Strategic Retreat wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 6:09pm:

The  DH.2 was a very successful fighter in its time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airco_DH.2

Other examples of RFC aircraft with that configuration were the FE.2b & Vickers Gunbus

Considered and tested, maybe. Even used, like the DH2 (but only as a stop gap solution, because at the time the synchronizer was not available and it was a decision on the line of: "wanna shoot at yer enemy? This is what we have. Ye dun like it? Tough biscuits!"), yet no real...

And I mean REAL design was made that showed itself better than the tractor design, that has instead made history in the field.

Now, I am willing to consider a reluctance to invest money (in a period like the one after the first world war and before the start of the second, of recession not so much different than nowadays, but with the not little difference that THAT recession, back then, actually left people STARVING in the streets) to invest into perfecting a design that may have or may have not had promises, when they had already a proven functional design in the tractor propeller... yet, allow me to remember you that history, as a rule, is not made of "if", and this debate is getting us mired on "ifs", here.

Let us leave the "probably good but never explored as it probably should have deserved" for theorists of parallel worlds and realities and let's continue on our previous tracks, shall we?

By the way... what were we talking about before? I forgot.

Strategic Retreat wrote on Apr 6^th, 2012 at 7:15pm:

I know this is an old post, but I just now read it, since I haven't had anything to do with MS Flight until today (and already uninstalled).
Anyway, you are not telling the truth here. I have had RoF since the day it was released. When it came out it was a full and working flight sim. It needed a couple small patches to fix some unexpected issues and one of those was to correct Vert- on triscreen systems.
About it being a beta, it IS NOT. The UPDATES and ADDITIONS are beta tested each and everyone of them, however that is done behind the scenes and the normal public IS NOT part of that process. Much has been added to the sim since release and that was the plan all along and was spoken of by the devs many times before the first release.

The planes are there for use in the game even if you don't buy them. You will fight with them on your side or as your opponent. You buy them if you think you would like to FLY them. You have a choice. But they are still added to everyones sim when they are ready.
You can play offline, though some of the features are disabled. It has been said that should the servers close, a final update will be released to un-bind the sim to the current copy protection method so no one will lose anything. In other words, if the company was to close or at the end of RoF's life cycle, it will be fixed so it no longer requires connection to work in full.

The development of RoF began around 2003. Release was 2009, I believe it was. The payware planes have helped fund further development and the sim has grown to be quite massive. Something that would have been impossible without payware additions. There has been tons of content added for free over the years since release.

Did you play a game with expansions you had to buy to play? RoF is the same thing, in a way. Only it's expansion plans are added without cost, you decide if YOU want to buy them or not. It is a continuing development game. If you don't want to buy it, that is fine, but you should not spread mis-truth about it simply because you don't agree with it's marketing. It is the best sim out right now. More advanced than anything I know of for the home PC. And I know how dedicated the devs are to this. I was very involved in the project for quite a while. These guys have a passion to create the worlds leading flight sim and that cost money. A few dollars for planes is how they fund it. You think they should work for free????

And as for MS Flight. I have NOTHING against their marketing. I am against the consolitus the game has. Terrible control options being the main thing. It is a cross bread, so PC users suffer because of it. Might work fine for a gamepad player, but lacks too much for a serious simmer with multi-function flight sim equipment. Kinda like Wings of Prey (only a bit worse than it is) and in the car games, Test Drive Unlimited 2. CONSOLITUS is a terrible disease.

Rise of Flight is a WWI flight sim. It isn't suppose to have Merlin powered monoplanes, jets of any type, etc. It isn't in any way limited as a simulator for what it is marketed to simulate, which again is WWI air combat around the front lines of France. Land area is growing, but the era is the same.
It has expaned some since release, but I don't think there will ever be Spitfires in it. That would be for either another sim or some major expansion.

Strategic Retreat wrote on Dec 19^th, 2012 at 3:14pm:

Maybe one day, I don't know. It would be a different title though, of that I feel pretty certain. Personally I would hope their next sim be Koran War era. Both land based and carrier planes. I would love a really good sim with the F-9F Panther, MiG 15, F-86, F-4U, F-51, etc, etc.

I know there was one in the works but was put on hold for Storm of War. I don't know if that project has been taken back up or not. Anyway, it is something I would simply love. But I don't think it would cover the entire world, just the Korean peninsula and surrounding seas, most likely.