Oooo secret information...well not really.
I was digging around and found them at John MacKay's personal web site in his portfolio (Note: There is no timeframe on these pictures so they may not be examples of progress, just different):
http://home.att.net/%7Ejmackay99/ Check out his logbook site about his father. It's interesting to see the older terrain and plane models in action. I look forward to Mr. MacKay finishing his work when KOE is up and running.
The comment about the half-empty glass was just a polite way to respond to a rather aggressive and unsubstantiated stance by one of the other posters. Speculation is fine, but that last comment bothered me. The pics were just a fun way to respond.
If one looks back at the build up to IL2, one will notice the rate of information, interviews and screen shots released are roughly at the same pace as KOE. Aspect seems to be more forthcoming than Maddox was at the time.
Lack of respect to customers? That comes across pretty harsh. This, like Frugal's site, are unofficial forums. Once an official forum opens up, then I could see a lack of response being a problem.
So far, while interesting, released screen shots have seemed to lead to wild speculations and brutal arguments over something that is not even finished.
Write them an e-mail. They seem to respond sometimes.
Again from the Check-6 interview:
"AS: Our publisher has scheduled KOE for release in the latter part of 2004; we initially projected that the project would be complete in late Q2 2004. The extra time will give us the opportunity to make sure that KOE is as stable and bug free as possible."
I have my own thoughts on why things are so quiet but I'm not going to go there.
Encouragement never hurts. The developers probably appreciate it if they still bother coming here.
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