Possible payware all new ground object pack

[Mark Rude]

a new combat sim with the modelling/coding possibilities of FSX, now that would be grand!

I agree, I would love to see a combat sim based on FSX. CFS4 ?

 

[NachtPiloten]

New sim ....

Well there are possibilities. Several freeware game engines designed for air combat exist and are VERY robust and the developers seems open minded and helpful. We just need to decide what we want. CFS3 and all the files can be used in other engines with some mods of course. Just do a freeware game engine search and you'll fine a few good ones!

Well its off to torment my graduate students ..... :costumes::costumes::costumes:

 

[ndicki]

Miamieagle, speaking as one who has made a significant though limited contribution to CFS3 - most of the French aircraft in MAW, for example, wear my skins - I can tell you that given the incredible effort that goes into a good quality model, and from so many people - the modeller, the skinner doing the interior and exterior, the flight dynamics and damage profile man, the effects man, and then the beta testers, the feedback collection and analysis, modifications, etc, etc - then if somebody wants to make a bit of largely symbolic money out of it, that's fine by me. There is no way the money will ever be much more than symbolic, which is why there is so little payware for CFS3 compared to FS. Given the hours and hours of work - ask Greg or Craig or Mathias - the return is neglegible. If you go from £X.00 per hour as a base rate, you end up with a product which is so expensive you can't sell it. So if it encourages a few people to take up the fight, then I'm quite happy to pay a bit to keep them working. Admittedly, I began publishing my work to pay back the "debt" I'd accumulated with first CFS1 then CFS2, but that's just me.

 

[mongoose]

You are very right, I do model what I want to. I do not have to model anything. I have never made a penny from CFS3. I model because I enjoy it. I hope others will enjoy what I create, if you don't then just don't download it.I understand that WW2 maybe very real and close for those in the UK, But a some of the blood spilled were Americans and others not from the Uk. I lost family in that war. Just my 2.5 cents worth.

Hey Mark! I was suggesting a hypothetical reason rather than a value judgment on why people were not following the original WW II basis of CFs3. Of course there were many aspects to WW II which is why a PTO and MAW were developed. As Roosevelt said,the priority was the defeat of Hitler and many US lives were lost; not the least from the 8th.
Commonwealth members also have interests outside of ETO, such as MAW and the Pacific campaigns, but we should remember that there were many Aussies, Kiwis, and Canadians in the RAF ( + Springboks, etc. :d)
Of course people do model what they like, but in the context of this discussion, that maybe why CFS3 as a WW II sim is not all that it could be. Modders also get tired, and life moves on as well.