Friday 2010-08-27 Dev. update and Discussions

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

By all accounts the game isn't in Beta yet so a video may be some time coming.

I've finally figured out the 'Tree' phenomenon.

We've been working on the assumption that 'Tree' is a person posting on the forum, and trying to make sense of the postings accordingly. This has proved impossible, but if instead one assumes that 'Tree' is a computer-generated pseudo-forum-poster, his idiosyncrasies make sense. His endless predictions about the future release date for SoW:BoB, each different from the last, can only be indicative of a program which is reset on a regular basis, and thus has no knowledge of previous predictions.

Sadly, I suspect that 'Tree' isn't yet in the Beta stage, so accurate predictions may be some time coming.

[Richie]

hehehe good one. Tree reminds me of one of those relatives that we all have that we just have to put up with and be nice to at Christmas dinner. Mind you this place would be a little duller without him.

[Feathered_IV]

Tree is correct. Beta testing has not started yet.

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Tree is correct. Beta testing has not started yet.

Tree may well be correct. Beta testing may well have not started yet. But are you actually in any position to say conclusively one way or another?

[Chivas]

I'm not so sure that SOW will be beta tested like IL-2 was. The original IL-2 beta went very well as the beta was presented to the testers with very few bugs. Most of it was just nitpicking similar to what you see with peoples evaluations of the current update screenshots. They may just do an in-house beta test if the sim is coming together as well as IL-2 did. Or they could just sell the beta much like most of the other flight sims have done these days.

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I've finally figured out the 'Tree' phenomenon.

We've been working on the assumption that 'Tree' is a person posting on the forum, and trying to make sense of the postings accordingly. This has proved impossible, but if instead one assumes that 'Tree' is a computer-generated pseudo-forum-poster, his idiosyncrasies make sense. His endless predictions about the future release date for SoW:BoB, each different from the last, can only be indicative of a program which is reset on a regular basis, and thus has no knowledge of previous predictions.

Sadly, I suspect that 'Tree' isn't yet in the Beta stage, so accurate predictions may be some time coming.

And heres me thinking you had put me on your 'ignore' list!! lol.