21.07.2009, 15:39
This game has now far surpassed the "WWII 1946" label - with the Canvass Knights project on one side and all the Korean War stuff on the other the time scope of Il-2 is being stretched ever more. What worked before the time of mods isn't working anymore.
Before modded planes were added you could get away with marking the "fantasy waffe" planes 1946 - everyone knows WWII wnded in 1945, anything beyond that was made up. So there was already a way to segregate "fantasy waffe" from historic aircraft. Now, with the Korean War, we have historic planes that are being labeled 1946, 47, 48, 49... and the old system is broken.
But again, this is not so much about the Luft '46 projects. What to do when the "alternate history" variant shares the same designation with a historic variant but the two are very much different aircraft (example - the "Yak-3K" mod)? Obviously, there has to be some kind of a naming convention put in place to make it possible to distinguish between the two. Or, what should we do about stuff like that bubble top Hurricane? If you mark it "1946" it will be a total anachronism with the rest of the "1946" stuff. If you mark it "1942" (in the alternate history world from which this comes it was a 1942 model) it will be mistaken for a historical variant - maybe not by most people on these boards but certainly by most people who will use it online or otherwise. There are lots of kids who play this game who don't know off the top of their heads each and every variant that ever flew, like some of us do. Some of these kids actually look up to this game and use it almost as a kind of a Bible of WWII combat aircraft, i know my cousin's kid does.
I'm not suggesting this because i wish to exclude non-historic aircraft, on the contrary, i wish to find a way to accommodate them and to give them a place in the game yet still keep the historical simulation aspect of Il-2 preserved. I believe it is important.
Before modded planes were added you could get away with marking the "fantasy waffe" planes 1946 - everyone knows WWII wnded in 1945, anything beyond that was made up. So there was already a way to segregate "fantasy waffe" from historic aircraft. Now, with the Korean War, we have historic planes that are being labeled 1946, 47, 48, 49... and the old system is broken.
But again, this is not so much about the Luft '46 projects. What to do when the "alternate history" variant shares the same designation with a historic variant but the two are very much different aircraft (example - the "Yak-3K" mod)? Obviously, there has to be some kind of a naming convention put in place to make it possible to distinguish between the two. Or, what should we do about stuff like that bubble top Hurricane? If you mark it "1946" it will be a total anachronism with the rest of the "1946" stuff. If you mark it "1942" (in the alternate history world from which this comes it was a 1942 model) it will be mistaken for a historical variant - maybe not by most people on these boards but certainly by most people who will use it online or otherwise. There are lots of kids who play this game who don't know off the top of their heads each and every variant that ever flew, like some of us do. Some of these kids actually look up to this game and use it almost as a kind of a Bible of WWII combat aircraft, i know my cousin's kid does.
I'm not suggesting this because i wish to exclude non-historic aircraft, on the contrary, i wish to find a way to accommodate them and to give them a place in the game yet still keep the historical simulation aspect of Il-2 preserved. I believe it is important.