Trust me, you will always find pros ready for a challenge. Again, you might have to outsource outside of Russia, but it's worth the investment. As much as you have cloud programming you can have cloud managing, and believe me, it works.

As for sims being a niche market: if you observed carefully the evolution of IL-2, you might have noticed that there was an (unnecessary?) development towards jets. Il-2 1946 became actually a huge testing bed for the flight model envelope and limitations (The Lerche was a bed for the helicopters potential), to see whether the behaviour of jets would work. As you know, modders made a fantastic F-86 Sabre and now even introduced Sidewinders.

There has been a time, in the development of CoD, when Oleg thought that if having the right investors, his new flight model could have been used for a successor to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series.

Something didn't happen, and the thing deflated back to its original project, but it's obvious that the potential is still there. Hitting the Flight Simulator core would surely be no niche product..

this one is more suitable for what you've created....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE

Maybe, but wishful thinking never solved any present problems.
Evidently, If pros would go into niche markets to look for a challenge, then they'd already be there.

The rest it half true, but hardly relevant for the debate at hand.

Bewolf, check your PM.

This thread should be re-named the Lufbery Circle...
Only trouble is, everyone set 'unlimited ammo' and 'indestructible' to 'on'...
It really is a shame that cod is such a rough diamond for now... I just think a little more optimism, instead of pessimism, would help the blood pressure levels in here :)
I certainly understand how frustrated all you Experten guys feel, but as an expert in how to crash, I can still say this sim has a pretty amazing 'wow' factor every time I start her up! Am I a bad person? :-D
It can only get better from here on out, don't you agree?

Gone on, it won't hurt too much... life's too short as it is!

Luthier... Please help us... Coz group hugs ain't my style!

:-D:-D:-D

roftl now this is post of the year material

LMAO

Agreed post of the year :D

and with my last post i'm senior member yahoo! although i kinda don't know if that changes anything

indeed it's post of the year material from retrojet ;)

this outstanding update by Luthier and the professionalism with which it was presented has convinced me to buy this game.

Game ordered

Your inspiring and meaningful post has convinced me to buy a 2nd copy of COD and send Luthier a bunch of flowers.

Flowers sent.