Use of aircraft names in game legal or illegal?

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyWhiskey

I don't share your view, BoS and ClOD don't have the amount of development IL2 does, and so they lack long term potential.

Especially when you consider how limited they will be in aircraft, and for how long, which is pretty much forever.

ClOD I think will take too much private "hobby" development to get even a small selection of new aircraft, let alone the range that IL2 has. The Spits vs 109's type thing doesn't appeal to everyone. You don't have the P-40 or Tomahawk, or any other U.S. aircraft. But somehow the Italians are represented in the game with aircraft?

BoS excites me, but I still think that all the little details will take up all the development efforts, so we probably won't see anything new for a long time, let alone any US or British aircraft.

FYI: Italian aircraft are represented because the time period that Oleg's old team selected was from June 1940 to November 1940.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpo_Aereo_Italiano

"The "Italian Air Corps" (Corpo Aereo Italiano, or CAI) was an expeditionary force of the Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) that participated in the Battle of Britain during the final months of 1940 during World War II. The CAI supported the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and flew against the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The CAI achieved limited success during its brief existence. In general, the corps was hampered by the inadequacy of its equipment."

And so forth.

Aircraft covered by the N-G agreement are never going to appear in an official IL-2 1946 release unfortunately. That ship sailed many years ago. Fortunately we do have a solid selection and a few more American types can still be added from Curtiss for example.

BoS will likely eventually subsume most of the interest that I still have with IL-2. But with a new patch on the way and some exciting new content, IL-2 4.13+ still has some life left in it I think. We had 50+ players on Battlefields1 on Hyperlobby last week. It's not dead yet and we can have so much fun playing so many different theatres.