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[zapatista]

Originally Posted by furbs

..as you can see by my list, we have a long way to go.

what private personal list do you think is a failsafe measure to judge the progress of a sim you have only had small glimpses at over the last years ? i am not trying to be facetious there, but i have the exact opposite perspective to your personal opinion

iirc it is at the start of this year oleg indicated the sub-components of the sim were largely finished (dynamic campaign engine, scenery, weather, damage models, plane models, AI behavior, flight physics modeling etc..), and he at that point was in the progress of integrating them (a very different way of working to other programmers, largely skipping the alpha stage). have a look back at foobar's website to get an overview of the WiP updates we have had since then, focusing on just weekly shots might make you loose perspective of the amount of work that has already been completed.

oleg also stated that many parts of the sim you (we) wont get to see until right before release time so his competitors need more time to respond to his quantum leap and dont get a leg up on him to quickly. there have also been repeated statements by oleg he has to release this year for financial reasons and is aiming for the BoB anniversary date as a target. even if there are some minor glitches and postponements from that, it still leaves more then 3 months for him to release it in the boom pre xmass sales period. oleg also stated he personally is already working on the next project for after BoB, so his crew can continue working and dont need to be laid off, plus he is relaxed enough to go on hollidays, doesnt sound like a man who is panicking to me.

do we know for SURE it will be released later this yr, nope, but then nothing in life is sure. statistically speaking in the UK nearly 20 people every year die while getting out of bed, another 70 or so will die because they slip down the stairs on their way to get breakfast, etc.. does that mean you personally will succeed in surviving long enough tomorrow morning to eat your cornflakes, let alone make it all the way to work alive ? none of us can predict that for you with 100% certainty, but on the balance of all probabilities you will. and that is about how well we can judge the release of BoB this year, we know the work that has been done, we know roughly the stage it is at, and we know the pressures oleg's team is under to release it, so right now odds are we WILL have it before xmass.