Originally Posted By: toonces
At the end of the day, the jets other than the F-16 all share the limitations of sharing the F-16's avionics. Yes, they can have more MFD's, different flight modeling, etc., but the guts of the plane are still the F-16's.

At what point is something considered "a whole new item" vs. "a re-skin"?

Originally Posted By: toonces
In my opinion, what DCS brings to the table that BMS cannot match is a full digital battlefield with combined fixed wing, rotary wing, and ground operations.

How exactly does DCS do that?

Originally Posted By: toonces
The potential is mind-boggling. ED could really corner the market if they could fully realize the capabilities of the software they have. What I mean is that the idea is sound, but the parts lack cohesiveness. And it's not very fun as a "game" but that's another discussion which we've beat to death before.

True! Very big potential, very poor execution.


- Ice