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In many ways Echo38 makes a pretty good argument here and I am pretty much on his side with everything he says.
However ROF still could be classed as a sim, the fuel mixture is there and as well with the engine cooling for the inline boys. So there is an element of engine management. But is it complete engine No! No magnetos/no prime fuel/ and so on
And from what I can gather this type of engine management will follow through to BOS
Which is cool also not a problem.
The simplified flight sim such as ROF and the soon to be BOS will fine for the masses.
A lot of people will jump into there Yak1 or BF109 and look around and it will be amazing, look out side the aircraft will look beautiful, jump back into the cockpit then move that lever, move this wheel making sure that its just right on the mark were it is supposes to be, now hit “E” and we are away FANTASTIC this sim rocks
And from the masses you will get people like me that get right into the whole engine/start up/shutdown/ blow stuff up thing! And start to look around and find something that will fuel my hunger for that type of emersion.
DCS was that tool and my hunger was satisfied. So I see both style of genre being classed sims, Its just one is far more complex as the other.
And I think as DCS grows and expands, you will see the number swell in DCS as people move over to the high fidelity stuff
Just my 2 cents
p.s Can’t wait, “New wingtip vortices, new touchdown smoke” in 1.2.6
O_Smiladon