upyr1 Posted November 26, 2005 Posted November 26, 2005 hi, With the recent posts about the future of LO MAC I was wondering, if ED Offered the flying legends into a subscription based service, would you subscribe? I would..personally I would love to see a Flight simulator series that relied on the same basic code allowing it to mature and get really stable as they fixed the bugs tightened it up and hardware improved. For example as they work on "Flying Legends : Tank Killers" they could release it one add on at a time to subscribers and ones they are finished sell a boxed set for about the same cost for the newbies...with the SU-27 SU-33 and F-15 being offered as add ons so the newbies can have all the same AC we do for about the same price..then the cycle could begin again.. I figure this would keep the cost and development time down to a minimum. Falcon 4 was a case of what tossing out old code gets you, it took a longtime to develop and by the time it was out it still wasn't complete. I don't know enough to state there was some way you could evolve Falcon 3 into Falcon 4...but I think the LO MAC code will be pretty impressive after a couple years of growth.
Yellonet Posted November 26, 2005 Posted November 26, 2005 I'm not sure what the meaning of the subscription would be, why not just pay when the addons and games are released? And yes, future games will most likely use old code... i7-2600k@4GHz, 8GB, R9 280X 3GB, SSD, HOTAS WH, Pro Flight Combat Pedals, TIR5
britgliderpilot Posted November 26, 2005 Posted November 26, 2005 It's an interesting idea - couple of problems, though. Upgrading one aircraft at a time causes inevitable problems. Upgrading the A10 and releasing that as a cheap addon might work - but upgrading any of the fighters to AFM/more realistic avionics without upgrading the others causes major problems when it comes to comparative pilot workload and realism. Shoots the whole thing down. You also have the problem that if you release everything as a new product, you spend five times as long actually testing the new additions ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
upyr1 Posted November 26, 2005 Author Posted November 26, 2005 hi, you are right about the fact you would need to upgrade every thing, and I had no intention of sounding like existing AC would be ignored, as Would hope that patches would be written updating them..may be having them included in the add ons, which would have the main point of adding new AC. the main point would be we'd pay Eagle D up front and we'd get regular updates and add ons. It would be just like what we're seeing now, we get a new AC and go from 1.1 to 1.2 with every thing getting upgraded.. on;y we'd pay up front. As for the boxed set idea can you think of any better way to keep the sim in the public eye then releasing the occational "Flying Legends _._" to grab attention? That and tossing in Demos in every thing we can. -Typo It's an interesting idea - couple of problems, though. Upgrading one aircraft at a time causes inevitable problems. Upgrading the A10 and releasing that as a cheap addon might work - but upgrading any of the fighters to AFM/more realistic avionics without upgrading the others causes major problems when it comes to comparative pilot workload and realism. Shoots the whole thing down. You also have the problem that if you release everything as a new product, you spend five times as long actually testing the new additions ;)
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