[Deamon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

You have never tried to breach a minefield under fire, and then get the leading tank taken out in the middle of the passage. That is what emerges you into things. And what the sim can already do.

That would certainly be part of it.

What you want surpasses even ArmA,

He ?

and you want a massive second focus on playing from infantry'S position.

I wouldn't call that exactly massive just a few more improvements.

They have just increased the team and the people need to be payed on a monthly basis.

BTW: How big is the team by now ?

and WWII is more popular than modern war in tank games. Never understood the reason, but that'S how it is.

I would speculate that this has something to do with WWII being lavishly adverticed already in schools while you hear only little about modern warfare which is not surprizing then that the majority preffers WWII. People preffer what they know most about, you choose only from thouse things that you know.

I really stumbled accidentally into the WWI naval warfare subject. I had no interest in it whatsoever and if you would have told me before that i would be developing something awkward as a WWI subsim one day i would have slapped you. It was not untill i read my first book on the subject ( Riders of the Deep ) when i instantly realized the blasting potential of this subject ( provided it's properly implemented and this is why i invest so much time into it ) The spirit and inspiration that eminates from the eyewitness accounts are beyond WWII and beyond modern warfare(and i am saying that as a cold war nut ). I would have never expected that.

That for most of your specialised and detailed demands you probably can wait forever.

I guess, yes.

Do though plan to ever complete in this life, or will it be just in thy next one?

This one.

You want a completely new theme of simulation in equal detail being put into it!

No.

In principle SBP and ArmA married.

Even if my wishlist for SBP would be implemented, the infantry part in SBP would be still faaaaaaaaaar away from ArmA.

I think you simply have too high, too perfectionistr expectations. And beyond a certain altitude at which they fly, you never get down to the ground again.

And i think you exaggerate the magnitude of my wishes, excessively.

The price. I assume you have bought games at times. Currently, new releases cost 40-50 euros for PC. If you have bought one game per year to play it for one year , you would have spend 250 euros. SBP could be had for 80 Euros at the lowest end of the price range. It equals the price of two normal games. Just that you get something that if the matter is of ionterest to you will keep you hooked not for one year, but for many years.

Your assumptions are wrong. I don't buy games since years. I can't even remember when i bought a game the last time, it's so long ago. I also cannot keep up with the hardware upgrade madness anymore and ended up playing old games. I still play operation flashpoint, civilization and that alike. Price is not the only reason why i haven't got into SBP yet, it's also because i still have so much fun with the ole SB That is why waiting isn't that hard for me, i wanted to suck out the last droplet of blood out of it before i would consider to merge to SBP and it was only when i tried to get into scenario making and ren into the said editor limitations when i seriously started to consider to switch to SBP and i don't doubt into the potential of SBP a slightest bit and look forward to it. I am considering it now cause i think i exhausted the potential of SB for me.

Seen that way, SBP is not expoensive, but a smile-.price offer. Even more so compared to the military the military which must spend this money to get some features unlocked (limit on map sizes, instructur console, digital map options).

I had confused dollars with euros and thought it costs 125€. But now i see the light

Not at all. But you sit and wait since 5 years and refuse to play SBP since some specialised details you want are not there.

As i said above it's not that i refuse it but i still had too good of a time with the ole SB which reached the end of its life cycle for me now. Besides that i wanted to spend most of my time with development anyway and that is obviously a lot easier by not having SBP cause i know of course exactly that i would get addicted to it when i would get it.