[zapatista]

folks, there is nothing strange about people getting inpatient and restless, even doubting BoB is still going to be released.

we had multiple indications at various times that oleg was back on track and a release date was getting closer. he indicated so himself in this forum and several others, not giving a release date but stating he would give regular updates again, which to me indicated the project was coming together and close to beta stage (having been in alpha since mid 2006). now everything has again gone silent from olegs team, with only a few screenshots in 5 or 6 months (err all of which were aircraft being worked on by 3e party, not olegs crew themselves), and ivan now indicates it will be "sometime later in 2009" so obviously another major delay has occurred since jan/feb 2008.

the least oleg and Co could do is release the final 4.09 patch, they stated themselves it would only take a few hrs for one of their programmers to finalize it, and it is now very obvious we are in for major further delays with BoB. under the circumstances no excuse is valid to further delay that patch imo.

if oleg is continuing to stay ex-communicado with regular updates as he originally stated he would resume, i vote we get our old moderator back, he at least seemed semi involved here and fed us a few crubs every once in a while, and also extinguished false rumors when they were gaining momentum. most of the current worst-case-scenario speculations are because we simply have no information whatsoever, and the idle mind is the devils playground.

the questions and answers post our last moderator did were also great, oleg answered where he could, and skirted around other issues where confidentiality was still important. currently the oleg questions thread is a total mess with unrelated post and has become a garbled thread of leg-humper posts, side issues, and contains only a few genuine questions..