For Luthier

[Tiger27]

Quote from Luthier:
"I just want to say that this is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory yet.

1. The game engine is built from scratch. This... I don't even... I mean... Are you guys insane? Why the HELL would we hide the fact that we're using an old engine if we were? It wouldn't cost us any lost sales, that's for sure.

Most conspiracy theories fall apart very quickly because they're pointless, and because of Occam's razor. I have no idea what else to say about this, or how to actually prove that the game is new from scratch, except to release the source code.

2. We are using multiple cores. Details have been published previously. First core is used consistently, other cores have stuff delegated to them when needed. Performance monitoring will give you spikes depending on what's going on in the game.

3. The game is using 2.6 Gigs of RAM because that's how much stuff it needs to keep in the memory? What? Why are we even discussing this?
If you really like, we can easily dump another couple of gigs of stuff into memory and keep it there while you play. Would that make Cliffs of Dover a better flight sim?

In short, why is this even a topic? Why is there a certain segment of the community who is hell-bent on finding something that we lied to you about? This is becoming extremely tiresome, I have to say.

Please just judge the game on its merits as a flight sim, and not on the amount of RAM it takes up. "

This is what I have wondered, Tree planted the seed and of course his crusaders the likes of Werner etc took up the chant, but what they were hoping to achieve I have no idea.

Personally I believe a few of the nay sayers should apologise, it's one thing looking for bugs etc and another to display total rudeness (of course under the anonymity of the internet) and make up unfounded accusations regarding many things to do with this sim, I still have a laugh at how excited they were when it looked as if all the negativity was proved correct and of course within days many of the issues were resolved by people that systematically tested the game and found fixes, not by yelling "I told you so" and looking for every negative.
I just hope that the glass half full brigade don't think there ranting is why this sim has already improved, this has been achieved without all the conspiracy theories, and by the normal means of bug testing/fixing.

So crusaders of the glass half full, it's time to remove the tinfoil hats and start to be constructive in your comments, this is the best way for this game to deliver on all it's promise.