[kendo65]

I'll sketch out what I think the situation might be and why I made the suggestion in the first post.

I think that the devs may have felt that the graphics patch is 'almost there' for maybe the last 2+ months. There was talk about it before Christmas. There was a statement about a problem with decals more recently that gave the impression that once that was fixed then it would be ready.

I think it is possible that they have spent nearly every week of the last 2 months thinking that completion was just around the corner. But new unforeseen problems kept being found. It ends up in a long delay, they get it in the neck again, the waiting public are unhappy, and all the way along at each step the devs are convinced that they almost have it cracked and just a few more days will sort it.

In a situation like that you can get a kind of fixation on the way that you want things to happen and lose sight of other alternatives.

Maybe it is time now to conclude that there is a danger that it may take another x months to sort out the graphics, and if so that it would be a good idea to change tack and release some other things that are complete earlier they were originally scheduled?

This is all speculation and I don't want to come across as appearing to say that I know better than the devs what their strategy should be. There are a couple of hundred reasons why it might not be possible to do it like this.