Some details about the new Сareer Mode

Dear pilots,

We would like to give you some details about our new Career Mode that we have been working on so diligently over the past several months. This has been one of the most complex and challenging features we have every made. Below you will find a tentative list of the features it should include when released. To be honest, this has taken longer than expected, but we also added some more items that we knew the community wanted to see. Again, this list is tentative and some items may not make it due to poor test results or bugs, but this is what we hope to include.

• Covers 700 days of the Great War. More days may be added if we build planes from even earlier in the war.
• Continued promotion through the ranks.
• Changing Weather with Seasonal Textures (Summer, Autumn and Winter).
• New Titles and Awards.
• More than 15 different types of missions.
• New types of gameplay, such as adjusting artillery fire or photo reconnaissance, with new interactive elements and equipment such a wireless radio and/or camera added to your plane. You can also watch real-time changes in the world based on the results of your actions such as corrected artillery fire.
• A higher level of interactivity and randomness during missions, for example, flying close to an enemy's airfield could trigger enemy fighters to intercept you.
• Combines your personal statistics, events and achievements with real history.
• Interactive map of hostilities with information about current operations at the front and the location of various units and squadrons.
• Historically correct squadron’s location and re-locations.
• Historically correct automatic mission completion by A.I. pilots in missions not involving the player using a new technique we developed.
• Historically correct awards and conditions for awards.
• Realistic calendar of European Weather
• Virtual "Newspaper", depicting timely events at the front, new inventions in science and technology, and list of important aces published on a regular basis.
• All virtual A.I. squadron mates have their own names, grow in rank and abilities, go the hospital if needed and receive awards for their actions.
• Ability to meet historic allied or enemy aces in combat situations. If you kill a famous enemy ace he will not re-appear and his kill total will stop in the press.
• Ability to be transferred to another squadron with promotion in rank.
• Realistic attrition of personnel and material in your squadron.
• Repair of damaged aircraft and hospitalization of wounded pilots.
• Ability to use a custom paintjob after 5 kills.
• Opportunity to become a squadron commander and plan missions.
• Planning includes the selection of pilots and aircrafts, which will participate in your flight.
• Editing a route: choice of range, move waypoints, a height indicator, buildings types, speeds and altitudes.
• Many new villages, town and industrial areas added to the map along with windsocks at airfields.

These are the basic elements of the new Career mode we hope to include. Not only are we are trying to create aninteresting Career for you, but also trying to add some interesting information about the squadrons that participated in the Great War. So you will have an opportunity not only to read about the history, but also to participate in it. Arobust system with the ability to model all the activities and sorties of a particular squadron on an everyday basis during WWI was just a dream until now. In essence, when we combine the historical aspect with the new Career mission generator we will create something more, in our mind, than just a game or simulation. To us, this has the potential to become a kind of “interactive encyclopedia” or “interactive atlas” of aerial warfare during the Great War.

So we are now proceeding to the testing stage of its development and we hope to have it ready for release soon. Since this is such a complicated feature we cannot give you a firm release date yet. And we apologize for that, butwe don’t want to make any empty promises. As soon as we can give you a date for release we will.

Also, we invite you to participate in helping us add some historical and fun biographical information to thebackground portion of the new Career mode. Please check out this thread. (http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=315).