Squad multiple licences

[tom1502]

Hi,

I was thinking it would be good to have a means for a squad to come together, pay a bit more, but get a number of multiple activations at once for aircraft such as the L-39 or other multi-crew aircraft.

 

This would mean that people would have access to a two seater with multi-crew for instruction purposes for new joiners. It would also mean that helicopters could be crewed even if not everyone had the module - allowing for gunners etc.

 

I'm guessing that it might be hard to police but if there was a form of registration and only, say, 10 users could be signed up to any one module at a time before another licence had to be purchased then it would mean that squads could club together on certain aircraft.

 

It could be added to module manager that you registered with a squad on the ED website when you set up your user account. In this way the person managing the Squads account on the site could add or remove users from each module.

 

So to sum up I'm proposing:

• Registered Squad(rons) on the DCS Website be allowed to purchase a licence for certain aircraft with multi-crew capability.
  
• The number of users is limited and managed through the DCS Website module manager by a responsible account who can add or remove users as required. If more players wish to use the module than there are spaces either users are removed or an additional licence is purchased.
  
• This would give Squads access to two-seat trainer aircraft allowing for proper teaching of techniques for DCS without a big outlay by a new member for a trainer.
  
• This could also be used to multi-crew aircraft such as helicopters with their gun positions.
  

I'd be interested to hear thoughts on this, would be great if something was possible,

 

Tom

[tom1502]

No interest or comments? :(

[feefifofum]

Hey Tom,

I don't really see what ED gets out of your proposal. Sounds like a lot of work setting up infrastructure on their part, and the endgame is to give a bunch of users free access to a module they'd otherwise be paying for?

 

This is a nice feature for the user, but it's a total screw-job for the publisher and as such I doubt you'll see anything like this come to pass.

 

It's a shame more people don't use the trainers for training, but in the end it's not up to ED to offer a free product just so it gets used to its full potential by a bunch of cheapskates, especially considering how much content they already give away. ;)

[Pikey]

An issue I foresee is that you register to a Group and not an individual which is a different licensing system and would mean wither a new legal license which effectively is a corporate type and not well priced, or you break the current "non transferable" clause. Licenses still need to be registered to individuals and changing that will cause issues that I cannot see a benefit for ED to overcome, but then I'm not a licensing expert either and they may be able to change a licensing type more easily than I imagine.

 

Addition... corp licensing would need a partnership status to the license controller, I'm not sure anyone of the current virtual squadrons is big enough to a) have the trust as a third party licensee, B) the infastructure to manage license transferal in a way ED can police and C) the income to absorb multiple license agreements. Perhaps if there was a really big growth in online uptake down the roiad, we might see it, but its just like asking for transferable licenses in its current state.

Edited December 25, 2016 by Pikey
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[tom1502]

Hey Tom,

I don't really see what ED gets out of your proposal. Sounds like a lot of work setting up infrastructure on their part, and the endgame is to give a bunch of users free access to a module they'd otherwise be paying for?

 

This is a nice feature for the user, but it's a total screw-job for the publisher and as such I doubt you'll see anything like this come to pass.

 

It's a shame more people don't use the trainers for training, but in the end it's not up to ED to offer a free product just so it gets used to its full potential by a bunch of cheapskates, especially considering how much content they already give away. ;)

 

 

 

I'd propose that it would cost a lot more than a single license. But not as much as buying 10 copies. Seeing as there are regular sales there is a large markup, I wouldn't propose that this was as much as gets knocked off in sales, maybe 20%, but something to reflect a bulk buy.

 

 

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