| In the last six months, the demise of
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| | the hefty manual and waved it off. He
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| sims has been pronounced in abundance.
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| | assumed he would need to learn all the
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| Print mags and sim webzines have been
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| | material to play competitive. The
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| telling you sims are being cancelled left
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| | blessing and the curse of a good sim is
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| and right Jane's A-10: Cancelled.
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| | its complexity. You want to command a
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| Wolfpack II: Cancelled. Silent Steel II:
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| | battle fleet or do TMA on a Los Angeles
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| MIA. M1Tank Platoon 3: Cancelled.
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| | class submarine? You need to learn skills
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| Fighting Steel Deluxe: Cancelled. Jane's
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| | and study. And this restricts the
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| Attack Squadron: MIA. Thunder Over
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| | popularity of the sim. Mass market games
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| Europe: MIA. The list goes on.We all know
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| | generally do not carry the steep learning
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| that this is a down cycle for sims and we
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| | curve a sim does. So while we hard core
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| believe there is hope that in a couple of
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| | sim players are delighting in the minutia
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| years, things will turn around and sims
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| | of seven different stations and all their
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| will be hot stuff again. Hey, I remember
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| | controls, casual gamers are passing up
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| in 1973 when the EPA and OPEC throttled
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| | the sim at a 20 to 1 ratio. Sims truly
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| the life out of the muscle car scene. I
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| | are a niche market.Niche market games
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| had a 1970 Cobra Torino that had 450 hp
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| | have limited budgets. This mean a small
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| and ran the quarter in the high 13s. In
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| | number of programmers and artists must
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| less than three years every car out of
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| | concentrate on the basics. Don't expect
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| Detroit was a smog controlled, gas
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| | to see everything you want and imagine in
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| economizing slug. They even started
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| | a sim. Oh yeah, I'm with you--I wish a
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| making them as ugly as they were slow! It
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| | subsim could have full motion crews and
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| was heartbreaking.But over time, things
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| | other fun stuff. But as one producer told
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| change. Now you can get a high
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| | me, "We don't have the money to design
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| performance machine that handles and has
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| | and integrate these features into the
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| luxuries like front/rear AC. My '99
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| | product. I wish we could, too."We should
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| Riviera has a supercharged V-6 that would
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| | be finding out the status of Silent
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| make my old Torino proud.So, keep the
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| | Hunter II soon. Either Mattel Interactive
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| faith. Things will improve, even if no
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| | is going to sign someone to complete it
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| one knows when. Silent Hunter II and
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| | or it will be canned. I went through the
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| Destroyer Command are showing signs of
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| | "we are planning to do this" stage with
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| life. Harpoon 4 is still under
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| | the fabled Jane's Ice Pack add-on for
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| development. There are stirrings from the
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| | 688(I), Crusader Studios' Akula: Red
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| Sonalysts camp.When a new subsim does hit
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| | Hunter, Silent Steel 2, and the
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| the shore, try to remember, the
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| | interoperability between Jane's Fleet
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| developers and game producers are our
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| | Command and 688(I). I'm not passing
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| friends. They make the kind of games we
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| | judgment here, just stating that when the
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| like because they like them too. Why
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| | momentum dies, so does the objective. For
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| would they labor over armor thickness
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| | whatever reasons, the product champions
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| tables, ship model physics, and torpedo
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| | behind those sims were unable to secure
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| trajectories for a niche market? I know a
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| | the financing to start work. To get a
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| few developers and they all love the
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| | better feel for the whole process, read
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| genre.Try to keep your criticism
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| | my friend John Sponauer's analysis of the
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| balanced. Should you blast a sim you had
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| | life and death of a sim, M1 Tank Platoon
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| trouble with or didn't enjoy with all the
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| | 2, from its early development as an
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| invective and animosity you would
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| | upgrade all the way through its last
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| normally reserve for someone who stole
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| | couple of weeks.Despite my previous
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| your car or used your toothbrush? I was
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| | experiences with other sim companies, I
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| told by one producer that high-level
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| | am optimistic that Carl Norman and Rick
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| executives frequently ask him about
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| | Martinez mean what they say and SSI will
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| hard-core negative postings on newsgroups
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| | continue to raise the banner of the
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| and forums. The industry sees us as
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| | Digital Combat Series while the Jane's,
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| demanding, unappreciative, and impossible
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| | NovaLogics, and Microproses around them
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| to satisfy. It's much easier and more
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| | fall like unfortunate tin soldiers. This
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| lucrative to crank out Deer Hunter and
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| | is not to say SH2 is a done deal--that
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| Barbie games and their users rarely flame
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| | moment will come when you hold the box in
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| the game company to a crisp.I work with a
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| | your hand. We look to the next rumored
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| CPA accountant who likes computer games
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| | subsim as our best hope for advanced
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| and is pretty good at them. He can play a
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| | underwater warfare. All we can do is stay
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| mean Age of Empires warrior. I tried to
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| | positive, supportive, and if it's decent,
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| interest him in learning Jane's 688(I)
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| | buy four copies when it comes out.
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| for some multiplay. He took one look at
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