Answers to Community Questions

[droz]

Great read Luthier. Thanks for replying to those questions. Keep up the good work. All the people I regularly play with are very happy with the RC patch, just a couple of things that need attention in our opinion.

Thanks

[SlipBall]

I enjoyed the answers luthier...shed the tree problem after BOM, and head south

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by luthier

Cliffs of Dover was intended to be a sandbox game more than anything, expansive, open, giving complete freedom to the players. If you’ll remember, the original Il-2 owed much of its success to user-made content. We aimed for the same with Cliffs of Dover. Instead of building complex single-player content in-house, we gave the tools to the community. Cliffs of Dover has a much better mission builder with scripting support, supports complex moddable briefings and debriefings, and so on.
Unfortunately 3rd party support never materialized the way we hoped it would, and we ourselves cannot at this point go back and redo single player.

This.

If *several* community members had been more interested in using their talents to contribute rather than to bitch & moan we would have had much more content by now.

In the original Il-2 the campaigns and missions that came with the sim were never impressive. A lot of the work made by the community, however, was fantastic. Sandbox sims give people the freedom to make amazing & complex content, instead of the "on-rails" action you see from most modern games, with zero replay value after the missions that came out of the box are finished.

A year or so after the original Il-2 came out there were already web sites and manuals (made by enthusiasts) on how to use the FMB. Granted, the FMB of CoD is much more complex, but it would really be great if the community would churn out fantastic scripts for it, rather than moaning about the hue of English fields ad nauseam... Just an example.

I myself try to make some positive contribution to the community with my movies (a couple of tutorials in particular). I wish some of the moaners would spend just a tenth of their energy on contributing rather than criticizing, but hey, I realise that isn't fashionable in this day and age...

[Artist]

Luthier,

thank you for the extensive answers, especially on a weekend. It has been a very interesting insight into the ways and means of developing this kind of project (for those capable of reading between the lines ). I, for my part, gained a better understanding.

still have a lot left. Hopefully will get to them tomorrow.

Looking forward to it.

Artist

[MadTommy]

Some of these answers are going to make for an entertaining thread.

[MadBlaster]

Hi Luthier. Thanks for answering all of my questions. You get a good score for that! I also would like to wish you much better luck with the sequel. CLoD, it's water under the bridge. Let's move on and get it done!

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by luthier

Definitely not planning to release any sequel features as add-ons for Cliffs of Dover, sorry.

Can you please confirm that the CLOD -> Sequel relationship will NOT be the same relationship as, say, IL2FB and Pacific Fighters?

[Icebear]

Originally Posted by luthier

As I said earlier, this just doesn’t make sense financially. Redoing co-op in the way that the community wants cannot possibly be profitable within Cliffs of Dover. At this point there’s just no way that any given feature can lead to any kind of profits.

Originally Posted by luthier

Don’t give us your money on day 1.

Day 1 ? Never ever Luthier !

Your arrogance and complete ignorance towards the community will end the series. Good Job!

Over n out !

[jimbop]

Luthier, are you guys reading the bug thread or do you know what needs to be fixed for the release patch?

[jimbop]

I fully agree with the concept of providing the tools the community needs to make their own content rather than trying to build it all yourself.

There are some solid reasons as to why this did not happen for CoD - hopefully these will be fixed in the sequel or the result will be exactly the same.

Aside from the game play bugs I'm thinking FMB documentation, FMB bugs, huge disconnect between FMB and what actually happens online and coop (please don't underestimate the importance of this again).