VIKS, here's a thread where we discussed a WWI sim last year:

http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=98;t=007040#000011

My first posting in that thread....

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Verdammt! - I vant a World War 1 Sim Oleg-style and I want it NOW! Ja!

posted February 03, 2004 20:53

Why oh why has he said he doesn't want to make it?

No FM data?

Oleg! - No FM data = NO TROUBLE for you!!

You will be able to fine-tune the planes to (almost) your liking and make an eminently playable sim if you want. Nobody will be banging you on the head with roll-rate this and cockpit bar that. Just give us some nice FM's that enable historical tactics and get us as close as possible to the anecdotic evidence from WWI.
- Your bet will be as good as ours as for FM, so no need for patches and all that jazz.

I'm no good at Boom and Zoom and I find it rather boring as well... "Come back, I want to fight, don't fly away..." - No, turn and Burn is what I know and that's what WWI will be all about!

Also, the planes are incredible beautiful, just imagine making skins for WWI! - no matter how gaudy, it won't be out of place in the Richthofen Zirkus!

The fighting will be UP and CLOSE. All the wires and bracing and wheels and scared gunners with scarves and goggles will look amazing through a gunsight. We NOW have the computers for the incredible visual experience of 20-50 m. dogfight distances.

Damage modelling. Don't get me started! - Planes catching fire and smoking, yes, we have that in WWII as well, but just imagine what more we will have in WWI. Planes CRUMPLING! And not just crumpling, but shredding, disintegrating, with canvas buffeting and blood spurting from severed jugulars, all in glorious close-up!

Dynamic Campaign? - Ha! No need for it, the fronts were as static as they could be. One problem less.

But, talking about the fronts. - Amazing visuals again! - A scar across the landscape: Mud, trenches and barbed wire. Artillery barrages, gas attacks, fires and explosions and poor little grunts that we can fly high above, we, the Knights of the Sky! It'll be amazing to fly over the WWI frontlines and there will be no boring long missions, just dogfights a few km. away from home base.

Engine management, prop pitch, fuel mixture? - Well, I'll happily live without it, and that's what I'll do in a WWI sim. Pure fighting and no fiddling. - Nice, should be attractive to the masses!

And then all the extras. Long-range Gothas over London, Zeppelins (!) and the first carrier take-offs of the Royal Navy. Ilya Mourometz and strange Capronis and a host of other bizarre and wonderful planes.

(Well, if London is too complicated to model, then no sweat, the trenches of WWI were mostly far away from big cities, one problem less there)

Finally there's just the GLORY of WWI air fighting. No terrible ideologies (except for your widely held, run-of-the-mill imperialism), no national markings that we CAN'T put in, no carpet bombing and firestorms, just heroic jousts in the heavens where the best man may win.

(No wimpy chutes either...) ;\)

OK, if anybody should doubt it: I REALLY want Oleg to make a WWI flight sim!

P-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-lease!! \:\)

Whaddaya guys think? - Have I convinced you, or were you already converts?

- Freycinet

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