Luthier,

Thankyou for all your hard work over the years. Thankyou for Bringing Cliffs of Dover as far as you could.

It's a fantastic simulation and you should be proud of what you created.

It is sad that we will not get a chance to see what it would have looked like using this game and graphic engine on the Eastern Front! I'm sure it would have pushed the bar even further.

Thanks again for the hours of entertainment and immersion in the world you help create.


Skoshi Tiger!

I remember downloading the original IL2 demo on a 56k modem in a desert town in the middle of Australia and being completely amazed... and have been hooked ever since.

Thank you Luthier for being a part of giving me so many years of fun. I loved the original series and I love Cliffs (warts and all). Best of luck for whatever you do next mate.

Cheers
Naz
aka II./JG53_Opfer

Thanks for making a difference . . .

And for your efforts in the IL-2 series. Not too many can say they played a role in changing something as great as WW 2 sims, in the ground breaking game that IL-2 is. And was continued in Cliffs.

I hope your endeavors take you where you want to go, and may the winds blow favorably for you.

Thanks.

Had to log in again just to say thanks to the team, Luthier and Oleg , if he still is around, you guys and girls showed the world the true and real meaning of the world simulation . And as a not so unimportant byproduct you opened the door to heroic battles and unselfish deeds that had been hidden and distorted to us by the historians in the west.
Thank you and don't forget the Korean air war.
Viking

Hi, Ilya,
can you share your future plans already? Is it true that you work on a Korea sim?

Do you know what happens to CLoD engine? Can 1C license it cheap if someone finds an investor (say for a Korea sim or a sort of WWII Online clone)?

Whom modders(e.g. TD) should talk to if they want to mod CloD: Jason or 1C?

Sorry for many questions but I think 1C made a mistake(again) switching to an older DX9 engine with poor AI optimization. Another year of work on CloD engine could make it perfect. Hope you or Oleg can do this one day.

+1 to all of that!

Let me guess, you're a fulltime developer by profession?

Hi Ilya,

As being a simulation fan not a gamer, I am very very tearful.

Thank you for your great efforts, for sleepless nights.

If it is possible, please reunite with Oleg and make a kickstarter project.

Only legends can make a decent Flight Simulation.

Best wishes to you and Oleg Maddox.

Is it true that Ilya relocated to the US? EDIT: because you seem to be more informed then most of us.

If so, then I'd hope he'd start having some communication with some people on this forum...... ;)

Thanks Luther .. we'll still have that night in Paris ... errrr, I mean, I still love CLOD and IL2, they were/ARE great sims.

Still flying CLOD .. into the sunset.

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