If CoD doesn't use the full potential of today's hardware..

[AndyJWest]

They apparently only have 1 programmer though...

You have a source for this? I seem to recall Luthier (or perhaps Oleg) saying that they only had one programmer working on a particular aspect of the sim, but that isn't the same thing at all. Yes, it is a small team, but throwing extra man(person?)power at a problem is often not the best way to produce efficient code. Anyway, regardless of who is doing what, either the core of the sim is right now, or it never will be - and from what I've seen, it doesn't look far off, in spite of the problems.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

You have a source for this? I seem to recall Luthier (or perhaps Oleg) saying that they only had one programmer working on a particular aspect of the sim, but that isn't the same thing at all. Yes, it is a small team, but throwing extra man(person?)power at a problem is often not the best way to produce efficient code. Anyway, regardless of who is doing what, either the core of the sim is right now, or it never will be - and from what I've seen, it doesn't look far off, in spite of the problems.

I made a mistake here, they do have more than 1 programmer so my apologise for posting that info as it was not true. I misrememberd a post by Luthier which said: "3. We continue to optimize the game. Our chief programmer - the optimizer is sick the third day, but it does have a concrete plan of work, which again is in a fairly short period of time will improve the framerate. Wonders of course we do not promise, but the flight over the landscape will be dramatically different than the flights have to water."

I normally would ammend my original post by adding this but as to not cause confusion (since you already quoted me) I removed the comment to prevent further confusion.

[AndyJWest]

No problem, Heliocon - with all the information (and misinformation) we've been getting, it is easy to get confused. The 1C:Maddox development team is small, and this does cause problems, I'm sure - but so do large teams. This isn't just confined to software production of course - basically, once you get beyond the point where everyone can see what everyone else is up to, you have to employ more and more effort on coordination, and less and less on creativity. I suspect a bigger development team would have worked quicker, but come out with something with less potential for long-term expansion. Time will tell though...

[adonys]

Yes, they didn't had only one programmer, they actually had two of them. Have a look at the credits in the Extra section of the IL2 CoD's game menu.