[goshikisen]

i repeat, il2 is meant to be a historically correct ww2 flight simulation, the fact that olegg decided to put in a couple of experimental planes does NOT suggest that it should be law that more cr*p should be made. i say if you want to play with "what if" and "experiments" then go play garys mod or xwing or something, adding these planes would simply destroy the realism and historical correctness of this fine SIMULATION.

This love affair with wet-dream Waffe and '46 types will take the sim in a very bad direction if it is allowed to continue. It is nothing more than a training ground for future cheats and the UFO's that the anti-mod crowd have been predicting all year. :evil:

From what I've read it takes a good number of people to bring a mesh, DM and FM together into a usable IL2 model... and a whole wack of time. If that's the case then you would hope that effort would be concentrated on aircraft that had a large role to play in reality and would be the most useful to the community. There are many, perhaps, "unglamorous" aircraft that played a significant role in WWII and aren't currently in the sim (aircraft like the C-46, Helldiver, Barracuda come to mind). For that matter there are still a good number of very interesting fighters that saw significant use that are still not in the sim (P-47N, Ki-44, Ki-45 for ex.)

I applaud AAA for sticking to aircraft that will benefit IL2 and the community the most. Rocket planes and Blueprint "What if" planes are not what give the IL2 series legs and longevity. Map builders, skinners, those who build campaigns... they benefit the most from important aircraft that saw action.