AutoPilot whined:We who have been waiting for CT for some time and for new planes and vehicles have been slapped in the face hard by HT.We see him posting pics of his Airplane and him flying it around,They sure have put a lot of time into making this RV8 plane for the MA and the Con.
Doesn't seem too me like they are in a big hurry too make CT a reality any time soon, seems they are just like every other game developer( all about themselves) and do not care too make good on their promises.
You ever take the time to talk to HT or Pyro directly? They're very accessible and tell you what's going on if you ask them. Hell, I just spent the last few days drinking with them and discussing what's going on in the AH world. I think if you'd done the same, you wouldn't be making such an idiot out of yourself now.
Here's the story as I got it from them...
CT is HTC's #1 priority because, besides just being cool, they see it as a way to increase cash flow by broadening their customer base. Because of that, everything they do is related to getting CT out ASAP, even if some of the stuff they do isn't CT-specific but affects the underlying AH game itself. Problem is, once they got into actually building CT stuff instead of just brainstorming it, the discovered they had to make some unanticipated major changes in the underlying game to make certain CT features work. And because HTC is a small company, they can't do 2 things at once. So when they hit one of these snags, they have to stop doing CT-specific stuff (such as the mission system) and rewrite some part of existing AH (such as the seemingly insignificant interface tweaks in 2.08).
2.08 sidelined CT-specific development for about 6 weeks but had to be done to make CT work in the future. However, all the CT-related work took place way down in the guts and had very little noticeable effect on the player's day-to-day experience, at least as of now. Besides, the old interface worked well enough for us as we use it now, so the need for the change, from a player's POV, wasn't obvious. So folks like you question HTC's priorities in doing this instead of CT-specific stuff or new planes, without thinking that if it wasn't necessary for CT, HTC wouldn't have done it.
New planes have the same sort of burden for HTC. They can either make new planes, which take months to get ready for release, or work on CT, but not both. And don't go thinking HT made a special exception for his RV8, which is something we'll never see in the MA or CT. Actually, they've had the RV8 in the game for a long time as a development tool. By noting how the game RV8 flies compared to the real thing, HT can make accurate changes in the flight model, which makes all the planes we fly in the game behave more realistically. So when you see pics of HT flying his real RV8, remember it's not only his toy, but also one of his tools. So they didn't recently "add" it to the game at the expense of CT work, they just let us finally get to fly it.
So i will not make good on my subscription every month and i urge everyone else too stop payin the 15$ too just too prove a point seeing as how they have strung us along for so long now.
You obviously are operating under 1 of 2 assumptions:
#1. You think HT's already got CT finished and is just delaying release sadistically to screw with his own customers. That's the only situation in which he'd need no money to pay his people to finish it up.
#2. You've only been flying AH in anticipation of CT, and now that you've decided it will never appear, you're quitting the game.
In either case, don't let the door hit you in the ass. In the 1st, I'm glad to see Darwin take you out, along with any others so foolish. In the 2nd case, at least I won't have to read any more idiotic posts like this.
