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Originally Posted by captcav
Noooooooo cant be done! its against their wishes they say!, all the while we sit here with a gaming platform able to produce so much more than what has been released. Problems is, there is no damn selection in this simulator market anymore, all with Janes gone, the competition is shrinking, which means there is nobody pushing these guys to be up-dating, and coming out with ground breaking sims!
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Why do other sim developers have to be "pushing" us so that we invest money in games which have a very high probability of their costs
never being recouped on their commercial sales? Our royalty statements will do that very loudly all by themselves, captcav, we don't need any help there.
Listen, we're not in this to become millionaires, I can promise you that. We enjoy making these games and we are able to do the gov't/training applications with the underlying engine so that we are able to continue to make these games for you (that's called a win-win situation).
However, those goverment customers would not invest their budgets into our NavalSimEngine if they heard that the source code was released to the community and fans were creating their own controllable platforms. They would organize their teams of programmers, grab our source code and make the platforms themselves... (or at least TRY to)
So please, have a little perspective, think it through a bit and realize that there is probably a reason why we no longer have much competition in Naval Sim space and be thankful that games like DW (which have high potential to be expanded upon) exist for you to
play at all!
