I will keep on stating this until nausea: we need a better interaction with the development team.

The whole spirit of this forum should have been of help and support, keeping things on topic (yes, boring topics to many maybe, but there are other forum for the OT rubbish), and trying to help with the development and change, because let's not forget that we've been sold an unfinished beta.

Now I have nothing against it, but it was one of the most unprofessional, appalling things I've ever seen, but having faith in Maddox Games and in view of the admin changes, I was hoping for a more effective and interactive reality, a reality where developers would come to the forum and ask, tell, explain, just like it happened with the development of the RoF beta, to which I merrily took part and gave my contribution regarding aeroplane behaviour.

The level of detail that we have today needs the input of multiple people, we can't just lock a bunch of code monkeys in a room and tell them to work at insane rates to shell out a sim.

How did we come to this stage? So many years of development and not a roadmap, not a release note, nothing official!! It's a sign of serious mishandling of a potentially successful software house.

I remember the times when Oleg had his typical smirk when asked "could this product take place of bigger things like Flight Simulator?", because I'm sure that was the long term project. It all vanished for some reason and there we are, with a rough diamond that needs still a lot of skillful craftmanship to be finished..

I'll be here waiting (like we've done for the last 6 years), but really, what a disappointment, so many years of experience and having learnt nothing from it in terms of development.