this weeks developments

[Pudfark]

Originally Posted by Redroach

I dont want to break the good mood here, but I, for one, will only chime in when I:
a) got the patch
b) have found it's actually working
c) have seen that it fixes most of the major bugs, most importantly, the orders menues.

Too many awkward and downright ridiculous things happened in the past for me to be overly optimistic.

Agreed.
Luthiers communication has improved slightly and I take that as a positive.
This coming patch? I hope it will be taken as a positive as well.
Beyond that?
Nobody knows for certain...

[Chivas]

I suppose Luthier could speculate weekly what they hope to have done, but he gets crucified when people take his hopes as a promise. Its much better for him to speculate every few weeks when he has a better idea whats going to make the next update.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I suppose Luthier could speculate weekly what they hope to have done, but he gets crucified when people take his hopes as a promise. Its much better for him to speculate every few weeks when he has a better idea whats going to make the next update.

I would agree with this. It's not a big deal for them to tell us what's going on once per week. What is a big deal is the backlash when things don't go as planned.

I think that's why they only come forward when there's something to show and to be honest, it's reasonable. A lot of the disappointment was not due to the product being downright bad, it was because of raised expectations that weren't met. In that sense, going back to the old way of Oleg Maddox (back in early IL2 times his motto was "don't show anything that's not 100% sure to make the list of features) will help manage expectations.

What we got this week is exactly that and i wouldn't confuse the frequency of this week's updates for a sign of regularity. They just had the sounds close to completion so they showed it to us and told us about a few more features in the previous update, then the date slipped but they had more finalized features to show (the terrain colours and new coastlines) so they released a few screenshots of that too.

I don't mind this, because i can't really expect to see stuff that isn't ready yet. Updates just for the sake of updates are useless, but when they have something complete to show then by all means an update is welcome.

[furbs]

I think a monthly progress report would be fine when the SIM is mostly in a working state(maybe after this patch?)

[furbs]

But...it would help loads if Luthier would stay around for a bit and answer some of the more pressing questions like Oleg used to do.

For example FSAA(my pet problem) there has been question after question about this, thread after thread but Luthier still refuses to acknowledge or answer anything to do with it, and that just winds people up.