When it gets past 2020...

[Skirmisher]

Media should institute a new rule,nothing involving anybody being killed, can be headline news.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

The weapons point might be mute already one of the refs believes this weapon can be online by 2016 if testing continues at it's current rate. Leave it to the Navy to lead the way!?! Anyway the last two refs have the water and air test videos in them.
http://www.naval-technology.com/news/news58019.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-14/u...ships?_s=PM:US
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011...8221302630063/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ser-downs-uavs

To the rest, for a lot of the countries equipment would be greatly reduced as most will be outdated by 2020 anyway and the game is carrying the burden of equipment going back to 1946 as pointed out. For the U.S. I can think of only one piece of equipment that was operational in the 50+ year category that would make the transition past 2020, the B-52H slated to remain in service until 2035. If a future game is to be developed, I would think it to go in ten or fifteen year blocks, this would make it easier to manage the OOB's, reduce the number of R&D equipment that might slip in which some of us are still trying to clean up now and at a basic level I my part, I would think free up some memory or other space to allow compatibility with newer operating systems while maintaining playability with older ones. I'm staying with XP until support runs out in 2015 though rumors are slowly floating to the surface that MS might go a little beyond that. I'm just hoping Don and Andy and a couple of others can just keep the pace going until 2019 for for equipment and EVERYONE leave them alone as needed to have a year just to fully debug the game before the lights go out. I wouldn't expect them to carry on but I wonder who can and will want to and maintain the same set of standards? I've been pressing that point for a couple of years now especially in my patch posts. So for now, yes I'd like to see the game go beyond 2020, however let's focus on what can be done to keep this current game realistically relevant, support the main players who keep it going for all of us, and remember they'll have devoted more then twenty years to this endeavour before it's over and once in a while thank them for their hard work and remember they have families and the issues of life to deal with everyday just like the rest of us. For 2020 - 2030 new team needs to think about who they will be. And now I relinquish the keyboard to CINCLANTHOME and if you celebrate it, I hope you enjoyed your Easter.

Regards,
Pat

[Randy]

The game will crash and will no longer be playable! Sorry guys, but the party is over.

[void1984]

Originally Posted by Randy

The game will crash and will no longer be playable! Sorry guys, but the party is over.

There would alway be emulators, wine and virtual machine.
The same solutions as today for good games with outdated code.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by void1984

There would alway be emulators, wine and virtual machine.
The same solutions as today for good games with outdated code.

I don't think he was actually talking about code age, more like, trying to play a 2021 battle.

[Roman]

Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP

I don't think he was actually talking about code age, more like, trying to play a 2021 battle.

If so, he can play Starcraft is futuristic. Or Batterfield 2142.

[Imp]

Greif little in all likely hood will change the fanbase will most likely slowly shrink & the game will continue in its final form. Chances of it getting further game engine updates will be very slim need a major programing fan or 2 to step in. Emulators will run it on future operating sytstems & if they cant there is a reasonably good chance somebody will hot fix the game so it works. People will start dabling more with OOBs n come up with there version, so some nations will die out past 2020 as nobody does a new OOB for it. Shrapnel will still keep this site active for a while they dont just shut the door n say tough & a few people might set up a site of there own. Look at SPWAW & its still going, infact it probably gets better support now than Matrix ever gave it though that wont be the case with this game.
What does all this mean
You will have to get more hands on getting it to run might take a bit of dedication, playing a battle after 2020 will require you to swap OOBs (dead easy) & send a copy to your opponent for PBEMs. Need to swap cause without recoding playing a battle in 2021 means you will have to use a diffrent date to simulate it say 1951 -60 represent 2021-30 You might be more inclined to build your own OOBs for your favorite countries or modify somebodys take on it. Finland certainly wont stop in 2020 its more a case of which one to choose based on past record
If you like to play all your battles in the current year then you had best learn the OOB editor but if you play as most do battles from diffrent time periods you will continue fighting the battles you always have. And you might just decide to download somebodys OOB & take it for a spin if fancy playing something based in the current year. After all 1 or 2 people still play WinSPWW2 & the dates there ended 60 odd years ago.
1 fan with programing skills capable of getting it running & a good search engine to find it is all it will take to keep this game alive on the majority of systems so your in the lap of the gods that your system isnt the one it wont work on & that this guy exists somewhere out there.
If Don n Andy are kind enough to release the CD version to the public domain once they feel the profits have dried up theres a good chance these games will outlive them. People arent going to stop downloading this "old school" game n trying it just because its 2020 something the same type of person will try it & like it as now.

[gila]

Good old fashioned highly trained boots on the ground took UBL completely by surprise,no high tech drones or smart bombs needed,yes OT but what the hell,in the U.S we are very proud of the special ops now and the money spent on training them alot less than billions or trillions spent on pie in the sky Wonder Weapons.