posted 08-15- 10:32 AM               

The crew is a group of SDOE members that have set out to make on line play easier to tkae part in, and to reduce the current confusion created by competing standards.

It was suggested that someone take control of this issue, and rather than one person being the dictator, we have formed a group to accomplish this.

Our interest is in making SDOE grow as an on-line sim and to bring in new users.

This will encourage the development of future Open Plane sims.

With the current cost of on-line play, we should be able to promote a healthy interest in SDOE in the flight sim community once the problems we've been having are straightened out.

Keep in mid every popular on-line sim has a standard set by the manufacturer's latest release. Because development is not centralized for SDOE, the only alternative we have is to create a group that decides what will be adopted in the standard. We are all avid SDOE fans and only have the best interest of the SDOE community in mind.

posted 08-15- 10:56 AM               

but

Is it feasable to have a 2 tier online standard?

A basic, minimal download beginners level ( so you basically just play a very limited number of new add ons, and an 'advanced' with all the nations stuff, planepacks etc.

This way, someone wanting to try it out, without the experience to handle all the downloads and installs, could play a pretty much 'out of the box' setup.

If the 'advanced' standard doesn't overwrite any of this, then anyone could play missions etc. aimed at 'basic' sdoe, and those wanting to 'upgrade' could download some additional parfiles and have all the extra bits.

If the new patch 'openplane' option allows things to be switched in and out, this might make things easier too.

Just a thought.

One of the main gripes aimed at SDOE is the number of downloads needed to get up to 'standard' and one of the main responses was ' we like all the extras' so this approach should offer something for both points of view.