It's not trolling, it's not the money...

[csThor]

Originally Posted by furbs

True, one of the aspects of CLOD that really lets it down is the GUI, its blocky 90's style buttons and menus leave me cold and uninterested.
There is no immersion or feeling of 1940, no feeling of a historic battle about to take place or being a pilot in a life or death struggle.

Take a look at this...

[took out the pics]

....from EAW released in 1998!! thats how to do menus and GUI.

Im hoping once either the SDK or BOM might address this.

Well, Maddox Games has always been a stout opponent for such pre-rendered GUI screens. We, part of the german community that is, have had this little discussion with Oleg years ago and he was steadfast against such 3D scenes as they would require too much work to incorporate not only all possible aircraft but also any potential location, various building types on airfields (i.e. Hangar or in front of a tent) etc and would have to be re-done for each and every new release (Oleg's arguments).

What I would have done - given the utter flexibility of the game engine - is to allow the user to design and set up his own GUI ideas: own layout, own graphics, own fonts and design characteristics ... All MG would have had to provide is a template and an API to read the user input. My 0,02 € ...

[Verhängnis]

Originally Posted by csThor

What I would have done - given the utter flexibility of the game engine - is to allow the user to design and set up his own GUI ideas: own layout, own graphics, own fonts and design characteristics ... All MG would have had to provide is a template and an API to read the user input. My 0,02 € ...

But then in doing so they just did all the work they never wanted to do.

[Danelov]

If you are in pause with CLOD...
Is not a WWII Sim but a WWI Sim I recomended: Rise of Flight.
I have discovered this one two weeks ago, first with the free demo and now in full. Excelent atmosphere and interface, friendly forum with a lot of information, service, shop; at the sim not CTD, FPS friendly and stable(You dont need a top of line PC), excelent aircraft models, FM, damaged models, superb sounds, weather effects, good scenery and airfields, you have quick mission, single mission, career, campaign, very good multiplayer, system of points(score)in line, skins, maps, addons, etc.
Really a very good sim.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Danelov

If you are in pause with CLOD...
Is not a WWII Sim but a WWI Sim I recomended: Rise of Flight.
I have discovered this one two weeks ago, first with the free demo and now in full. Excelent atmosphere and interface, friendly forum with a lot of information, service, shop; at the sim not CTD, FPS friendly and stable(You dont need a top of line PC), excelent aircraft models, FM, damaged models, superb sounds, good scenery and airfields, you have single mission, career, campaign, very good multiplayer, system of points(score)in line, skins, maps, addons, etc.
Really a very good sim.

Here's something else to remember, whilst i agree that its matured into a very good game, i had it from day one, and i thought it was pants for the first year or so, before they got it working well.

[bongodriver]

ROF is indeed a great looking game.
Downsides IMO are that you have to buy every aircraft and you then have to buy gunsights and other bits for those aircraft, costs rack up.
if you want a level playing field online you would need to purchase everything.

[beepee]

Originally Posted by Verhängnis

The modders since discovered that Russian pylons had a weight of 0kg compared to 150kg + for other nations and the Pe-2 has a structural G-limit of 18.

I think they will do fine without him, really there is no reason for him to return. If they can't get their act together and produce a great sim based of over 10 years experience in the market, then they deserve to fail. And I don't think he would have left if he knew his team wasn't up to the challenge.

maybe he left for that reason - who knows-looking at the state of the game that was released!!!

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

ROF is indeed a great looking game.
Downsides IMO are that you have to buy every aircraft and you then have to buy gunsights and other bits for those aircraft, costs rack up.
if you want a level playing field online you would need to purchase everything.

Just buy the mods for the planes you fly a lot, you don't have to buy them all unless you want to.

Oh, you were probably engaging in hyperbole to make a point....

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by von Pilsner

Just buy the mods for the planes you fly a lot, you don't have to buy them all unless you want to.

Oh, you were probably engaging in hyperbole to make a point....

Me? never, nobody exaggerates any point on this forum , having re-read my post it does suggest an obligation to buy I guess....my bad, I should have said any individual aircraft or aircraft packs you want has to be purchased and if you want gunsights they are also a separate purchase and lets face it aircraft like Fokker dr1 and SE5a were not included in the free demo for a reason.

I'm guessing you knew what I meant though.

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by furbs

By furbs9999 at 2012-04-10

Well they did bring over this hanger to COD that's for sure. Look at that door. I swear this is how wide the one at Lympne opens.

[Peaveywolf]

Thing is, even in it's so called beta stage, its more realistic and looks a lot better than 99% of other flight sims.