Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[airmalik]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Actually, yes, if Oleg doesn't include a feature then it's most likely because he doesn't want to waste that much time for programming it due to what he thinks bad cost-benefit-ratio.

Hecke, even more important factor is balance. Even if Oleg's team had all the time in the world, there would be missing details simply because there's a limit to what today's PCs can handle. So in the interest of keeping the game playable on current PCs, certain details wouldn't make it to the game even if Oleg had all the time or resources in the world.

For instance, I recall Oleg mentioning that they had actually implemented grass in IL2 back in 2000 but it never made it into the released game due to performance reasons.

Just because you don't see a certain detail in the game doesn't mean they can't do it or don't want to do it.