Friday 2010-06-17 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Cobra8472]

Absolutely excellent work Oleg.

Really looking forward to this sim!!

I would love to hear your thoughts on a rather important note;

In one of the SimHQ interviews, you and Ilya go into depth on your thoughts regarding the closure of ACES and hint at bringing current Flight Simulator X developers over and utilizing the Storm of War engine.
Since commercial addons are a big big part of the Flight Simulator X developer community- I'd really like to ask you how you feel about commercial addons?

Do you perhaps have any idea how open the engine will be to deeper level changes, such as implementing Heads up Displays, advanced avionics or for example new AI routines (tactics, etc)?
Being knee deep in the Flight Sim X development area (Quite a bit of my work in that F6F Hellcat you saw in the last update thread! ) these are indeed important things to consider, even as
a mod community enthusiast!

In any case, absolutely fantastic work- I see a bright flight simming future for all of us

[Chivas]

I know SOW will have correct elevations, but are riverbanks still possible? Some will say this is a very minor issue, but they would be surprised how this feature adds immersive depth to the terrain.

[lbuchele]

Regarding civil aircraft, how about Third party modders developing big and complex aircraft of the era like the panam clippers with a challenging engine management?
It will more in the spirit of the series than modern jetliners,for example.