👉 Pls connect Normandy 2 with Channel map! 🧡

[Ala13_ManOWar]

3 hours ago, YoYo said:

Yesterday I flew in the N'2 area containing the Channel map. Interestingly, in total ... everything is there: textures like in the rest of the N'2 map, trees, buildings, roads, trails and we even have a radar station!  The only thing that N'2 differs from Channel Map is that there are no characteristic buildings (e.g. a castle) and, of course, airports .

I have the impression that Ugra wanted to join this part to N'2 but somehow they didn't get ... permission?

Maybe at least ED would agree to add only take-off and landing runways along with parking places? All in all, the terrain is there, but it is completely useless. It's a pity it's so empty in that regard .

Or .... can someone make a free mod with runways here (if it's possible)?

Nineline made a comment, indeed, which to my understanding meant Ugra kinda made this map update by their own choice and somehow without telling ED, so I guess when ED actually found out this was happening the map was already almost ready and ED hadn't much margin to manoeuvre the thing knowing they had their own map which was probably done in the first place to compensate for the lack of detailed Channel (as well as sort of Tech demonstration, it was a blast of detail when Channel first happened) region on the available maps. So, before there were no maps of the area, now there are two of them. And yeah, the impression I got after that comment was sometimes third parties aren't very communicative about their plans even to ED itself, but now ED shows as the "bad guys" having to tell them not to detail the same area as their already marketed product.

As we know they have plans for the World map and they have to find out a technical solution to somehow join maps (even from different publishers) on top of the generic World map, so it'd make no sense to have several similarly detailed areas on different maps that would clash later on. I guess ED could just "drop" or transform their work into another map, or something like that, but then again ditching all their previous work rendering it useless. Not to mention since we already bought something different, would they be economically able to "gift" again that "transformed" (so a new product) map to every customer who already bought the Channel map? Now there's probably no simple solution to that, but I understand no one wants to throw all their work away, and it's all a matter of communication between third parties and ED, but ED itself is the one looking bad now because of that, or as we say in Spanish, "who needs enemies having that kind of friends" .

Edited May 5, 2023 by Ala13_ManOWar