During times of war the people unite and make sacrifices so that the men on the front lines doing the fighting have the materials they need to win! Gentlemen, I tell you that War has been Declared on WWI Flight Sims. In the past few years, they have been dropping like flies until now only one is left standing that is still in active development.
I tell you that all it will take for the likes of Battlefield 1 to sweep away the last vestiges of true WWI Air Combat simulation is for Good Men to stand idle! This, I cannot do!
Therefore, I declare from this day forward that I am sacrificing one pizza a month ($15) to keep OBD in the fight against the travesty that is bubble gum chewing first person shooters thinly disguised as WWI combat experiences. I expect no tangible rewards for my sacrifice to the War Effort. My reward will be the opportunity to buy more add-ons as they become available. Gentlemen, not everyone can contribute in the same way or in the same amounts to the War Effort. $10, even $5 per month adds up over time. So too does going to other forums and spreading the word about Wings Over Flanders Fields Ultimate Edition. Posting and sharing screenshots and videos in appropriate threads outside of the Official WOFF Forums is another noble undertaking. Let not apathy be the reason Battlefield 1 thrives while true WWI Air Combat simulation suffers. Act Now before Trumpets Fade!
As posted earlier on another thread: "Well whilst we are on our knees financially at the moment - hang in there - as we are actively trying to sort that out and thus to continue working on what to us is a labour of love and passion.
So hopefully... on to the next 10 years of OBD combat flight sim production! WM"
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#4313427 - 11/19/1602:32 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: zifnow]
Realistic WWI flight sims are a very niche market. In fact, they are a small niche market within the already small niche market of flight sims in general. Those "flying games" that are successful these days are mostly arcade style combat such as War Thunder.
OBD is still developing WOFF out of passion and they have more plans for the future but some additional $$$ never hurts. WOFF UE is already the most content rich WWI flight sim ever produced but there are many of us who would like to be certain that whatever other ideas, planes, features, content or improvements that OBD has in mind will be certain to make it to market. We might be a small player base but we are nearly as passionate about WOFF as the developers.
Well Hellshade I just donated yesterday but, after that clarion call to action, I see my country...err...community needs me. How can I refuse?
Was going to match you for two months of pizza but, as bonus points for using the Lord Kitchener poster, I will make it 3 months worth.
Lemme fire up the WOFF machine and head over to PayPal. As WOFF is my only vice I can indulge. And maybe it will bring me some luck in the air today. Weather here is horrible - perfect for WOFF'ing! S! to all that contribute.
#4313436 - 11/19/1603:27 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: DukeIronHand]
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 7,993Robert_Wiggins
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
Well Hellshade I just donated but, after that clarion call to action, I see my country...err...community needs me. How can I refuse?
Was going to match you for two months of pizza but, as bonus points for using the Lord Kitchener poster, I will make it 3 months worth.
Lemme fire up the WOFF machine and head over to PayPal. As WOFF is my only vice I can indulge. And maybe it will bring me some luck in the air today. Weather here is horrible - perfect for WOFF'ing! S! to all that contribute.
Where is "here" with regards to weather?
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#4313439 - 11/19/1603:36 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Why fairly close to you sir. And horrible may be relative. It was beautiful yesterday. Windy and cold now. Besides, I don't need much of an excuse to get some WOFF in.
#4313445 - 11/19/1604:36 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: DukeIronHand]
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 7,993Robert_Wiggins
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
Why fairly close to you sir. And horrible may be relative. It was beautiful yesterday. Windy and cold now. Besides, I don't need much of an excuse to get some WOFF in.
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#4313446 - 11/19/1604:41 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Mine is in the queue as well. At this rate, you best get a brinks truck when you go to collect Pol!!
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#4313467 - 11/19/1606:01 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
S! Good man Robert. Who's next? And yes all you lurkers here are being put on the spot. Every little bit helps. You don't have to be rich to help out. Every dollar adds up.
#4313479 - 11/19/1606:54 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Done and Done. A recurring monthly contribution to help keep the boys in the air... No one will accuse me of shirking on the home front and dallying with our brave airmen's women!!!
Rick
#4313512 - 11/19/1608:56 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Well, maybe a little dallying with the women... The war's been tough on all of us.
That would be a Dilly of a Dally, would it not!
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#4313541 - 11/19/1611:56 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
In the meantime who here has been playing, and enjoying mightily, this sim and has not stepped forward? Think I see a couple of you in the shadows back there. Hey! Stop slacking. I've seen your trouser size. Do you really need another pizza?
#4313676 - 11/20/1602:26 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: DukeIronHand]
I've seen you trouser size. Do you really need another pizza?
I always need another pizza, despite my trouser size. But I give up at least one pizza a month because I need my WOFF UE + future Add-ons fix even more, my good sir.
That aside, the passion and generosity of our community never ceases to impress me. Whenever I come here, I know I am surrounded by true gentlemen dressed in rascals clothing and for that, I am very thankful. I would have it no other way.
Thanks to all who have already contributed to the War Effort (in many ways) and thanks to those who are soon to do so. Donating now, one time or monthly, doesn't just support OBD. It supports this community and ultimately ourselves.
One of the most important keys to Joy in Life is recognizing a rare and wonderful thing while you still have it and then doing what you can to make sure that it doesn't go away, for once it is gone it does not come back.
Sometimes that support means a little extra effort or a little extra creativity. Those who are wise enough to recognize the source of their rare joys and support it will get the most out of them for the longest possible time. Gentlemen, let us continue to be that kind of a community. Thank you.
#4313797 - 11/21/1612:26 AMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 4,879RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
RAF_Louvert
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mmmmmm - pizza
Seriously though, this is a fantastic community. Well done everyone! Looks like I'll have to dip into my savings again.
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#4313830 - 11/21/1602:26 AMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Donation sent thanks for the post and pep talk Hellshade. I not wild about pizza so giving to the fine gentlemen who developed WOFF for us was a great feeling. Thanks for all your hard work OBD!
#4313998 - 11/21/1605:18 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Hmmmmm.....anyone want to donate WOFF UE to a new player to possibly build the community?
Such donations have already happened several times but they generally go to longtime WOFFers who have supported OBD with their own purchases over the past few years. If you are getting into WOFF for the first time, there's no better time than the present with WOFF UE containing all previous WOFF 1,2 & 3 Expansions plus all of the Add-ons, plus new features, planes as well as visual, audio and performance improvements. Considering all that you get, it's well worth the asking price. I recommend saving up for a couple of paychecks to get started.
When I buy the WOFF UE "DVD Disk" I will spend $100 and you keep the change.
I gave $100 a while back as a donation to keep the home fires burning.
Count on me to do this once a year or so ( more often now as it looks like you "worker bees" need to stoke the stove as winter gets close!
With out that disk I am a dead duck stuck with WOFF 2 ( still one heck of a flight sim ).
Origin made- silverstone case,ASUS Max VI Extreme , CPU intel Core i7 4770k, cooling asotex 570LC, NVIDA 3G GTX 780 Ti , Mem 16GB Kingston Hyper X DDR3 ,game drive 120GB INTEL X25 SS, OS drive 1TB, Win 7 home Prem.Logitech G105 key board,BenQ XL2430 Gaming Monitor. All pilots owe me a beer. Retired USAF Rescue/Survival, Special Forces, and MI (after I got old and grey).
#4314189 - 11/22/1610:29 AMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Guys thanks for all the donations thus far - they have helped us a lot - believe me.
I did say we were actively looking to resolve the dilemma and I can say now that we now have an Official Sponsor for development work starting Jan 2017.
We will make more announcements soon and there will be a website update in the next 24 hours.
Ta
WM
OBD Software
#4314310 - 11/22/1604:51 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Winding Man]
I did say we were actively looking to resolve the dilemma and I can say now that we now have an Official Sponsor for development work starting Jan 2017.
We will make more announcements soon and there will be a website update in the next 24 hours.
This is truly outstanding news, Winder. I'm excited to hear the details.
Guys thanks for all the donations thus far - they have helped us a lot - believe me.
I did say we were actively looking to resolve the dilemma and I can say now that we now have an Official Sponsor for development work starting Jan 2017.
We will make more announcements soon and there will be a website update in the next 24 hours.
Ta
WM
WM, you have no idea how excited I am to hear that! What a Christmas present for you folks. I can hardly wait for the details. You devs have been working far too long on a shoe string budget. I was disappointed in the past that our joint efforts to resolve the engine issue didn"t work out but your announcement has made my day too.
Thanks for posting the good news.
Cheers to all of you.
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#4314327 - 11/22/1605:57 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Great news OBD congratulations it is a well deserved development. You have been a premier sim developer with few peers in my book. You have always back your sim with timely upgrades and patches. You have always offered great support, I know this Sponsor is getting a well developed team and I hope we see many great things from OBD.
#4314360 - 11/22/1608:20 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Joined: Aug 2015 Posts: 156maxpeck
Genius at Exploding
Silly me - I was looking on the forum not on the WOFF site
Pitched in for 20 bucks a month
Like I said on another thread last week Flight sims are now a real niche WW1 flight sims a niche within a niche
If we really want this we need to help keep it going - I really do not think there is anyone else out there willing or able to do it (especially not up to the massively high standards the Devs have set already)
Good luck OBD
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#4314371 - 11/22/1609:02 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Can I just ask... the money that is being donated here is going purely to the continuing development of WoFF, and not to their new project. As we don't know what that project is, I would be grateful if someone could confirm this point.
#4314378 - 11/22/1609:14 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Trooper117]
Can I just ask... the money that is being donated here is going purely to the continuing development of WoFF, and not to their new project. As we don't know what that project is, I would be grateful if someone could confirm this point.
I don't know if it's possible to separate the two, Trooper. They need to stay in business in order to keep developing for WOFF and they have said future Add-on packs are in the plans for UE. (I am hoping for a Snoopy vs the Red Baron edition, but it might be tough for them to get the licensing on that.) At any rate, I think the best I can offer as a pure outsider is that the money is going to keep their doors open so they can indeed continue to produce UE content.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
#4314930 - 11/24/1605:28 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Has the "need for $$$ Donations" as great now, after Mark Fairchild has helped the situation.
For a while I wondered if OBD and WOFF was on its last legs or not.
Good to know that all is not just good, but great and we can look forward to a WW2 flight sim. COOL!!!
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#4314933 - 11/24/1605:35 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
This Lurker has enjoyed WOFF for many a moon. Now with WOFF UE installed, I have more reason to answer the call to donate to the developers needs. Done!
OlPaint
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#4315086 - 11/25/1611:04 AMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
I clicked donate to the right of the first post and it seems I donated $100 to SimHQ instead of lemon@overclockit.com.......will it end up w/ the woff team anyway and if not can that be arranged?
Last edited by gaw1; 12/08/1707:42 PM.
#4393902 - 12/08/1709:27 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: gaw1]
I clicked donate to the right of the first post and it seems I donated $100 to simhq instead of lemon@overclockit.com.......will it end up w/ the woff team anyway and if not can that be arranged?
Hi gaw1, That is the correct place to donate - I had the same question on that email address the first time I donated also.
I miss read your first post. As JJJ65 below states and I stated in my original post the donate button is on the overflandersfields home page. If you want to donate to OBD use that link and not the link in this forum. Should say you are donating to lemon@...... .com and not Donate to SimHQ, LLC
Last edited by Polovski; 12/09/1702:22 PM. Reason: Corrected Post.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A. Einstein
Thx Stache....so SimHQ donations and lemon@over...... donations wind up in the same place? That's fine......thought OK, years of SimHQ forum checking for WOFF stuff......maybe I gave worthy folks a small shot in the arm. If my donation serves both purposes....so much the better. Cheers
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#4393989 - 12/09/1707:18 AMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
I think the SimHQ donation is exactly what it reads: donation to SimHQ forum. If you wish to donate OBD, go to their home page at http://www.overflandersfields.com/index.html and use "Donate" button there.
#4394002 - 12/09/1702:21 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
gaw1 that's very generous of you. However on your question... No, donating to SimHQ is exactly that - it goes only to SimHQ - we won't see that. So you need to use the paypal button on OUR web page on www.overflandersfields.com and it goes to lemon@...
(Stache I will edit your message above to remove the email address as spammers scan forums for emails).
Can you contact SimHQ and tell them you sent it to the wrong one please?
I bought another WOFF UE disc even though I already have it. Does that count? lol Actually, I'm going to build a new rig so I can play at 'max' settings so getting a new WOFF disc to go with it.
#4394217 - 12/10/1709:23 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
I sent my donation off. Hope it does some good, I just love this sim and the responsible way it is supported by the developers and Forum Members. Happy Holidays to all. !
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#4394437 - 12/12/1712:05 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Just sent mine in. Thanks for all the work you guys do, OBD.
One of my credit cards was compromised and apparently it messed up my monthly donations of $15.00. They are back on-line again, perhaps providing 1 pizza or 6 pack of beer per month to a starving or thirsty Dev.
Bring us Wings Over the Reich and if possible, bring the advances made in WOTR back to WOFF UE!
Oh yes, and Merry Christmas to everyone - developers, modders and pilots alike.
Well done, sir! I have continued to donate $15 a month to the war effort. Thanks to everyone who helped make WOFF UE what it is today and that continues improving it for tomorrow.
Hey all, I know its been a tough year for lots of folks.
For all those in a position to, I hope you can give the guys a bit of a boost for their excellent work.
If you can, please make a donation by clicking on the button on the WOFF Page. Which is in the right hand column near the bottom of the page. http://www.overflandersfields.com/index.html
Let's keep the dream alive. I was able to donate $200.00 this year.
(Warning: if you donate in the forum link on the right side here, you are donating to SimHQ - Still not a bad thing, but not OBD.)
Last edited by Stache; 12/12/2001:39 AM.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A. Einstein
Good call Stache! I donated $100 last month. Just dropped another $50 in the bucket.
You are right it has absolutely been a rough year so nobody should ever feel any pressure, but if you are fortunate enough to be able to donate and want to help the war effort, that donate button on their website page is the perfect place to make it happen.
#4549532 - 12/23/2004:07 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 4,879RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
Senior Member
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
L'Etoile du Nord
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And a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you and yours Pol, and to all the devs, and to all the rest of you fine lot here. Let's hope 2021 is absolutely nothing like 2020, but rather better in all possible regards, starting with the release of the new and much anticipated WOFF: Name To Be Determined.
Also, well done to all those who’ve made recent contributions to the building fund! While I’ve not made a monetary donation to the war effort in quite some time myself, due to straitened circumstances forcing me into a life of aimless wanderin’ and sim moddin’, I am more than willing to donate detailed historic aerodromes and landmarks for the new edition of WOFF, all free of charges, fees, remunerations, stipends, restrictions, limitations, and/or encumberments. It’s the least I can do. And never let it be said that I didn’t do the least I could do.
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#4549572 - 12/23/2011:29 PMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]
Much thanks to you for the time, & effort bringing the wonderful Airdromes and Landmarks for all of us to enjoy! As well as a huge thank you to Pol and the Dev team for their hard work, time, and dedication in producing such fine product as WOFF & WOTR! Again I wish everyone here all the merriest of the holiday season with their families and nothing but the best in 2021. Cheers all!
#4549598 - 12/24/2010:03 AMRe: The War Effort Needs You! Donate to keep our men fighting on!
[Re: Hellshade]