"A: Quality will not be affected. Timeline – we shall see. Right now we’re about 60% there, probably even more. [Luthier’s note: not 60% in terms of time, but 60% in terms of features.]"

That was what said in the interview. You read into this that the 60% still regards time? How?

The remaining 40% of features could be the easy part and will not take as long time to do..

Well, I'm not really at ease but I think it's only natural. Having spent countless years in the MSFS community and 5 or so years in the Il-2 world I'm just voicing the concern that BoB add-on system has all the right parameters to venture onto the road called "making money like MSFS". Ofcourse I've read about the OM approved servers and stuff, but potentially we could end-up with "pure BoB" with fewer content we have right now for Il-2 for more or less the same price or going into the extreme where Oleg just approves add-ons from 3rd party with sky high prices just to make one extra buck...

Again, nothing wrong with making money and OM deserves that for all the hard work, but! But everything is wrong with making money like the developers around the MSFS franchise do. I'll give you an example: would you buy an add-on of a fully functional B-29 for Il-2 (if it would exist) for merely 80 dollars? Bright people would answer "no" just for the sake of it, but if you look deep down into your heart, lots of people would. The other lot which wouldn't buy this add-on could probably not fly on the OM pre-approved servers as the add-on is in the "official" OM line. How's that for a prospect? OM is making his well-deserved money and the users are stuck somewhere in the middle because it's pre-approved, but not really wanted by everyone other than the B-29 fanatics...

Well, call me 'Mr Picky' but i would assume that generating the features takes 'time', thus if the features are 60% done and they have taken 2 years, one would assume that the remaining 'features' would bear some relation timewise to the ones already completed. That's how.

That's not really just a possibility, but rather a likelihood. There's no way BoB can have anywhere close to IL2 (and it's already been said by Oleg, Luthier and others) that the initial release will only have 6 (I think that's correct) flyables and one main map. Comparatively, that's less than 1/10th of the content we already have in the IL2 series.

Expecting anything more than that is simply wishful thinking. As long as the sim engine, FM's, DM's and effects are all they've been reported to be, I'll be quite satisfied. And will continue to fly IL2 for the stuff I can't get there.

I have to agree that it is amusing to see some people saying that if 2 years work = 60% completed, 40% to be completed = <1year work! I hear logic like this concerning projects at work everyday! This is definately looking like a 2010 release.

Maybe this current version started work 2 years ago but we all know the initial version started before that.

I'm not sure how people think that 60% of the features completed equals 60% of the total work done on this sim. That would be true if only 60% of all the other aspects of the sim were completed. ie game engine etc

No one ever said that BOB would have more planes and objects that IL-2. They said that the SOW series could end up with more aircraft, objects, and theaters than the IL-2 series. I get a kick out of people who say they won't buy SOW until their favortie a/c or theater arrives. What they don't understand is it may never arrive if BOB doesn't sell well.

The developer stated that he hoped to have it done this year, so he can obviously see a scenarion where this can happen. Ofcourse he knows and we know that sh*t happens and it could be delayed indefinately. He has absolutely no reason to string us along as we will always be here flying Il-2 or ROF or whatever.

Speculating that the sim will definitely be out this year or it can't possibly happen for another two years is all hogwash based on twisted facts.

There are too many people who have lost the ability to dream :-D

Good points raised there Chivas, but this same developer once said that he expected a release in Q4 2007, according to recent interviews the same developer is now saying work didn't start until 2007. No offence to Oleg but most of the hogwash is coming from his direction. Not that it really matters in the grand scale of things but there are some on here who have a selective memory. Oleg is God no question but he's not great with time scales and he certainly didn't build the world in 7 days, but try telling that to his followers.

Yes, I haven't seen mine for at least... two weeks.

That's coz im using it........ "be sure"