Interview with Ilya (translation please)
 

Can any of the russian speakers, please translate the main points of this interview?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxT9rhkl9Cs

I just want to hear his answers to the important questions. Maybe there's a Russian forum with this with a translation but that seems backwards doesn't it?

They mostly talked about the online Championships, which took place on this site - aviachamp.ru
Also, the development of various online projects based on the game. There were no new facts about the future projects.
The interview lasted 35 minutes and I can not tell it all in detail.

Thanks BlackSix

The main facts are they are eager to support the series for at least 10 years. The new engine unlike the old IL-2 one allows replacement of complete modules and sub-modules like happens with sound now. On the other hand this fact made the core engine so complex and so hard to develop from scratch (and hunt all the bugs).

Also there are plans to include features that would allow the series to have some good cybersport application (they try to borrow some cybersport-related ideas from Starcraft).

SDK can be available only after the aircrafts are finalised because the documentation for the SDK can be written only by the chief aircraft programmer and will take about 4 months to write. Thus he has to stop his work on aircrafts first.

Disclaimer: this is not word by word translation but just my interpretation.

My personal opinion on SDK is that we have to ask the devs at least to provide a limited SDK for maps and ground units to allow making some basic gunsights for AAA and tanks (e.g. similar to WoT game). Frankly I do not think work of the aircraft programmer on aircraft would ever stop because publishers will push for a new theatre after BoM. La-5 model is made for Stalingrad or Kursk as far as I understand.

TY Sir for transmitting the general ideas of the interview.

Regards.

+1

Also people tend to discount the time taken to create documentation like user manuals. Especially in this case where I expect any documentation would be written in Russian and then they would need to find a translator fluent with a grasp of the appropriate technical language.

As an example Australia Navy recently introduced the MU90 Light Weight Torpedo. There was a significant holdup in their deployment as French and Italian data and test reports of the weapon system were supplied in their original languages.

Not only did they need to have excelent French/Italian/English technical translation skills they also had to have the appropriate security clearance! It took them a long time to find one!

Cheers!

S!

Thanks Ataros and Black6 for the snippets.