 různých letadel za $14.99 v předprodeji, a pak že je to drahý

When I took over development of Sturmovik I was convinced we could make a Pacific themed product without too much difficulty and shared that confidence with you. After getting neck deep in our development cycle for Kuban I realized the data and references I had where inadequate and my earlier confidence was a mistake. However, no matter how resourceful I am or how much I believe in the power of a strong will, I have yet to find a viable path to make this product to the standards you expect and within a time frame that pleases my business partners. This is why I have delayed any attempt to make a Pacific themed product to this point.

Since I last spoke about this issue, I have had three different Japanese speaking people do research for me in Japan to help me find needed and known references that will help the team build some Japanese planes to our usual standards and no one came back with anything super useful. I have personally spent quite a bit of my own money and amassed quite a large library of books on Japanese planes and they come close to what we need, but not quite enough. We also face the challenge of building the carriers and support ships of the USN and IJN. Not so easy and an expensive part of the development. Plus, some serious and costly translations are needed to learn about every system and procedure of these planes like we do with our current aircraft.

Building a A6M “Zeke” is not really the issue, there are enough references to build one for Sturmovik, but some of the other main-line but less-famous Japanese planes are more difficult. Committing my team to a product that only has a flyable Zero and a host of flyable American planes is not really a marketable option for our business model. We prefer to continue to build a full plane-set for each of our products. That’s what sells best for us.

I will continue to search any resource I find including government sources for actionable and useful info on Japanese aircraft, especially their cockpits in my spare time. And thanks to those who have sent me info through our forum or email over the past two years. I appreciate it greatly. I still hold out hope that we can sail the Pacific at some point in the future.