Luthier, many thanks for rescuing CoD !! 3 cheers for luthier

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

what I find surprising is everyone still praises Oleg after he clearly left us and his MG team in dire straights.

the only problem i see with oleg (but it is a big issue) is that he didnt manage the SoW project hands-on directly himself, and that he had many other projects on the go at the same time. some of the people he delegated to (like the gfx engine programmers) needed much closer supervision, and in the old il2 development day oleg was in control of that and in the office overseeing his staff continuously. oleg was obviously given lots of slack from seniour management because of his good track record in the previous il2 series, but they are to blame as well because the constantly slipping timelines (about 5 yrs ?) should have been an indication not all was well in the management of the project itself.

i just hope that if there is again a change in SoW management, that they say on course and intend to release BoM next year, rather then completely change their plans again and require a major rework of what was created in the last 18 months for BoM. this constant reorganization can be very damaging and significantly increases the risk of no project being completed at all because of constantly shifting goals and objectives.

but this is luthiers day, let's not digress

and luthier, if it so happens you have more free time available, emm err, how about refocusing on the korean war era flightsim you were working on before i still have very fond memories of mig alley, both as a early jet flightsim, as well as the dynamic campaign system it used, and many of us here still hope a good modern flightsim of that era will be created