Brendan,

We're not trying to re-sell it to existing customers. It is aimed at new folks. But how can I do that without at least alerting the existing customers?

The internet connection requirement is something that we cannot take away completely or we would have. We have a small dedicated team that keeps plugging away, but we still have some things to add. If enough people purchase ROF:ICE we can go back and try to address some fundemental issues that bug some folks.

Jason

That's exciting news about a new career system! Anything you can say about it, or is too soon?

The lack of a good career system is in large part why I've not yet bought the game. If/when the career system is improved, I'll likely buy it.

Otherwise, keep up the good work!

No I can't say anything else right now about the new career system being worked on. Our team is as lean and mean as we can make it right now, so some work is stacked up and we're working through it. But from what I've seen the plan is ambitious, but have no idea what will make the final cut.

And Luke, you live like 10 minutes from 777 Studios HQ. I'm going to #%&*$# bring you a copy and make you fly it in front of me so you understand what you are missing. Plus you have never played the current career system so how can you say it sucks in the first place?

Jason

Well this really isn't new news. The ROF team has stated as such several times on the ROF forum, but hey glad I could help. :-)

Jason

Well, they have been inscruitable on that, other than to firmly state that they'll painstakingly place windsocks at every aerodrome (a task I don't envy)....which is even harder than one thinks, since they will then have to make an algorythm to not place it at every aerodrome beyond a given radius of the mission generated in order to ease system requirements!

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There's a grain of truth in the first and an error in the last.

In many ways 1.012 is where I expected RoF to be at release, not eight months later. That's what prodded the re-look article - it's earned a spot in Prime Time with the improvements and inclusion of features one expects in a full flight simulation.

Where the quote falls apart is in the "sell a more complete version" portion of the line.

All of the content in the ICE edition is in the version someone who pre-ordered the sim before release has right now. It's the same version of the sim. The only difference is the inclusion of more flyable aircraft as a bundle - and if one could get a ten dollar off coupon come out cheaper buying ICE if they hadn't purchased the included ones (and darned near break even if one went for the pre-order bonus).

Want the windsock, QMB, updated skins, persistant servers, updated multiplayer GUI, programmable stick profiles that can be changed on the fly, etc., that come with the ICE package version of the sim? Fire up the copy you already own and let it update. Won't cost you anything but your usual ISP charge and some space on the hard drive.

10 minutes? It takes me just 10 minutes to reach the 91 Freeway.

As for the career system, I only base my opinion off what others (such as Dart) have written so far. Yeah, in the end, it's probably just a lame excuse on my my part. I can likely see me owning the game at no later than the end of summer.

BTW, I'm taking my MBA classes now at the University of Redlands.

If you are going to the U of R then that's 30 seconds from my house.

Jason

Riverside campus.

I'd drive to meet him half way for a free copy if I were that close!