This place is dated | Forums

[huggy87]

Nothing against you guys. I love you guys.

What I mean is that the architecture, format, appearance and everything else about this forum is so much worse than the other half dozen other places I visit. The search page sucks, the forum is slow, options are limited, etc. etc. I know, I'm ****ing. This was the first forum I visited regularly, and now, 7 years later, it is just so far behind the others.

Any chance of an upgrade? Are all the ubi forums this bad?

[GoToAway]

Originally posted by huggy87:
Any chance of an upgrade?

Probably not. Good forum software costs money. Ubi doesn't seem to care about this side of the business (aside from "fraggirls" )

But speaking as someone that has done this since 1994, this is a damn sight better than we had back then.
Can you imagine if this was a threaded BBS? Ugh.

[AndyJWest]

Um, I think you are confusing the content with the container, Huggy.

What use is a brilliant search engine if everything it finds is 'c**p'?

Anyway, IL-2 is dated, both in terms of the period it models, and in reality. So for that matter are some of the forum members, possibly including myself.

Each of the various IL-2 forums has it's own character, but all of them have their uses (though there's one I wouldn't recommend to minors ). In its way, the Ubi forum works, so don't 'fix' it.

Having said that, the search engine couldn't find its own rear end in a phonebox...

[Blood_Splat]

Soon there'll be a mass exodus from this forum once SOW comes out.

[GoToAway]

Originally posted by Blood_Splat:
Soon there'll be a mass exodus from this forum once SOW comes out.

If the admins have any brains at all, they'll just migrate this into "SoW General" or somesuch. This has established traffic. I doubt Ubi would just discard it.

[Badsight-]

Originally posted by AndyJWest:
Anyway, IL-2 is dated, both in terms of the period it models, and in reality...

says you . the best combat games are ww2 . modern sucks

[AndyJWest]

Originally posted by Badsight-:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by AndyJWest:
Anyway, IL-2 is dated, both in terms of the period it models, and in reality...

says you . the best combat games are ww2 . modern sucks </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Um, partial quote. I'm 'dated' myself, as I pointed out. Anyway, there are no 'modern' air combat sims: there hasn't been any significant air combat for decades, as far as I'm aware, if you exclude lobbing missiles BVR. THe 'modern' sims are fiction.

Originally posted by GoToAway:
If the admins have any brains at all, they'll just migrate this into "SoW General" or somesuch. This has established traffic. I doubt Ubi would just discard it.

Ubisoft are unlikely to be publishing SoW:BoB. Why should they support it?

[GoToAway]

Originally posted by AndyJWest:
Ubisoft are unlikely to be publishing SoW:BoB. Why should they support it?

Really? Did I miss something? I mean, I haven't been paying that close attention since Oleg hasn't been releasing much info in the last couple of years, but I sort of assumed that he already had a publishing deal secured.

Ubi would make sense for that role. If Ubi's not publishing... well, I have some worries. Ubi's basically the only big publisher willing to take a chance on sims. If Oleg's forced to self publish... I'll have nightmares of Eagle Dynamics.

[Low_Flyer_MkIX]

Oleg has indeed left the building. He was last seen here years ago - I believe one of his last posts was in praise of the Westland Whirlwind. But I digress. I note with interest he seems to have learned from his experiences here and has set himself up on another forum with a buffer zone between himself and potential whining asshats who played no small part in driving him away from here and seeing the demise of the 'Oleg's Ready Room' forum.

[GoToAway]

Originally posted by Low_Flyer_MkIX:
Oleg has indeed left the building. He was last seen here years ago - I believe one of his last posts was in praise of the Westland Whirlwind. But I digress. I note with interest he seems to have learned from his experiences here and has set himself up on another forum with a buffer zone between himself and potential whining asshats who played no small part in driving him away from here and seeing the demise of the 'Oleg's Ready Room' forum.

I know about the "yellow forum" and I don't blame him for his migration.

But is it confirmed that SoW won't be published by Ubi?