Oleg's Russian Interview Translated

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Windturbin

Just about everyone that has ever been in my house thinks I am bonkers.

So do i, no really, u should check yourselfe in and send that stuff to me. Ill be more than happy helping u to a full and speedy recovery.

No thx needed btw, thats just how warm and fuzzy i am, helping when ever i can

[Windturbin]

So do i, no really, u should check yourselfe in and send that stuff to me. Ill be more than happy helping u to a full and speedy recovery.

No thx needed btw, thats just how warm and fuzzy i am, helping when ever i can

na, I'll just take to the asylum with me, I'll be happy there.

[IceFire]

Sounds very good indeed. Thanks for the translation! Hopefully we'll be seeing some more of Oleg's new masterpiece soon.

[robtek]

@tanner
When i read all info i have the following facts:
The developement of the engine is the most work!
The ernestly work on SoW:BoB startet 2 Years ago!
The completition at this time is at 60%, game-engine & features!

That tells me that the missing 40% of features should take <12 months to develop.
I think we really could soar the skies in 2009 with SoW:BoB

[Chivas]

My guess would be 95% of the game engine complete.
Over 60% of the features complete.
Equals over 80% of the game finished.

Adds up to a possible late 2009 completion baring mulitple super bugs. We should have a better idea this summer if they can complete by the end of this year. SOW is way to complicated for even the developers to know for sure.

[tagTaken2]

Originally Posted by Tanner

I hate to say this but considering the scope of what Maddox Games is trying to accomplish with the engine and the fact that the game is only 60% feature complete, I would not think that we will see this game is less than 2 years.

I think the rate that they're dribbling out information/images bears this out.

Fortunately, RoF should help fill the gap for me.

[ElAurens]

I think you are too pessimistic, both of you.

Neither Oleg, 1C, or whoever will publish the title in the West can afford to wait 2 more years.

We'll see it by Christmas, this year.

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I think you are too pessimistic, both of you.

Neither Oleg, 1C, or whoever will publish the title in the West can afford to wait 2 more years.

We'll see it by Christmas, this year.

In all fairness, you said that last year too.

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

In all fairness, you said that last year too.

I said May/June '09 last October...Guess I'm out of the lottery. :\

Fact is no one knows when, but the pessimists are rife with predictions borne from the heretofor lack of tangible, measurable progress in a sim a large portion of the sim community have been very much looking forward to.

[P_Zangusu]

Despite the joy I feel that we've finally heard something from Oleg I get this funny feeling that I'm not going to like the setting nor the circumstances under which we'll get the "new" add-ons for BoB. Isn't anyone out there who is actually freightened by the idea that companies like CaptainSim or A2A simulations would get involved? Oh sure, they do create great stuff, but their stuff costs also a great deal of money. Whereas we had Il-2 for at most 45 Euro's (top price in the Nehterlands), we wouldn't even get just one part of the CaptainSim product. B757 with all of it's blocks for a "discounted" price of 79.99 Euro's? It's a disgrace!!!

If that's the future of BoB then I'm really worried as many are not prepared to spend thousands of <your currency here> for having a "complete" sim.

I'm also a bit worried about the "complete simulators" statement of Oleg whereas I feel that not all of the developers are quite as caring as Oleg is and obviously will rush products to the market... Having sat in the chair as an add-on developer (lead 3d designer of the DC-2 Uiver add-on) I know what it takes to deliver a great looking model. Three years to be exact. That's the time we've spent for this add-on to get it onto FS9 in order to support the real aircraft in the Aviodrome museum. That's not bound to be the time any developer would spend on an add-on which must be low-price or high content package.

Just my two cents on the matter which seems not to be worrying anyone else.

Regards,
Alexander
Александр