Jason, please no more "action point" "Campaigns"!

[89-]

Dear Jason,

 

Just wanted to say that I love the game dearly, and bought BOM purely to support your new direction. But, please, no more "fly to action point" Campaigns! I've just spent about an hour going through some skin unlocks for Lagg3 and ..yeah, the Campaign is just the worst Campaign that I have ever tried in a flight sim (no exaggeration!).

 

Constructive suggestion would be to transfer Viks to some other duties, away from SP design. Vanderstock, FlatSpinMan etc think and dream about good scenarios, but Viks was a legend in competition dogfights, so it is understandable that SP is not something that he is TRULY passionate about. Just compare Viks static campaign in ROF (like Hat in the Ring or Du doch Nicht!) to Vander's "Saint Mihiel" also for ROF so that we are comparing apples with apples... The difference in attention to detail and general design are all too clear. Whatever the campaign - static or dynamic, Viks just isn't the man for the job.

 

Online side of things there is nobody better qualified than Viks to guide the development, but for SP you need Vander or somebody similar. 

[Jade_Monkey]

Wow so constructive.

[Feathered_IV]

Changing the "Action Point" label to Target Area would not be difficult. It's just a matter of changing a line in a couple of the config files in one of the gtp's.

[89-]

Changing the "Action Point" label to Target Area would not be difficult. It's just a matter of changing a line in a couple of the config files in one of the gtp's.

Haha, excellent idea. Like the old fable about people not having milk for the pancakes and some wise men suggested they changed the name of "water" to "milk" - all of a sudden there became plenty of milk and the feast went ahead... How about renaming a Lada into a Mercedes - just a matter of changing some lines in the factory files 

 

My point is that you cant just tell Lada engineers to make a Mercedes, you can't just tell a person who's produced ROF default static campaigns and ROF dynamic career to make something drastically better(ROF dynamic Career gameplay is also lacking - empty own airfields, empty enemy airfields, every mission goes like every other mission ad nauseum. What makes ROF career is the really good pre and post mission interface with newspapers etc) . 

 

And sorry if it sounds like a personal attack on the legendary -FB-Viks, its "just business, nothing personal". Plus he is also involved in historical research on all the planes, so he has plenty to do anyway and I do not doubt the value he brings to IL2-Strurmovik - well, apart from the SP. 

Edited August 22, 2016 by 89-