OK, I'm dreaming, but...

[Flyby]

that sounds like a good opportunity for Oleg to feed the masses a bit of a video. the LLTM might be a good venue to show off a little bit of BoB, eh?

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

I think Oleg is doing absolutely the right thing. Blackout is best. I hope he keeps everything under wraps until it's all ready.

Most are still flying Il2, and while we are all very anxiously awaiting SOW - I think the less that "leaks" the less chance there is of other companies reverse engineering what 1C has put so much into over the last several years.

Additionally, I've learned over the years that our community doesn't handle new information very maturely.

At every announcement over here - some negative thread at all the other forums is bound to start - usually generated by folks who don't know squat.

I'm actually very impressed at how 1C has handled all this. Keep it up.

S~

Gunny

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

A new vid would be nice!

[Flyby]

Gunslinger, I disagree with you (respectfully). Wild Bill, we are in agreement I see.
There will always be someone somewhere to complain about something. I'd not be surprised to read complaints after the release of SOW. You can't please everyone all the time. But long-time fans would not be ill-served were Oleg to release a small video such as I've requested. I have to assume SOW is far enough along to do that. For a fan it would wet the old whistle of anticipation. For the griping gremlins among us...well what is ever good enough for them anyway? One thing's for sure. Were Oleg to release such a video we'd all watch it (and many times over). It'd be like finding water in a wasteland.
Flyby out

[Bearcat]

Im having too much fun with 46 to really care one way or the other.. When I can steal thw time that is.... HEY FLYBY!!!

WHEN YOU COMIN BACK TO HL MAN!!!!!

[Feuerfalke]

A new vid would be nice, no doubt, but I rather agree with Gunslinger on this.

1. As I posted before it's not only customers and fans watching and analyzing the video.
2. Any video they'll post will a.) not attract any additional customers, as there is probably little convincing content to show ATM, that will resemble what BoB will be like, b.) will soon after the first wave of interest create a wave of frustration, as the video will not show what the release will be like, nor will it please all fans in terms of Objects or Wireframe modells being shown. Finally it will c.) strengthen the demand for yet another video showing and d.) if no such video will be released raises the opinion that SoW:BoB is nowhere near a possible release in 2008. And THAT news will spread MUCH faster and further than any video posted.
3. As soon as you can show me screenshots, movies or even a list of planes and theaters modelled in Shockwaves new sim or the new CFS, I'd really consider joining your march to get some information from Oleg as well.
As long as only Oleg is being asked to show his cards, this isn't good for anybody involved.

[Flyby]

So what if "others" are looking at Oleg's work? Someone's going to steal an idea, and beat Oleg to the punch? Remember, I'm only asking for a small demo to show 6dof implementation from inside the Spit, and the 109. Am I being asked to believe that after all these years of knowing of the existence of SoW that development hasn't proceeded to even this point? DCS's Black Shark effort has produced several videos along the way, and those have always been greeted with excitement from it's fans (including me). Sure someone always questions certain aspects of what they see, or don't see. But so what? Really that's not important to me. To be perfectly frank, the one thing I look forward to in SoW is the internet play. It's the one thing that has kept me from buying Bob_WoV. People can talk about damage models, and surely about FMs, but that's a much ado about very little, imho. I know that FMs are really relative to how much processing power one wants to commit to; you can't model every plane's FM accurately and still have processing power for the eye candy we all love at frame rates we can live with.
Hmmmm... It seems to me that the sim FighterOPs is being called vaporware because so little content is being released. I'm not suggesting this about SoW, but merely pointing out that too little info is a bad thing. At least Oleg answers questions once in a while here. But again, I'm only asking for a little video, and very specificly at that.

So, to sum it up, I guess there are two camps here: those who want a simple video now, and those who can wait longer (even my squadron commander 99th_Bearcat ). I mean no offense to any camp on this issue. Just expressing my view too. Ya know? Those who want to march with me, feel free! Those who are comfy to wait, peace be yours.
Flyby out
ps to Bearcat: getting back is always on my mind, boss. Soon too, I hope.