Opportunity Fire

[Imp]

The thing that gets me is nobody seems to have any interest at all in taking steel panthers to the next level.
Meaning steel panthers clone games.

Had some discusions about this & a couple of problems.
Doing as a private venture something like X-Com the total information in the game is probably less than that contained in one nations OOB. Just building these & error checking is a huge task & you have not even looked at the game yet. 3 or 4 people would therefore never get the project off the ground.
As for a developer looks great at first glance, we have this product with a known high volume market that needs a revamp. Alls great till they look a bit closer & say actually the games not that good, why because free copies probably vastly outnumber sold copies I am guessing.
If that was the case I would not spend my development money on a game that is okay but not worth paying for. Offering the free version was I think a requirement to get the use of the game code in the first place but long term was a shot in the foot.
Having said that the game still slowly moves forward & despite its creaking age gets a level of support far supperior to most modern games which is frankly amazing.

[Skirmisher]

Originally Posted by Imp

Had some discusions about this & a couple of problems.
Doing as a private venture something like X-Com the total information in the game is probably less than that contained in one nations OOB. Just building these & error checking is a huge task & you have not even looked at the game yet. 3 or 4 people would therefore never get the project off the ground.
As for a developer looks great at first glance, we have this product with a known high volume market that needs a revamp. Alls great till they look a bit closer & say actually the games not that good, why because free copies probably vastly outnumber sold copies I am guessing.
If that was the case I would not spend my development money on a game that is okay but not worth paying for. Offering the free version was I think a requirement to get the use of the game code in the first place but long term was a shot in the foot.
Having said that the game still slowly moves forward & despite its creaking age gets a level of support far supperior to most modern games which is frankly amazing.

Well the game could be made modular (like they were doing with Combat Leader,a failed SP clone)
Say you made the game theatre by theatre,or area by area,even a limited stretch of time. Anything to get the ball rolling.

There's no need to incorporate more than a few nations in the initial release. So say you made a clone game that just dealt with the arab isreali wars of the 1970's,then as time and resources allowed you added in more years,more countries,more equipment,etc.
The whole oob thing is and endless process really. At no point in time can anybody really say,this OOB is done.
So any clone game dealing with to much at once wouldn't be feasable.

I agree SP CaMO goes way beyond the call of duty to keep these products as quality as they possibly can. I still love playing the game,even though its seems dated.
WinSPMBT and WinSPWW2 are classics.