Originally Posted by zapatista

interesting indeed, but i think there is a more sinister side to all this ! i was speculating on exactly that in the last few years, gleamed from various crumbs dropped by oleg and Co over the years.

i think this ties in with the delays experienced by oleg some years ago, when he had to fire a number of programmers/designers for breaches of confidentiality. and around the same time there were attempts to break into olegs private home pc's (and work ?) to try and get the source code. a group of oleg employees left under a cloud at that time (2007 ?) and another major delay was forced onto the BoB project.

speculation was raised in several of the main il2 forums, that RoF rose way to quick from nothing to suddenly have a basic game up and running (even if very flawed at release time)

the only good news in all of this is that, according to oleg at the time, that none of them were actually working on the game engine or source code itself, or had access to the greater vision and plans for BoB, and they had minimal access to it and mainly worked as object (or landscape ?) designers iirc. from what he stated over the years, oleg designed the il2 series of games in a modular process, and one programmer working on one part (eg objects) would not have had access to the source code of the game itself, a good safety measure in the end. only in the last phase of the game creation were the modular parts linked together into a alpha state.